Light that spark fire nation JLD here and welcomed episode 1585 of EO Fire

Right shower today's most inspiring entrepreneurs seven days a week

Knock over that domino start your chain reaction of awesome with the Freedom

Journal dot com now let's shout out today's featured guest Michelle Cashman

Michelle are you prepared to ignite John I am burning down the house yes

Michelle Fire Nation is the musical motivator a singer songwriter

storyteller in host of the transformational personal growth podcast leaving

home at 15 dealing with homelessness addiction and mental health issues she

uses her story and the lessons she has learned to write music that connects

to tell stories that transform Michelle take a minute fill in some gaps

from that in shown give us a little glimpse of your personal life obviously

there's a very colorful history and I left home at 15 and after that I

realized that I needed to get help if I was going to survive let alone flourish

so I did a lot of therapy and I got some help for my drinking and I really

worked on the person that I wanted to be and so I became a singer songwriter

because I I love to write songs about the crap that I was dealing with and I

got my life on track and then in my early 20s I became a single mom and at the

same time that I was juggling being a single mom I I was juggling my music

career and I did the voice Australia oh yeah yeah so that was good and I I

didn't turn a chair but I did get offered a record contract because of my

appearance and I ended up turning it down because I refused to live out of

line with my integrity because they wanted me to lie about being a mom and it

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