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Stephen Licciardello: Have you ever found yourself questioning why me?

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Stephen Licciardello: Imagine being blindsided by cancer, mourning the devastating loss of a child, undergoing a heart transplant, witnessing all your employees quit and enjoy the heartache of a spouse leaving you for someone else.

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Stephen Licciardello: All of this turmoil crashing down within a relentless span of just 3 years, It sounds like something out of a novel, doesn't it?

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Stephen Licciardello: This is a reality that was placed by Laura Broom, the author of flourishing after adversity.

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Stephen Licciardello: Her story is a profound exploration into the depths of personal hardship challenging us to reflect on our own lives. It begs the question, are we truly living to the fullest, or are we merely existing?

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Stephen Licciardello: She offers us a fresh empowering perspective on confronting life's most daunting challenges head on.

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Stephen Licciardello: Laura shares are road map she followed to navigate her journey from heartbreak to healing, providing insight on how you can do the same.

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Stephen Licciardello: And make sure to stay with us until the end. We'll be sharing 3 pivotal points on overcoming adversity. Welcome to Rewrite Your Story, the podcast where change begins with you.

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Stephen Licciardello: So pick up the pen. Your new chapter starts now. It sounds like you I mean, you've had so much going on in your life in such a short span of the, and it's almost like it's it's for a lot of people. They think, how do you catch a breath? Like, it's in the time to catch a breath. Like, what was it that felt? You did get through each each one that

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Stephen Licciardello: you Yeah. That's a lot of trauma.

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Laura Mangum Broome: It it is. I and strength that I had no idea I had inside me. Sometimes I just laugh at myself and go, gosh, How did I get through that? And it's just kind of like when you're in the moment, you just say, what is the most important thing I need to do? I just need to take care of this. And sometimes it was just living in the moment, just going day by day. There was a point right before I got breast early on in our business. My, twin sister was living with me. She actually had congestive heart failure, but it wasn't showing up in in me at that time until the chemo and of flipped the trigger. My husband at the time was in the army reserves.

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Laura Mangum Broome: He was deployed to Africa for 3 weeks. And so it's like, okay. Just hold the fort down till he gets back, and we'll work on getting some new employees. I was down to and employee at each location, and the quit the the first week, the and quit the second week. And for the 3rd week, I was I was our own employee working both of our locations. They were 60 miles. It was like an hour and a half, and my sister was in the hospital. And I was just working half day at and location, half day at the other location, coming home and and stopping by the hospital to check her and then go home, get a couple hosts sleep, and do it all over again.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And I tell you, I I I I had forgotten about that until I was telling my story and kinda writing my book. And I thought, if you told me I had to do that today, I'd say there's no way I could do the. But I had to. I we had customers I needed to take care of. I had my sister I needed to check on. And it's you and hidden strength that, I mean, it's there. We just don't tap into it until we're in extraordinary circumstances. And then that's when we we I kinda joke around.

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Laura Mangum Broome: It's like, it's when you kinda pull out pull that up and you go, okay. I'm going to persevere. I'm going to get through this. And I think it's very easy to just become a victim and say, why me? Why is this happening? But I had so many people that depended on me to keep going. And I I didn't want our customers to leave because we needed the customers. We were known for our excellent customer service. And, you know, so but that was that was a I think that was a very tough 3 weeks.

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Stephen Licciardello: Yeah.

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Laura Mangum Broome: But I knew it was gonna end. As soon as my husband got back, I knew he could help carry the load and we can go through the hiring process again, and life goes on. So I think it's important to know that, yes, change or or difficult circumstances are going to come, but they're temporary. I mean, they they they might last 3 weeks. They might last several years. But one thing that is constant is change. And, you just have to know you have to you you have to start looking, changing your perspective to to look for look for good things just for the little things that, like I said, if you practice gratitude, you can find gratitude in anything. And and because it it changes your focus from the negative to looking for something positive.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And and that's a game changer. That was a game changer for me.

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Stephen Licciardello: Did you say that's a big part of, the resilience for you as well? Yes.

