Melissa Wardy
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first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2017
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I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden something in her just switched and turned off.
And it was like this bright glimmer that had been in her eyes was gone.
And her eyes took this flat, dead look to them.
And that sounds like so melodramatic, but it's really true.
Even when I look back through pictures, the shape of her eyes are different.
It was just so much stress in this tiny body.
You know, looking back, I just sometimes I just want to cry.
I just think about what she had to be going through and pushing through each day to try to make some benchmark of normalcy while she was in school.
Sure.
So I uh am am married to my husband Jason and we live in El Paso, Texas, following a ten year stint in Wisconsin.
Um and we have two children, Amelia who is eleven, and Benjamin who is nine.
Um we home school down here, which is an interesting experience being a
uh liberal secular family l homeschooling in Texas.
Um, but we uh we're loving it and uh so uh when I'm not busy doing the mom thing, I work as an author and speaker in the girl empowerment and confidence community.
Yeah, so in two thousand nine, um, when my kids were three and one, I started um a t shirt company uh that was originally just for girls and then we branched out to include boys.
Um but it was called Pigtail Pals and Bulk Cat Buddies.
Uh and it's been on hold since the move to Texas, but on my to do list of projects to start up again.
Um and that led to a blog and that led to my book Redefining Girly, How Parents Can Fight the Sexualizing and Stereotyping of Girls from Birth to Tween.
Um so that all happened from two thousand nine to twenty fourteen and in that span of five years while also trying to
parent two children, um, and all of this kind of coming in and
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