On episode #14, Lisa Novick Goldberg recalls her harrowing experience growing up in the corrupt, chaotic, and sometimes glamorous world of organized crime and reveals how her father's closest friends and business associates, the mafia, wreaked havoc on her childhood and negatively affected her mental health.Lisa chronicles her story in her memoir, The Apple and the Shady Tree: The Mafia, My Family and Me, where she takes readers on her intense journey to examine the terror, confusion, anxiety and depression that came with a lifetime of negotiating her identities as both a privileged Jewish girl and a quasi-Mafia princess in addition to her struggles with co-dependent and toxic relationships with her parents, and in particular her father.For more on Lisa, please visit Lisanovickgoldberg.comFollow Tinseltown Mom!TinseltownMom BlogFacebookTwitterPinterest