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Laura Mangum Broome: Gratitude and radical acceptance. I did not know what that term was until I was going through my divorce. And, and like I said, because everything had shut down, I needed I'm a I'm a I I love learning. I love learning. If I could just be locked in a library, I'd be just happy. Throw me some peanut butter crackers. I'll be fine. But I was looking for a book to help me move forward because a lot of books that are written on divorce, there there's different kinds of books either like oh, well, I couldn't find one that I was looking for and to move on.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And then I finally found one. It was actually written for deciding whether to stay or divorce. Well, that wasn't my case. I just needed the part to move on. And they talked about radical acceptance, and it was I mean, my head just kinda went like it was like a moment because the book also talked about doing an autopsy of your marriage. And that was eye opening to me because I had to own up to things that I was you know, it is part my fault too. But it helped me to see a kind of the autopsy. I just loved that idea.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And then then you go into radical acceptance and you don't have to like it. You don't have to approve it, but you have to accept it. And that's where I was struggling. Why can my husband just flip the switch and move on in another relationship? You know, I spent half my life married. How was I just to do the same thing? And that radical acceptance was the pivot point, not only just in the divorce, but just in everything. When you when you know it's out of your control, you have to accept it. Otherwise, you're gonna keep suffering that that that pain turns into suffering because you're reliving that that moment and that pain over and over again. And it's it's best to accept it and move on.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And, I mean, I I'm sure people think, well, it's not just a switch. You can say, okay. I'm going to do something different. But that's when you have to work with your feelings, and you have to process all the feelings, that emotional roller coaster. And in my case, I I went to counseling. I went to our marriage counselor for individual counseling because I didn't wanna rehash the the problems are trying to work through. And that was the best thing because the first thing as I was going through my feelings, she would say, okay. Where are you gonna work on this week? And I was like, I don't know.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And she she said, come up with the schedule of what you're what what do you want to do? She's putting the focus on how to recover from what I needed to do with the heart transplant because I needed to move around. I needed to take care of myself. So she had me focus on what I could do with that to move forward. And that was the best thing. I would make up a a weekly schedule because of my office skills. I I liked using Excel. So I came up with the a schedule for the week, and I would email it to her. And so every time I would meet with her, we'd go over what I accomplished and what I was gonna work on in the next week.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And then my appointments kinda spread further along. So but, yeah, radical acceptance, gratitude. I mean, every night before I went to bed, I'd find 3 things that I was grateful for that day. And sometimes it was a struggle, but then it's kinda like you'd you do go through Maslow's hierarchy. I've got I've got a place to sleep. I've got food, and I feel safe. And I'd be grateful for that. And and every day, I are to and I I would keep it on my phone so that I'd always have it with me when I'd start feeling down.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And then I would just keep adding to it every day. I'd add 1 more, and more, 1 more. And then it just got to where I could by just practicing those baby steps, every day, I could find it without having to look for it. And I just started going, oh, wow. I'm so grateful that this and. And and and it just became a habit. I just started seeing things everywhere to be grateful for. It's just a beautiful sunny day or just just anything.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And and it really brings that joy back into your life.

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Stephen Licciardello: Laura, when we talk to people and when I've been coaching people are probably Sharlene when you're counseling or coaching, there's so many areas in your story where you could have lost yourself as in your identity because you your son took his life and and you were a mother. But not only are you a mother, you're an adopted mother. So there's are mastectomy and that challenges your identity as a woman. And then you had a heart transplant. So now, your identity as a donor recipient. And thinking about who was your donor and the type of thoughts. Like, I'm sure that plays a big part as well. And then, your identity as a wife.

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Stephen Licciardello: Your identity as a business owner. How did you come out of it as in your you didn't get stuck in your identity as those people, but you created a new identity for yourself?

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Laura Mangum Broome: Yeah. That's a good question. I haven't been asked that before. I think it's because just over the years, I've played so many roles. It's it it's just I I think it's just I just kind of put the flow when it comes to the roles. Now, like you mentioned the identity, the divorce was probably the most devastating to me out of everything because it I saw it as rejection. I was I just I wasn't good enough. I I was I had all these flaws.

