In this episode I speak with Lori Leyden, PhD, MBA, a deeply thoughtful, internationally known trauma healing professional, transformational leader and spiritual mentor. She has done collective trauma work around the world, working with genocide survivors in Rwanda, Aboriginal and refugee communities in Australian, and post school shooting communities in Sandy Hook, Connecticut and Parkland, Florida. Lori says that if we want to change the world, we need to address trauma, both individually and collectively.

We talk about her near-death experience that gave rise to the Grace Process – a formula she teaches for transcending our egos and living in our hearts, which she uses in trauma healing. She also shares about Project LIGHT: Rwanda – the world’s first international youth healing, heart-centered leadership and entrepreneurship program and her award-winning documentary, When I Was Young, I Said I Would Be Happy, which chronicles the transformation of 12 Rwandan orphan genocide survivors and how they paid it forward to hundreds of other young people.