What's your story? Have you told it to anyone, and have you considered the impact it has on those who hear it?

Join Amanda and her guest, Jose Lugo, author, speaker, and founder of We Are All One Story as he shares his story of rising from the depths of childhood physical and emotional abuse, gang violence, jail, addiction and depression into recovery, redemption, and traveling the world to give voice to other brave storytellers: people who bare their souls with the intention of finding healing through connection.

Jose shares his deepest pain and his greatest healing in this riveting and inspiring episode and does so with incredible honesty, candidness, and vulnerability. Men, listen up...this one is for you!

Other topics they discuss include:

• The resiliency of the human spirit
• The commonalities Jose has found among every story he has heard
• Jose's book, Love, Faith, & Violence: A True Song and Story, a testament to the power of miracles
• How emotional pain can hurt more and do more damage than physical pain
• Jose's powerful spiritual awakening and reckoning after battling depression and addiction
• Normalizing the conversation about depression and other mental illness among men
• The power of shared story to lift people out of despair and into hope
• No matter how far down you go, your dreams are always waiting for you!

About Jose

Jose Lugo is the author of Love, Faith, & Violence: A True Song and Story, speaker, and founder of We Are All One Story, a heart-centered organization created to positively impact the world by focusing on human connection and well-being through the art of storytelling. Jose has dedicated his life to sharing his experiences and helping others own their life stories to live a better life.

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