Their Childhoods Were Difficult - The Two Very Different Sagas of Judy Garland and Vince McMahon

Wounding is wounding. It hurts deeply. When it takes the form of a very difficult childhood that could become a wild card throughout an entire life. 

On Netflix there are two chronicles of those with such a background. 

One is the film "Judy" about Judy Garland. A symbol of the early pain of being a child star there are many flashbacks of the tyranny of the studio days. Her family of origin didn't protect her. She got caught in a self-defeating loop of comebacks/resorting to substance and died in her 40s. 

In contrast, the Netflix documentary of WWE former head Vince McMahon plays out the mindset of a man who had been able to pack those family of origin issues away. Or at least not allow them to derail him. There are few childhood flashbacks in the documentary. His stepfather abused him and his father had been absent for years. McMahon's meme is: I got out and am out.

Driven to succeed, especially through innovative special events for WWE, McMahon applied that same attitude toward bouncing back from business setbacks and mistakes. When they're over, they're over. You go on from there. There is no crying over spilled milk. That is being trapped in the past.

In tarot readings my mission is to guide suffering human beings to transform pain into a platform heavy with assets. That's not happy-clappy talk, that is it's not positive toxicity.

There is an anecdote floating around about Jon Hamm, who portrayed Don Draper in the AMC "Mad Men." He landed that pivotal part, it is said, because those casting picked up the pain in his eyes. That reflected, yes, a less than Ozzie and Harriet family background. He seemed to leverage the force field of experience to depict the nuances of being a creative in the late 1960s, decades before digital. 

The brutal oveall reality about the human condition is hammered in "The Road Less Traveled" by F. Scott Peck. The first line is "Life is difficult." 

If troubles don't come in the early years they are bound to catch up with human beings as they struggle as adults to make a good living - or any living in 2024.

Professional anonymous networks such as Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit and Fishbowl are jam-packed with the confusion of knowledge workers at McKinsey, BCG, Kirkland & Ellis, Paul Weiss, Amazon and public relations agencies. They assumed the deal was entitlement to plum employment, with promotions. That is unraveling rapidly. 

On LinkedIn Gen Zers are posting banners "Desperateforwork." 

Meanwhile, 78% are living paycheck to paycheck. 

Many of my clients are stepping off the white-collar track and retraining for hands-on labor. 

Was all that higher education a bad investment?

Of course, more and more organizations are in the same pickle. They have to "get out" of where they are. Those range from Nike to Disney to Citi. Those who did get out, such as Apollo when private equity was collapsing, tend to be in a rapid growth mode. 

Takeaway: Use the pain.

Jane Genova * Tarot Card Reader * Intuitive Coach * Medium.

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