Rise From The Ashes Podcast

What if hitting rock bottom was the beginning of your greatest transformation? In this powerful episode of Rise From The Ashes, world-renowned author and philanthropist Catherine Bell shares her remarkable journey from being adopted at 16 to becoming a beacon of hope through her nonprofit Wealthwise Women and her hedge fund supporting first responders and veterans.

Catherine's story is a testament to resilience, financial empowerment, and purpose-driven leadership. She opens up about the challenges she faced, the courage it took to rewrite her story, and her mission to promote financial literacy while assisting those in need.

🔹 Key Takeaways:

• How adversity fuels personal growth and resilience
• The power of financial literacy in transforming lives
• Why dream boards and intentionality create lasting success
• The importance of seeking support from those who’ve walked similar paths

Catherine’s insights into burnout, vulnerability, and self-discovery offer a roadmap for anyone looking to turn struggles into stepping stones. Whether you’re facing challenges or striving to create a legacy of impact, this episode will leave you inspired and empowered.

🎧 Listen now and take the first step toward your transformation.

🔗 Learn more about Catherine Bell: Titan Impact Group

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Burnout isn’t the end it’s the beginning of something greater. In this episode of Rise From the Ashes: Burnout to Brilliance, visionary leader Catherine Bell shares how she transformed personal tragedy into leadership mastery. Her journey reveals the power of mental management, mentorship, and shifting from “how” to “who” in achieving lasting success.

Key Takeaways from Catherine Bell’s Leadership Philosophy:

✔ Mental Mastery Over Emotion: Learn how Catherine harnessed emotional resilience to lead with clarity and purpose.
✔ Mentorship as a Success Multiplier: The right mentors shape your future Catherine shares how to choose wisely.
✔ The “Who, Not How” Paradigm Shift: Instead of asking how to solve a problem, ask who can help solve it.

🔹 What if every encounter you had could leave the world a little brighter?

Catherine’s story isn’t just about overcoming adversity it’s about using it as fuel to elevate others. After the profound loss of her husband, she redefined leadership by embedding love, community, and purposeful action into her daily life. She challenges us all to leave people better than we found them.

🎧 Tune in for an inspiring conversation on how to:
✅ Create a leadership legacy through emotional intelligence and impact.
✅ Shift from self-reliance to collaboration for exponential growth.
✅ Use spiritual alignment to fuel resilience and purpose.

This episode is a call to action—step into your brilliance, embrace support, and lead with heart.

👉 Listen Now & Transform Burnout into Brilliance!

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Betsy Tong’s relentless drive in the high-stakes world of major tech companies led her to a breaking point culminating in a terrifying fainting episode on a plane. In this eye-opening episode, she shares her raw and powerful story of burnout, resilience, and the crucial turning points that transformed her life.

We also dive into the fast-paced world of book writing as I break down how I crafted a bestseller in just 72 hours. From AI-powered creativity to strategic adaptation, I reveal the game-changing techniques that can help anyone maximize productivity and success. Plus, my collaboration with Peter Swain highlights the power of innovation and streamlined communication in achieving remarkable results.

What You’ll Learn:

✅ The warning signs of burnout and how to reset before it’s too late
 ✅ The emotional and professional impact of high-stress careers
 ✅ How Betsy transformed personal struggles into growth and empowerment
 ✅ Strategies for leveraging AI to supercharge creativity and productivity
 ✅ The mindset shifts needed to reclaim balance and long-term success

🔥 Whether you’re navigating a high-pressure career or looking to unleash your creative potential, this episode is packed with insights to help you rise, reset, and redefine success.

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This is not a podcast episode.
It’s a leadership intervention for every high-achiever silently burning out behind their success.

Betsy Tong—tech industry powerhouse and unapologetic truth-teller—steps into the fire with host Baz Porter to dismantle the myths around burnout, power, and what it really means to lead with purpose.

She didn’t just climb the ladder.
 She burned the damn thing down and built a better system.

