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Launch Your Life with Dr. Michelle Gordon is the only mindset podcast that provides weekly actionable insights for lasting happiness and change for high achievers who are ready to bounce back from burnout. 

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Launch Your Life with Dr. Michelle Gordon is the only mindset podcast that provides weekly actionable insights for lasting happiness and change for high achievers who are ready to bounce back from burnout. 

    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 7 - Hometown Racism and Christmas (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 168)

    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 7 - Hometown Racism and Christmas (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 168)

    There’s no easy way to talk about racism.

    It’s a learned behavior and hard to unlearn without a relaunch to thinking patterns. 

    I didn’t know anything different. But I actively worked to see how I was raised and change this. 

    And I'm still a work in progress.

    Today on the Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m talking about the racist history of my home town and Christmas, among other things

    What’s Discussed in This Episode:

    00:00 Intro

    01:40 Racism

    07:32 Christmas in the House of Many Horrors

    10:03 Baby Grow-A-Tooth

    11:17 Unlearning childhood beliefs

     

    Resources:


    Send me feedback and your thoughts: drg@drgordon.me
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    Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon)
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    For more information, here’s the references used in this podcast:

    https://www.britannica.com/event/Executive-Order-8802

    https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/executive-order-8802-1941-2/ 

    https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sundown-towns/

    https://tumbleweird.org/the-tri-cities-is-a-sundown-town-again/

    https://biblehub.com/galatians/3-28.htmhttps://depts.washington.edu/labhist/maps-race-tricities.shtml

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    • 11 min
    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 6 - Toxic Shame (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 167)

    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 6 - Toxic Shame (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 167)

    In my experience, sexualization caused extreme toxic shame. 

    Merriam-Webster has a descriptive definition:

    “A painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety, the susceptibility to such emotion, a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute.”

    On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about shame, my mother’s secrets, generational trauma, discovering fundamental truths about myself and more.

    What’s Discussed in This Episode:

    00:00 Intro

    1:41 Sexualization and shame

    2:13 Experiencing toxic shame

    3:11 The steps of grooming

    4:37 Overcoming toxic shame

    5:06 Sex-ed

    5:33 The result of my coping mechanism

    6:03 Generational trauma

    7:46 My mother’s secrets

    8:48 The abuse in my father’s family

    9:07 My father’s shocking response

    9:40 Narcissistic parents

    10:39 Fundamental truths (about me)

    12:03 My entrepreneurial spirit started young

     

    Resources:


    Send me feedback and your thoughts: drg@drgordon.me
    Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) 
    Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon)
    Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon)
    Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)

     

    For more information, here’s the references used in this podcast:

    https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-toxic-shame#:~:text=Toxic%20shame%20is%20a%20feeling,childhood%20or%20as%20a%20teen

    https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychology-self/2018/09/childhood-toxic-shame#1

     

    https://www.icmec.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Behaviors-of-Sexual-Predators-Grooming.pdf

     

    https://www.health.com/condition/ptsd/generational-trauma



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    • 16 min
    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 5 - Lost Memories (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 166)

    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 5 - Lost Memories (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 166)

    On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I continue with my childhood, reveal some alarming statistics, talk about the time I “woke up” in 5th grade, and more.

    What’s Discussed in This Episode:

     

    00:00 Intro

    02:29 Some alarming statistics

    06:45 Disassociation

    07:53 Waking up

    08:32 Shame and guilt

    09:16 The torture lost memory

    10:35 The brain's elegance

     

    Resources:

     


    Send me feedback and your thoughts: drg@drgordon.me
    Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) 
    Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon)
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    Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)
    Child Sexual Abuse Statistics (https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics)

     

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    • 12 min
    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 4 - Nuns, Ballet, and Embarrassments (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 165)

    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 4 - Nuns, Ballet, and Embarrassments (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 165)

    Growth work is change work. It’s not only uncovering beliefs from childhood, but all the beliefs stacked through life experiences and anything we think is “true.” On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about the process of change and why it can be so hard as well as some anecdotes from childhood.

    What’s Discussed in This Episode:

    00:00 Intro

    01:54 True growth

    04:30 Catholic school

    11:44 Consequences of staying out too late

    12:51 Complicated mother

    13:29 Ballet

    14:52 Life is a series of corrections

    15:15 Frightening nights

     

    Resources:


    Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) 
    Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon)
    Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon)
    Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)

     

    For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.

     

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    • 17 min
    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 3 - A New Medical Diagnosis (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 164)

    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 3 - A New Medical Diagnosis (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 164)

    On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I share how I developed a deep love of travel, a childhood illness, more stories of the House of Many Horrors, a recurring night terror, and much more.

    True growth is uncovering the beliefs and stories you created as a child to make sense of perceived or real trauma. It can be tedious, painful, and meticulous work. 

     

    But bringing your rational, adult mind to the stories you create in your childhood is freeing.

     

    What’s Discussed in This Episode:

    00:00 Intro

    01:55 Wanderlust as a child 

    03:12 Alcoholic mother

    04:12 A new diagnosis

    05:36 One of my fondest childhood memories

    06:16 Getting my ears pierced 

    06:42 Medical trauma 

    08:10 Visiting my cousins 

    10:05 Using my adult brain to make sense of abuse 

    10:35 Night terror

     

    Resources:


    Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) 
    Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon)
    Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon)
    Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)

     

    For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.

     

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    • 13 min
    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 2 - Self-Sufficiency, Independence, and Competition (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 163)

    Memoir Series: Growing Pains 2 - Self-Sufficiency, Independence, and Competition (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 163)

    In this episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I discuss childhood beliefs, competition, feeling heard, and much more.

    What’s Discussed in This Episode:

    00:00 Intro

    01:50 My first pivotal year 

    02:05 Deep self-sufficiency

    03:55 Competition 

    06:16 Feeling heard

    08:14 Why I’m a doctor 

     

    Resources:


    Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) 
    Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon)
    Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon)
    Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)

    For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.

    Thank you for tuning in!
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    • 10 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

Fay McLean ,

Breathe of Fresh Air

How Dr Michelle Gordon approaches the topic of menopause is really a breathe of fresh air. This is a great podcast for women who are going through challenging times (or not) and in midlife. It's often a time when women feel isolated and Dr Gordon brings together an amazingly supportive community.

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