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What happens when the life you built no longer exists?

In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Dr. Linda Varisco, whose life journey has taken her through experiences that could have broken her completely.

Linda spent 30 years married to an addicted husband, lost her medical licence and her chiropractic practice, and ultimately served 10 months in federal prison following a healthcare fraud conviction connected to her former husband's business partners.

But this isn't a story about what happened to Linda.

It's a story about who she became because of it.

We talk about rebuilding your identity when everything you thought defined you has been stripped away, the difference between fighting your way through life and learning to soften into vulnerability, and why sometimes the greatest transformation happens when we stop living entirely from our heads and come back into our bodies.

Linda shares how she learned new skills, rebuilt her life and found a deeper sense of purpose through helping others, which eventually became the foundation for her three part book series, The Girl with the Million Dollar Smile.

In this episode, we explore resilience, vulnerability, identity, purpose, adversity and what it really means to begin again.

Because sometimes life doesn't ask you to become stronger.

Sometimes it asks you to become more honest, more vulnerable and more connected to who you really are beneath everything you've built.

If you're navigating a chapter where something you've built, believed in or identified with is changing, this conversation is a reminder that the end of one version of your life doesn't mean the end of your story.

About Linda

Dr. Linda Varisco is the best-selling author of "The Girl with the Million Dollar Smile," a powerful trilogy that chronicles her journey of resilience, redemption, and self-transformation. Through deeply personal storytelling, she uses the timeless symbolism of the phoenix as a powerful metaphor for rising above adversity and transforming challenges into strength of purpose. After facing profound personal and professional adversity, Dr. Varisco discovered that resilience is not simply about surviving hardship. It is about transforming through it. Her work inspires readers to reclaim their strength, rewrite their story, and find hope even in the darkest moments. A former chiropractor for nearly 30 years, Dr. Varisco now shares her insights as a speaked and author, encouraging audiences to embrace change, persevere, and recognize that setbacks to not define their future. They are simply chapters that do not define our lives. Like the phoenix, we are not defined by the ashes we leave behind, but by the strength with which we rise.