The Token Economy: Episode 2, The Story I'm Finally Ready To Tell

Original author：Kristina Lamia

Original source：https://www.youtube.com/embed/xUIBvfsk9ig

*In this deeply personal episode of_The Token Economy_, Kristina shares the story she is finally ready to tell — growing up as an eldest daughter in a changing world, becoming an educator and school leader through crisis and instability, navigating pregnancy loss, postpartum depression, medical trauma, COVID, motherhood, divorce, and professional identity shifts. This episode explores what it means to “keep going,” what it costs to survive inside systems that do not always hold people well, and why The Token Economy is ultimately about truth, repair, connection, and creating space for people to stop performing okay.* *Content note:*This episode includes discussion of pregnancy loss, medical trauma, postpartum depression, school violence, COVID, and divorce.