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Life Beyond the Mask

Life Beyond the Mask is a powerful, truth-centered podcast hosted by Cheryl, a nationally recognized HR leader, and Candace, a trauma specialist living with complex PTSD—both bringing lived experience with trauma, adoption, betrayal, addiction, and profound loss.From navigating identity through adoption, to surviving betrayal in marriage, to rebuilding life after the death of a spouse by suicide, Cheryl and Candace bring both professional insight and deeply personal truth into every conversation.Together, they create a space where high-functioning masks are taken off, and the realities people carry behind the scenes are finally spoken out loud.This podcast explores trauma, abandonment, addiction, adoption, suicide, and life’s deepest secrets—while also illuminating what it truly means to do the work, heal, and rebuild.Because this isn’t just about what breaks us…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Life Beyond the Mask is a powerful, truth-centered podcast hosted by Cheryl, a nationally recognized HR leader, and Candace, a trauma specialist living with complex PTSD—both bringing lived experience with trauma, adoption, betrayal, addiction, and profound loss.From navigating identity through adoption, to surviving betrayal in marriage, to rebuilding life after the death of a spouse by suicide, Cheryl and Candace bring both professional insight and deeply personal truth into every conversation.Together, they create a space where high-functioning masks are taken off, and the realities people carry behind the scenes are finally spoken out loud.This podcast explores trauma, abandonment, addiction, adoption, suicide, and life’s deepest secrets—while also illuminating what it truly means to do the work, heal, and rebuild.Because this isn’t just about what breaks us…

HOSTED BY

Candace Alley & Cheryl Brown-Merriwether

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Life Beyond the Mask is a powerful, truth-centered podcast hosted by Cheryl, a nationally recognized HR leader, and Candace, a trauma specialist living with complex PTSD—both bringing lived experience with trauma, adoption, betrayal, addiction, and profound loss.From navigating identity through...

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Life Beyond the Mask is created and hosted by Candace Alley & Cheryl Brown-Merriwether.
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