July 29, 2024 • 43 mins
What if you could turn your darkest moments into a source of strength and inspiration? This week on She Bold Crew Podcast, we sit down with Andreea Parc, a former attorney whose life took a dramatic turn when she was convicted of a white-collar crime. Andreea shares how she moved from the depths of emotional turmoil, losing her legal practice and being disbarred, to finding renewed purpose as a mindset coach. Her journey is both heart-wrenching and uplifting, revealing the incredible resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power of overcoming adversity.
In a thought-provoking discussion, we explore the impact of spirituality and faith, particularly in times of personal hardship. Andreea and I share powerful testimonies of how surrendering control to a higher power can radically refocus our lives on what truly matters. By aligning our actions with divine will and letting go of our egos, we uncover the core principles that lead to a more meaningful and empowered life. This segment is a must-listen for anyone seeking to align their spiritual and mental mindset with God's purpose.
We also address crucial mental health support options, distinguishing between mindset coaching and therapy. Andreea's personal story—from growing up in communist Romania to facing the stark realities of starting over in New York at 22—sheds light on the importance of resilience, family, and the power of nature in healing. We discuss the signs that someone might benefit from a mindset coach, the common stigmas associated with therapy, and the necessity of professional help for severe trauma. Tune in for an episode rich with insights and encouragement for anyone navigating life's adversities.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
She bold, she real and she's definitely ready.
Hey guys, welcome back toanother episode of the she Bold
Crew Podcast.
It's your girl, smiley B andEva G, and we are back with
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another bold episode.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And so today we have a guest.
You know we love when guestscome on.
So today we have Miss AndreaPark.
She's a former attorney,currently a mindset coach, and
she's also a creative writer.
So thanks for coming on, Andrea, if you want to go ahead and
introduce yourself to thelisteners and let them know
where to find you if you're onany social media.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Hello, thank you very much for having me.
It's such a pleasure to betogether with you on this
wonderful day.
So my name is Andrea Park.
I live in New York City.
However, I'm originally fromRomania.
I came to the United States whenI was 22 years old.
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I became an attorney in NewYork and right now I am, as you
mentioned, a creative writer anda mindset coach.
I help especially womenattorneys and women um high,
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high achieving um entrepreneursto overcome um things that uh
come in our lives.
We all have difficulties andsometimes it's very hard to
overcome things that crushed usand put us down.
And after we hit rock bottom,it's hard and sometimes we need
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somebody to help us move forwardpowerfully and recover.
And why I'm doing this work isbecause, as I said, I was an
attorney and I had my ownpractice and I was convicted of
a white-collar crime that wasasylum fraud, that's, an
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immigration law fraud, and Iwent to prison.
I spent almost three years inprison and I lost everything
that I had worked for, and itwas a very difficult period of
my life, actually the hardestperiod of my life.
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When I went away, my daughterwas 15 and really, really
heartbroken situation.
Um, however, I I realized thatit's not the end of the world
and I'm still alive.
And if I'm still alive and stillbreathing, the next question
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was what am I?
Who are?
Who am I really and what am Idoing in my life?
I mean, I must have a purposeand things happen for a reason,
and I started questioning whythis happened and I pulled
myself up and that's the reasonwhy, right now, I'm a mindset
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coach and I'm writing books.
That's the reason why, rightnow, I'm a mindset coach and I'm
writing books, and I created aprogram to help people be aware
of their situation and bepresent in the moment and to
again overcome difficulties andempower people again, especially
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women.
And this is what I'm doing andI'm really grateful that you
gave me the opportunity to sharemy story.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Absolutely, and we are grateful to have you.
What a powerful testimony Right.
You know being such successfulum self-made woman and then you
know experiencing um yourtragedy of how did that feel, um
being someone that you know wasupholding the law and and and
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being a support to other peopleand representing people, and
then to have that happen, likeyou said.
I know that that had to be veryhurtful, but what was your
mindset at the time?
Were you just like, okay, I nolonger want to do this type of
work?
Or like, did it discourage youfrom wanting to be in this line
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of work?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I mean, of course, the first thing, uh, the first
emotions, um, so I was, um, Iwent to trial.
I chose to go to trial, um, anduh, the initial offer of the
plea was about two years and Ididn't accept that because I
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thought truly that I wasn't I.
I recognized that I mademistakes in my business and I
cut corners, but I did not atthat point, believe that I was
guilty of the charge and I choseto go to trial.
And, um, what happened was, Ididn't know again, although I
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was an attorney, I didn'teducate myself of the legal, of
the criminal legal system inthis country.
That is something that iscalled a penalty trial, uh,
where if you choose to go totrial, you get an extra charge.
Oh, wow, yes, and that was amandatory 24 months that
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included identity theft, and Iwent to trial and after a
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two-week trial, of course, I wasconvicted, because if you look
at the records, it says thatalmost not even 2% of people
that go to trial win.
Everybody loses, and it's anincentive, this penalty trial.
It's incentive for for peoplenot to go to trial but to plea,
and the initial um emotions, ofcourse, were rancor and
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frustration and, um, all all thenegative emotions that could um
go through anyone's mind atthat point.
And slowly but surely Irealized all the mistakes that
I've made and I'm not right now.
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I'm not allowed to practice lawfor seven years after I was
disbarred.
I'm not allowed to practice lawfor seven years after I was
disbarred.
But I will try to reapplybecause I realized that you know
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, if my ethics are right, whynot practice law with a
different mindset?
Yes, so I'm allowed to reapplyfor a mission in seven years,
and that is 2026.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh, okay, 2026.
Okay.
So, yeah, that's not too farfrom now, but yeah, that
definitely had to be tough.
I mean, you know, of course,everybody, like you said, make
mistakes and whether they'reintentional or not, you know
everybody makes mistakes andit's just tough that you work so
hard and in that happen.
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But, like you said, I feel likeyou know, as tough as things
may seem in the moment, I dobelieve that everything happens
for a reason and the purposethat you seem to be serving
today and with everything thatyou're doing just seems so great
.
And so, you know, I think thatthat is the good and that was
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the, you know, the light at theend of the tunnel with that.
But we appreciate you sharingthat.
I understand that you know, hadto be a really vulnerable part
of your life, um, but itdefinitely is an um inspiring
testimony there.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So is there anything in particular that?
So I'm imagining you know, likewhen that happened, you
probably experienced, you know,maybe some I mean I'm assuming
maybe some depression.
