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  • #89 - Shannon Edwards - Relinquishing guilt & shame

    Meet Happiness Co ambassador, Shannon Edwards, as she opens up about the adversity and challenges she both faced and overcome throughout her life.

    In this episode we talk about:

    -Sexual abuse as a 16yr old

    -Losing respect for herself because of it

    -Getting a reputation for being the girl who slept around

    -Running away from her problems (volunteer overseas)

    -Toxic relationships

    -Becoming the pleaser & losing herself

    -Feeling guilty for having an abortionĀ 

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    1 hr 20 min
  • #88 - Jaimee Sheridan - Overcoming the belief "all men leave me"

    Meet Happiness Co ambassador, Jaimee Sheridan, as she opens up about the adversity and challenges she both faced and overcome throughout her life.

    In this episode we talk about:

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    -Losing her father as a young girl

    -Her mothers cancer battle

    -Playing the support role

    -Losing her grandfather & uncle

    -Burying all of that grief

    -Becoming the funny fat girl

    -Being the side girl

    -Being the pleaser in a relationship so they wouldnt leave her

    -Anxiety

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    52 min
  • #87 - Nicque Lilly Rose - From "Munted Face" to Mermaid

    Meet Happiness Co ambassador, Nicque Lilly Rose, as she opens up about the adversity and challenges she both faced and overcome throughout her life.

    In this episode we talk about:

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    -Having a lower jaw that didnt stop growing

    -Wearing a cage on her head growing up

    -Being bullied for how she looked

    -Using bulimia to be beautiful

    -Self harm and a suicide attempt

    -A stay in a psych ward

    -Hating the colour of her skin

    -An abusive relationship

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    1 hr 6 min
  • #86 - Sammy Harper - Falling in love with her body again

    Meet Happiness Co ambassador, Sammy Harper, as she opens up about the adversity and challenges she both faced and overcome throughout her life.

    In this episode we talk about:

    -Her mother leaving them

    -Her father becoming violent

    -Becoming the protector for her brother

    -Her violent step father

    -Being outcast in school

    -Alcohol & sex

    -Being left in another country because she was "overweight"

    -Learning to love herself & her body again

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    40 min
  • #85 - Michelle Powell - Taking ownership of her life

    Ladies of Happiness Co - 1/5

    Meet Author, Speaker & Happiness Co ambassador, Michelle Powell.

    Michelle Opens up about the challenges and adversity shes faced and overcome throughout her life & what lessons shes learnt along the way.

    In this episode we talk about:
    -a violent father
    -sexual abuse by her uncle
    -feeling like the chosen one because of the abuse
    -not feeling totally accepted as the step daughter
    -an abusive & controlling husband
    -being forced to have sex/ get pregnant
    -having to lie to protect her husbands public image
    -being drugged and having her accounts drained
    -being admitted to a psych ward
    -her husband moving away with her kids
    -not having seen her kids for 4+ years

    Michelles story is one of overcoming the odds, finding yourself, finding your tribe & doing all you can to become the best possible version of yourself along the way!

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    51 min
  • #84 - Maria Hutchison - Thinking sexual abuse, was actually love

    In this episode we meet Author, speaker and counsellor, Maria Hutchison as she opens up about some of the worst struggles shes been through and overcome to date.Ā 

    We touch on:

    -Being brought up in a cult like religious environment

    -Being sexually abused by her grandfather

    -Think it was loveĀ 

    -Losing her father as a 13 yr old

    -Opening up and having her mother dismiss it

    -A sex addiction

    -Abusing alcohol

    -Searching for external validation

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    57 min
  • Lachlan Samuel LIVE: my story (RAW AF)

    āš ļøĀ WARNING: RAW AFĀ āš ļø

    This is my story in 30mins. This is me at my core. No masks. No fronting. Pure vulnerability & authenticityĀ šŸš«šŸ‘ŗ

    If it resonates, please share it or tag someone who needs to see itĀ ā¤

    In it I talk about:
    -Being a cheater
    -Being a narcissist
    -Being an addict (porn, drugs, alcohol)
    -Self hate
    -Trying to force my daughters mother into an abortion
    -Depression & suicide in my partner
    -My own battle with depression & suicide
    -Losing a friend to suicide
    -Not feeling like I was enough
    -Being introduced to sex, by a guy, as an 8yr old
    -Questioning whether I was gay or not.
    -Looking for a porn star partner
    -Worrying about having a small dick

    So incredibly humbled to be asked to do so by Julian Pace & Robbie Figg of Happiness Co

    Also so incredibly grateful that the beautiful AJ Winters, who crushed her talk (yaa queenĀ šŸ’ƒ), filmed it for me.

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    39 min

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I'm back at it after 5+ years.

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