Today on Spark to Empower, Connie Maday sits down with Mary Firestone for a special conversation with Parents in mind. Mary shares insights around how we as parents can show up as our best selves, what we can do to release the traumas in our life, and how can harness our own power.

Mary Firestone is the author of Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma. Mary's story of survival and rebirth along with her background in clinical psychology offers an integrated handbook for anyone healing from trauma.

Mary has been featured in Goop, Well+Good, and Forbes, been interviewed on various podcasts and news stations, and featured in articles all across the country. You can read more about her at maryfirestone.co or Learn more at firestonesisters.com.

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Connie Maday shares some insights and inspiration and also gives a bit more of her personal story that led to the creation of the Spark Change Podcast. Listen as she dives into the topic of inspiration and leaves you with some ideas to consider.

This podcast is about reminding us of the power we each possess and celebrating the inspiring stories of change makers, tapping into ourselves to our own inner compass and get you out there changing the world.

Olivia has been selected as the Three Dot Dash Global Teen Leader, received the Gloria Barron Prize, the Diller Teen Award, Coca-Cola Scholar and has presented at the NATO Summit, NPR, and was featured in Teen Vogue, TODAY, the Economist, Forbes, to name a few.