853: Nadia Davis: Home Is Within You

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Nadia Davis is a mom, attorney, victims’ rights advocate, kundalini yoga instructor, and author of Home Is Within You: A Memoir of Recovery and Redemption and has a podcast of the same name. She is a survivor of trauma and abuse, a near-fatal car accident, addiction, and public shaming. Nadia has a lifetime record of passionate work and dedication to improving the lives of others. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the John F. Kennedy Jr. Service Award. Nadia works for justice in keeping moms with their kids while seeking treatment, and for more compassionate methods of treatment and restorative justice. She has a BA from UCLA and a JD from Loyola Law School. Listen in to hear Nadia share: Her young life of seeking acceptance and assurance as the youngest of 7 children How her lack of safety as a child led to her narrow zone of tolerance as an adult How she was forced to face her childhood trauma after enduring public shaming, blackmail, and addiction The steps she took to start healing Simple steps anyone can incorporate to start a healing practice How to build a home within that gives us the personal autonomy that is often (almost always) missing from our lives Links mentioned: Connect with Nadia: www.nadia-davis.com Nadia’s Book: Home is Within You: Transforming Shame into Power Nadia’s Podcast: Home is Within You: Transforming Shame into Power Nadia on FB Nadia on IG Nadia on TT We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 853 with Nadia Davis. Show notes for this episode,
0:06.7	including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on
0:11.5	episode 853. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:23.2	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:29.3	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:34.7	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free
0:38.2	private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over
0:43.3	at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
1:06.1	Nadia Davis is a mom, attorney, victim's rights advocate, kundalini yoga instructor, and the author of Home is Within You, a memoir of recovery and redemption, and she has a podcast of the same name.
1:11.3	She is a survivor of trauma and abuse, a near fatal car accident, addiction, and public shaming.
1:16.2	Nadia has a lifetime record of passionate work and dedication to improving the lives of others.
1:21.5	She has received numerous awards for her work, including the John F. Kennedy Jr. Service Award.
1:26.5	Nadia works for justice in keeping moms with their kids while seeking treatment and for more compassionate methods of
1:27.7	treatment and restorative justice. She also has a BA from UCLA and a JD from Loyola Law School.
1:34.0	I love this conversation with Nadia. We dig into a lot of sensitive subjects, though. So just a little
1:38.4	bit of a content warning. We do dig into sexual trauma, addiction, and suicidality in this episode. So if that is not something
1:46.5	that you feel you can face today in terms of what you're taking in, this might not be the
1:51.4	right episode for you for today or maybe not ever. And that is absolutely okay. So I want you to
1:55.6	make sure that you're consenting before you listen to this episode. Nadia is someone who has
2:00.6	endured so much in her life
2:02.9	and the way that she's able to reflect back her experiences and also talk about what she learned
2:08.7	from those experiences as well as how she was able to heal from those experiences is significant
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