Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Carlyn Montes De Oca, Author, “Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets, and Second Chances”.
Carlyn Montes De Oca is an award-winning author, acupuncturist, nutritional consultant and expert in the animal-human health connection. Her best-selling book entitled “Dog as My Doctor, Cat as My Nurse: An Animal Lover’s Guide to a Healthy, Happy Life”, reveals how our loving bonds with our beloved cats and dogs positively impact every part of our well-being – mind, body, and spirit. She then produced 2 more books: “Paws For the Good Stuff: A Dog Lover’s Journal”, and “Paws For the Good Stuff: A Cat Lover’s Journal”.
And now she’s released an emotionally powerful and highly compelling book entitled, “Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets, and Second Chances”. The book was triggered by the astonishing revelation by Carlyn Montes De Oca in 2019 at the age of 57, when she discovered through a DNA test that she was NOT the biological child of the parents who raised her. Through the book, she shares the riveting and poignant account of her turbulent journey towards the ultimate understanding and acceptance of the true meaning of family, a sense of identity and belonging, and the discovery of forgiveness, healing and self-affirmation.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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