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Happiness Solved

320. Turning Childhood Trauma into Triumph: One Woman's Journey from Abuse to Inspiration with Lynda Sunshine West

Happiness Solved

Sandee Sgarlata

Joy, Love, Motivational, Peace, Inspirational, Depression, Happiness, Health & Fitness, Selflove, Business, Education

5.01.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Happiness Solved with Sandee Sgarlata. In this episode, Sandee interviews Lynda Sunshine West. She ran away at 5 years old and was gone an entire week, came home riddled with fears and, in turn, became a people-pleaser. At age 51, she decided to break through one fear every day for a year and, in doing so, she gained an exorbitant amount of confidence to share her story. Her mission is to empower 5 million women and men to write their stories to make a greater impact on the planet. Lynda Sunshine West is the Founder and CEO of Action Takers Publishing, a Bestseller Book Publishing Expert, Speaker, 39 Times #1 International Bestselling Author, Contributing Writer at Entrepreneur Magazine, Senior Level Executive Contributing Writer at Brainz Magazine, Executive Film Producer, and Red Carpet Interviewer.   Sign up for the Happiness Solved Plus Exclusive Membership Site: http://HappinessSolved.Supercast.com   Connect with Lynda:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyndasunshinewest  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lyndasunshinewest   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lyndasunshinewest   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@actiontakerspublishing    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com@bookpublishingexpert    Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Lynda-Sunshine-West/e/B078PX6MJW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1580957955&sr=1-1   Website: www.actiontakerspublishing.com   Entrepreneur Magazine: https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/lynda-sunshine-west   IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10751926      Connect with Sandee www.sandeesgarlata.com Podcast: www.happinesssolved.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/coachsandeesgarlata Twitter: www.twitter.com/sandeesgarlata Instagram: www.instagram.com/coachsandeesgarlata

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is happiness solved with America's Happiness Coach Sandy Scarlata. Hello and thank you for joining us today. I'm so happy you're here.

0:24.4

Happiness solved is the place where we explore everything you need

0:28.8

to become the best possible version of you. This is Sandy Scarlata and today I've got some exciting news for our dedicated

0:35.8

listeners. We've just launched our exclusive members only portal. This is your ticket to a world of additional

0:42.4

content designed to deepen your understanding and engagement with the happiness solved mission.

0:48.0

To learn more about all of the exciting benefits, stay tuned until the end of the episode where I will explain in greater detail.

0:55.5

For those interested now, head over to happiness solved. supercast.com.

1:01.8

Today is another amazing conversation, so let's get started.

1:05.0

Linda, Sunshine West, I said it correctly.

1:14.4

Not that it's not hard.

1:16.6

I started out just for the audience and sitting here I'm still cracking up

1:24.0

Linda has we're on Zoom and Linda has this picture and it's hysterical and so

1:31.0

when she joined that's all I saw with was this picture and I'm still laughing about it because it's just such a funny picture of you.

1:38.0

Thank you. Now was that one of the fears that you were overcame? Was that one of the fears that you were overcame was that one of the things that you were doing

1:47.8

that was after I had broken through all of my fears it was a photo shoot that I participated in, which was a fear of my

1:56.5

having my photo taken. Yeah, yeah, but I had already broken through my fears, so doing the photo shoot,

2:02.6

it turned it into such a fun experience.

2:05.1

It was interesting though, because the photographers

2:07.6

I was working with, at the beginning,

2:10.2

it was a husband and wife team,

2:11.3

which I think was a brilliant idea for them to team up up because the husband was taking the pictures but the wife was the one that was calming me talking to me and you know getting me into these different just these different frame of my frames of mind and so it was really cool because when we got to that the place that like you're mentioning that that particular picture by then I was so relaxed and into the photo shoot that I forgot that we were taking pictures and I was just having a good time.

2:41.0

Oh, wow, well, it's it was it's perfect and that's what you want right so that is that's really awesome. So for the audience today we are talking with Linda Sunshine West and I told her before I always want to say Lydia because she spells it

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