solidgroundexperience - Meet the Founder

Meet Chell'e Robins

Chell'e Robins is the founder of Solid Ground Experience, a movement dedicated to helping people rebuild their lives after life's hardest chapters. Through powerful conversations, practical resources, community, and advocacy, she is creating a space where healing meets action, purpose is discovered, and lives are rebuilt.

With more than 18 years of experience in talent acquisition, leadership, and workforce development, Chell'e has helped thousands of people take the next step in their careers. She has recruited and coached professionals across healthcare, senior living, hospitality, engineering, technology, and executive leadership. Throughout her career, one truth became impossible to ignore: people don't just need jobs — they need hope, confidence, opportunity, and someone who believes in them.

That realization became deeply personal.

After surviving domestic violence, navigating profound personal loss, and rebuilding her own life from the ground up as a single mother of three, Chell'e made a decision that her story would not end in survival. It would become the foundation for helping others find theirs.

Solid Ground Experience was born from that decision.

Today, Chell'e combines her professional expertise with lived experience to serve individuals rebuilding after domestic violence, incarceration, addiction, homelessness, grief, trauma, career setbacks, and life's unexpected detours. She believes that every person's story matters, and that our greatest pain doesn't necessarily need to be used as fuel, but we can decide to grow from it and it can become the birthplace of our greatest purpose.

As the host of the Solid Ground Podcast, Chell'e creates authentic conversations that go beyond headlines and highlight the resilience, courage, and transformation of people who have chosen to rebuild. Her interviews or individual episodes are raw, honest, and hopeful, reminding listeners that healing isn't about pretending life never broke you; it's about becoming aware and discovering what can be built because of it.

Beyond the podcast, Chell'e is developing programs, workshops, community partnerships, and resources designed to equip people with practical tools for rebuilding every area of life—from employment and financial stability to confidence, purpose, and personal growth.

Her vision extends far beyond telling stories. She is building a community where survivors become leaders, setbacks become stepping stones, and people who once felt forgotten discover they still have something powerful to offer the world.

For Chell'e, "Solid Ground" is more than a name.

It's a reminder that no matter where you've been, no matter what you've lost, and no matter how many times life has knocked you down...

Purpose can still be found.
Life can still be rebuilt.

And everyone deserves the chance to stand on solid ground.

In Honor of Johnnie

Every vision has a story.

Before Solid Ground Experience became a movement, "Solid Ground" was the name of a music studio in Las Vegas created by my dear friend, Johnnie Kirkling, also known by his stage name, Stone.

Johnnie believed that everyone deserved a second chance. He had a gift for seeing potential in people that they often couldn't see in themselves. Whether someone was rebuilding after incarceration, chasing a dream, overcoming extreme hardship, or simply trying to find their place in the world, he believed no one should be defined by their past.

Our friendship lasted nearly a decade. We saw each other through alot of hardship, however, also celebrated major milestones in that time together. Just two days before his unexpected passing in August 2023, while in the music studio, Johnnie asked me to sit down and interview him so he could share his story. We unfortanately, never got that chance.

After losing him, I couldn't stop thinking about that conversation we never had.

Solid Ground Experience is, in many ways, my promise to keep that opportunity alive, not only by honoring Johnnie's story, but by creating a platform where countless others can share theirs.

Today, the vision has grown far beyond a podcast or a brand. It has become a mission to give people a voice, restore hope, create opportunity, and remind every person rebuilding their life that their story still matters.

This work is dedicated to Johnnie's memory, his belief in people, and the foundation he helped inspire.

Because every life deserves the chance to find solid ground.

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse

Meet Chell'e Robins

In Honor of Johnnie

We Don't Just Help Survivors Find Jobs.

We Help Them Find Their Future.

Surviving Is Strength.

Rebuilding Is Power.

Purpose. Empowerment. Employment. A Fresh Start.

That's Solid Ground.