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Laura Mangum Broome: Because when as a as a wife, if your husband leaves you for another woman, you immediately are thinking what's wrong with me? Am I not pretty enough? I'm not I have all the baggage. You raise a family. You you have your own ups and downs. Is it just something new and shiny that caught my husband's eye that's just less problems or just more and? And it's like you just question everything about you. And and and that was probably my lowest point because I've that was I just had no control over that, and I couldn't fix that. And so I I do have a strong Christian faith, and that's probably what turned things around because I just said, I'm a I I I'm a child of god, And there's always been a saying, god don't make no junk. And so I had to go back and and realize I went through the bible and and I just looked at he he I I was fearfully and wonderfully made. And I started realizing the only thing that matters is what god made me for, how he loves me no matter what flaws and all.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And that's probably where I I found my new identity and that I was worthy. I do have a purpose in life. I it's and I and I realized I don't have control over what people think of me. And and and when to realize that, it really is kind of empowering because it's like, I I'm in control of my thoughts, my words, my actions. I don't have control over other people. And if they have a problem with me and unless we can talk about it I mean, I generally, I'm a very friendly person. At least that's what everybody tells me. And if people have a problem with me and I then I sometimes I can be a people pleaser, and I wanna know why don't they like me.

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Laura Mangum Broome: But then I realized it's not me. Maybe it's them. When I was working, I was in my twenties. Thing is this before I met my husband. And I I I worked with a bunch of women, which I realized I don't really like working with a bunch of women because you get into all the little clicks. But I had some good friends. And and this one lady, well, she was young. She was from my age, but she just kinda had the.

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Laura Mangum Broome: She just I could tell she didn't like me. And I'm like, I are going, well, what's wrong? What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't she like me? Everybody else likes me. And come to find out she was there for, I don't know, over a year or 2 years, and her husband got relocated with this job. And she came up to me during her going away are, and she said, Laura, I just wanna apologize for the way I've treated you this last year and a half. And she said, you remind me so much of my husband's ex girlfriend. And I just could not like you because you look so much like her, and I hated her so much. And she said, I think we could have really been good friends. And I said, I'm sorry to hear the, but I realized it wasn't me.

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Laura Mangum Broome: It was something that she was dealing with. So so when you realize I mean, and that so truly, that's empowering. When, you know, you don't have control over anybody else. You don't have control over their thoughts, what they say, but you do have control over yourself. And what can you do with that empowerment? You you can change your thoughts, go from negative to positive thoughts. You can use more positive self talk. Your actions, you can find little things to move you forward. So it's, it's just it's a mindset.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And I like I talk about a growth mindset. It's it's just getting rid of the limiting beliefs and realizing life's gonna be hard. And as long as we can grow from it and find those little nuggets, those little positive nuggets, we can get through this. So, I mean, my identity now, I'd say, is that I I'm I'm a mom. And I'm a twin and I'm solopreneur. I'm gonna be a grandmother. It's, I I I think it's important not to put too many labels on yourself because then you're gonna limit yourself. Like, when I went through the divorce, I did not want to be labeled as a middle aged divorced woman because that tells you right there the stereotype.

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Laura Mangum Broome: Well, obviously, her husband left left her for another woman. I and, was she younger, prettier? What was the deal? And it's like, that was his problem. My my this is a a new lease on life. And what am I gonna do with Stephen

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Stephen Licciardello: While you're talking while you're talking and talking about mindset and all that, just the the one thing that comes to my mind is is Romans chapter and that says, be not conformed to the the. Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. And and and that's what you're saying. And it it's like are transforming the way you think and don't label yourself.

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Laura Mangum Broome: But then I going through what I did, it's like, oh my gosh. I I did it. And I wanna tell people you can do it too. I'm nobody I'm not anybody special. I'm just an ordinary person who has been through extraordinary things, but I know how to get to the other side. And I wanna share that it's not a secret. There there's tons of people out there that I take inspiration from, either from family and friends are in the community are even celebrities. Find somebody because they're gonna have an amazing story.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And if they can do it, why can't you? It's you just have to tell yourself, I can do this. It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be hard, but I'm not gonna give up because I want a better life.

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Stephen Licciardello: Why do you think some people bounce back after adversity and others don't?

