Last Chance U star Brittany Wagner could soon be coming to a school near you.

Wagner will soon launch 10 Thousand Pencils, LLC, a company that will specialize in academic counseling and life skills coaching for at-risk athletes. It's similar to what Wagner did for eight years at East Mississippi Community College, the setting for Last Chance U, Netflix's wildly successful documentary series that debuted last July.

The company's name is a play on Wagner's "Do you have a pencil?" catchphrase from Last Chance U, which turned the small town single mother into a household name nearly overnight last summer. Wagner said her goal with the company is to contract her services to different school athletic programs, where, for a fee, she will develop plans and monitor progress of athletes whose academic backgrounds might not be all that strong.

"I'm really excited about it," Wagner said in an interview with AL.com. "I've got some really good people helping me, and some good clients in the works. I'm excited about being able to open the door for more athletes to benefit, for more athletes to have that help. A lot of these kids, they're thrown in, there's all this pressure, and they just don't have enough people helping them. They need (more) than what a school district is able to provide.

"I'm trying to really be affordable, not to over-price myself, so that I can reach more athletes. Hopefully, this gets going where I can do some pro bono stuff, and really work with some underprivileged kids, really be able to help the most people that I can."

Excited to announce my return to athletics! Coming soon: my new company providing academic counseling/life coaching to athletes everywhere! pic.twitter.com/4phhj2eIBY — Brittany Wagner (@Brittany_MSgirl) June 10, 2017

Wagner said her goal is not to take the place of traditional school counselors and advisors, but to enhance what they are already doing. In the same way a private quarterback coach can help a high school player develop into a college prospect, Wagner hopes her service can take an athlete on the verge of failing many of his classes and help him gain academic eligibility for college.

Wagner said she won't necessarily be on-site full-time with the athletes she's assisting. Part of her duties will be evaluating transcripts and developing academic plans, and much of the counseling can take place via modern technology.

"Obviously, they're going to have advisors and counselors at their school, and I don't want overstep my boundaries in that area," Wagner said. "But to help him evaluate the plan that's in place, and do weekly meetings over Skype or Facetime for an hour. Asking 'what have you got this week, how can we manage your time, what's going on with you?' Basically, be a resource where that kid has access to me, where they need to talk or they don't know how to do something.

"You don't always have to be right in front of that person's face to provide those same services. A lot of it is going to that mentoring, that mothering. But we've also got it set up with some programs where I'll be on their campus once a month, and for three days I'll be there. The rest of the time, it will be phone calls, texts, Skype, and me just helping them navigate through their academic plan and what's going on in their life."

Wagner said she will be a one-person operation in the beginning, but hopes to expand the company in the future. She said that she has already begun reaching out to coaches and athletes she knew from her time at East Mississippi, with hopes to be working with athletes by the time Last Chance U Season 2 debuts on July 21.

The show's first season launched last July 28, and quickly became a sensation. The kind-hearted Wagner was the show's breakout star, adding thousands of Twitter followers overnight and receiving hundreds of emails a day.

Wagner is currently splitting time between Birmingham and Meridian, Miss., where she still owns a home. She said she hopes 10 Thousand Pencils will allow her to parlay her fame from Last Chance U into helping create similar success stories to those she fostered at the junior-college level.

"For a show to be successful, that's great for Netflix, but I wasn't doing it to be famous or to have more Twitter followers," Wagner said. "For me, the special part was that it really inspired people. I get emails from Germany, from Norway, from Switzerland, and to hear those stories from people that I have inspired. I've had teachers tell me 'I was walking away from education after this year, but you've inspired me to be better, and to continue to change the way I teach and to really get to know my students.' I've had people with diseases who said they had pretty much given up the fight, and they've emailed me and said I inspired them to fight for their life. Athletes have emailed me and said 'you inspired me to value my opportunity to get an education. You've inspired me to do better, to work harder, to become better than what I came from.'

"That part to me has been really awesome. All of that inspired me to start this company, to go out on my own. You don't know if it's going to succeed and you'll be able to support yourself. It's a scary thing. But to hear from all those people who were inspired by the show helped me have the courage to go out on a limb and do this. Hopefully, Season 2 will be just as inspirational as Season 1, and it will all continue."

Wagner left East Mississippi in February to take a marketing job in Birmingham with Newk's Eatery, a Mississippi-based food chain. She said she discovered quickly that her passion was still in helping athletes, and has since parted ways with Newk's.

In the meantime, she's been supplementing her income with public speaking engagements. She said will continue to get her message out in various ways while launching 10 Thousand Pencils.

"There were some ideas that were talked about, for me to be a brand ambassador for (Newk's), for our two brands to merge and take them more into the sports sponsorship realm, but that just didn't pan out," Wagner said. "When I got over there, it just wasn't happening that way. I don't know that either one of us thought it was going to be a long-term thing anyway. Newk's is a great company, it's just not were I need to be. ... And my heart is with college athletes. That's my passion and what I'm good at. I needed a break to get re-inspired. So I think it all worked out exactly the way it was supposed to.

"Hopefully, it's a huge success and we can really change some people's lives."

Wagner said her website, brittanywagner.com, will launch soon. Until then, she can be reached either on Twitter (@Brittany_MSGirl) or via email at 10thousandpencils@gmail.com.