Episode #257 | Joe Guggia | Blind Eye Love

📚  GET YOUR BOOK PUBLISHED - Learn more about getting your book published or becoming a bestselling author: https://www.officialrogerbrooks.com/publishing ⌨️ Visit our website: americanrealpublishing.com 🔴 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/2zVQDLO - We don't like to talk about it, but some of the deepest wounds happen inside the family, where love can mask control, denial, and generational trauma. Yet even in that darkness, resilience is real. Forgiveness has a cost. And breaking the cycle takes courage. Most of us can't imagine. Today's guest is Joe Guggia, author of "Blind Eye Love: A Young Girl's Abusive Childhood Becomes a Life of Optimism." The book is a multi-generational California saga based on true events that confronts abuse, silence, and the long road to healing. As a floral designer for over 40 years, writing has been a hidden passion that Joe is now working towards being his full time job. On this episode of American Real, Roger asks Joe how all this came to be and what gave him the strength to putting the pen to the paper. "Well, it's a family that I know well," Joe says. "It's not my own, per se. And I've written, like, floral articles over the years for different publications. I wanted to do this. I did a self-published design book, but, you know, dabbled in it all, knowing that if you can write one thing that's good and solid, get it marketed and people relate to it, it can be successful, but monetarily and personally. So that's kind of my goal. I'm a little older now. I'm still a florist. I do it and it's great. But I just thought, let's start doing something else. So I just started making notes about things. I had no idea about anything, really. It was just background that I was aware of. And I just researched the company and talked to you and just decided to go with it." WHERE TO FIND JOE: Joe's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joeguggia/?hl=en Joe's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joe.guggia/ Joe's Book: https://a.co/d/1JdTjFh - Roger L. Brooks is the founder and host of American Real and American Real Publishing Company. If you'd like to learn more about getting your book published or becoming a bestselling author, schedule a call with a member of Roger's team here ➡️ https://www.officialrogerbrooks.com/book - Get Roger's latest book, "The Power of Being Rich: 10 Essential Steps to Manifest What You Already Have" by clicking on this link: https://amzn.to/2TN0sFr - Follow Roger on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerlbrooks/ Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/2zVQDLO - AMERICAN REAL  Website: https://americanreal.tv iTunes: https://apple.co/2yPeU4A Facebook: https://facebook.com/americanrealtv/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/AmericanRealTV Twitter: https://twitter.com/rogerbrooks/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerlbro... YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AmericanReal