Dare To Share Your Untold Story
94 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating‘Dare To Share Your Untold Story’ has been brought to you with the intention to break down the barriers of mental stigma, embrace mental beauty and invite guests to a safe place to share with vulnerability, without holding back, their true and full story - no matter what part of the journey that they are in, beginning, middle or end. As a society we are conditioned to keep some of our most painful stories a secret. No matter what we each have suffered with - whatever the struggle, hurdle or strife we face there is always a part of our story that remains untold. The ‘untold story’ has a lot to do with the impact on mental health which we shy away from sharing. So let’s expose what we suppress and embrace the invitation of mental beauty.
The notion of embracing ‘mental beauty’ is the next way to see mental health…and when you dare to share...you break the silence, speak your truth, use your voice, and inspire others to do the same. TOGETHER – we can dare and share…so let’s take a vow to ‘dare to share our untold stories’!
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Episodes
Episode 92: Learning that her Identity is not the Crown
April 17, 2024 04:15 - 52 minutes - 23.8 MBSarah delves into a moment when she was 10 years old experiencing her very first panic attack, not knowing what it was at the time. Growing up in a Christian faith, Sarah believed that she would get the support she needed given her belief that God helps to overcome the sensations of panic – the promise of faith. She later experienced depression in her first year of university when she experienced 3 losses in her life from suicide, heart disease and cancer. The latter was her maternal grandmo...
Episode 91: The Important Reminder of Showing up for Others, Just as You’d like them to Show up for You
April 03, 2024 04:10 - 52 minutes - 24 MBSonia’s untold story revolves around her breast cancer diagnosis starting in 2017. She experienced physical and emotional trauma combined with heightened feelings. She had to work hard to overcome overwhelming thoughts and emotional pain when dealing with relationships during her cancer journey. This experience has been eye-opening, particularly in learning who she can rely on as her backbone and who she felt she still needed to support while under-going her own duress. Outwardly, Sonia was ...
Episode 90: The Torment of Workplace Harassment in a Highly Toxic Workplace
March 20, 2024 05:10 - 48 minutes - 22 MBHer untold story reveals the levels of toxicity and bullying Stephanie experienced as she entered the workforce in a professional capacity, the way in which she tolerated workplace harassment, and how she eventually learned to handle the distress she endured. Stephanie shared that while her work role was at an established organization and she was not doing any physical labour, she found that the emotional and mental toll she experienced because of the workplace toxicity and negative env...
Episode 89: He Started from the Ground up and the Unworthiness Cycle kept Repeating Itself
March 06, 2024 14:41 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MBAnthony dives right in to share how what he experienced from childhood to adulthood greatly influenced his present-day life. It began at the tender young age of six and carried forward until adulthood with multiple and continuous experiences of how he was impacted and influenced in his achievements and failures. When he arrived in Canada, he provided details of how he felt he had to start from the ground up again. After he retired, he developed an illness that kept him wheelchair bound,...
Episode 88: The Journey of Unlearning, Undoing, Adapting, and Unleashing her Core Identity
February 21, 2024 05:15 - 52 minutes - 23.8 MBFatima’s untold story is about being raised by her grandmother from 18 months, in Barbados after being born in Canada, and then returning to Canada at the age of 8, not knowing that her scheduled visit after so many years was going to become a permanent life change for her. She speaks about themes like navigating relationships, abandonment, grief, and loss, being stripped of everything that was familiar to her, learning to adapt to new situations, encountering racism that was not experienced...
Episode 87: From Survivor of Circumstance to Warrior of Flow
February 07, 2024 05:03 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBInga’s story begins at a time when she immigrated to Canada at the age 16 on her own, with minimal knowledge of English, and this didn’t stop her to pursue her education, which is when she decided to commit to the idea, the need to prove herself. She operated under the narrative that of things she must overcome, the harder life shows up for her, even though she unlearned this narrative later in her journey. Inga also highlights she experienced fear of judgement by others, which resulted in c...
Episode 86: A Shifted Narrative: Flourishing Flowers Beneath the Trenches
January 24, 2024 05:04 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBKarima dares herself for a second round on the podcast, to share further developments on her mental well-being journey. She speaks about how she currently manages and copes with her diagnoses of borderline personality disorder and bipolar 1 and her process of daily coping. Karima takes time to share what it’s like identifying as a neurodivergent woman of colour, what tasks, or actions she finds difficult doing, unlearning certain habits, and learning boundary setting within her househol...
