Best of 2023: Lauren Sisler – Unshackling the Shame of Her Parents Overdose Deaths
Beyond the Crucible
English - December 26, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsBusiness Education Self-Improvement failure leadership recover setback setbacks significance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Original air date: May 9, 2023
Lauren Sisler was a freshman at Rutgers University when learned she had lost her father just hours after she had lost her mother. Having come home to grieve one parent, she was blindsided by the news that the other had died, too. And she had no idea how any of it had happened
We speak with Sisler about that 2003 tragedy, when she was not only hit with the unfathomable news of the deaths of her mom and dad, but the shame she couldn’t shake after she learned how they died: from prescription-drug overdoses.
It would take her years to break free from what she calls the shackles of that shame, keeping the truth to herself even as she launched a successful career as a sideline reporter for college football and gymnastics on ESPN and the SEC Network. But as she began to share the true story of her parents’ deaths, she discovered she could transfer the hope and healing she experienced in facing those hard truths to the audiences that heard her speaking them.
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