I would think that I would, youknow, deal with a little
depression or anything like that.
At what point did you breakthrough, like what was your
breakthrough moment afterdealing with?
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You know everything that youwent through.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
So, um, because I was in, I was in denial for a while
, so, in, I went through trialand I not even a split second
did I thought that I will lose.
Um, because I'm a um, I havedual citizenship, uh, and US
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citizenship.
When the verdict came in asguilty, the judge believed that
I'm a flight risk and he revokedbail and I was ordered to be
detained and that was in MCC tobe detained, and that was in MC.
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I spent there eight months.
Wow, and of course it was from.
Because why am I doing the workthat I'm doing now?
Is because I know, because I'vebeen there.
I know because I've been there,I know how we human beings run
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away from facing our lives.
And what happened was I was anattorney.
I was trying to achieve as muchas possible, to to gain
recognition and titles and moneyand this and that, and have my
daughter in private school anddrive an expensive car and have
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a huge office.
Everything was for my image,the image that I created for
myself, what a successfulattorney should look like,
without even I didn't.
I was rushing and um, runningaway from facing my life, trying
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to escape somewhere.
I didn't have time to stop andactually analyze my life and as
terrifying and heartbrokenmoment when I was locked up in
MCC.
It was that moment when lifeforced me to stop.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And I met so many women, um, I mean, literally, I
was broken.
I was like a, a, a fresh wound,uh.
But I met so many women therethat had much more terrifying
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stories than mine and I realizedthat it can be worse, right For
sure.
And being depressed would nothelp me in any way, and I
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probably took me about a monthof being really really down and
getting used to being locked up.
I mean, I was an attorney and Iwas independent with my own law
firm.
I was doing what?
Literally whatever I wanted andfrom there to be locked up with
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an open toilet, um, next to thebed and without anything like
some some rags on me andliterally nothing.
15 minutes on the phone with mydaughter, um, it, it was.
It took me about a month plus.
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It was thanksgiving week andthen the holidays christmas, new
year came and that was wasbeing being away from her for
the first time.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Um, was, was tough yeah, I can't imagine that, um,
and you know, one of the thingsthat you said is, like you know,
once everything had beenstripped and taken from you and
being in that you know cell andhaving to like realize like this
is really my life right now.
Um, for some people, um, I'mnot sure about yourself, but you
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know me and Eva, we'respiritual people where you know
we live a Christ-like life.
But for someone who may not bea spiritual or may not have, you
know, religious beliefs and notmight not be a sound mind to go
through that, so what would yousay, kept you from completely
losing your mind?
Because, like you said, I know,for me I have two boys and Eva
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has two girls, and it's like I'mattached to the hip with my
kids, a week away from eachother.
I'm losing it and that's justvacation or whatever the case
may be.
But what would you say?
Kept you of sound mind and like, kept you with, you know, that
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hope to like work towardsbettering yourself while doing
that time.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yes, it clearly was my higher power, god, god.
I mean, I thought I was aspiritual person before I grew
up as a Greek Orthodox and Ithought I was religious and I
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thought I was religious, butwhen I got there and I didn't
have anything and I thought Ilost everything no-transcript
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from destroying myself.
Yes, so basically, I'm gratefuland I'm blessed.
I feel blessed with whathappened, because I feel um,
I've heard so many stories ofpeople literally dying and I
feel blessed that I'm stillalive and that I get to do the
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work that I'm I'm doing rightnow.
And I feel because before Iwanted to do things just from my
ego, to satisfy my ego, not tosatisfy my higher power, my, my,
my divine self yes, and rightnow I, I realized that, um that
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God had to take action.
Yes, amen, yeah, as painful asit was, it was for the
betterment of my soul.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yes, amen to that, and that is so true and that we
speak a lot about ourspirituality and, like what we
feel called to do and just howwe learn our lessons spiritually
.
We love to bring that to thepodcast because we do feel like
one.
It's our job to um spread ourtestimony among the multitude,
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because that's what God calledus to do, but also because it
does.
It does help to remind us aswell, and I am a firm believer
that the Lord will strip you ofall things if he has to to
refocus you back on what matters, which is with, with him you
know, yeah, and as it says, youknow, in the Bible, all things
through Christ is is possiblethrough him, you know if
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you really, but it has to berooted in him, and it's so crazy
that you said that is becausewe just did a segment where I
feel like the Lord has beendealing me, dealing with me.
In that same sense, it's likeyou.
You, though, you think you'redoing all these great things,
and these are things that youand your mind feel are good
things, but those are notnecessarily God things.
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Those are not things that werenecessarily ordained or ordered
for you to do, and when you getso wrapped up in that and things
are going well, it's hard foryou to even take in
consideration.
Well, you know, and you're notthinking until you are stripped
of everything, you don't have nochoice but to refocus your
mindset on what you've beenrooted in which is the word of
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God and like what it is that youknow he has for you to do.
So I think that that's sopowerful and important that you
hit on that, and I love that youknow he has for you to do so.
I I think that that's sopowerful and important that you
hit on that and I love that youknow that you that was a part of
your journey is realizing that.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Oh, clearly, clearly and right now, when I'm, of
course, I'm human and and I getcaught in things, um, and and I
think I, I sometimes I becomeoverwhelmed of how many things I
have to do and then I realize,oh no, I don't have to do
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anything, it's a blessing I getto do things.
And then I think about what am Itrying to control?
There is nothing for me tocontrol.
I just, uh, ask my, my higherpower, my holy spirit, to guide
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me and what I need to do, andlet that happen.
Whatever it's best for thatsituation, how that situation is
best to be handled.
I leave it to my higher powerto handle it, because basically,
there is nothing for me that Ican control, but my mind, and
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this is the core of my program.
It's called apple and it standsfor awareness, presence,
perspective, letting go andempowerment, and it's basically
teaching people how to takecontrol of their mind, because
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it's basically the only thingthat we have control over how we
can let our mind um surrenderto our higher power, to god,
because our higher power knowswhat's best for us.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yes, absolutely.
And even if you don't, you know, feel as though, because things
are great for you right now andeverything is going great and
you seem to be getting alleverything that you want, that
doesn't mean that eventually,you won't still be required to
surrender all, because, like wesaid, nothing's possible without
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him.
So, though you feel like you'redoing everything, and you doing
this on your own, and you haveit's all up, it's all you, and
nobody else has credit for whatyou have going on.
