This is Happiness Solved with America's Happiness Coach, Sandy Scarlotta.

Hello everyone and thank you for joining me today.

I'm so happy you're here.

I'm Sandy Scarlotta.

I was born in Virginia Beach and raised in the Baltimore Annapolis area and had very humble and tragic beginnings and as a result my life was a hot mess.

Thankfully, 33 years ago I got my act together and since that time I have dedicated my life to serving others and raising awareness that no matter what you've been through, you can choose happiness and live the life of your dreams.

Happiness Solved is dedicated to giving you content that is empowering, motivational, inspirational and of course a dose of happiness.

It's my way to give back to the world and share other people's stories.

This thing called life can be challenging and my guests share their amazing stories, wisdom and life lessons that demonstrate anyone can choose happiness.

You see, happiness is a choice and the choice is yours.

Today's episode is amazing and I am so grateful for you.

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Enjoy the show.

Jana Wilson, I'm so excited to have this conversation with you and I know it's going to be a really amazing one because you have a book that was just released a couple months ago called wise little one learning to love and listen to my inner child.

This is really powerful and whatever you're comfortable sharing with the audience about your story.

I'd love to hear that before we dive into the book.

So can you give us a little bit of your backstory?

Sure. Thank you, Sandy. It's an honor to be here. I'm really happy to be here with you today.

I grew up in the South in Central Florida and I grew up, of course, to two very emotionally dysfunctional parents and endured a lot of trauma.

And so trauma, you know, there's a test that we give to clients to really ascertain what level of trauma that they've had. It's called adverse childhood experiences.

And there's 10 questions and I score 10 out of 10.

So, you know, I went on a lifelong journey really woke up at a young age at 12. I began the book with this story.

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