What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only.

Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering,

such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder.

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Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media.

Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for

listening. Mindy Corpren is a speaker, author, founder, and CEO hailing from Oklahoma.

She attributes her personal and professional success to her loving, tight-knit upbringing. However, everything she knew to be true would be challenged deeply

on April 13, 2014, when her father and son were murdered in a hate crime.

Mindy has allowed her Christian faith and her unending fortitude born from her family to withstand all that came next for them. This includes a legal battle to convict their murderer, the

publication of her memoir, Healing a Shattered Soul, the creation of a Foundation,

seven days, and the unending mission to inspire others waiting through the throes of grief.

The Broken Cycle Media team is very grateful Mindy is sharing her journey with us today,

as well as for her continued advocacy work.

I am also personally grateful for her sisterhood in survivorship as we became lifelong members

of the same sorority.

Thanks for having me. I am Mindy Corpren. I am the author of Healing a Shattered Soul. This is a memoir

that I felt like I had a responsibility and I had significant passion and compassion to put in print.

Before that, I started a company called Workplace Healing. It's a consultative company

with a software platform that we call the Human Recovery Plan. I didn't realize really until about

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