Ep.15- Why Telling Your Truth is so Important

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In this episode, I am joined by the courageous Michealene Cristini Risley. She shares with us just how important it is to tell your truth to heal your trauma. By not speaking your truth, it is like skipping steps and making yourself invisible. Part of the healing journey is to become visible in speaking your truth. Listen in as she describes her journey to owning her truth as a tool to heal her trauma in mind, body, and soul. Michealene bravely discusses her own traumas and the negative coping mechanisms she developed, and how she turned them into positive avenues such as self-care, mediation, therapy and so much more. Join us as we work towards bringing trauma from the shadows and into the light to quicken the healing journey.

About our guest:

Michealene Cristini Risley is a prolific writer, director, and human rights, activist. Her published, non-fiction book, This is Not the Life I Ordered was an N.Y. Times Bestseller. She is an award-winning documentarian for Tapestries of Hope (Best Film Louisville film Festival, Monaco Film Festival, The Directors Guild of America, Director Finder Series, WIFTS Best Documentary) which premiered on SHOWTIME. Her first film, Flashcards (Cannes Film Festival, made the nomination list for academy award consideration) aired on American Public Television.

Michealene has a highly successful career as an executive. While at SEGA she created two “Sonic the Hedgehog" animated series simultaneously, both #1 in their time slots on ABC and in syndication. After starting her own company, Nike asked her to help build a video game division so she developed their gaming concept. She went out to the open market for video game and application technologies with talents including Ronaldo and Tiger Woods. which created his billion-dollar gaming franchise. She holds the record for the largest deal in the history of the video game space.

She recently created a new TV series, completed her first fictional book, and has been approached to tell the story of her activism work.

She is creative, collaborative, and a courageous storyteller.

http://www.michealene.com/

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