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Laura Mangum Broome: I find is that choice of being a victim or a victor. It's it it sounds simple, but it to me, it true those are your two choices. Even if you try not to decide, it's still a decision. You're just kinda hung in limbo. You know, you're not gonna you you you're just kinda stuck and, you know, you can be a victim. I do I do know people who have been through hard circumstances, and they they choose to be the victim. Life isn't fair. I never catch a break.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And when you see people who are going through similar circumstances or, again, difficult circumstances and say, I'm going to get through this, It's it's that mindset. It's that growth mindset. A fixed mindset says, I can't do this. I I'm is gonna say the is tough, but I've got so much to live for. I I I need to get through this. And so I I it just comes down to a choice. You can't make people make choices. You can only make that choice for yourself.

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Stephen Licciardello: Is in your opinion, is resilience something someone is born with? Or is it something we can develop over time?

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Laura Mangum Broome: It's it's definitely something you can develop over time. I I think some people I've kinda gone back and forth with it. I mean, it's definitely something it's like a muscle. You you can you you can build it. You can strengthen it. It I think it's and, again, goes with your mindset. Some people say, well, how did you learn to be so resilient? I don't know if I learned it. I I joke around and say, I'm just kind of fat, dumb, and happy.

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Laura Mangum Broome: I know. It's easier it's easier to go through life like that sometimes. But I mean, when I when I was, 10, I, had an adverse reaction to the anesthesia and muscle relaxant for are operation. And I my temperature spiked over are 107, and I went into a coma. And the doctors told my parents that if I came out of the coma, which was very unlikely, that I would have brain damage. And 24 hours later, I came out of the coma, and the doctors said I don't have brain damage. And but it was are it was a scary time for my parents. I can remember being in the coma laying in my bed and hearing them talk to the.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And, it came out of the, anesthesia, and my muscles are real contracted. I had to work on strength strengthening my arms and legs out. But as a 10 year old kid, I just wanted to go home and play with my friends. And I have a hole in my eardrum that's the size of a quarter that I just I've I've learned throughout life. If I go swimming, put my ear plug in. If I take a shower, put my ear plug in. And it's like life just kinda goes on. And my parents didn't treat me any different.

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Laura Mangum Broome: They they didn't wanna put any limitations on me. But I think I mean, kids kids can be very resilient. It says as as adults, we go through those hard knocks of life, and so we pull back every time we go through a bad situation. And then when we go through a a tragic situation, then we've lost all confidence. We're we're fearful. We don't know if we can get out of our comfort zone. I I tell people 3 years ago, I was pushed outside of my comfort zone, and the door was closed, locked, and I couldn't get back in. So I had to learn to to something new.

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Laura Mangum Broome: I had to to learn and and look for new possibilities. I don't recommend that for anybody. But I would say, just start doing something new. And, if you if you drive to work or you're driving to a friend's house, find a new way to get there. I mean, there's so many things we do in life that we don't think about, which is finding a new way of doing something or getting somewhere. That's resilience. And so I was like, I just want people to understand it it you just have to be cognizant and know what resilience looks like because you're probably already doing it. You just need to step out of your comfort zone.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And we like to be in our comfort zone because it's comfortable. But then what happens when you you're you're at a job that you don't like? And I mean, I gosh. I can remember so many times I'd be at a job. It's like, I hate this job. But but well, you know, I could go look for another one, but that's scary. You know, you gotta get it's hard. It requires a lot of effort. I'll just stay here miserable in my comfort zone.

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Laura Mangum Broome: So you just have to learn to be sick and tired of being sick and tired. And there's your motivation to take that first step and and and get out.

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Stephen Licciardello: Yeah. I love that.

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Stephen Licciardello: That even if you are not going through any struggles and you're just quite comfortable going through life, you can actually start to build your resilience just by trying something different, like, every every day or, like, regular Yeah. Basis.

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Laura Mangum Broome: Yeah. You can I mean, it's it's real easy to do it? It's just it's it's that it's the creative problem solving that you start learning to do. Like, you could take any kind of object around the house and think of how many different uses can I can I make of this? It would be like taking a word and seeing how many words can you make out of the letters in the word. It's really start it's just getting the, you know, getting your mind to look at something in different ways. There used to be a show when I was growing up. I think they've done a they've done a remake of it called MacGyver. And and he was this, it used to be a joke. He could do anything, fly a plane, fix anything with paper clip and a rubber band.