Episode 85: His Financial Setbacks is what Plotted a Path to his Future Success
January 10, 2024 05:18 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBLeon immigrated to Canada when he was 10 years old unexposed to the world of financial challenges and this continued to follow him when he reached post-secondary education. During his time enrolled in university, he met credit card representatives where he was encouraged to sign up for high value credit cards, not knowing that he could go into credit card debt or understanding the implications of making high ticket purchases he couldn’t afford. Leon shared it got to the point where interest...
Episode 84: The Independent Child Separated from Family & the Impact of Deep-Rooted Unworthiness
December 20, 2023 05:15 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBBorn in Korea, Jackie shared that culturally, emotions are not discussed with the family, it’s still taboo to address mental health related issues. The way issues were dealt with in the home were not dealt with in a healthy way, she was exposed to explosive reactions or not speaking about it at all. At the age of 12, she travelled to Canada alone to study internationally and resided with a homestay family. She describes her story as a life-or-death battle with herself, where for three years ...
Episode 83: Her story unravelled as she commenced the de-layering process of unworthiness stemming from childhood
December 06, 2023 05:10 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBThroughout Tara’s life, she struggled with feelings of unworthiness, never feeling like she fully fit in, coming from a mixed background and being the only girl in a family of five. Growing up, Tara learned to attach her worth to her achievements and based on other external factors. Tara got used to supporting others and being present for others, prioritizing them and it always trumped her own worth and what she kept within her. She desperately looked for love, but the men she attracted didn...
Episode 82: A Mother learning to effectively parent children with mental health and addiction challenges
November 22, 2023 05:05 - 52 minutes - 60 MBMaureen tells her story of learning to be an effective parent to four children with mental health and addiction struggles, and her own recovery process from codependent parenting styles. She shares details of three of her children who all grappled with their mental health in different ways. One child engaged in self-harm, another suffered drug-induced episodes with suicidal tendencies, and a third child hiding out in her room isolated, hiding from everything and everyone. Maureen expressed e...
Episode 81: Self-determination was his Catalyst which Led him to Embrace his own Process of Success on his Own Terms Despite the Internal Struggle
November 08, 2023 04:10 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MBDennis’s story is rooted in being raised in a sheltered Asian household, while feeling immense pressure to perform academically. Dennis articulates that as a child growing up, he had difficulty understanding others, and experienced a great deal of confusion over emotions he experienced. Dennis describes feeling caged in from parents whom he felt were overprotective, in addition to his siblings. His path was defined by focusing on academics and he was discouraged to take time to cultivate fri...
Episode 80: From Multiple Mental Health Diagnoses to a Flourished Mental Health Advocate
October 25, 2023 04:12 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBAlly takes a deep dive to express and share when mental illness began to take hold of her, and her emotional literacy and self-awareness were highly compromised. She indicates that she didn’t have the ability to ask for what she needed in times of crisis, in the process her family had to engage in a great deal of guess work of what she needed and while they were in several crises of their own, her parents were trying their best even if it wasn’t the best or most effective method for Ally. A...
Episode 79: Through Addiction, International Drug Trafficking, & even Incarceration she Made her Comeback!
October 11, 2023 04:10 - 47 minutes - 21.5 MBEmily dives into her story that began in 2013, turning to substance use, she met someone through work, a close person she trusted. She embarked on a vacation with this friend and a few days into the trip, she was informed that they had to both bring drugs back through the border and this left her feeling trapped. Emily was coerced into strapping drugs to her body on the return flight, followed by her arrest at the airport, plead guilty on charges for importing drugs and spent four years in f...
Episode 78: The overbearing feeling of “limitation” and its detriments to his mental health, combined with grief
September 27, 2023 04:10 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MBDawson unpacks how he was in survival mode in his third year of university, impacted by academic stressors, resuming in-person learning post COVID restrictions and a simultaneous process with his ailing grandmother who passed away from a long battle with Alzheimer’s. For Dawson, the impact of the various stressors meant a fierce contest with depression, lots of uncomfortable emotions, enduring lots of crying, a difficult encounter with a university professor and the considerations brought to...
