Sex Work, Lyme, and Healing your Trauma with Angelina Lombardo

Angelina Lombardo is a bestselling author, relationship and trauma expert, and the “entrepreneur whisperer.” A former exotic dancer, Angelina now devotes her time and career to coaching the underserved and stigmatized sex industry community on everything from self-love and empowerment to finances and self-care practices. Having spent the last 28 years of her life in entrepreneur-ship, she empowers heart-centered leaders to uncover their purpose and live a fully unleashed life. As a professional life coach, Lombardo has not only walked this path but has helped others make a change in their lives, bringing the feelings of freedom and fulfillment that once felt elusive. Her mentors include Angela Lauria, Jennifer Kem, Susan Hyatt, and Martha Beck.  

Angelina has had an incredible journey to the show and has a message that will blow you away. We are honored to have your join the Beautifully Broken family. In this wide-ranging and eye-opening conversation, Angelina and Freddie discuss the many ways unrealized trauma manifests, how she supports the spiritual entrepreneur, why isolation is essential to our healing journeys, all while connecting back to your unique and powerful story. And listen to the end to learn how you can get your own copy of Angelina’s books!

Episode Highlights

2:28 - Advocating for an overlooked and forgotten community

4:24 - The many ways unrealized trauma manifests

8:42 - The necessity to find freedom and space to process trauma

13:49 - Empowerment takes many forms

16:14 - Living with no regrets

19:05 - Supporting the spiritual entrepreneur

22:40 - Removing the spiritual blocks to success

26:14 - How Angelina helps provide massive energetic shifts with her clients

28:55 - Plant medicine can help, but the true work comes before and after

34:33 - Bringing back powerful experiences into the everyday

36:44 - Why isolation will be part of your healing journey

37:52 - Owning your healing journey

44:09 - The emotional work necessary for getting well

46:34 - The systems approach to getting well

51:30 - Who is a sex worker to tell me how to be healthier?

55:36 - Engaging with trolls

1:00:36 - What does it mean to be beautifully broken?

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Freddie Kimmel and Angelina Lombardo (00:00.174)
I have zero regrets. I'm okay that I took off my clothes for a living and the little mishaps that took me too far down the rabbit hole in that sex industry and the few times that I got hurt. And I understand the responsibility I have and hold with hurting myself in that way, but I also understand and forgive myself because in grace, I did the best that I could at that moment.

Freddie Kimmel and Angelina Lombardo (00:28.387)
Welcome to the Beautifully Broken Podcast brought to you by AmpCoil. I'm your host, Freddie Kimmel, and on this show, we discuss the common thread survivors share after walking through the fire, the practitioners making a difference, and the treatment modalities that deliver healing back into the hands of the people who need it most. Witness the inspiration we gain by navigating the human experience with grace, humility, and a healthy dose of mistakes. Because part of being human is being beautifully broken.

Freddie Kimmel and Angelina Lombardo (01:00.814)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the beautifully broken podcast. I'm here with Angelina Lombardo. She is an amazing coach. She's an author. She has had an incredible journey to be here on the show today and she's got a message that is going to blow everybody away. Angelina, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me, Freddie. I really appreciate it. Well, trust me, it's my honor.

I, as we were saying, we do a little pre-talk. I don't always jump on the episode and just start gabbing away these truth bombs about health and wellness. But you know, the truth is when you get into the podcast world enough, you start getting these booking agents and people reaching out to you. Can I be on your show? And for me, when people inorganically find me through the interweb, it's usually kind of like a hard no. It doesn't feel wonderful.

But I saw Angelina's stuff and I was like, my God, it's a 10 out of 10. It was like a thumbs up. So thanks for putting out that vibe. I'm happy that you picked it up. That's pretty cool. I'm similar. I have to read and feel out a person just for a few, a few moments. And then I pick up, I think I pick up an energetic resonance or not. Cause I feel so in tune with what's going on inside of me. So.