It's like, eventually, whetherit's something that is affecting
you mentally.
You might be the mostwealthiest person, but your
mental is not right.
Be the most wealthiest person,but your mental is not right.
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So there's going to be someaspect in life that's going to
revert you back to wonderingwhat is, what am I doing wrong?
And you'll have to realize,sooner or later, that you're not
surrendering what it is thatyou are supposed to, which is
everything to the lord.
So, andrea, um.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
With that being said, how do you determine if someone
needs a mindset coach?
Like does everyone need amindset coach?
Like what is the sign thatsomeone might need a mindset
coach?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I believe that I mean , I don't believe in bad people.
I believe that everybody, thereare no bad people.
There are only unconsciouspeople, and I know that it's a
lot of suffering in the worldand people don't do things to
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hurt somebody else.
They only do things out oftheir own suffering and they
don't realize they're hurtingsomebody else.
They only do things out oftheir own suffering and they
don't realize they're hurtingsomebody else and they hurting.
They are hurting themselves andsometimes I mean I would say
that a lot of people might needa mindset coach, but if those
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people are not aware and they'renot willing, because they might
be aware that they have aproblem, but if they're not
willing to face that problem andto correct that problem.
I don't like to use the wordchange because people are afraid
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somehow of that word change.
But for me, change is healingand, um, because I was there and
I know that I ran away fromhealing myself many, many years,
um, I, I, I'm there, I'm, I'mopen for people to reach out to
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me.
I can't force anybody.
If they're willing and ifthey're aware, then I'm there to
help anybody that needs help.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yes, and we also speak a lot about therapy.
I myself have been in therapy.
I re-entered therapy last yearin april, so it's been a little
over a year, um but um, and Irecently just graduated don't
leave that out.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I can say I recently graduated.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Of course, it's going to be something that I keep in
my back pocket, my check-inevery three months or so.
But I'm such an advocate for,like you said, that type of work
, that type of mindset work, thementality, everything about
healing, healing yourself andbeing able to persevere.
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And I do feel like therapyhelped me a lot.
But what would you say is thedifference between like a life
like a mindset coach and atherapist Like mindset coach?
Because even with therapy itdefinitely helped me understand
and, like you said, kind ofrevert or retrain my mind on how
I think about things or how Iallow things to affect me.
(24:14):
Um, of course, because it'slike a thought first and then
it's a feeling.
But, yeah, what would you sayfor those who are like inquiring
, because there's a lot ofpeople who are so fearful of
going to therapy but mindsetcoach might be a more
comfortable situation for them.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
so how would you say, yeah, the difference between
that is yeah, I believe that, um, people are, uh, probably you
know the stigma of um, of, wow,I'm going through through
therapy that that it's somethingwrong with somebody if they go
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through therapy.
That it's something wrong withsomebody if they go through
therapy.
And the difference betweentherapy and the mindset coach to
me is, I mean, it can be agreat therapist that works
through the past, present andfuture.
What I do with my clients onmindset coaching is to how do we
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move forward, how do we clearthe mind to take action, how do
we let things go, how do we staypresent?
Because present is the onlything that that exists past
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traumas, and I think thattherapy deals a lot with the
past and clears the past.
Again, I believe that boththerapy and mindset coaching are
extremely necessary for people,because if we can have anything
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in the world, if our mind isnot straight and if we don't
keep in check, then we have nocontrol over anything.
And we are all born withpreconditions.
We're conditioned by thefamilies, by society, by school,
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by the education system to dothis, to do that, you have to do
this, you have to go to school,you have to, and it's not
necessarily because societydoesn't really know what we
really really need, know what wereally really need, and that's
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a lot of traumas that we, we aregetting caught in and we're
living lives out of somebodyelse's movie.
It's not so many times I lookat people and it's like they're
not in this movie, they'resomewhere else, they're playing
a role that they don't even knowthey're playing and, um, I
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think that therapy again it's aif it's a.
I had clients that had reallysevere traumas and I asked them
to see a therapist first.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Oh, I was just about to ask that Like is there ever a
time?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
where, yes, I'm not, yes, I'm not a medical
professional, I'm not licensedto to as a therapist, and if I
see in people that they are atthe level where I cannot help
them, I truly um ask them to seea medical professional.
(28:16):
Okay, yes, Because I do believe.
I do believe in in uh mentalhealth that people I mean, of
course, with awareness, andthat's what I um tell people in
my course um I'm helping themind, I'm not helping I.
I can't say that I can heal uhmental illness with being aware
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and uh doing meditation everymorning.
I mean it's, some people needmore than that yes, okay and I
cannot help them with that and Irefer them to see a therapist
or a medical professional.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yes, Andrea, are you able to touch more on how life
was for you?
Did you say you moved to NewYork when you were 22?
Yes, so how was that journeyand how was life for you in
Romania?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Uh.
So I was born in Romania whenit was, uh, communism and we
didn't have much Um, we didn'thave.
I mean, I've never had a Barbiedoll.
Um, I basically who I am now,I'm very back.
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Then it was hard that we didn'thave much, but we had tapes and
we watched American movies and,uh, since I was really, really
young, I created this image formyself that I will be a
successful businesswoman in NewYork, not knowing what that
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meant.
So I again.
We didn't have electricitysometime.
We didn't have heat, we didn'thave food.
It was rationalized, but then,when I turned 13, it changed.
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It became a democracy.
But somehow at the beginning itwas really all over the place.
People didn't know what ademocracy was and it was a mess.
I graduated high school.
I went to law school in Romania.
I wanted to be an artist, butmy father told me that an artist
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is not a profession and Ishould go to law school.
So this is how I got to lawschool.
I graduated law school at 22,because in Romania you can't go
to law school or medical schoolright after high school.
You don't need a college beforethat college before that Um.
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So that's why, when I got hereat 22,.
I was already a law schoolgraduate and, probably because I
wasn't born with the silverspoon in my mouth, I was able to
um spoon in my mouth, I wasable to um basically take life
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on and um be really, reallyhappy to be in new york by
myself at 22.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, that might have been a lot of pressure because
new york is a as a fast state,it's a fast moving state.
So to come from you, come fromRomania and come there and 22 on
your own, no family, nobodyyeah.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, but that's the reason why I said that I did not
appreciate at that time that wedidn't have a lot of things, be
very intuitive and veryingenious with things, and I
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basically am grateful that I hadthat life in Romania with not
so much.
