Kathy James: How did you break all the self-destructive habits?

Kathy James is a highly regarded Trauma and Mental Health Public Speaker and a respected Corporate Leader with over 16 years of experience training and developing associates. Known for her powerful and inspiring TEDx talk, "Zooming In to Make a Difference," Kathy combines her expertise in corporate leadership and her personal journey of overcoming mental illness and depression to empower audiences across corporations, associations, schools, and colleges. Throughout her successful corporate career, Kathy has leveraged her resiliency and determination to break free from the chains of addiction, alcoholism, violence, and financial instability that plagued her family. Drawing from her own battles, she passionately raises awareness about Mental and Emotional Health, sharing lifesaving insights with the aim of making a positive impact on the lives of others. In episode 374 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out what it was like for Kathy to grow up with emotional, verbal, and physical violence in the home, what harassment at school looks like, how she was able to ultimately end the violent cycle she was in and break all the self-destructive habits, how we can recognize problems with mental health or bullying in today's students, what are ways to extend support, empathy, and care to these students, how therapy helped to have better relationships, what we should do when we are feeling overwhelmed in our career, and what it was like to deliver a TEDx talk. Enjoy!