Episode 5 - A chat about life with Leah Wagner, host of The Leah Ideology Podcast, 2 times rape survivor, infinite thinker, cat lover, and an ordinary woman with an extraordinary story.
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Welcome to Episode 5 of Living the Queen Life Podcast.
In this episode my guest is my new best friend, the one and only Leah Wagner.
Leah is an ordinary woman with an extra ordinary story. Given up for adoption at birth in South Korea, Leah was adopted at 6 months old and started her new life in a small town in Pennsylvania in the US, growing up as the only Asian kid in very white middle class America. Fast forward to her college years, Leah’s story takes another turn being a survivor of rape not once but twice. This is a harrowing story that sadly all too many women can relate to.
A habitual people pleaser, Leah buried herself in her career and work to escape, and with the ideology that if she was successful in her career it would make up for these other life experiences - something so many of us do to seek approval, acceptance and love. Marriage and a baby - her now 9yo son Isaac - and the reality of motherhood - Leah’s description of those thoughts of how to raise her tiny human are hilarious!
And then unexpectedly in 2015 a trip to the doctor for what she thought was just a cold saw her diagnosed with a rare congenital heart condition and in heart failure. This turned her world upside down - no longer able to work in the career she had drawn so much self esteem from, pressure on friendships and relationships that contributed to the breakdown of her marriage and where to from here.
Leah has a great analogy for people pleasing always being a dog person until one day fostering a cat called Chunk and discovering that she’s actually a cat person who’d been pretending to be a dog person cos everyone likes people who like dogs.
In this conversation, Leah talks openly about all these experiences, her approach to overcoming them as the fighter that she is, and what she has come to know about herself and life through this remarkable journey. Leah’s wit and sense of humour is brilliant with lots of laugh out loud moments amongst the seriousness of it all.
Amongst the things that Leah loves is potatoes in any form, shopping for stationery, diet wild cherry Pepsi, being near water and swearing - I think this is why we clicked!!
Leah is the host of her own podcast called The Leah Ideology where she quite literally shares her thoughts on life and experiences and invites us all to think a little differently.
Settle in and get ready for this one - it’s a long one but worth the listen right to the very end.
You can find Leah at
https://www.theleahideologypodcast.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LeahIdeology/
https://www.instagram.com/leahideology/?hl=en
https://theleahideologypodcast.buzzsprout.com/
Leah and I are both speaking at the She is Me Global Women’s Empowerment Conference online from 12-16 October 2022. Right now Early Bird Tickets are 50% off until 31st August 2022. You can book at https://sheismeconference.com/shop/ols/categories/attendee
You can learn more about Queen of my Own Universe at the website
https://queenofmyownuniverse.com/
Join in on the Conversation at the Queen of my Own Universe Community on Facebook
Find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/queenofmyownuniverse1
Or connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretfoley/
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