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Laura Mangum Broome: That was the joke. If he had those two things, he could save the world. And it is kind of that concept. What do I have that I can use in a new way to find a new opportunity? And that includes I mean, just with which your personal assets is also who's who's supportive people that you could ask for help when you need it. What are other resources available to you? There's YouTube videos. There's just Internet. There's community resources. What resources do you have at your disposal that you can add into your personal assets to solve a problem, to change your life, be creative, think outside the box.

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Laura Mangum Broome: It's it's a wonderful world out there when you realize all the possibilities that can that can happen. We we just keep our ourselves in this little little box doing our same thing every day. And I used to get so jealous of people who could just go out and do try new things, take risks, and all that. And and and I've learned what my Goldilocks zone is is is what I call it because it's that fear and excitement. They're very similar. It just depends on the degree that you get it. And so I've learned to find my little Goldilocks zone where I know how much risk I'm willing to take, you know, to to to enlarge my comfort zone. But I also know, like, public speaking is still hard for me.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And and and and that's when I the fear, the excitement turn starts turning into fear. And I go, wait a minute. Is it about you or your message? You know, it's about my message. I want to tell people they can do this. And and so that's that's what I think is important for people to find their their Goldilocks zone between fear and excitement, and that'll help them get out of their comfort zone.

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Stephen Licciardello: You've recently finished writing a book called Flourishing After Adversity. Do you wanna speak into that book and tell us a little bit about what the book is about and what the reader can expect?

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Laura Mangum Broome: Yes. Thank you. In order to get my message out, I decided to write my framework into into a book that I can get it into more people's hands. And it is it's the same three step framework that I used to, you know, in the last 3 years that that I I think will help anybody handle any obstacles, large or small, and to to move forward. And so I got some of my stories in it, and I I kinda start each chapter. I start with a little story about what I went through and then resilience concepts, coping strategies, you know, and resilience skills. And then I end with the rest of my story. And so there's some case studies I use of people that also some famous people that have overcome their own hardship.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And and so I I just it took me a while to write because it was some of the stories I had to write about were kinda difficult, but I felt it was important to share because because I've been through so many life changing events in a short period of time, I'm hoping that somebody is going to resonate with those stories. So and there's some humor in it. I do believe that when it's time to find the humor in life and in our hardships I I I, write about and story. I was going through the breast cancer. I knew I was gonna have to lose my hair because I've seen other people go through it. But when it started happening, it was really hard. And so there was a a movie called GI Jane with Demi Moore. I never saw it, but I would remember in the the, she would shave her hair, you know, shave shave her hair off like the other soldiers.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And I thought if she could do it, I can do it. And so I did shave my my head and got my wig. And I it was in summer, and it was so hot here in Texas. It's it's really, really hot. And, so I I was joking around about with the I had, like, a synthetic wig. I think my first one. And I said, I'm really worried that the heat from my head is gonna set my wig on fire. And and so I would talk about taking my wig off and fanning my face because it was so hot.

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Laura Mangum Broome: But you have to find the humor in situations when it's right. And so I talk about that too. But the the the I and the book on a high note, and I go through my 3 steps, conquering fear of change, discovering your superpowers to overcome obstacles like I've talked about, and then thinking outside the box to find opportunities. And and so I I end the book with living a life without regrets and living your bucket list now. Don't wait till you're older because it's life is to be lived, not to exist. And I think I was at the I was existing before everything changed. I was kind of existing, always just and waiting to retire and and so I could do everything. Well, my gosh, we're living longer.

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Laura Mangum Broome: We're not gonna we could I could like, right now, I love the fact that I can work, but it's it's it's not it it it I have more of a work balanced life now, and I love it because I got a granddaughter coming. So I wanna make sure I have time to spend it with her too. Spoil her and hand her back. But it's it's and and and too, you know, leaving a legacy of resilience to the next generation or even with each other. The book is designed you know, that saying, teach a or give a man a fish he eats for a day. Teach a man the fish, and he can feed himself for a lifetime. That's what I want my book and my framework to do is I want to teach people how to strengthen their resilience and so that they can teach others their their practical action steps in the book and and in the framework. And I just want it to spread.