Episode 77: The Entrepreneurship Struggle: Unspoken Hardships he didn’t know How to Reveal
September 13, 2023 12:59 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBAs a first-time entrepreneur, Ethan struggled to recognize his own self-worth and would tie it to the success of his company’s revenue. He speaks about how self-doubt played a role, where in the past he would think that others can persevere and take the leap of faith, but not him, leaving him to stick to predefined ideas of what he thought other people wanted him to be. At the time, the internal dialogue he entertained is that whatever he struggled with is what he just had to endure. Any mis...
Episode 76: The Destruction of Perfectionism, Parenting + Divorce
June 28, 2023 04:01 - 56 minutes - 105 MBJagdeep dives right in to share some integral parts of her life that gave her a wakeup call to pivot and take charge of her life in a different way. She delves into the perfectionism within her and how this impacted her ability to parent as she started to see how controlling it was on external parts of her life. She examines the damage that perfectionism had on her marriage, and expressed feeling she was destroying her life unknowingly and putting herself to feel unnecessary grief. Jagdeep c...
Episode 75: Triggered by his wife’s Mental Health Journey, Led him to Uncover his Own
June 14, 2023 14:43 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MBHeld back by fear and core beliefs, Faizan was brought to his vulnerability to face his own truth, despite his deep knowledge and understanding of human behaviour. After reflecting on his own belief systems, he expressed that approximately 5 years ago things started to change for him when he dealt with his own financial failure and experiencing the intense feeling of almost losing his wife to the darkness of depression. Faizan talks about fear he experienced keeping him from being able to he...
Episode 74: She Found her Mother’s Dead Body + Began the Emotional Turmoil
May 31, 2023 04:01 - 48 minutes - 22 MBPaige’s untold story is predominantly about finding her mother dead at their familial home at the young age of 17, and the impact her mother’s death had on her during such a developmental age and fundamental time. Paige takes us through her journey highlighting changes she experienced personally and professionally resulting from this devastating life event. Paige willingly uncovers the impact it had on her mental health as well as all other aspects of her life. Following this incident, she w...
Episode 73: Oh… It’s OCD, but she’ll grow out of it
May 17, 2023 04:01 - 58 minutes - 64.1 MBClaire’s parents were told by their family physician when she was just around 4-years- that what Claire had been presenting with was obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), but it was something she would grow out of. This informal diagnosis was not shared with Claire until she was in her mid-20’s nor did she grow out of it. Once she learned about OCD and how it shows up in her life, it took a great deal of healing to even come to terms with it, learn how to cope and manage it, and choose a path...
Episode 72: Translating the father wound into new meaning for his own children
May 03, 2023 04:20 - 53 minutes - 24.7 MBJohnny takes us through his journey where he describes the difficulties in growing up without a father and the impact it caused to hunger for acceptance in all other facets of his life. Johnny elaborates on his journey, speaking about the lessons he learned from the absence of a father figure and how he drew from his own difficult experience and committed to giving his children fully what he was deprived of growing up. Johnny talks about feeling emotional emptiness, which led him down a path...
Episode 71: Untangling Beauty from the fear webbed chaos
April 19, 2023 04:05 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBGarcia shares her untold story and extracts the two extreme themes of growing up in what was seen as a perfect life on the outside, while feeling broken on the inside. Garcia battled with imposter syndrome, constantly held back due to fear, and openly spoke about the state of her marriage and how fearful she would be to take steps forward in her life as she experienced emotional consequences for actions she took. She expressed how she felt like she was leading a single life while being marri...
Episode 70: The pressure cooker feeling on repeat + confidence contingent on a faulty narrative
April 05, 2023 05:01 - 54 minutes - 61.8 MBRafiat details her untold story is all about how she followed her own intuition to leave an emotionally abusive relationship and toxic work environment. She explains that by doing so, she is able to live her life on her own terms and has made peace and joy her standard. Rafiat uncovers her mental health is tied to her financial health, when she was about 14 years old, her family lost their home, having to sell to avoid foreclosure, her parents were getting a divorce because of financial cons...
Episode 69: Until She Believed in Herself, the Cycle of Abuse continued
March 22, 2023 05:01 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MBAlexandra taps into being raised with a strict parenting style, where she experienced emotional and psychological abuse, sharing her mother’s parenting style mirrored her grandfather’s style of parenting that Alexandra’s mother experienced. She left her life in France to come to Canada to live a new life and pursue her dreams and goals. Soon after she met the father of her child, she participated in a toxic relationship for several years and experienced emotional, physical, and financial abu...
