✴️Episode #71✴️
🔥Business Insights with Matt Milia🔥
In this episode, Matt Milia interviews Gina M. Garcia Real Estate Investor, retired member of the United States Navy, Owner of Trikaroo, Writer, Director and Producer of her life story in the film “Untold: This is My Story”. Gina M. Garcia is the 1%. Ninety-nine percent of all children abducted by a stranger are murdered within the first 24 hours, according to the NCMEC. At the age of 8, Gina saved herself by jumping out of a moving car half-naked, after being brutally raped & assaulted at knife point, at the Fashion Square Mall in Orlando, Florida on October 12, 1981. Which many people believe she was taken by the same person that abducted & murdered Adam Walsh, (son of John Walsh, the host & creator of America’s Most Wanted). After Gina’s innocence was stolen, she experienced decades of self-destructive behavior including dropping out of high school & college.
In 2006, Gina was once again victimized when her business was burglarized in an apparent hate crime, thus triggering suppressed memories of that horrific day 25 years earlier. She began to feel like she was losing her mind & sought out mental health treatment from the VA Hospital, where she was diagnosed PTSD. Her father, the handsome Puerto Rican American spy, flew over 100 combat missions into enemy territory under the disguise of Air America, a division of the CIA. Gina’s mother, a Filipina beauty queen, whose father was born in Spain, but served in the U.S. Navy, was captured by the Japanese during World War II & was one of the survivors of the Japanese death march for which he was designated as a prisoner of war & received a purple heart. Gina was born in Tehran, Iran & at the age of three, her family had to be abruptly relocated after her father caught wind of the revolution that was getting ready to occur and American’s were being taken hostage. She eventually followed in her family’s footsteps of serving their country by joining the United States Navy. Gina was assigned to NATO Supreme Allied Command Atlantic, where she held a top-secret clearance. At the end of her enlistment, Gina became an entrepreneur with several businesses under her belt, most notably Trikaroo - a line of small footprint electric passenger vehicles. Wanting to connect with her mother’s heritage & learn the art of film making, she moved to the Philippines in 2009 to attend film school, where her families love of films goes back to her great-grandfather opening the first movie theater in that country.
With Patty Jenkins as mentor, Gina wrote, produced & directed her life story in her directorial debut “Untold: This is My Story” which she self-funded, adapted into a book called “Untold: I am the 1%” & launched a charity called the “The Untold Project” where survivors of sexual assault have a safe space to tell their own stories. Gina believes that when it comes to trauma, no story should go UNTOLD!
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