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Laura Mangum Broome: I I want us to teach our children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews. I'm also a mentor the that helps youth transition out of foster care into living on their own. And that's what I got involved in after my adoptive son passed away. I I wanted some way to honor his memory. And so I just it's just my passion to let people know you can have a wonderful life. It's just it's your choice. But here are the the skills and the strategies and the tools to do it if you want to.

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Stephen Licciardello: Yeah. Absolutely. But you've gone through so much, Laura, and you've caught the other side. You've just taken life by the horns. And what advice would you give to someone who wanted to start to rewrite their story?

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Laura Mangum Broome: Do it. Start today. Start with what you can do and and start practicing gratitude. Because when you it's like practicing gratitude is like putting on special glasses that where you can see so many positive things in the world and opportunities. People you meet, I mean, there's reasons why paths cross and there's reasons why something didn't happen, but that that had to happen so that this could happen. And it's just when you get up in the morning and go, what kind of wonderful things are gonna happen today? The will happen. I I can remember I used to one morning, I woke up. This is just and the crazy life of raising kids and working and all that stuff.

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Laura Mangum Broome: And I remember going, oh, gosh. It was it's just a it's just Wednesday. What fresh hell is gonna happen today? And that's not living. That's existing. That's already telling yourself it's gonna be a bad day. But when you wake up and you go and you just just change that mindset, it can happen. And I just want to shout it from the rooftops. And if I can do it, anybody else can.

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Stephen Licciardello: Laura, what would you do? Like, if you could go back and rewrite your life story now, what would that look like?

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Laura Mangum Broome: I would honestly, I wouldn't really wanna change anything because I am who I am today. But if I had to change something, I would I would tell my younger self, take those little chance chances. Just take the little risk and and experience life. Beautiful.

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Stephen Licciardello: Thank you so much, Laura.

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Stephen Licciardello: Laura, it's been a great pleasure having you on our show. Thank you so much. And if you wanna know more about Laura and also to get a copy of her book, flourishing after adversity, Make sure you get to her website, which is icope to hope com. We'll also have the, all her, notes in the show notes, and also a direct link to her website and to the book. So, Laura, again, thank you so much.

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Stephen Licciardello: Thank you so much.

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Laura Mangum Broome: Thank you for for allowing me to be here. It was a joy. I I appreciate it very much.

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Stephen Licciardello: Like, what a journey we've had today. You know, it really reminds us of resilience, acceptance, and discovery in our inner strength. It's a reminder of how resilient the human spirit is and the capacity to really overflow and flourish.

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Stephen Licciardello: Absolutely. Today's story isn't just about a narrative of overcoming. It's a blueprint for transformation. The first lesson we've taken to heart, right, is the undeniable power of resilience. It's clear that resilience isn't merely about weathering the storm, but it's actually about learning how to dance in the rain.

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Stephen Licciardello: So I think that was really well said. And it's that dance, that movement forward, which can bring us to the and lesson that we can take out of this embracing change and the practice of radical acceptance. And I know we've we've spoken about radical acceptance before. It's about making peace with what is rather than what could have been, allowing us to pivot from the place of loss to and of possibility and one of being open to what is.

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Stephen Licciardello: Yeah. And that seamlessly leads us to a third lesson, which is the discovery and leveraging of our personal superpowers. Yet each of us holds a unique set of talents and strengths and capacities. So when that's harnessed, we can transform our lives and the lives of those around us.

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Stephen Licciardello: And as we reflect on these lessons, let's not forget the and message of, this today's interview that no matter the adversity each of us has the ability to rewrite our story. It may require us to dig deep to face our fears and to embrace change but the outcome is a life lived on purpose, joy, and resilience is undoubtedly worth it.

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Stephen Licciardello: So as we close today's episode, we invite you to ponder on these lessons. Really think about what you've heard and consider how you can apply the power of resilience, the acceptance of change, and the discovery of your superpowers to your life. Remember, it's never too late to start rewriting your story. Thank you for joining us on the Rewrite Your Story podcast.

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Stephen Licciardello: We hope you found this episode enlightening.

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Stephen Licciardello: Until next time, stay informed and inspired.

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Stephen Licciardello: This is Stephen and Charlene signing off from the rewrite your story podcast. Thank you and stay blessed.