And then after 8 months in MCC,I was transferred to Den
denbury at the camp, which is auh, the lowest security uh for
white collar crimes, and I wasthere and I realized that it's
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like the camps that we used tohave back in Romania when I was
a kid and it helped me a lot.
I hated the camps when I was akid in Romania because it was
minimal, like really we didn'thave much.
They were big rooms with a lotof people and the food was not
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great, but the landscapes wereincredible and that was the
reason why my parents weresending me to those camps and I
was in prison in Denbury,connecticut, and I had the same
experience without having much.
They were the landscapes that Iappreciated and nature saved my
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life there because I wasenjoying nature every day, being
outside a lot, and I called itall-Inclusive Resort.
I called that camp and I wrote abook.
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I wrote my memoir.
It's called Alive Again, myJourney from Maternity to
Redemption, in Prison, in prison, and I explain there how, how I
felt in the camp, like it wasthe the communist camps when I
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used to to go when I was a kidyeah, that's, that is wild.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And um with that, you know going through all of that
and you know going through youryou know sentence and getting
through that and just coming outfeeling um called to serve um
you know another purpose withhelping other people and
coaching them and sharing yourmethods and the things that help
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you get through um.
What do you would you say youum see for yourself in the next
you know three to five years?
Like what is your future umwithin your career?
Look like now that you are, youknow, doing the work for
yourself and also helping othersdo the work for themselves to
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to live a successful and healthylife.
What would you say you see foryourself moving forward?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
So my next project is I'm starting with my daughter,
who's now 21.
Okay, we're starting our ownpodcast okay and it's called how
I escaped prison and it's about, uh, of course, the mental
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prison that we all create forourselves in, in images and and
uh, uh, all the, the, uh, falseidols like the the bible
mentions that we all create forourselves.
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And, um, between myself with myexperience, and my daughter
with her experience, becausethere are a lot of podcasts and
people talk a lot about theirstories in prison.
They're not a lot of of peopletalking about their children,
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because I feel, I feel that thefamilies, and especially
children, of people that areincarcerated suffer even more
than the ones that are in.
Yeah, and my daughter wouldlove to share her story and to
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help kids or formerlyincarcerated or even currently
incarcerated people with herexperience.
Absolutely, yeah, yeah, I, Ican't wait.
It's, it's um, uh, we have ourfirst episode on august 5th.
Okay, august 5th for me is veryspecial because I came to the
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United States on August 5th 1998.
Okay, I was released fromprison on August 5th 2021.
And now it's going to be August5th, wow, and it's a new
beginning.
I feel that August 5th it's anew beginning.
That sounds awesome right there.
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Yes, and then I work on a TEDTalk.
The same is how I escape prisonand how we can all work on our
inner stories and somehow to toleave the story behind and and
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walk out, uh, powerfully in ourlives, because if we put our
lives in in god's hands, then wewill all be powerful and and
live great lives.
Yes, I also have two more booksthat I work on and also another
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course for attorneys.
So this is my five-year plan towork on coaching and hopefully
to regain my license in 2026.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Absolutely, that sounds amazing.
I I love that for you and youknow the the podcast idea sounds
amazing.
I was definitely thinking whatyou said about having your
daughter give her perspective aswell, Because it's one thing
for someone to be inside anddoing time and working on
(39:12):
keeping their mindset together,right, but then trying to also
pour into your daughter, who atthat time was a teenager, and
trying to help her to understand, you know, and to keep her how
to help her keep her mindsetclear, and you know how that
affected her.
So I'm excited for that.
(39:33):
I'm definitely going to tune inbecause I feel like there is a
lot that could definitely help,you know, help people in hearing
both of you guys' perspectives.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
I'm very appreciative to even hear your story now.
I think a lot of us are fueledby, like you know, not having
much when you're younger.
And then you know you hit thatage to where you can go off and
find these great careers andthen you're fueled by, oh, I
want the best of this and I wantto give my kids the best of
this.
Yeah, and you know, your storyis is very powerful because it
(40:04):
shows how you can loseeverything but you don't let
that break you and how do yourebuild.
You know to get back, to getback to where, or even better
than what you had before, um,and so I I love it.
I love the message.
I'm definitely looking forwardto um hearing the podcast.
I'm so excited for that.
So I will be on the lookout.
(40:25):
August 5th yeah, that is soexciting, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
And even how bold.
You know we love good, bold,bold testimony, but the how bold
it was for you, to come from awhole nother country, start over
by yourself, set standards andmeet goals and do those things.
And that is a testament toitself and it just shows the
goal that, regardless ofwhatever stumbling blocks may be
(40:50):
placing your way during yourjourney, how many ever times you
may stumble or whatever thecase may be, it doesn't take
away from you, know, all thework that you've done and all
the things that you haveaccomplished.
And, like you, you said justbeing able to even remember that
and being able to once againrecenter your focus on you know,
(41:13):
the Holy Spirit and what hecalled you to do, and then take
that, like you said, that, thatpower that we were born with,
that he instilled in us, um frombirth, and being able to
transition that and just evenmake even greater things happen.
So it definitely was a powerfultestimony and we just
appreciate the fact that youreached out and took the time to
(41:36):
sit and speak with us today.
We love it.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Of course.
Thank you very much for havingme.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yes, thank you, well, well go ahead and give our
listeners again, um, yourcontact information.
Um, you know how they can findyou.
I know, uh, we communicatedinitially through linkedin, but
if you have any, uh, you willwant to, you know, drop your
website information, because I'msure a lot of people would
definitely like to reach out and, you know, get a consultation
(42:05):
or anything of that sort.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Yes, of course.
So you can find everything it'son my website, which is
andreaparkcom Andrea, withdouble E, the Romanian way, and
park is P-A-R-C.
Andreaparkcom.
There I have all the socialmedia and on on every social
(42:30):
media, I am andrea park as well,so andreaparkcom.
There I have the books, okay,um, and there I have, uh, all
the information, the youtube,everything it's there,
andreaparkcom perfect awesome.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
So you guys heard that you can find her
andreaparkcom.
You can purchase her books, youcan schedule um a phone call
consultation with miss andreaand um you can follow her links
to her upcoming podcast andevery all the great things that
she has coming.
So we again thank you fortaking the time to speak with us
(43:08):
today and, uh, we look forwardto speaking with you and
following your journey movingforward of course.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Thank you so much and best of luck with everything
that you're doing.