Episode 68: She does it messy, transforming fear into fuel
March 08, 2023 05:01 - 56 minutes - 63.4 MBRachael dives deep into sharing that part of her untold story where she ignored her inner voice, got married, later divorced, and through the process she gained clarity, courage, and confidence, which permitted her to recommit to herself. She identifies as a supernatural human from a young age, she found it difficult to tame her gifts, given she couldn’t make sense of her experiences. This later led her to feel vulnerable and exposed. Rachael frequently questioned her identity, wondered who ...
Episode 67: The Woman who Raised her Parents, herself and Ignited her Flame to a Renewed path of Fulfillment
February 22, 2023 05:01 - 54 minutes - 98.1 MBMira starts to share her story by pointing out that problems don’t go away, but it is about how an individual chooses to carry them. She delves into her story as a child of deaf parents, immigrating from Iran to Canada, and the identity crisis that she faced along the way. While growing up in Iran, she didn’t have the same opportunities that her peers had. She struggled to share some of her emotional experiences with her parents, communication was limited, and she took on a large parenting r...
Episode 66: She took Hold of her Story, Named it & Reframed it, with Success Written all Over it
February 08, 2023 05:01 - 51 minutes - 93.6 MBAt 17, Melane was hospitalized, fighting leukemia. Through her cancer journey and miraculous recovery, she gained an understanding of her purpose, faith, and the power of a positive mindset, all of which laid the foundation for her business success. She takes the time to delve into the initial career focus starting as a nurse and what prompted her in this endeavour was the substandard emotional care received while she herself was hospitalized. She wanted to ensure that she could positively i...
Episode 65: The Recovering Perfectionist, Reveals herself, her Truth & her Imperfections Guest: Salima Jadavji the hostess herself, interviewed by Stephanie Hanley
January 25, 2023 05:01 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBSalima dares to share for a second time, tying her initial interview revealing herself as a miracle baby, and now expanding on multiple themes that presented in the deep layers of perfectionism. She explores the underlying themes and narratives that have fuelled perfectionism in her lifetime, such as feeling defective resulting from health challenges; contending with the idea of not feeling truly seen because of feeling “defective”; getting consumed by fears and anxieties held by her immedia...
Episode 64: The Contrast: He Climbed out from Under the dark Mental Space that only High Achievers ever get into
January 11, 2023 05:01 - 45 minutes - 13 MBKwasi’s story unveils the struggle he experienced with his deep desire to be successful, the immense pressure he put on himself, and the mental toll he endured as a result of his process. He expressed that he was desperate for approval, and no matter what success he captured, it never seemed to be enough. Kwasi shared the many barriers he faced which put additional stress on his desire to perform with high standards he set for himself to meet goals he set out. Kwasi shared that being alone w...
Episode 63: A Traumatic Brain Injury + the 1% Medical Marvel
December 28, 2022 05:01 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MBDr. Burger shares her story based on true determination as her driving force to recover from a car accident which resulted in sustaining numerous physical injuries, some of which required surgeries, in addition to a traumatic brain injury. She lived by a mantra that she told herself repeatedly, “I will work, and I will get better”, which is exactly what transpired. She indeed worked extremely hard and battled many rough patches, even on some of the toughest days she kept going, and she did g...
Episode 62: The Contrast: Losing Hope on the Inside, yet some Could only See the ‘Perfect Life’ she Lived
December 15, 2022 04:07 - 45 minutes - 20.9 MBSophia openly speaks about her journey with depression and how she was living a good life that she was grateful for and is exactly the image she portrayed to others. However, Sophia had a great deal of inner turmoil that she combatted with which was kept hidden from her external world. She shares that during her 20’s she started to experience symptoms of depression, though she wouldn’t have known at the time this is what she was experiencing. At that time, she developed feelings of sadness, ...
Episode 61: Relationship Toxicity, Red Flags, Abuse, and the Impact of Not even Knowing it
November 30, 2022 04:01 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MBShelley brings forward a story where her first deep relationship transformed into marriage, and later a relationship so toxic that even she could not recognize its depth. After giving birth to each of her 3 children, she developed postpartum depression, which gradually shifted into situational depression. She describes how her third pregnancy was tough and the morning sickness she endured was around the clock, not to mention many other factors that she faced. Shelley shared that her husband ...
