Carrington Smith Finding Gifts in the Shit of Life

Carrington Smith is a single mom, attorney, business owner, and executive search professional. Despite being born with a silver spoon in her mouth, life gave her a hard kick in the tail. She has survived sexual assault, two divorces, piles of debt, abuse, religious mind games, the death of loved ones, and the loss of close friends.

In her debut memoir, Carrington combines wit and wisdom to share her journey through the shit, with a positive attitude and a shift of mindset, into a life bursting with joy, opportunity, and purpose.

Carrington is passionate about empowering people in all aspects of their life and career by reframing their circumstances and experiences, shifting their mindset, creating a vision for their life, and then breaking it down into specific measurable achievable realistic time-bound (SMART) goals. She helps people and organizations move past excuses, shame, and fear to identify where they want to end up, the steps necessary to get there, and how to deal with any obstacles in the way.

Carrington Smith Vroom Vroom Veer Stories

Grew up on the East Coast in a mom's family that had status and a "name" but the old money was gone; mom married a doctor to keep the statusDad moved the family to Washington state under suspicious circumstances "shenanigans'"; in the blue collar town mom kept dressing like East Coast MoneyHer father was physically, emotionally, spiritually abusive to her and her family; viciously beat a dog with a 2x4 until it broke in halfOlder brother and sister got to attend the fancy schools but not Carrie; she went to public school and all the hand-me-downsWent to college first in Washington state where she raped; after the trauma of that event moved to Austin, TX to finish undergradStarted dating a bar manager from Bourbon street; he got to her heart through her stomach; she didn't have enough money for good foodHad fluid coming out of her ear; went to the hospital and the doctor accidently damaged her spinal cord; after five days the hospital her first husband took her to the Justin of the Peace and married her while she was drugged up2nd marriage latest 10 years and produced two kids; ultimately ended because her husband was toxic to her and the kidsLearned many times the lessons from the "shit" of live; during lockdown; wrote a memoir about finding her power in the shit of life

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