I feel similarly for you. Well, Andalina, can we talk about what drove you to start writing books? Because you've got a couple of books on Amazon and they look like they're very compelling and you've got some great titles there, but I don't want to, I want you to be the one to treat the audience with the titles of your great works of literature. So what prompted me to start writing books was a deep desire to live by example.

in love for the planet. I mean, that's the big overall. It was my way of contributing my love, the love that I feel for humanity. And that was my expression of that. That's my start of expressing that deep love for humanity. So that's why I started.

Freddie Kimmel and Angelina Lombardo (03:18.319)
which is why my first book is called Love Letters to a stripper. I am a ex-sex worker or a retired sex worker. I was in the sex industry for eight years. And when it came time for me to speak my message, which is pretty giant, my message, at least for me, the first pool of people would be the people in the sex industry. I felt like they needed that the most.

They really needed to know that they were being seen, that they were being loved, that I understood because I am one of them, that they are of extreme value, that their adversity and their hard knocks were not the sum of who they were, that they were born for resilience. So I just really wanted to be that example and extend my, you know, my arms to

embrace and work, advocate for that community. So that was the starting. So you wanted to advocate for that community. How did you find your way into that community to begin with? That is, yeah, that's so that's where the story starts. My childhood was full of physical, sexual

psychological emotional abuse and coincidentally, of course I Grew up with developmental trauma developmental trauma is a sort of a a newer way of understanding Trauma that is coming from a place where you were consistently Exposed to traumatic shock

verbal emotional psychological and the way that you develop as a result of that really results in In my case, it was dysregulation emotional dysregulation Disassociation it wasn't safe to be in the world. And so one of the coping Mechanisms that happen with developmental trauma is a disassociation and it it shows up as a disorganization it

Freddie Kimmel and Angelina Lombardo (05:40.811)
making decisions without judgment or without a sense of self or knowing how you're making the decision. So I call it trauma reaction. And I was struggling with chronic homelessness at the time. And I had really done all that I thought I could to gain employment. was, I think my first time being a homeless teenager on the streets was at age 14.

And this was at age 22 and I found myself in the same chronic homeless position. No money, no food. The resources were really thin. I was in a shelter and I answered an ad in a newspaper and I really thought that I was answering an ad for a dancing telegrams. And, and it turns out it wasn't dancing telegrams. It was a pimp.

And he was searching for people who could go to people's houses and perform. So dancing nude, and he used to tell us it's up to you. Whatever happens behind closed doors is your business. I can't condone. But he would say things that would elude to, but you get paid way more if you do.

Something anything that they want right? So this was a trauma reaction. I just remember the first time Servicing a client I was dancing so there was nothing I was terrified and I just remember going into the space where this person was waiting it was 30 minutes I danced around I really just tried to mitigate my my anxiety and My hyper vigilance of am I safe? Am I not am I safe? Am I?

Am I not right? and being really almost close to being frozen. But then I walked out of that place with $500 and back in 1990, what was that too? That was a lot of money for someone who was homeless and struggling for most of my life. I had no, I just didn't have the concept. And so from there, I just thought this is what I have to do.

Freddie Kimmel and Angelina Lombardo (08:03.727)
This is all there is. This is what this is what I am good at. It progressed from there. I am in. I would say embody, but that wouldn't be the word I would use then because I wasn't embodying my healing of sexual trauma by being naked in front of thousands of men and women. But it did facilitate that and I was.

There was an awareness. I definitely there was an awareness. So that's how I found myself stepping into the sex industry. And how long, how long did you stay in that industry until, um, obviously you said like $500 for a gig. mean, that's, that's pretty incredible. That's still a lot of money. How long did you stay in that industry until you felt a pull to get out?

I was in the industry for three years solid. It allowed me to travel. What it really did was it gave me the freedom to be traumatized, which is really weird. I was able to eat. I had a place to live and I could take a deep and I would get the address and I would.