In Her Words

Tiffany Carter’s mother dressed her in a hot pink micro-miniskirt and sent her on a date with a 23-year old man. She was 11. Thus began a decade of hellish sexual abuse. 

As an adult, Tiffany had all the trappings of success. She kept it together on TV, at five star restaurants, on private jets and in multi-million dollar mansions. Beneath the facade, she plotted suicide. 

This is the miraculous story of how The Universe intervened and slowly, surely, with the help of many, many people, Tiffany did not merely survive. She thrived - and is now the Founder of the top business coaching brand and podcast, ProjectME with Tiffany Carter. (And she coached Stuart). 

Check out her Instagram: @ProjectME_with_Tiffany , her podcast by the same name (this week with STUART!) and her website https://projectmewithtiffany.com/

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A teenager uses a beauty pageant as a means to confront her own eating disorder.

Once upon a time beauty pageant contestants starved themselves to compete. 

Meet a new kind of beauty queen: Caroline-Myers Ashing who says the pageant actually helped her confront her own anorexia - and get well.

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Karen Weeks is the Chief People Officer at a startup, Ordergroove, dedicated to building amazing cultures. She is determined to inject some human kindness back into the world of “Human Resources” or HR. Stuart pushes back with some HR nightmares and Karen sympathizes. It’s quite the lesson! You can also find Karen at her new coaching business: 

https://www.karendweeks.com/

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Charlene Jefferson was climbing the corporate ladder. Then she stopped to ask, “Why?” The resulting pivot brought her closer to family, faith and her true self. Now she helps others in a new coaching program she’s designed herself. Stuart engages Charlene in a conversation on practicing faith in the workplace. 

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I knew Robbi when she was Rob and her pronouns were “he” and “him.” Now he wears heels and occasionally dresses “to the nines” for clubbing on Saturday night in downtown Charleston or church on Sunday morning. As a job, she drives a truck. So she says truck stops can be tricky for trans people. We get personal - like how her wife and son reacted when Rob became Robbi - and how 12 step recovery groups welcomed her. An intimate conversation between two old friends. 

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Jessye Wilden was pregnant, living in her in-law’s garage apartment in Mount Shasta, California, when she got the phone call that her brother-in-law and sister-in-law would not wake up. They were covered in blood. The caller: Jessye’s 11-year old niece, who found her parents and called her aunt. 

Jessye and her husband did not merely comfort the children and take them in. She adopted them. She made them her own. She consoled them. She comforted them. She parented. And she did the most amazing thing of all - she found grace and hope when most of us would be shattered and bitter. Now she’s chronicled the uplifting story of resilience in a forthcoming book: WE WROTE YOUR NAME IN COLOR. 

WARNING: EXPLICIT DISCUSSION OF SUICIDE.

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Lauren Widrick bailed on banking. How did she feel? Terrified. Exhilarated. Wouldn’t change a thing. She’s gone from coach to a kind of cheerleader in the best sense. Her enthusiasm is palpable. Infectious. Now she’s created THE SQUAD to “GRAB LIFE BY THE GOALS.” Stuart is all in.

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Kim Honeycutt has been shamed by her mother and shunned by her church. She self-medicated with alcohol. She got sober through a miracle of grace and has brought hope and healing to many. As a licensed therapist she points out that PTSD is the one disorder directly associated with substance use disorder (aka addiction). But she found little in traditional 12 step literature to directly address shame and trauma. So she got to work. 

Kim Honeycutt is a therapist, founder, author, AND podcaster! Look for her book BUT YOUR MOTHER LOVES YOU and check out her conversation with Stuart on her podcast FLIP YOUR LID WITH KIM HONEYCUTT this week! 

http://kimhoneycutt.com

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Bryant Resch got one degree studying neuroscience. Then she started on another degree in biology. She was on her way to a Masters when her parents abruptly divorced. The shock sent her down a completely new path - Reki. We sit in the boathouse at Sun City and Bryant retraces the long path there which includes a horse (and a house) in the beautiful part of New Jersey, meeting her man at the DoubleDoor, and standing courtside watching the Golden State Warriors.

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Years ago I would chat with Tessi at the Einstein Brothers bagel shop on South Boulevard in Charlotte. After decades of working for the man, she became her own woman. Her daughter encouraged her to become her own brand “Tidy Tessi,” like the also alliterative “Molly Maids” but she’s local, original, real and personable. Tessi talks about the loss of her son to a gunshot and how she was able to go on for her four other children. 

Now Tessi has come a long way to be “happier than ever.” A real inspiration!

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