Joy “Pink Girl Teaches” is an energetic, life-loving “girl-next-door” who loves encouraging others to fulfill their potential.

She is a certified Dating & Relationship Coach who passionately helps her clients change the path that they take in the search of meaning, dignity, purpose, hope, and love. She is a Sexual & Narcissistic abuse advocate, author, and host of the Project Real Love podcast.

Her memoir Beyond the Mask captures readers’ attention as she transparently shares her journey from shame to showstopper. She candidly talks about her road to recovery from the long term effects of childhood sexual assault. She gives insight into how codependency influenced her adult relationship choices and translates the importance of self-love and boundaries. She is also a podcaster. The Project Real Love Podcast promotes a healthy image of love without compromise and aims to shatter myths about what love is and is not. It is the place, where myths are dispelled and you are equipped to find that imperfect but perfect love for you.

We'll bring a little bit of her podcast here in this episode today as we talk about life in the diaspora, codependency and how childhood traumas really do affect you.

Watch the YouTube Version of the interview: https://youtu.be/E2P6lv9_Y1Q

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