Thank you because you're doinggreat things as well awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Thank you so much.
We greatly appreciate thatthank you.
Thank you so much all rightyand guys, until next time, stay
bold.
She bold, she real and she's definitely ready.
Hey guys, welcome back toanother episode of the she Bold
Crew Podcast.
It's your girl, smiley B andEva G, and we are back with
(00:22):
another bold episode.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And so today we have a guest.
You know we love when guestscome on.
So today we have Miss AndreaPark.
She's a former attorney,currently a mindset coach, and
she's also a creative writer.
So thanks for coming on, Andrea, if you want to go ahead and
introduce yourself to thelisteners and let them know
where to find you if you're onany social media.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Hello, thank you very much for having me.
It's such a pleasure to betogether with you on this
wonderful day.
So my name is Andrea Park.
I live in New York City.
However, I'm originally fromRomania.
I came to the United States whenI was 22 years old.
(01:07):
I became an attorney in NewYork and right now I am, as you
mentioned, a creative writer anda mindset coach.
I help especially womenattorneys and women um high,
(01:28):
high achieving um entrepreneursto overcome um things that uh
come in our lives.
We all have difficulties andsometimes it's very hard to
overcome things that crushed usand put us down.
And after we hit rock bottom,it's hard and sometimes we need
(01:52):
somebody to help us move forwardpowerfully and recover.
And why I'm doing this work isbecause, as I said, I was an
attorney and I had my ownpractice and I was convicted of
a white-collar crime that wasasylum fraud, that's, an
(02:16):
immigration law fraud, and Iwent to prison.
I spent almost three years inprison and I lost everything
that I had worked for, and itwas a very difficult period of
my life, actually the hardestperiod of my life.
(02:38):
When I went away, my daughterwas 15 and really, really
heartbroken situation.
Um, however, I I realized thatit's not the end of the world
and I'm still alive.
And if I'm still alive and stillbreathing, the next question
(02:58):
was what am I?
Who are?
Who am I really and what am Idoing in my life?
I mean, I must have a purposeand things happen for a reason,
and I started questioning whythis happened and I pulled
myself up and that's the reasonwhy, right now, I'm a mindset
(03:22):
coach and I'm writing books.
That's the reason why, rightnow, I'm a mindset coach and I'm
writing books, and I created aprogram to help people be aware
of their situation and bepresent in the moment and to
again overcome difficulties andempower people again, especially
(03:45):
women.
And this is what I'm doing andI'm really grateful that you
gave me the opportunity to sharemy story.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Absolutely, and we are grateful to have you.
What a powerful testimony Right.
You know being such successfulum self-made woman and then you
know experiencing um yourtragedy of how did that feel, um
being someone that you know wasupholding the law and and and
(04:20):
being a support to other peopleand representing people, and
then to have that happen, likeyou said.
I know that that had to be veryhurtful, but what was your
mindset at the time?
Were you just like, okay, I nolonger want to do this type of
work?
Or like, did it discourage youfrom wanting to be in this line
(04:40):
of work?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I mean, of course, the first thing, uh, the first
emotions, um, so I was, um, Iwent to trial.
I chose to go to trial, um, anduh, the initial offer of the
plea was about two years and Ididn't accept that because I
(05:04):
thought truly that I wasn't I.
I recognized that I mademistakes in my business and I
cut corners, but I did not atthat point, believe that I was
guilty of the charge and I choseto go to trial.
And, um, what happened was, Ididn't know again, although I
(05:29):
was an attorney, I didn'teducate myself of the legal, of
the criminal legal system inthis country.
That is something that iscalled a penalty trial, uh,
where if you choose to go totrial, you get an extra charge.
Oh, wow, yes, and that was amandatory 24 months that
(05:51):
included identity theft, and Iwent to trial and after a
(06:14):
two-week trial, of course, I wasconvicted, because if you look
at the records, it says thatalmost not even 2% of people
that go to trial win.
Everybody loses, and it's anincentive, this penalty trial.
It's incentive for for peoplenot to go to trial but to plea,
and the initial um emotions, ofcourse, were rancor and
(06:35):
frustration and, um, all all thenegative emotions that could um
go through anyone's mind atthat point.
And slowly but surely Irealized all the mistakes that
I've made and I'm not right now.
(07:00):
I'm not allowed to practice lawfor seven years after I was
disbarred.
I'm not allowed to practice lawfor seven years after I was
disbarred.
But I will try to reapplybecause I realized that you know
(07:23):
, if my ethics are right, whynot practice law with a
different mindset?
Yes, so I'm allowed to reapplyfor a mission in seven years,
and that is 2026.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh, okay, 2026.
Okay.
So, yeah, that's not too farfrom now, but yeah, that
definitely had to be tough.
I mean, you know, of course,everybody, like you said, make
mistakes and whether they'reintentional or not, you know
everybody makes mistakes andit's just tough that you work so
hard and in that happen.
(07:57):
But, like you said, I feel likeyou know, as tough as things
may seem in the moment, I dobelieve that everything happens
for a reason and the purposethat you seem to be serving
today and with everything thatyou're doing just seems so great
.
And so, you know, I think thatthat is the good and that was
(08:19):
the, you know, the light at theend of the tunnel with that.
But we appreciate you sharingthat.
I understand that you know, hadto be a really vulnerable part
of your life, um, but itdefinitely is an um inspiring
testimony there.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So is there anything in particular that?
So I'm imagining you know, likewhen that happened, you
probably experienced, you know,maybe some I mean I'm assuming
maybe some depression.
I would think that I would, youknow, deal with a little
depression or anything like that.
At what point did you breakthrough, like what was your
breakthrough moment afterdealing with?
(08:54):
You know everything that youwent through.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
So, um, because I was in, I was in denial for a while
, so, in, I went through trialand I not even a split second
did I thought that I will lose.
Um, because I'm a um, I havedual citizenship, uh, and US
(09:24):
citizenship.
When the verdict came in asguilty, the judge believed that
I'm a flight risk and he revokedbail and I was ordered to be
detained and that was in MCC tobe detained, and that was in MC.
(10:04):
I spent there eight months.
Wow, and of course it was from.
Because why am I doing the workthat I'm doing now?
Is because I know, because I'vebeen there.
I know because I've been there,I know how we human beings run
(10:32):
away from facing our lives.
And what happened was I was anattorney.
