The Author Within

The Author Within is a podcast about what it means to consciously create your life and become the person capable of living it. Hosted by Dr. Vicky Truong, a therapist, researcher, legal professional, and lifelong student of human behavior, the show explores the forces that shape who we become in relationships, creativity, adversity, leadership, identity, and the choices we make when the life we've built no longer fits. Through thoughtful conversations with people from different disciplines, careers, and walks of life, The Author Within looks at how people reinvent themselves, develop mastery, navigate adversity, and create meaningful lives on their own terms.

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  Episode #3

  The Author Within - EP 3 - How Do We Learn to Trust the Creative Process?

  Aug 20, 20261h 5mS1

  <p >Steve spent over 20 years as a one-person traffic engineering firm while secretly discovering he could write. In this episode, host Vicky Truong talks with Steve about his winding path from broadcasting school to screenwriting classes to finally getting his short film, The Camera, a fictional story inspired by his mother's experience in a Japanese-American incarceration camp during WWII. Along the way: three years of grant rejections, a hard lesson from martial arts about relaxing into power, and what it means to create without needing anyone's approval.</p> <h4 >Key Takeaways</h4> <p >- Steve realized he was in the...

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  Episode #1

  The Author Within - EP 1 - How Can We See Friendship As an Art?

  Aug 20, 20261h 7mS1

  <p >In the debut episode of The Author Within, host Dr. Vicky Truong sits down with her close friend and fellow therapist, Nhu Truong, to explore a relationship that rarely gets therapeutic attention: friendship. They dig into narrative therapy, why friendship deserves the same depth of conversation as romance, and how presence, curiosity, and honest disappointment shape the friendships that last.</p> <p >Key Takeaways</p> <p >- Friendship deserves the same intentional, therapeutic attention typically reserved for romantic and family relationships.</p> <p >- Curiosity, staying interested in who your friend is now, not just who they were, is...

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  The Author Within - EP 2 - How Does the Way We Lead Ourselves Shape How We Lead Others?

  Aug 20, 20261h 23mS1

  <p >Vicky Truong sits down with Mitch, her friend of 15 years, a 40-year husband, father, grandfather, triathlete, and 30+ year CPG industry veteran, for a wide-ranging conversation on staying centered in a chaotic world. They dig into the five unconscious beliefs that once ran his life, how he learned to talk honestly with his wife about money and fear, and what it really means to lead, sell, and love from a place of service rather than ego.</p> <p >Key Takeaways</p> <p >Identify your unconscious limiting beliefs before you can change the behavior they're driving - Mitch names five that...

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