Episode # 9 Season 2

Speaking of Transformation

Guest: Edie Allen – Speaker, Artist, Advocate & Breakthrough Specialist

On this episode we are speaking transformation with speaker and healer Edie Allen. Edie’s start

to her story is what I would simply call a nightmare. As a victim of sexual abuse in her

childhood, Edie was just trying to survive. Today, as a survivor, her story is a lifeline for others

to survive.

I have never seen anything more powerful than Edie’s story. I suggest you watch this 7-minute

clip on the Janie’s Fund stage, Steven Tyler’s philanthropic initiative created in partnership with

Youth Villages to bring hope and healing to girls who have suffered the trauma of abuse and

neglect, before you listen to this episode. You will be transformed by Edie’s transformation.

SHOW NOTES:

00:51 It’s March!

1:08 Edie Allen

1:33 Red Spade message (my sponsor!)

3:25 Transformation

4:21 Janie’s Fund

4:58 How is love speaking to you today?

6:00 Edie’s story

8:53 A survivor of sexual abuse

9:38 What was your life like when you left home at 15?

13:00 Edie’s mom

13:43 Bill

14:15 How did Steven Tyler happen?

15:12 Hearing “Janie’s Got a Gun.”

15:56 “If this band is singing about this topic that means they know.”

18:44 A Joy Journey

20:41 On the 10th day a voice spoke

20:55 A-Fest & Bo Eason

22:05 “The first time I told my story.”

22:28 One True Sentence

23:12 “The hardest day of my life ....”

25:02 “If I could say the hardest thing that has ever happened to me, then maybe I

can tell my story (and help people).”

26:00 Steven Tyler called – a 3 hour & 20 minute conversation

26:42 “3:20 has always been significant.”

27:13 Edie’s son

27:30 Edie’s creative writing teacher Miss Barksdale

28:08 Edie’s guidance counselor moment

29:00 The rape

30:55 The birth

32:53 “When I gave birth - when they first put him in my arms I had no idea what to

do.”

33:38 “When women say I didn’t have a voice, I know what that feels like.”

34:10 “Had I had a girl I would have fled and no one would have ever seen us again.”

34:33 Where did you go?

36:14 A family from Edie’s church took her in

38;35 Do you have a relationship with your son?

40:11 “He is a wonderful father.”

40:43 “I had to make a decision. Do I protect a family of five or do I help thousands

and thousands of people and prevent this from continuing?”

41:50 “When Bill came into our lives he was someone who gave us a childhood as crazy

as this sounds.”

43:44 How does your work serve you?

44:00 Edie’s transformation story

44:19 “I fell in love with Reiki.”

45:19 “Love, white light, Mary, Christ & God.”

45:36 “Transformation started with me through Reiki.”

45:40 Look for these signals!

47:00 Edie’s first sign – “Go upstairs” and the 27th psalm

50:30 Are you working on a memoir?

50:50 Practicing Transcendental Meditation, found sobriety and Bob Roth of The David

Lynch Foundation

52:56 “Bring this (TM) to Janie’s Fund.”

53:45 “That is the greatest thing I have ever done, connecting all of that.”

54:18 Connection

55:38 Your memoir is going to be a film.

56:06 Paint the picture of your life today.

57:45 “What I would say to people struggling is to let go. Listen. Listen to the signs.

Listen to the voice inside. Get quiet.”

58:51 “Whatever your problems are, give them space.”

59:18 “The greatest transformations is when we meet them with grace.”

59:46 Where can we find you?

PS – if you didn’t watch the clip, Bill, Edie’s abuser, later took his life as well as his girlfriend’s

RESOURCES:

Janie’s Fund Speech

Janie’s Fund

A-Fest

Bo Eason

The 27th psalm

The David Lynch Foundation

CONNECT WITH EDIE:

Edieallen.com

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