🎯 In this episode:

• Burnout isn’t a breakdown—it’s brilliance trying to break through
• How Betsy led billion-dollar tech teams by listening, not posturing
• The “tyranny of choice” and how it paralyzes high-performers
• Why legacy matters more than metrics
• Lessons from Symantec, family sacrifice, and choosing what really matters
• The blueprint for scaling with soul—and still sleeping at night

This episode is a mirror. A roadmap. A wake-up call.
 If you're craving clarity, connection, and career-changing truth, this is your moment.

Because from the ashes, legends rise. 

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From soap star to soul healer, Cynthia James reveals how her public heartbreak became a global movement in emotional integration and trauma recovery. In this raw, revealing episode of Rise From The Ashes, discover how to transmute pain into power and reclaim your truth, your voice, and your future.

What if your trauma isn’t the end but the ignition? In this no-holds-barred episode of Rise From The Ashes, Baz Porter is joined by transformational powerhouse Cynthia James, a former Hollywood actress who turned heartbreak into healing for thousands worldwide.

From overcoming five generations of trauma to creating the Emotional Integration™ Method, Cynthia shares the raw truth behind her journey and how you can reclaim your wholeness, no matter how fractured you feel.

Whether you're a leader, seeker, or survivor, this episode delivers a soul-level strategy to rise into your purpose.

Emotional Integration™ Demystified – Why traditional healing fails, and how to work with your nervous system, not against it.

The Burnout Trap – Why “high-functioning anxiety” masks deep emotional disconnection and how to spot it in yourself.

Healing in the Spotlight – How Cynthia turned a public divorce into her divine assignment.

Breaking Generational Chains – What it takes to stop inherited trauma in its tracks and lead a new legacy.

The Leadership Shift – From control to compassion: why today’s leaders must evolve or dissolve.

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Anxiety isn’t just fear it’s feedback.

In this raw and revelatory episode, best-selling author and transformational teacher Cynthia James sits down with Baz Porter to dismantle the mainstream myths around mental health. Together, they expose the truth: anxiety is not the enemy it’s the alarm. The body’s way of whispering (or screaming), “You’re not living in alignment.”

✨ Cynthia reveals her Three Pillars of Emotional Wellness:

1. Inquiry – Get brutally honest about where you are
2. Introspection – Decode the emotional messages in your body
3. Integration – Apply transformational tools that empower self-healing

If you’ve been relying on surface-level “self-care” while still drowning in burnout, this is your wake-up call. Cynthia goes deep on:
 ✔ Why your body is a trauma computer
 ✔ How to approach meditation without perfectionism
 ✔ The life-changing ritual she does before reaching for her phone
✔ And the truth behind why we’re terrified to change (even when we crave it)

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 Sabrina Johnson’s Unfiltered Comeback from Sexual Abuse, Alcoholism, and Silence

Some stories don’t get whispered. They get buried until someone brave enough digs them up and dares to speak.
This is that moment.

On this soul-igniting episode of Rise From The Ashes, Sabrina Johnson breaks her silence after decades revealing a childhood trauma that nearly stole her life. From sexual abuse at the hands of her aunt’s husband to alcohol poisoning that almost turned fatal, Sabrina’s story isn’t just about pain. It’s about what happens when divine intervention meets an unrelenting will to heal.

Now a hypnotherapist and ethical sales mentor, Sabrina shares how an unexpected pregnancy saved her life and sparked a 25-year transformation fueled by truth, motherhood, and relentless purpose. This isn’t another comeback story. It’s a blueprint for redemption.

You’ll hear:

• The first public telling of Sabrina’s teenage trauma
• How she turned pain into power through hypnotherapy and mindset work
• Her near-death experience with alcohol and the divine moment that pulled her back
• The truth about healing fractured family bonds and herself

Bold, raw, and gut-wrenchingly real, this is the conversation millions are afraid to have but desperately need to hear. If you’ve ever felt broken, buried, or too far gone, this story proves you're not.

Listen now, then share it. Because someone you love needs to know they can rise too.

Share this with someone who thinks they’re too broken to rise.
Sabrina just proved the opposite.
And part two is coming.
Don’t miss it. Subscribe and stay in the fire. 