I was trying to achieve as muchas possible, to to gain
recognition and titles and moneyand this and that, and have my
daughter in private school anddrive an expensive car and have
(10:53):
a huge office.
Everything was for my image,the image that I created for
myself, what a successfulattorney should look like,
without even I didn't.
I was rushing and um, runningaway from facing my life, trying
(11:16):
to escape somewhere.
I didn't have time to stop andactually analyze my life and as
terrifying and heartbrokenmoment when I was locked up in
MCC.
It was that moment when lifeforced me to stop.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And I met so many women, um, I mean, literally, I
was broken.
I was like a, a, a fresh wound,uh.
But I met so many women therethat had much more terrifying
(12:07):
stories than mine and I realizedthat it can be worse, right For
sure.
And being depressed would nothelp me in any way, and I
(12:28):
probably took me about a monthof being really really down and
getting used to being locked up.
I mean, I was an attorney and Iwas independent with my own law
firm.
I was doing what?
Literally whatever I wanted andfrom there to be locked up with
(12:49):
an open toilet, um, next to thebed and without anything like
some some rags on me andliterally nothing.
15 minutes on the phone with mydaughter, um, it, it was.
It took me about a month plus.
(13:12):
It was thanksgiving week andthen the holidays christmas, new
year came and that was wasbeing being away from her for
the first time.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Um, was, was tough yeah, I can't imagine that, um,
and you know, one of the thingsthat you said is, like you know,
once everything had beenstripped and taken from you and
being in that you know cell andhaving to like realize like this
is really my life right now.
Um, for some people, um, I'mnot sure about yourself, but you
(13:49):
know me and Eva, we'respiritual people where you know
we live a Christ-like life.
But for someone who may not bea spiritual or may not have, you
know, religious beliefs and notmight not be a sound mind to go
through that, so what would yousay, kept you from completely
losing your mind?
Because, like you said, I know,for me I have two boys and Eva
(14:13):
has two girls, and it's like I'mattached to the hip with my
kids, a week away from eachother.
I'm losing it and that's justvacation or whatever the case
may be.
But what would you say?
Kept you of sound mind and like, kept you with, you know, that
(14:34):
hope to like work towardsbettering yourself while doing
that time.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yes, it clearly was my higher power, god, god.
I mean, I thought I was aspiritual person before I grew
up as a Greek Orthodox and Ithought I was religious and I
(15:01):
thought I was religious, butwhen I got there and I didn't
have anything and I thought Ilost everything no-transcript
(15:29):
from destroying myself.
Yes, so basically, I'm gratefuland I'm blessed.
I feel blessed with whathappened, because I feel um,
I've heard so many stories ofpeople literally dying and I
feel blessed that I'm stillalive and that I get to do the
(15:54):
work that I'm I'm doing rightnow.
And I feel because before Iwanted to do things just from my
ego, to satisfy my ego, not tosatisfy my higher power, my, my,
my divine self yes, and rightnow I, I realized that, um that
(16:25):
God had to take action.
Yes, amen, yeah, as painful asit was, it was for the
betterment of my soul.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yes, amen to that, and that is so true and that we
speak a lot about ourspirituality and, like what we
feel called to do and just howwe learn our lessons spiritually
.
We love to bring that to thepodcast because we do feel like
one.
It's our job to um spread ourtestimony among the multitude,
(17:01):
because that's what God calledus to do, but also because it
does.
It does help to remind us aswell, and I am a firm believer
that the Lord will strip you ofall things if he has to to
refocus you back on what matters, which is with, with him you
know, yeah, and as it says, youknow, in the Bible, all things
through Christ is is possiblethrough him, you know if
(17:25):
you really, but it has to berooted in him, and it's so crazy
that you said that is becausewe just did a segment where I
feel like the Lord has beendealing me, dealing with me.
In that same sense, it's likeyou.
You, though, you think you'redoing all these great things,
and these are things that youand your mind feel are good
things, but those are notnecessarily God things.
(17:47):
Those are not things that werenecessarily ordained or ordered
for you to do, and when you getso wrapped up in that and things
are going well, it's hard foryou to even take in
consideration.
Well, you know, and you're notthinking until you are stripped
of everything, you don't have nochoice but to refocus your
mindset on what you've beenrooted in which is the word of
(18:08):
God and like what it is that youknow he has for you to do.
So I think that that's sopowerful and important that you
hit on that, and I love that youknow he has for you to do so.
I I think that that's sopowerful and important that you
hit on that and I love that youknow that you that was a part of
your journey is realizing that.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Oh, clearly, clearly and right now, when I'm, of
course, I'm human and and I getcaught in things, um, and and I
think I, I sometimes I becomeoverwhelmed of how many things I
have to do and then I realize,oh no, I don't have to do
(18:46):
anything, it's a blessing I getto do things.
And then I think about what am Itrying to control?
There is nothing for me tocontrol.
I just, uh, ask my, my higherpower, my holy spirit, to guide
(19:06):
me and what I need to do, andlet that happen.
Whatever it's best for thatsituation, how that situation is
best to be handled.
I leave it to my higher powerto handle it, because basically,
there is nothing for me that Ican control, but my mind, and
(19:30):
this is the core of my program.
It's called apple and it standsfor awareness, presence,
perspective, letting go andempowerment, and it's basically
teaching people how to takecontrol of their mind, because
(19:51):
it's basically the only thingthat we have control over how we
can let our mind um surrenderto our higher power, to god,
because our higher power knowswhat's best for us.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yes, absolutely.
And even if you don't, you know, feel as though, because things
are great for you right now andeverything is going great and
you seem to be getting alleverything that you want, that
doesn't mean that eventually,you won't still be required to
surrender all, because, like wesaid, nothing's possible without
(20:34):
him.
So, though you feel like you'redoing everything, and you doing
this on your own, and you haveit's all up, it's all you, and
nobody else has credit for whatyou have going on.
It's like, eventually, whetherit's something that is affecting
you mentally.
You might be the mostwealthiest person, but your
mental is not right.
Be the most wealthiest person,but your mental is not right.
(20:55):
So there's going to be someaspect in life that's going to
revert you back to wonderingwhat is, what am I doing wrong?
And you'll have to realize,sooner or later, that you're not
surrendering what it is thatyou are supposed to, which is
everything to the lord.
So, andrea, um.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
With that being said, how do you determine if someone
needs a mindset coach?
Like does everyone need amindset coach?
Like what is the sign thatsomeone might need a mindset
coach?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I believe that I mean , I don't believe in bad people.