Episode 60: Since Childhood she Lived with Uncertainty, from Psychological Abuse to Sexual Abuse
November 16, 2022 04:01 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MBAs early as 6 years old, Candace recalls experiences of sexual abuse which she openly speaks about, she expresses as a child it was a confusing period for her, knowing it wasn’t right, but not knowing what really to do about it. Candace grew up in a dysfunctional home, and continued to strive to make her mother proud, but felt she could not no matter how much she tried. She was struggling with her mental health at 14, needing time and attention, her father came to recognize her needs which l...
Episode 59: Struck with grief. Navigating control. Impacted by choice. Learning Resilience.
November 02, 2022 04:01 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MBSara shares an emotional journey she experienced at the age of 21 when her father died, only 4 weeks after a health diagnosis. She mentioned that her journey of grief started 10 years before that when her parents separated, and she had to learn how to accept not seeing her father every day. Sara explained the relationship with her father growing up had its own challenges and differences, while they both shared the ability to use humour, they didn’t connect with morals and values all the time...
Episode 58: Trauma Accumulated, Misperception of Illness and Finding his way to be Impactful
October 19, 2022 04:01 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBMichael openly speaks out about physical, emotional, and sexual abuse he endured from childhood. He has suffered through post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, amoung other painful experiences. Michael emphasized that he was leading a regular life, until an encounter he had with a mental health facility, at a time when he underwent a nervous breakdown, he attempted to seek help, as he sought to make sense of the flashbacks. He shares that his story is deeply rooted in sti...
Episode 57: She Simmered in Burnout and Then it Became an Epiphany for Her
October 05, 2022 04:01 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBIn this episode Carla unveils with true vulnerability her experience of burnout that she endured in 2020 simultaneous to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. She came to realize that even though she was doing all the right things to ensure she was engaging in regular self-care, self-care just wasn’t enough to feel better. Carla described that she wasn’t functional, she couldn’t work, she experienced a great deal of confusion, darkness, and she expressed feeling as though her own identity was ...
Episode 56: The Exclusion Experience and Emerging out from the Suppressed Voice
September 21, 2022 04:01 - 42 minutes - 19.3 MBTanya takes a deep dive in sharing some delicate parts to her untold story. She explained that she went from being an out-going, full of energy, enthusiastic and bold in personality, to suddenly losing her voice, finding herself with the inability to communicate. Her story dates back more than 20 years ago, where she entered the corporate world as a young female of colour, heavily dominated by alpha males. There were many contributions to the loss of her voice, one of them a term not known t...
Episode 55: Shocking Tragedies that Marked + Changed her life’s Perspective Forever
September 07, 2022 04:01 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBThalia tells her story of the murder-suicide attempt of her grandparents when she was a young teenager, the lives of her grandparents had deteriorated in many ways which led her grandfather through a period of desperation. Her grandparents were later separated and hospitalized for what ended up leading into the loss of her grandparents within the span of a year. Thalia spoke about the differences in her experience with the death by suicide with both of her grandparents and with her high scho...
Episode 54: She Smiles, she Empowers, while Simultaneously Grieving and Mourning
July 20, 2022 04:01 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MBIn Saidat’s story she openly shares about all the inner triumphs which get brushed under the rug while she talks about being a parent to a child with autism, a journey which began 20 years ago. She expresses what it was like to not have the opportunity and not give herself the opportunity to sit with that pain, knowing that it is a grieving of its own kind, to know that she must embark on a different parenting path. Saidat explains that when you are a parent to a child with an exceptionality...
Episode 54: She Smiles, she Empowers, while Simultaneously Grieving & Mourning
July 20, 2022 04:01 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MBIn Saidat’s story she openly shares about all the inner triumphs which get brushed under the rug while she talks about being a parent to a child with autism, a journey which began 20 years ago. She expresses what it was like to not have the opportunity and not give herself the opportunity to sit with that pain, knowing that it is a grieving of its own kind, to know that she must embark on a different parenting path. Saidat explains that when you are a parent to a child with an exceptionality...
Episode 53: Growing up with No Voice + Feeling the Grief + Pain that Led her to Find her Voice
July 06, 2022 04:01 - 45 minutes - 20.9 MBBelinda conveys that initially her story begins with grief and losing her mother to illness, which expands to larger circumstances that were seen from the lens of a minority, a black African woman, raised in a culture where there was no permission to have a voice. Belinda articulates the obligations of this cultural upbringing are some of what her mother endured which Belinda witnessed. The witnessing being about her mother’s bravery and courage to overcome working through a marriage the bes...
