74. When I Was a Broke and Destitute Teen

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Tracy tells her harrowing tale of survival when she was a broke and destitute teen. Stories her mother never knew. Stories shared here for the first time.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Secret Room is brought to you by Zola.
0:03.4	Zola is reinventing the wedding registry and planning process to make the happiest moment in
0:07.7	couples lives even happier. To start your free wedding website and also get 50 dollars off your
0:12.9	registry on Zola, go to ZOLA.com slash secret. Thanks to StoryWorth for supporting The Secret Room.
0:21.8	StoryWorth makes it easy and fun for your loved ones to share their stories with weekly
0:27.0	email story prompts. Get 20 dollars off when you subscribe at StoryWorth.com slash secret.
0:34.4	This episode contains adult language. What's your secret? My secret is I hate doing laundry so much
0:42.8	that when I run out of underwear, I usually just go buy more instead of just doing the laundry.
0:49.5	Okay, ready. Cue the theme. Go super electric.
1:09.6	Ah crap hold on hold on. I think we lost electricity.
1:14.3	Yes, it's the awesome power of my beats. What else is it?
1:21.1	All right hang on Ben. We'll get your theme song up and running again, sir.
1:25.3	We just need to reset the breaker. Can you like find a secret or something? In the meantime.
1:34.0	Okay, hi my name is Tracy and my secret is when I was a broke and destitute teenager,
1:41.2	I survived by doing some really stupid things.
1:47.6	Today, Tracy's story of hope and inspiration is also a story of personal fortitude and just plain
1:53.6	dumb luck. And I'm lucky to be alive from being a bartender because this was not a nice place.
1:58.6	This was like a hole in the wall, rough neck, steel workers from Milestone Power Plant who
2:03.8	who'd get off and come there and you know they locked me there though. And the story she's
2:09.2	going to share of how she survived as a broken destitute teenager are being told for the first time
2:14.7	right here. My mother never heard these stories. My mom is passed away now but she never heard
2:20.2	these stories because she'd be mortified. She'd be like why didn't you come home? It's not my style.
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