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Episode 68 - GenX Speaks Series: Author David La Torre
What happens when a kid raised by addicts, with a father who dealt drugs, grows up to manage some of America's biggest crises? In this episode, author and crisis communications expert David La Torre answers that question with one of the most powerful stories we've had on the show.
David takes us through his GenX latchkey childhood in 1970s and '80s Pennsylvania, which includes the normalcy of pill use back then, the spiral of parental substance abuse, surviving child abuse, his father's path to prison and the long, deliberate work of breaking the cycle of generational trauma. He has captured…
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