Trauma Hiders Club Podcast

Yijen Liu is an entrepreneur of the human potential movement and investor in Observant, a tech & AI start-up. She is an experienced product leader whose career includes serving as the Vice President of Product at Mezi.com, the Director of Product Management for Rdio, and the Head of Mobile Product at Amazon. She also served as a senior financial analyst at Microsoft. As an entrepreneur, Yijen...

The past few years have inspired so much reflection on who I am as a mother—a mother with doubt, shame, and hypervigilance on the one hand, and the most tenderhearted love for two little boys who are now two brilliant men on the other. Mother’s Day can be difficult for survivors of childhood trauma. While other holidays are recognized for being difficult for many people, Mother’s Day brings up a s...

Jaimes McNeal is the President and Owner of JDM Coaching 360, a personal, professional, and organizational development company. Jaimes also serves as a qualitative researcher at Brandtrust and an adjunct instructor at Chowan University. He completed his Master of Arts degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where he is also currently a P...

I recently watched Pixar’s latest bit of brilliance, Turning Red—a film about Meillin, a Chinese-Canadian girl who, due to a magical family blessing turned curse, discovers on her 13th birthday that she has the power to morph into a huge, red panda when she’s super-charged with emotions. But, my dear Trauma Hiders Club member, Turning Red is so much more than that. In this episode of the Trauma Hi...

Bay LeBlanc Quiney is an executive leadership coach, consultant, and the President of Wonderland & Co. She received her training as a professional ontological and facilitative coach through Accomplishment Coaching, and completed her undergraduate degree in Anthropology & Professional Writing from the University of Victoria, where she also completed her Master of Business Administration deg...

Shame is perhaps one of the most destructive emotions. It doesn’t only lead to anger, fear, perfectionism, and depression; it also invites self-loathing, self-harm, and self-sabotage. It is the reason there’s a Trauma Hiders Club—in fear of being found out, made fun of, and ultimately exiled, shame makes us hide and disconnect. I recently dug deep into the literature on shame as it relates to the...

Vicki and Tom Dau are the owners of Team Dau Wellness. Vicki is an author, mixed media artist, and Certified Clinical EFT Practitioner and Master Coach, while Tom is a home repair contractor. As Team Dau, Vicki, and Tom work with couples in navigating trauma and strengthening their marriages. They are also volunteers for Reclaim 13, an organization that raises awareness and offers recovery from se...

Welcome to the 51st episode of the Trauma Hiders Club—a milestone episode I never thought would happen. The truth is that this podcast is the most publicly confronting thing I have ever done. Prior to launch, I had the fear that making it public would turn me into a ball, raw as an exposed nerve ending. But that didn’t happen; in fact, I went from nervous interviewer to flowing podcaster, inspired...

Mark J. Silverman is an executive coach as well as the bestselling author of Only 10s 2.0: Confront Your To-Do List and Transform Your Life. He is a speaker and the host of Mastering Overwhelm, a podcast that helps listeners thrive in their businesses, relationships, and personal well-being. Mark graduated from National Louis University with a bachelor’s degree in Business and Applied Science and...

“If you want something done, do it yourself,” goes a quote attributed to many people—from Bonaparte to Zorg from the movie, The Fifth Element. Many people who subscribe to this belief think it is necessary to become successful in life; but when your default nature is to push through and do the thing—all the things—rather than receive support from others, that’s hyper-independence. And hyper-indepe...

Jaimes McNeal is the President and Owner of JDM Coaching 360, a personal, professional, and organizational development company. Jaimes’ strength lies in his ability to identify beliefs and behaviors that inhibit desired outcomes. In addition to his work as an executive coach and keynote speaker, Jaimes serves as an adjunct instructor at Chowan University and qualitative researcher at Brandtrust. H...

Unless you’ve been living off the grid, you know that we don’t talk about Bruno. For anyone out of the loop, Bruno Madrigal is a character from the Disney animation film, Encanto. He’s the family member who’s shunned and in hiding due to his differences. If he sounds like a member of the Trauma Hiders Club, it’s no coincidence. After all, we often talk about not fitting in and, at the deeper level...