Episode 52: Despite the Traumatic Complexities, He Grabbed Hold of the Vision that was Inside of Him
June 22, 2022 04:01 - 50 minutes - 22.9 MBJustin expresses the depth of his experiences with trauma, substance abuse issues, cycling through the system, mental health challenges that have been part of his journey, and the recovery process which all led him an opportunity to pave his career successes in the field. He shares what it’s like to be raised in a religious cult led by prominent family members who also met with mental health challenges of their own. Justin mentioned he was not allowed to interact with anyone outside the cult...
Episode 51: What she did to Thrive and Excel in a Male Dominated Field
June 08, 2022 04:01 - 50 minutes - 22.9 MBShirley identifies herself as an introvert who stepped into a male dominated workspace, and found her way to shine, despite facing barriers as a black woman, facing gender inequities, pay disparities, and finding her voice. She spoke about what it was like to work ten times harder than others for less opportunities, and for whatever did come her way, she needed to be gracious for it, and sacrificed a great deal to get an ounce of what another in the same position would receive. Shirley chose...
Episode 50: She Healed a Horrifying Childhood and Transformed it into a Beautiful Gift
May 25, 2022 04:01 - 52 minutes - 23.8 MBMelissa unpacks details of a childhood that was unpredictable, intense, and full of turmoil. She delved into what it was like to grow up in an alcoholic household that was very abusive, particularly after her mother’s death. She explained that her parents were divorced, and while living with her mother, at 8 years old, mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer suddenly and deteriorated quickly, this led Melissa to return to her father’s care. She spoke about the emotional abuse that she endu...
Episode 49 - Moral devastation. Questionable Choices. Shame Untangled. Unimaginable Outcomes
May 11, 2022 04:01 - 45 minutes - 20.6 MBJennifer describes what she experienced as an emotional divorce, finding herself in a situation where she made a choice that she would have never thought could be something she would follow through with -- an affair. She speaks about the consequences to her mental well-being and how it affected others. The big change in her life started when she came across the most devastating email. She openly shares that she found herself in the same place of where her husband was a few years earlier, bei...
Episode 48: Fortitude and Beyond – The Courage to Sit with Her Pain
April 27, 2022 04:01 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBWynnikka is no stranger at sharing her story of living with a disability since birth, due to a birth injury and having to navigate through life because of the irreparable impact on her overall well-being. She openly speaks about having a wealth of support from her parents, extended family, good friends, and solid mentors, all guiding her to reach her potential and become the woman that she is today. Wynnikka expressed the many difficulties that her parents had to navigate on their own as the...
Episode 47: Pain, Struggles, Roadblocks + The Road to Success
April 13, 2022 04:01 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MBBrittany gives us a deep dive into her challenging upbringing as a child and all the disorder that came her way. While facing adversity, she highlights how she drew from a place of strength, resiliency, and perseverance that has shaped her into who she has become today. Some of the odds that Brittany faced included coming from a family of divorce and having a young mother (who is currently a missing persons’ case) who did not know how to parent, instead maintaining her ‘party life’ and leavi...
Episode 46: Stepping into an Unexpected Path of Truths, Leading her to Something Incredible
March 30, 2022 05:39 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MBStephanie takes a plunge into sharing how she has lived her life from a young age, coping with mental illness while learning to hide it from the outside world, including those she is close to. As an individual who has encountered trauma at age 15, worked through suicidal ideations, and combatted diagnoses of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, she openly speaks to what it has been like to navigate the mental health system and how she had to become her own advocate. Stephanie acknowled...
Episode 45: Ending the Era of the Uncertainty, the Imposter, & the ‘Infertility Stigma’
March 16, 2022 04:01 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBAlyza pours her heart into sharing how the imposter within her emerged, while successfully masking it for years to her external world. She speaks about the internal struggle of fearing to let her guard and let herself see her true worth. Alyza openly talks about what it is like to grow up in a home where she witnessed her father’s abusive personality take a toll on her mother, while not having any abuse directed to herself. She found she often walked on eggshells as it was unclear what tone h...
Episode 44: What Happens Behind the Scenes of Success
March 02, 2022 05:01 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBReturning guest, Asante speaks about the providence in being vulnerable and nourishing himself with emotional and psychological tools rooted in strength, truth, and honesty. Asante explores what the last two years of his public life experience has been behind closed doors, and how he needed to take a step back to re-evaluate his goals. He also identified what he was working towards by taking a second look at what he truly valued about his successes; and what is truly important to him at the ...