Tracy Smaldino

I started my career in the music industry for many years - it was very fast-paced, pretty loud, and very busy. I loved it, but I was much younger and didn't have a life. I needed to shift gears to settle down and have a family, which is how I ended up in healthcare. I've been in healthcare for over 20 years behind the scenes on the compliance side, doing conferences and keynotes. When I left the music business, I actually worked in trauma burn, which was a 360 moment for me. Now I run the Trauma Rockstars podcast, which I've been doing for almost a year, dropping a new episode every week. The podcast is all about trauma, your trauma journey, and trauma recovery - everybody's story is important, what has worked for them and what hasn't. I have specialists on to talk about different modalities, and I talk about my own journey, why I suppressed my trauma for 40 years. I'm trying to create a safe community where we can all help each other. The name Trauma Rockstars comes from my music industry background - a trauma rock star is anybody who's trying to better themselves and get through anything in their life. If you're just taking that one little step, you're a trauma rock star. My whole keynote is around the music industry and going through trauma - I talk about load in and load out, but what we're loading in and loading out of our bodies and our nervous system. I'm shifting gears from my professional job to doing more keynotes about this work.