Dr. Mandy Lehto is an executive coach and corporate trainer. Over the past 13 years, Mandy has dedicated herself to supporting high achievers who are ready to redefine success. She is a writer who has written for—and been featured in—publications such as The Sunday Times, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, and CNBC, among many others. She previously worked as the Director of the international...

Forgiveness is like a detonator button in the Trauma Hiders Club. While forgiveness is definitely a hot-button topic for me and for so many of my clients, I’ve been thinking about how we’re conditioned to forgive and forget, or to believe in the old adage that to err is human and to forgive is divine. But to me, forgiveness is an inside job—one that involves reuniting the parts of ourselves that s...

Wanessa Badger is the creator of the Cycle Breakers Club, a platform that helps others break free from shame, resentment, and pain while stopping the perpetuation of trauma. Surviving childhood traumas and pediatric kidney disease led Wanessa to a journey through neuroscience, psychology, and energetics. She has a degree in Child Development and Family Studies, as well as certifications in life co...

I have recently been thinking about the words that we hear and don’t hear as children and the relationship those words have with our adulthood. You see, between my mother’s Lewy body dementia and my father’s fading short-term memory, I’m often struck by the realization that the gates of opportunity to have loving conversations with them are closing. So, I went to Facebook and Instagram and asked m...

David Taylor-Klaus is an executive coach and speaker, as well as the author of Mindset Mondays with DTK. He is the Founder of DTK Coaching, a company that works with teams, individuals, and groups to help them unearth and unleash their leadership mastery. David is a successful serial entrepreneur who served as the CEO of Digital Positions, an internet strategy and web development firm he co-founde...

“Am I kidding myself, or am I on the upside of healing?” This thought comes in and out of my consciousness a lot. I convince myself that I’ve spent countless hours doing the work, crying buckets of tears, pushing away bodily feelings, and naming emotions—I’ve done this so many times that I’ve created, and deferred to, an internal operating system that invites me to look for signs that let me know...

Amy Hogan is a career transition coach. As a coach, retreat leader, and breathwork facilitator, Amy is dedicated to supporting others in making the changes necessary to live a life of their own choosing. She served as the Climate Change and Sustainability Coordinator for the Regional Municipality of Durham before pursuing her career as a coach. In addition to guiding her clients through her own pl...

Through nearly two years of the pandemic, we’re all hoping for an uprising in health and a decrease in the spread. With 2022 just around the corner, we’re all definitely feeling a collective hope for the future. Speaking of stops and starts, January’s the season of New Year’s resolutions—and abandoning them after three weeks of fervor. But instead of making a list of things we’re going to do—lose...

Giovanna Capozza is a coach, writer, functional medicine practitioner, and the Founder of Love Well Coaching, a platform through which she works with individuals seeking to understand and heal their unhealthy relationship patterns. With more than a decade of leadership and coaching experience, Giovanna guides her clients in developing a rock-solid relationship with themselves and removing the bloc...

I so often hear the terms “emotionally triggered” and “gut feeling” used interchangeably. But, while they’re both associated with powerful internal experiences, there is a stark difference between the two. How can you tell them apart? Imagine you’re an early human. One day, while out hunting or gathering resources, you spot a saber-toothed tiger on the horizon, walking down your path. You feel fea...

Dr. Mandy Lehto is an executive coach and corporate trainer. Over the past 13 years, Mandy has dedicated herself to supporting high achievers who are ready to redefine success. She is a writer who has written for—and been featured in—publications such as The Sunday Times, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, and CNBC, among many others. She previously worked as the Director of the international...

It’s confession time in the Trauma Hiders Club. One of the thoughts that held me back from healing my unprocessed trauma was the fear that I might end up divorced. I was scared that I might fall apart—shattered and broken—because all my trauma would fly around like the dementors in the Harry Potter books, sucking away all my happiness to leave me a soulless, unloving, and unlovable shell. Who woul...

Nancy Perlson is a trauma-informed licensed clinical social worker trained in somatically-based treatments and modalities. She is a long-time yoga practitioner and instructor certified through the Yoga Alliance as well as an active member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. In 2010, Nancy created Connecting Through Yoga, a yoga bereavement support program. She has served on the Bo...