Creating Yourself Podcast

Dawn joins me this week on the podcast to share her incredible two-part journey. She talks about growing up in an abusive household where she was sexually assaulted, her father committed suicide & she later found out that he was homosexual. She also talks about her time in the military and the abuse she suffered while serving our country, along with the domestic abuse she dealt with during her first marriage. Dawn talks about how she feels like she has lived 15 different lifetimes. But she is not one to stay down for long, she has turned all of her tragedy and struggles into something other people can learn from. Dawn now helps her community in as many ways as she can, she works with domestic abuse outreach programs and she even started her own business called Dawn's Lyte. Please look her up.

Eric sits down with me this week and we talk about all things men's mental health. Eric grew up in a household with an Irish mother & a father who wasn't always the best at communicating. He was taught that showing emotion and showing his feelings wasn't something that boys & men were supposed to do, like so many who grew up in the millennial generation and those who came before us. Eric carried those thoughts and beliefs into his adult life and relationships which caused him to have narcissist tendencies and be a cheater. However, now he has done a lot of self reflection & work on himself to become a better man & helps other men know that talking about their emotion's and feelings isn't so "taboo" anymore. And Eric strives to help others with their mental health through his TikTok page & TikTok live streams.

You can find him here: https://www.tiktok.com/@ez_stargaze

Links for Men's Mental Health Help:

1. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/men-and-mental-health

2. https://www.mhanational.org/infographic-mental-health-men

3. https://adaa.org/find-help/by-demographics/mens-mental-health

Have you always been curious about manifesting or wanted to know how to manifest what you really want out of life? Well I have, and I have aways been curious about what all it truly involves. But when you get online to look up "how to manifest" it is an overwhelming feeling of where do I start. This week I have on Honor who is the host of another podcast "Manifestation Simplified" & her Instagram "The Rococo Empress". Honor has some incredible tips & tricks for simple ways to start your manifesting journey. She is also a tarot card reader & developed that skill from her mother. If you would like to reach out to Honor for a tarot card reading, questions regarding manifestation or you are looking for a life coach, which she is also very skilled at, then you can find her on Instagram.

Weslyn grew up in small town Alabama where she thought, like most who grew up in small town America, graduate high school, go to college, find your soulmate, get married and start your family. But Weslyn knew that wasn't what she wanted out of life. At the young age of 15 she had big dreams of being a country music singer & she was not shy about making those dreams a reality. She found herself messaging an up and coming artist on Facebook who became popular overnight & within a few years Weslyn was viral on TikTok for sharing the stage with that same artist during the biggest time in her career!! Listen as Weslyn not only shares her journey and love of wanting to be in country music but also facing the challenges of growing up & having the stigma of small town stereotypes & what she should've done but didn't.

See Weslyn's TikTok videos here:

Sarah joins me this week as we discuss her life growing up in a small town in Kentucky. She was raised with faith being a strong value, she saved herself for marriage & when she got to college she met the man of her dreams. They fell in love & like most southern couples quickly got married & started a family. But after 10 years Sarah realized that she was not happy in her marriage anymore & many things caused their marriage to fail so with a lot of thinking she decided to end it & find herself. She talks about her journey of becoming a single mom, finding you she is as a person, an independent woman & what the dating world is like in 2023. You do not want to miss this one, she is a hoot & I loved talking with her.

This week I have on Jaybo (The Vanilla Gorilla) from TikTok to share his life story with me. He talks about what it was like growing up with just him and his dad. He shares things about his life that most of us who follow him on TikTok don't know. He also talks about the importance of men's mental health & what it was like for him through life with his struggles of the typical "toughen up" standard. He gives us an inside look as where he is now that he is married and has his second baby on the way with his wife!

https://www.tiktok.com/@jaybo817

I'm so excited to have Chelsie on this week as she shares her story with y'all. She is back from the Toxic Friendship episode in Season One. We learned a little bit about her in that episode but in this episode we dive deep into Chelsie's past & everything that she has been through in life. Chelsie grew up in Texas & found herself surrounded by what she thought was going to be a nice group of kids to play with. Sadly, she quickly found out otherwise when they turned playful games into something sinister. Tune into hear what all Chelsie had to endure.

1. Domestic Abuse Hotline: 1-800-799-7233

2. https://www.thehotline.org/

3. https://ncadv.org/get-help

4. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/fysb/programs/family-violence-prevention-services/programs/ndvh

T'Quori is on this week to share her journey in love and happiness. She grew up with just her mother, brother and grandmother raising her. She met her husband in high school and they quickly fell in love but when he was shipped off for the miliary she made the decision to follow. She never dreamed that once in another country that she would eventually find her true soulmate and that it would be a woman. She is now the happiest she has ever been and thriving in life.

Ashley was like most of us in our early to mid-30's where she found herself in a marriage that she wasn't happy in, a job she did love and just living day to day without much hope for the future. She decided to end her marriage and make a change. She worked on rebuilding her life for herself and her daughter. While her daughters father hasn't always been the best father, she watched as her daughter struggled to learn how to handle that as well. Today, Ashley is in a happy and healthy relationship with someone who not only puts her first but all their kids, because he came into the relationship with 2 kids himself.