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Hello, empaths, welcome to the show. Boy, do we have a treat for you today. Our guest is Laura Day, the New York Times bestselling author and intuitive consultant trusted by billion-dollar companies and some of Hollywood's brightest minds. In her new book called The Prism, Seven Steps to Hill Your Past and Transform

Your Future, she shares publicly for the first time the deeply personal story behind her work.

Drawing from a challenging early life and decades of intuitive practice, Laura has developed

a practical step-by-step method to heal the past, transform the present, and consciously

shape the future. Today our conversation is about intuition, resiliency, and turning life's

hardest experiences into real lasting change. We're going to discuss why your ego isn't something

to be killed, but something to be tuned,

why Insight isn't a consolation prize for not taking action, and how a woman who helped the world find its magic finally faced her own dark family history to find her own.

We're so excited to have you back on the show to discuss this very impactful book where we're

going to talk about the seven specific points in our development that form our prism.

And the first one is called the foundation story. And so I was wondering if you could start us off

there with a little bit of insight into your foundation story. So it's really funny is every interview, and of course

this book came out in April, so I should be used to it. But every time I do an interview, I block

out the fact that I wrote about myself in it. I mean, it's just, you know, Cleopatra, queen of denial.

I, you know, I come, as many of us do, I come from an extremely abusive background, also an extremely confusing one. My mother was a manic depressive who

attempted suicide regularly and was hospitalized regularly. My father, who

was a very well-regarded physician at New York Hospital Cornell, was also a violent

narcissist. And we lived in an apartment alone from, I'm the oldest of four, two of whom have

suicided, but we lived in an apartment alone from the time I was five years old, which

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