HOST JACKIE TANTILLO- Dealing With Adversity And Chaos From A Young Age with Eddie Minyard

Eddie's mother had to deal with adversity and chaos from a very early age, yet she always remained calm. She was the only child of a single mother and  she never knew her father until later on in life. She fell in love and got married at the age of 16, had two children and became a single mother herself by the time her oldest son, Eddie, was 5 years old. Barbara was  hardworking and had the help of her mother and grandmothers, though her maternal grandmother suffered from Polio and MS.

 She was a sexual assault survivor who was held captive and tortured after she came home for lunch one day and surprised a burglar.  For many years after the incident, she was a very out spoken advocate for sexual assault victims and survivors. Eddie says, "she wouldn't accept the fact that she had limitations."