661: Shari Leid: Identity Through Adoption, Internment, Career & Cancer

Published: June 22, 2022, 7 a.m.

Former litigator Shari Leid currently operates An Imperfectly Perfect Life, LLC, a professional mindset coaching business serving clients who are in those tricky middle age years, helping them create the life of their dreams. She is the author of the Friendship Flow transformational book series, which includes The 50/50 Friendship Flow: Life Lessons From and For My Girlfriends and Make Your Mess Your Message - More Life Lessons From and For My Girlfriends.\n\nShari\u2019s life has been an incredible journey of identity shifting and identity shaping events that have led her to such a beautiful place of honoring who she is and how she wants to show up in the world and share her life with other women.\xa0\xa0\n\nListen in to hear Shari share:\n\nHer story of being adopted from Seoul Korea in 1970 in the first wave of international adoptions by Japanese American parents who were interned during WWII\n\nHer parent\u2019s memories of living and working in internment camps\n\nThe impacts of her parent\u2019s internment on her upbringing\n\nHow she ended up growing her family by 2 children in less than one year\n\nHow adopting her daughter brought her full circle in seeing her own adoption journey\n\nHer massive shift in identity when she left a career as a litigating attorney to become a stay at home mom - and the major struggle to maintain her sense of self\n\nThe impact of her physical sense of self as she had double hip replacement from hip dysplasia and double mastectomy after a breast cancer diagnosis\n\n\nLinks mentioned:\n\nConnect with Shari: animperfectlyperfectlife.com\n\n\nShari on LinkedIn\n\nShari on IG\n\nShari on FB\n\nShari on YouTube\n\nShari on TikTok\n\n\nSponsor info and promo codes:\n\nPlease find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/\n\n\nInterested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices