She Overcame Sexual Abuse To Become the Person She is Today - a podcast by Paul Nyhart

It feels like Lucy Carillo could be your Aunt. Her laughter and jokes are too comforting to not feel relatable. Her energy is too glad-to-see-you to not feel like you’ve felt it somewhere before. 

It’s very likely Lucy Carillo is not your Aunt. But her story is one I knew I needed to tell. Lucy didn’t grow up around love, but she somehow managed to find a way to make a love-for-life one of her inherent traits. I wanted to find out why…and how.

Where did she find love growing up in such a dark world? 

How did she form such a strong laugh, the kind that seems to validate that life isn’t a hell-storm meant to beat you down, it’s a gift that you can continually unwrap if you blocked out the bad and created the good?

Lucy Carillo is the youngest of seven Puerto Rican children, a feat that deserves its own podcast in and of itself. Her relationship with her parents growing up wasn’t the greatest, to put it nicely, but she fought on. She found love in a place where many are looking towards less often: Faith. A group of Nuns taught Lucy her confidence. A friend too real to be invisible—who she named “Chewy”—filled in with the rest. 

I spent an hour or so speaking with Lucy, a person who on the surface just seems to love her job and her life, but deep down inside she’s an illustration of the power of faith and positivity, assuming there’s a difference between the two. Learning to love yourself is always easier said than done—how did Lucy do it? What allowed her to identify what was precious in a world where love seemed like a luxury, a world where one is literally just trying to survive?

This is Lucy Carillo’s Story of Bao. 

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