Angela Tam is on a quest to help people turn intergenerational trauma into intergenerational wealth-building. Sherry talks with her about her life journey, her challenging of pathologies as a Mental Health Therapist, her work helping people remove mental barriers to financial success, and her ultimate hope to change what people use as metrics of success.




Listen to learn:


• how Angela's parents fled Vietnam and built a new life • kids being a catalyst of real change in your life • the issues with modern mental health diagnosis • how personal mental health affects your professional life • angela's last piece of advice •




Discussion Timecode:


00:00 - Intro


00:49 - Angela Tam's origin story: her parents trauma bonding over the Vietnam War


03:52 - Angela Tam's origin story: growing up with parents dealing with deep trauma


10:10 - Family converting from Buddhism to evangelical Christianity


12:59 - Having kids being the catalyst for Angela's changing life journey


15:28 - Modern medicine pathologizing people over systemic oppression and trauma


17:43 - The medical DSM as systemically racist


19:38 - Angela and the Embodied Entrepreneur Program: your personal struggles = your financial struggles


21:09 - Personal is professional and professional is personal


25:49 - Angela's one piece of advice to people


27:36 - Goodbye




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