Cynthia with Carrington Smith Best-Selling Author of Blooming: Finding Gifts in the Shit of Life

Carrington Smith is a single mom, attorney, business owner, andexecutive search professional. Despite being born with a silver spoon inher mouth, life gave her a hard kick in the tail. She has survived sexualassault, two divorces, piles of debt, abuse, religious mind games, thedeath of loved ones, and the loss of close friends. In her debut memoir, Carrington combines wit and wisdom to share her journey through the shit, with a positive attitude and a shift of mindset,into a life bursting with joy, opportunity, and purpose.Carrington is passionate about empowering people in all aspects oftheir life and career by reframing their circumstances and experiences,shifting their mindset, creating a vision for their life, and then breaking itdown into specific measurable achievable realistic time-bound (SMART)goals. She helps people and organizations move past excuses, shame,and fear to identify where they want to end up, the steps necessary toget there, and how to deal with any obstacles in the way.A graduate of UT Austin and Tulane Law School, Carrington resides inAustin, Texas, with her two teenage boys.