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The Stacks

Ep. 371 How We Choose Who We Become with Daria Burke

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today we are joined by Daria Burke, an award-winning business leader, investor, speaker, and now author. She is here to discuss her memoir, Of My Own Making, which is about how she healed from childhood trauma to build her life. Daria talks about how systemic and personal harms are intertwined, how she engaged with leading experts in the fields of trauma work, and her shift from survival to success.

The Stacks Book Club pick for May is Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. We will discuss on Wednesday, May 28th with Kara Brown returning as our guest.


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0:50.0

Success for me looks very much like having a sense of well-being, and that feels very much like I feel whole.

0:58.9

And it looks a lot to me right now, like having a life that nobody else needs to understand.

1:04.9

Like, it doesn't need to make sense to anybody else.

1:07.3

And it took a long time for me to get to a place where I could say, you know what,

1:11.6

I know this may not make sense to you and that's totally okay, but this feels great for me.

1:17.0

I'm much more interested in the exploration and the journey and the ways in which I expand as a

1:22.0

result of that.

1:32.1

Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.

1:34.9

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today I have a special guest for you.

1:36.5

It is Daria Burke.

1:40.1

Daria is a businesswoman, writer, speaker, and well-being advocate.

1:44.8

Today, we're discussing Darya's memoir of my own making, a book in which she explores her childhood trauma, growing up in poverty in Detroit, and how she grew and healed from those

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