Dawn Barton has faced the loss of a child to pneumonia, rape, breast cancer, the loss of her sister to breast cancer, her mom’s burst brain aneurysm, and more – but she somehow remains one of the most joyful women I’ve ever come across. How does she do it?

In this episode, Dawn shares how she made the decision to leave her sales business at its height, the changes she’s made since, and how her upcoming book, “Laughing Through the Ugly Cry and Finding Unstoppable Joy” shares the moments of her life where she should have been sobbing but was crying tears of joy and laughter instead.

You can follow Dawn online at www.dawnbarton.com or @dawnrbarton on Instagram and Facebook.

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Melissa Duncan is a wife to her high school sweetheart, a boy mom, and a lawyer. A natural cheerleader, she loves encouraging moms to pursue their dreams. Melissa hosts a podcast, Influential Motherhood, celebrating moms who are making a difference in their profession or community. An Enneagram 7 who is always full of big ideas, Melissa can't remember jokes, leaves the cooking to her husband, and survives on coffee, Nutella, many prayers, and little sleep.