Episode Description
Learn how to heal from trauma, stop hiding your pain, and start living the life you actually want. In this raw and personal episode, trauma survivor Tracy Smaldino
shares how carrying unhealed trauma in silence kept her hidden for decades — and the exact moment she finally stepped into her own spotlight.
In this episode:
- Tracy's full story — sole survivor of a fatal car accident, burned on 70% of her body, losing her cousins, surviving assault
- Almost 10 years as one of the only female Production Managers at House of Blues Las Vegas
- BB King, Bono, Stevie Nicks & mentor Jed
- The girl doing cartwheels on stage, who was also hiding underneath it
- Why healing is exactly like producing a concert
- The full Trauma Rock Stars™ concert framework: Rider, Load In/Out, Green Room, Sound Check, Crew, Breakdown, Bridge & Headliner Moment
- Why you are not a groupie in someone else's story — you are the headliner of your own
"For almost 10 years, I produced everybody else's show. Healing was me finally walking out from under that stage and into my own spotlight."
— Tracy Smaldino
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