Healing, Hope and Hardships with Carmen Santiago-Keenon
In this heartfelt episode, Candace and her inspirational guest, Carmen Santiago-Keenon, reflect on their healing journeys, sharing personal struggles and triumphs. They both express immense gratitude for family, faith, and their supportive communities.
Carmen candidly discusses the challenges her family faced with vehicle accidents, yet how they've found strength through adversity. Candace reveals her anticipation for the holidays and the joy she finds in her family's personal growth.
Teasing future collaborations, the pair hint at exciting initiatives in tech, diversity, and inclusion - a testament to Carmen's dynamic leadership in healthcare IT. Tune in to this powerful conversation about overcoming trauma, the importance of speaking your truth, and the reminder that you are never alone.
Episode Highlights:
23:07 - For me, autism showed up as being a horrible child, being hard to pacify. From the stories that I hear, they couldn't get me to, I'm very sensory, is a big thing for me. I get overwhelmed very easily, but they chalked it up to, as I got older, "Oh, she's bipolar."
28:57 - I decided that I was not going to be a sick person and that I was going to figure this out. As soon as I made that declaration with God and decided to do that, God opened up all the things.
31:17 - Even though you're being abused, it's your family and you love your family, and it's what you know. And it's hurtful and scary, especially when you're a kid, to be pulled away from that. And so, there I was this kid, being placed in these homes and I only went through two homes before. And then also, I went through a stint of being placed in like inpatient because they also had nowhere to put me.
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