Lifes Black Belts With Eric Alders

Today's Life's Black Belt guest is Helen Owens.  Author of "Finding Our She-Compass: 15 Life Lessons For Women Voyaging toward Restoration, Reconstruction, and Renewal."This is an extraordinary story, that's a must-listen-to episode!  Helen is an incredible human and someone that empowers women to find happiness, confidence and beauty in their life again. Helen takes us back to when she was a child growing up in the ghetto.   She discusses losing her father at 11 years old and at the same age she began loosing her hair in large patches.  Her family couldn't afford a doctor to find out what it was.  Later in life she found out it was Alopecia Areata.This led to extreme bullying from kids in school and especially one girl in particular.  Helen shares a deeply emotional story of how this bully impacted her life still to this day.Doing everything she could to cover her bald spots, Helen broke down one day on her steps and then fate stepped in.  "Granny" as she was known to