Candy Valentino

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464 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 3 Feb

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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan · Confidence Classic: Build Wealth Without Becoming Trapped in Your Business with Candy Valentino · 3 Feb 2026 podcast

I said no to so many things in my life so that I could say yes to anything now.

So I think that's the most important part, trade instant gratification for long-term gain and anyone, anyone could do what I did.

So I think that a lot of times when we go through something like that, we start to run from things, right?

Like we're running from.

So I feel for me, a lot of my life up until even when I started the first business, I was running from that pain, that life.

Like, you know, I didn't want, I wanted to make money because I didn't ever want to have to depend on anyone.

Like I wanted to be successful so that I had power and control over my decisions and my autonomy of my life.

So that's, I was running from.

The interesting thing was I, even once I got longer on my journey, I never chose what to run towards.

because I was running so hard, so long from things.

Now, if we talk specifically about the abuse, I never talked about it other than when it first happened, I literally bottled it up, stuck it down inside, and for 20 years, never uttered a word.

And looking back, it's interesting how our survival mechanisms that are so strong in us will kick in and will really get us through whatever we need.

So for me, it was about

just always grinding, always focusing because I didn't realize then that I got so caught up into who I wanted to become and how far I wanted to get away from all this situation that I was really just trying to create the life that I wanted because I didn't want to acknowledge what was.

And I didn't probably address it.

I think I was close to 30 before I ever really talked about it and really have only opened up to talk about it publicly in the last couple of years is

For me, it was one of those things where everything started to connect.

My life started to be so much clearer when I started to open up because I think that we have as much pain as great as our secrets.

And I think when we're hiding from something and we're trying to minimize something or we're trying to just completely compartmentalize something, no matter how hard you try or how good you are at it, which I was really damn good at it, it will surface in other ways.

It will surface in choosing the wrong partner next.

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