I believe that everybody, thereare no bad people.
There are only unconsciouspeople, and I know that it's a
lot of suffering in the worldand people don't do things to
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hurt somebody else.
They only do things out oftheir own suffering and they
don't realize they're hurtingsomebody else.
They only do things out oftheir own suffering and they
don't realize they're hurtingsomebody else and they hurting.
They are hurting themselves andsometimes I mean I would say
that a lot of people might needa mindset coach, but if those
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people are not aware and they'renot willing, because they might
be aware that they have aproblem, but if they're not
willing to face that problem andto correct that problem.
I don't like to use the wordchange because people are afraid
(22:31):
somehow of that word change.
But for me, change is healingand, um, because I was there and
I know that I ran away fromhealing myself many, many years,
um, I, I, I'm there, I'm, I'mopen for people to reach out to
(22:57):
me.
I can't force anybody.
If they're willing and ifthey're aware, then I'm there to
help anybody that needs help.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yes, and we also speak a lot about therapy.
I myself have been in therapy.
I re-entered therapy last yearin april, so it's been a little
over a year, um but um, and Irecently just graduated don't
leave that out.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I can say I recently graduated.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Of course, it's going to be something that I keep in
my back pocket, my check-inevery three months or so.
But I'm such an advocate for,like you said, that type of work
, that type of mindset work, thementality, everything about
healing, healing yourself andbeing able to persevere.
(23:51):
And I do feel like therapyhelped me a lot.
But what would you say is thedifference between like a life
like a mindset coach and atherapist Like mindset coach?
Because even with therapy itdefinitely helped me understand
and, like you said, kind ofrevert or retrain my mind on how
I think about things or how Iallow things to affect me.
(24:14):
Um, of course, because it'slike a thought first and then
it's a feeling.
But, yeah, what would you sayfor those who are like inquiring
, because there's a lot ofpeople who are so fearful of
going to therapy but mindsetcoach might be a more
comfortable situation for them.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
so how would you say, yeah, the difference between
that is yeah, I believe that, um, people are, uh, probably you
know the stigma of um, of, wow,I'm going through through
therapy that that it's somethingwrong with somebody if they go
(24:55):
through therapy.
That it's something wrong withsomebody if they go through
therapy.
And the difference betweentherapy and the mindset coach to
me is, I mean, it can be agreat therapist that works
through the past, present andfuture.
What I do with my clients onmindset coaching is to how do we
(25:25):
move forward, how do we clearthe mind to take action, how do
we let things go, how do we staypresent?
Because present is the onlything that that exists past
(25:45):
traumas, and I think thattherapy deals a lot with the
past and clears the past.
Again, I believe that boththerapy and mindset coaching are
extremely necessary for people,because if we can have anything
(26:12):
in the world, if our mind isnot straight and if we don't
keep in check, then we have nocontrol over anything.
And we are all born withpreconditions.
We're conditioned by thefamilies, by society, by school,
(26:38):
by the education system to dothis, to do that, you have to do
this, you have to go to school,you have to, and it's not
necessarily because societydoesn't really know what we
really really need, know what wereally really need, and that's
(27:05):
a lot of traumas that we, we aregetting caught in and we're
living lives out of somebodyelse's movie.
It's not so many times I lookat people and it's like they're
not in this movie, they'resomewhere else, they're playing
a role that they don't even knowthey're playing and, um, I
(27:30):
think that therapy again it's aif it's a.
I had clients that had reallysevere traumas and I asked them
to see a therapist first.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Oh, I was just about to ask that Like is there ever a
time?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
where, yes, I'm not, yes, I'm not a medical
professional, I'm not licensedto to as a therapist, and if I
see in people that they are atthe level where I cannot help
them, I truly um ask them to seea medical professional.
(28:16):
Okay, yes, Because I do believe.
I do believe in in uh mentalhealth that people I mean, of
course, with awareness, andthat's what I um tell people in
my course um I'm helping themind, I'm not helping I.
I can't say that I can heal uhmental illness with being aware
(28:43):
and uh doing meditation everymorning.
I mean it's, some people needmore than that yes, okay and I
cannot help them with that and Irefer them to see a therapist
or a medical professional.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yes, Andrea, are you able to touch more on how life
was for you?
Did you say you moved to NewYork when you were 22?
Yes, so how was that journeyand how was life for you in
Romania?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Uh.
So I was born in Romania whenit was, uh, communism and we
didn't have much Um, we didn'thave.
I mean, I've never had a Barbiedoll.
Um, I basically who I am now,I'm very back.
(29:41):
Then it was hard that we didn'thave much, but we had tapes and
we watched American movies and,uh, since I was really, really
young, I created this image formyself that I will be a
successful businesswoman in NewYork, not knowing what that
(30:03):
meant.
So I again.
We didn't have electricitysometime.
We didn't have heat, we didn'thave food.
It was rationalized, but then,when I turned 13, it changed.
(30:24):
It became a democracy.
But somehow at the beginning itwas really all over the place.
People didn't know what ademocracy was and it was a mess.
I graduated high school.
I went to law school in Romania.
I wanted to be an artist, butmy father told me that an artist
(30:49):
is not a profession and Ishould go to law school.
So this is how I got to lawschool.
I graduated law school at 22,because in Romania you can't go
to law school or medical schoolright after high school.
You don't need a college beforethat college before that Um.
(31:20):
So that's why, when I got hereat 22,.
I was already a law schoolgraduate and, probably because I
wasn't born with the silverspoon in my mouth, I was able to
um spoon in my mouth, I wasable to um basically take life
(31:43):
on and um be really, reallyhappy to be in new york by
myself at 22.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, that might have been a lot of pressure because
new york is a as a fast state,it's a fast moving state.
So to come from you, come fromRomania and come there and 22 on
your own, no family, nobodyyeah.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, but that's the reason why I said that I did not
appreciate at that time that wedidn't have a lot of things, be
very intuitive and veryingenious with things, and I
(32:35):
basically am grateful that I hadthat life in Romania with not
so much.
And then after 8 months in MCC,I was transferred to Den
denbury at the camp, which is auh, the lowest security uh for
white collar crimes, and I wasthere and I realized that it's
(33:00):
like the camps that we used tohave back in Romania when I was
a kid and it helped me a lot.
I hated the camps when I was akid in Romania because it was
minimal, like really we didn'thave much.
They were big rooms with a lotof people and the food was not
(33:25):
great, but the landscapes wereincredible and that was the
reason why my parents weresending me to those camps and I
was in prison in Denbury,connecticut, and I had the same
experience without having much.
They were the landscapes that Iappreciated and nature saved my
(33:50):
life there because I wasenjoying nature every day, being
outside a lot, and I called itall-Inclusive Resort.
I called that camp and I wrote abook.
(34:12):
I wrote my memoir.
It's called Alive Again, myJourney from Maternity to
Redemption, in Prison, in prison, and I explain there how, how I
felt in the camp, like it wasthe the communist camps when I
(34:37):
used to to go when I was a kidyeah, that's, that is wild.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And um with that, you know going through all of that
and you know going through youryou know sentence and getting
through that and just coming outfeeling um called to serve um
you know another purpose withhelping other people and
coaching them and sharing yourmethods and the things that help
(35:07):
you get through um.
What do you would you say youum see for yourself in the next
you know three to five years?
Like what is your future umwithin your career?
Look like now that you are, youknow, doing the work for
yourself and also helping othersdo the work for themselves to
(35:29):
to live a successful and healthylife.
What would you say you see foryourself moving forward?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
So my next project is I'm starting with my daughter,
who's now 21.
Okay, we're starting our ownpodcast okay and it's called how
I escaped prison and it's about, uh, of course, the mental
(35:59):
prison that we all create forourselves in, in images and and
uh, uh, all the, the, uh, falseidols like the the bible
mentions that we all create forourselves.
(36:19):
And, um, between myself with myexperience, and my daughter
with her experience, becausethere are a lot of podcasts and
people talk a lot about theirstories in prison.
They're not a lot of of peopletalking about their children,
(36:41):
because I feel, I feel that thefamilies, and especially
children, of people that areincarcerated suffer even more
than the ones that are in.
Yeah, and my daughter wouldlove to share her story and to
(37:02):
help kids or formerlyincarcerated or even currently
incarcerated people with herexperience.
Absolutely, yeah, yeah, I, Ican't wait.
It's, it's um, uh, we have ourfirst episode on august 5th.
Okay, august 5th for me is veryspecial because I came to the
(37:25):
United States on August 5th 1998.
Okay, I was released fromprison on August 5th 2021.
And now it's going to be August5th, wow, and it's a new
beginning.
I feel that August 5th it's anew beginning.
That sounds awesome right there.
(37:47):
Yes, and then I work on a TEDTalk.
The same is how I escape prisonand how we can all work on our
inner stories and somehow to toleave the story behind and and
(38:09):
walk out, uh, powerfully in ourlives, because if we put our
lives in in god's hands, then wewill all be powerful and and
live great lives.
Yes, I also have two more booksthat I work on and also another
(38:33):
course for attorneys.
So this is my five-year plan towork on coaching and hopefully
to regain my license in 2026.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Absolutely, that sounds amazing.
I I love that for you and youknow the the podcast idea sounds
amazing.
I was definitely thinking whatyou said about having your
daughter give her perspective aswell, Because it's one thing
for someone to be inside anddoing time and working on
(39:12):
keeping their mindset together,right, but then trying to also
pour into your daughter, who atthat time was a teenager, and
trying to help her to understand, you know, and to keep her how
to help her keep her mindsetclear, and you know how that
affected her.
So I'm excited for that.
(39:33):
I'm definitely going to tune inbecause I feel like there is a
lot that could definitely help,you know, help people in hearing
both of you guys' perspectives.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
I'm very appreciative to even hear your story now.
I think a lot of us are fueledby, like you know, not having
much when you're younger.
And then you know you hit thatage to where you can go off and
find these great careers andthen you're fueled by, oh, I
want the best of this and I wantto give my kids the best of
this.
Yeah, and you know, your storyis is very powerful because it
(40:04):
shows how you can loseeverything but you don't let
that break you and how do yourebuild.
You know to get back, to getback to where, or even better
than what you had before, um,and so I I love it.
I love the message.
I'm definitely looking forwardto um hearing the podcast.
I'm so excited for that.
So I will be on the lookout.
(40:25):
August 5th yeah, that is soexciting, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
And even how bold.
You know we love good, bold,bold testimony, but the how bold
it was for you, to come from awhole nother country, start over
by yourself, set standards andmeet goals and do those things.
And that is a testament toitself and it just shows the
goal that, regardless ofwhatever stumbling blocks may be
(40:50):
placing your way during yourjourney, how many ever times you
may stumble or whatever thecase may be, it doesn't take
away from you, know, all thework that you've done and all
the things that you haveaccomplished.
And, like you, you said justbeing able to even remember that
and being able to once againrecenter your focus on you know,
(41:13):
the Holy Spirit and what hecalled you to do, and then take
that, like you said, that, thatpower that we were born with,
that he instilled in us, um frombirth, and being able to
transition that and just evenmake even greater things happen.
So it definitely was a powerfultestimony and we just
appreciate the fact that youreached out and took the time to
(41:36):
sit and speak with us today.
We love it.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Of course.
Thank you very much for havingme.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yes, thank you, well, well go ahead and give our
listeners again, um, yourcontact information.
Um, you know how they can findyou.
I know, uh, we communicatedinitially through linkedin, but
if you have any, uh, you willwant to, you know, drop your
website information, because I'msure a lot of people would
definitely like to reach out and, you know, get a consultation
(42:05):
or anything of that sort.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Yes, of course.
So you can find everything it'son my website, which is
andreaparkcom Andrea, withdouble E, the Romanian way, and
park is P-A-R-C.
Andreaparkcom.
There I have all the socialmedia and on on every social
(42:30):
media, I am andrea park as well,so andreaparkcom.
There I have the books, okay,um, and there I have, uh, all
the information, the youtube,everything it's there,
andreaparkcom perfect awesome.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
So you guys heard that you can find her
andreaparkcom.
You can purchase her books, youcan schedule um a phone call
consultation with miss andreaand um you can follow her links
to her upcoming podcast andevery all the great things that
she has coming.
So we again thank you fortaking the time to speak with us
(43:08):
today and, uh, we look forwardto speaking with you and
following your journey movingforward of course.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Thank you so much and best of luck with everything
that you're doing.
Thank you because you're doinggreat things as well awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Thank you so much.
We greatly appreciate thatthank you.
Thank you so much all rightyand guys, until next time, stay
bold.
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