Owning MY Legacy
BY LAURETTE RONDENET
am often asked what was the
inspiration behind launching
“Owning your Legacy” podcast and
book. (Book is still in process! It is harder than it looks to write a book!)
I believe the concept was planted long before it became conscious to me. Watching my mom struggle with not having control over her own destiny because of the era she grew up in as well as the Catholic influence on her life definitely affected the choices I made in my own life. She made sure of that!
Her path was very narrow according to society. She would marry young and have as many children as humanly possible and stay home and raise them while taking care of a house and husband. Being her 7th child, I came along when she was seriously done and burnt out of the mind numbingness and loneliness of her life. She longed for more. More intellectual stimulation, more purpose, more connection.
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