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Jay Shetty PodcastPARIS HILTON ON: Overcoming Abuse, Toxic Fame & Finding REAL LOVE | Jay Shetty
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Paris Hilton on Abuse, Shame, Healing and Real Love
- Paris Hilton describes writing her memoir and audiobook as painful but therapeutic, saying it let her voice things she had never told anyone and finally feel understood.
- She recounts abuse by a teacher at 14, being drugged and assaulted at 15, and the troubled teen schools, and stresses that shame belongs to the abusers rather than the victim.
- She says her ADHD is her superpower in business, and that imagining a future self and life helped her endure the schools and later setbacks like the sex tape and its fallout.
- Her advocacy has helped change laws in nine states and she is pushing for a federal bill, which she describes as the way she started to truly heal by turning pain into purpose.
- She says meeting her husband Carter and having her son taught her what real love is, shifted her priorities from billions to babies, and shaped how she wants to parent.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasShame belongs to the person who caused harm
Paris says she carried shame her whole life because others hurt her, and a core message of her book is that the shame should be on the abuser, not the victim.
Speaking the truth aloud can be healing
Writing the book and recording the audiobook was hard, but she calls it the most healing experience of her life and says readers have thanked her for helping them feel less alone.
Turning pain into purpose aids healing
Working with survivors, meeting senators, and changing laws in nine states while pushing for federal legislation has helped her feel she is healing and has made her purpose a safer world for children.
ADHD can be a strength in business
Paris, citing her doctor's image of a Ferrari with bicycle brakes, says fast, outside-the-box, risk-taking thinking helped her do many things first in business even though she struggled in school.
Visualizing a future self helped her survive
At the schools she imagined the life she wanted and who she would become, and she describes this as an escape and as manifestation that later came true.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesThe shame shouldn't be on you. It should be on the person that hurt you, and I felt like I just h- hold, held onto so much shame my whole life because of other people hurting me.
— Paris Hilton
I feel that my ADHD, I consider it my superpower, and I think that's why in business and everything that I've done, I've always been very future-thinking and thinking outside of the box and being a risk-taker and someone who is an innovator and pioneer
— Paris Hilton
I feel that for so long, I always considered all of that type of attention love, but now I know what real love truly is.
— Paris Hilton
I care more about babies than billions.
— Paris Hilton
My current purpose is to make the world a safer place for children.
— Paris Hilton
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SPEAKERS
Paris Hilton
guestMedia personality, entrepreneur, and author known for her advocacy work and entertainment career.
Jay Shetty
hostPodcast host and author focused on wellness, purpose, and personal development.
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