
166 episodes

Launch Your Life Podcast Launch Your Life Podcast
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4.8 • 63 Ratings
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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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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:
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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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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)
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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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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)
Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon)
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Child Sexual Abuse Statistics (https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics)
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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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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.
Thank you for tuning in!
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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!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
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Customer Reviews
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Yay! I’m not quite sure how I found your show (maybe we’ve had some overlap of guests?) - doesn’t matter, what matters is I found it and am binge listening!!! Thank you for giving so many tools to help educate us and to live lives we love!! Susie Pettit
Great host!
I enjoyed being a guest with Dr. Michelle! She is well-versed in her subject matter, but also the political, socioeconomic, and racial issues that impact health and wellness care.
Sit back and listen Host.
Host talks more than her guests. Cuts them off. Doesn’t ask good follow up questions to draw out information. Sad bc her guests are experts in their area and she is not.