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 Carl O’Neil’s Comeback from Chronic Pain, Faith Crisis, and Legal Hell
One moment changed his life. The system tried to break him. Faith helped him rise.

In this deeply moving episode of Rise From The Ashes, Baz Porter sits down with Carl O’Neil, a former exercise trainer whose heroic act in the workplace turned into a personal hell of chronic pain, legal warfare, and spiritual collapse. But Carl didn’t stay broken he rebuilt from the inside out.

From battling a failed workers' comp system to navigating deep emotional wounds, Carl shares how his lowest point became the launching pad for spiritual awakening, personal leadership, and radical self-mastery.

🔥 What you’ll take away:

• The mental toll of chronic pain and how Carl took his power back
• How the legal and healthcare systems failed him (and how he fought through)
• The role of spirituality and faith in his recovery
• Insights from his book Eight Lives to Change a Lightbulb
• Leadership lessons forged through personal breakdown

Carl's story is a roadmap for anyone facing pressure, pain, or powerful transitions. If you’ve ever felt unseen, unheard, or stuck in a system designed to keep you down this episode is your firestarter.

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If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

 Sabrina Johnson’s Radical Mindset Rebuild After Losing Everything 

What do you do when life takes everything from your home, your health, your identity and dares you to rise anyway?

In this gripping second chapter with Sabrina Johnson, we uncover what happened after the trauma. After the silence was broken. After the truth was spoken.

From meeting her future husband while on a date with his friend to losing every possession in a house fire that spared only their infant son's room, Sabrina’s resilience was forged in fire literally.

Left with just $348 and a newborn, Sabrina and Strider began again from scratch in New York. But the real battle was still ahead: three different cancers, a brutal fall, gallbladder disease, and years of recovery. That’s when Sabrina “flipped the switch.”

She refused to be defined by illness, and rewired her entire life one small, defiant habit at a time.

Guided by Atomic Habits, hypnotherapy, and a soul-level refusal to settle, Sabrina rebuilt not just her health but her purpose. Now, she teaches others how to unlock the 95% of the mind that holds us hostage or sets us free.

If you’ve ever felt like your comeback was impossible… Sabrina is living proof it’s not.

You’ll hear:

• The wild way she met her husband (hint: awkward first date with the wrong guy)
• The fire that took everything but left them just enough to rebuild
• How cancer and trauma became portals to purpose
• Why tiny, consistent shifts can outrun even the biggest breakdowns
• How she helps others rewire their subconscious and reclaim their power

This isn’t a podcast. This is a manual for becoming who you were meant to be no matter what you've survived.

Watch this episode. Then rewatch it with a notebook.
Because if Sabrina can rise from this, so can you.
Connect with her at NextWinLLC.com or on LinkedIn.
And don’t miss the Sabrina Sens Podcast. It might just be the mirror you need. 

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If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

What do you do when life rips everything from you and then comes back for what’s left?

Michelle Collins didn’t just face one tragedy.
She faced three. Back to back. And each one tried to end her.

First, she lost her mother to leukemia.
Then a brutal divorce.
Then Glenn her Navy SEAL husband died by suicide.
Michelle was the one who found him.

What followed? PTSD. Dissociation. Substance use. Rage. Despair.
She couldn’t put on her socks let alone hold her life together.

But she didn’t stay broken.

This episode of Rising From the Ashes is not about “resilience.”
It’s about surviving when your soul is splintered and the tools they give you don’t fucking work.

🔥 In this raw and ruthless episode:
 • What it feels like to completely lose your mind after suicide loss
• The truth about trauma, addiction, and your nervous system breaking down
• Why yoga and therapy weren’t enough and what actually saved her
• The moment sobriety started (and what almost stopped it)
• How Michelle built Inhabit Joy while still healing in real time
 • And why “joy” isn’t a destination it’s a rebellious choice in hell

This isn’t inspiration.
 This is survival alchemy.

🎧 Listen now. And if you know someone barely holding it together, send this. It might save them.

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If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You

If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that.

Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing.

Now it’s your turn.

Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine.

No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success.

If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there.

Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power.

Take the self-audit now.

Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com