1702: Poverty, Drugs & Financial Trauma with J. Dana Trent, Author of Between Two Trailers

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

J. Dana Trent joins to share stories from her childhood as the daughter of a drug dealer, taught to cut up weed as a pre-schooler to support the family business. Her memoir, Between Two Trailers, chronicles the trauma from her troubled past and Dana's ultimate reconciliation with her past life and parents.

More about J. Dana Trent: She is an accomplished professor and award-winning spirituality writer with a master’s degree from Duke.

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0:00.0	So Money Episode 1702, reconciling your money trauma after a childhood between two trailers.
0:07.2	A conversation with memoirist Dana Trent.
0:11.6	You're listening to So Money, with award-winning Money Guru Farnu
0:15.0	Farnou Shorabi. Each day get a 30 minute dose of financial
0:18.7	inspiration from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, and from Farnuus herself.
0:24.8	Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double
0:28.4	coupons?
0:29.4	Sorry, you're in the wrong place.
0:31.4	Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life.
0:34.7	Welcome to So Money.
0:37.9	I knew that if I wanted to get healthier, right, and to examine my patterns, especially my money and finance patterns which we'll talk about but I
0:46.1	needed to do some work I need to do some healing and for me
0:50.3	Homeless so central because I did grow up in this Western Indiana trailer park
0:56.0	where we had a drug trafficking business and everything happened in the
1:01.0	you know fiberglass walls of that in the
1:05.0	trailer,
1:08.0	and so for me it was essential to return to the place where the war was
1:11.0	and all the violence and all the trauma in order to help recover and heal those battle wounds.
1:18.0	Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farnush Tarabi. We are in conversation with yet another memoir is today. Turns out when you write a memoir and you write about your life, there are a lot of financial gems that come to the surface. And our today Dana Trend is the author of her memoir
1:35.6	called Between Two Trailers. I recently caught Dana on a podcast talking
1:41.6	about her life and thought I want to bring her to so money.
1:45.0	The book is a powerful unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool
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