Episode 14_ The Good Person Defense

We talk about the following:

Childhood sexual abuse

Incest

Trauma

Risk-seeking behavior

Childhood sexual abuse victims usually have to tell someone 7 times before they are believed

How the anger of not being believed affects children into adulthood

The harmfulness of the “good person defense” & the ‘good vs. bad’ dichotomy that we so love as humans

Discovering your voice after it’s been taken from you

Kelly’s #1 Culture-Hack: Take opportunities, because you never know where life will lead

About Our Guest:

Kelly Wallace is a career consultant who helps people with disabilities find jobs in Portland, Oregon. She is at work on a memoir about her experience testifying against her paternal grandpa as a young child. In her free time, she enjoys traveling to foreign countries and playing with her two fur-kids, Star boy and Moonboy, three-year-old tuxedo and silver tabby cats.

Kelly’s Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/kelly.wallace.50

www.bootcamp4writers.com

Twitter: kellythewriter1

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

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Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

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