The Tara Bixby Podcast

59. Addiction and Redemption Through Wellness With Quentin Vennie


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Before becoming a celebrated wellness expert, motivational speaker, author of a best-selling memoir, Co-Founder of Greenhouse Tea Company, and Gwyneth Paltrow's pal, Quentin Vennie was a guy from a single-parent home in Baltimore who was told that he'd never amount to much. He was someone who fought addiction, battled anxiety, sold drugs in the heroin capital of America, escaped death, and dropped out of college three separate times.

After years of fighting a war of anxiety, depression, and addiction, he set out on a journey to heal himself. Quentin successfully overcame his addictions and developed a system to manage his anxiety disorder better with nothing more than faith and determination.

Quentin has been publicly celebrated by notable figures in the world of wellness for his unbelievable road to recovery. His transformation has inspired thousands worldwide and has raised global awareness of anxiety, depression, and addiction. He is living proof that you have the power and ability to unlock unimaginable strength no matter your background.

Today, we're chatting about... 

  • How past trauma and childhood diversity planted the seed for his future mental health struggles
  • What Quentins life was like growing up in a community of violence, crime, and drugs 
  • How it felt for Quentin to visit his father in prison 
  • How as a child, his emotional and psychological pain presented as anger and defiance 
  • Quentin's thoughts on where the mental health system fails 
  • How in the process of wanting to feel safe, to incubate himself from fear, he became addicted to benzodiazepines
  • Why Quentin slept in a hospital parking lot
  • How Quentin used the word of wellness to heal

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