{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Unknown Path","title":"How a Vegas Showgirl became a Bestselling Author & Sacred Storyteller: The Cynthia James Story ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3421,"description":"Cynthia James is an incredible human who has lived so many lives inside one life, it's hard to sum her up. I first met Cynthia earlier this year, sharing a stage at a conference before a mutual friend reconnected us months later. What's really stayed with me isn't the showgirl years or the cheque Ed McMahon handed her on TV — it's what got passed down to her through her lineage. Cynthia comes from a line of women who survived a great deal, and what came down to her through her grandmother wasn't the weight of it — it was a knowing. A voice in the body she learned to trust over her own mind, the thing that kept telling her when a chapter was finished, long before it was convenient or rational or anything she wanted to hear. In this episode: Growing up in a redlined Minneapolis neighbourhood she didn't know she was being kept insideOne of the first Black showgirls on the Vegas strip, and her grandmother's reaction to the feathersThe Star Search producer's single question before the finals, and the $100,000 that followed The song running through her head when she woke up crying during a painful divorce A conversation about what it costs to trust that voice, and what it gives back. ⸻ Cynthia James: Emotional integration leadership coach, international speaker, author of six books, and host of The Women Awakening Podcast. Website: cynthiajames.net Instagram: @cynthiajames777Cynthia's Books: What Will Set You Free · I Choose Me · Does My Voice Matter⸻This conversation touches on trauma and healing. If it brings something up for you, be gentle with yourself, and reach out to someone you trust.The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. theunknownpathpodcast.com Instagram: @jemfuller","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/v_z4jinyZSI9vJDff2mwACGXDJU3LOR82kf68oE50MU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mY2Rk/ZWU2ZjI3ODA5N2Jj/OTg5MDY5MTYzMjRi/MzRmZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}