LaTerra Wise brings truth with tenderness and fire with faith. In this raw and redemptive episode, she unpacks what it means to survive trauma in waves—childhood molestation, father wounds, suicidal ideation, and devastating loss—and what it takes to rise from it with purpose.

In this episode, we talk about:

• 👧🏽 Growing up with emotional isolation and hidden depression
• 🧠 Experiencing molestation without knowing it was trauma
• 🕊️ Sitting on the floor with pills in hand—and hearing the voice of God
• 💔 Grieving her grandfather, father-in-law, and grandmother
• 😡 Why she didn’t know she was angry—and how it impacted her family
• 🧩 The emotional trap of survival mode disguised as strength
• 📖 Writing Unmasked and launching her Overcomer Circle

• The silent link between emotional neglect and perfectionism
• How survival mode often masks as productivity
• How LaTerra broke free from autopilot and reclaimed her voice
• The difference between depression and survival mode
• The divine timing behind healing and purpose
• Why women must stop healing alone—and start healing loudly
• How LaTerra helps women turn their pain into purpose through strategy + support

This conversation is a lifeline for the high-achieving woman who looks put together but feels empty. LaTerra exposes the emotional weight of growing up unseen, the grief we don’t talk about, and the trauma that sneaks in under the guise of being “strong.”

Her story is proof that healing doesn’t happen overnight—but it is possible. And when you choose to unmask? You make room for purpose, connection, and radical peace.

🔗 Website: www.laterrawise.com/unmasked

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After surviving a harrowing battle with COVID that nearly took his life, Martin returned to find that the real war was only just beginning. From toxic workplace dynamics to public shaming, this is a raw, unfiltered conversation about what it really means to survive—and be punished for it.

In this episode, we uncover:

• 💀 Surviving a near-death experience during the height of the pandemic
• 🧠 The invisible trauma of toxic workplaces and betrayal
• 📣 The silence and gaslighting survivors often face
• ✍️ Using journaling as a lifeline for mental health
• 🧩 Discovering his neurodivergence later in life—and finally feeling seen
• 🕊️ What healing actually looks like when society wants you to “just move on”
• 🎤 How podcasting and mindfulness gave him his voice back

• Life in the COVID ICU and what no one talks about
• Survivor’s guilt and workplace isolation
• Being disciplined after nearly dying—yes, really
• How trauma manifests when ignored
• Sand tray therapy and visual revelations in healing
• The power of self-expression through writing and podcasting
• Why retiring early saved his life

This isn’t just a COVID story—it’s a human story. Martin’s raw testimony reveals the emotional whiplash that can come after survival: the gaslighting, the grief, and the quiet wars we fight behind our smiles. For anyone who’s been dismissed, discarded, or disbelieved in the aftermath of trauma—this episode is your mirror, your call to reclaim your truth, and your reminder: you’re not alone.

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Melissa’s story isn’t one of passive survival—it’s one of ruthless advocacy and soul-shattering grief. When her son—a nonverbal, medically fragile man with severe disabilities—was neglected and injured under professional care, she was told he “just fell.” No investigation. No justice. And when she dared to speak up? Society turned its blame on her.

This episode is a masterclass in what it means to be a mother, an advocate, and a woman who refuses to be silenced.

Highlights:

• 🧠 What it’s like to live in constant fight mode for 29 years
• 💔 The horrifying story of her son’s injuries and the school’s response
• 🔇 The dangerous reality of caregiver shame and victim-blaming
• ✊ How she turned silence into activism—and grief into power
• 📚 The journey behind her book Who Cares?
• 🛑 What we must do to stop looking away from disability injustice
• 🧍‍♀️ Why she stopped waiting for change—and started becoming it

• Parenting a child with severe disabilities from age 18
• The moment she realized she was deep in survival mode
• Medical trauma, long-term care failures, and systemic neglect
• The unspoken grief of not being able to “protect your child”
• The role of social media shame and public cruelty in silencing survivors
• Her pivot into writing and public advocacy
• The radical decision to not stay silent anymore

This episode is an urgent, emotional call to wake the hell up. Melissa’s story isn’t just her own—it echoes the experience of thousands of caregivers navigating a broken system that refuses to protect the most vulnerable. It challenges every listener to stop looking away and start asking: What am I doing to make this world safer—for everyone?

If you've ever felt silenced, blamed, or invisible while advocating for someone you love… this episode will rip you open in the best way.

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• 🌐 Website: www.whocaresbooks.com

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This episode is not a “church hurt” story. It’s a raw, unfiltered revelation of what happens when spiritual leaders groom vulnerable teens under the guise of love and mentorship. Claudie bravely shares how her trust was weaponized, her voice was stolen—and how she fought like hell to get it back.

Highlights:

• 🧠 How grooming in faith communities starts with validation, not violence
• 🙅🏽‍♀️ The lie of "consent" when power is imbalanced
• 📵 The silent consequences: social anxiety, people-pleasing, and trauma responses
• 💔 The betrayal of being abandoned AND protected by the church
• ✊ How therapy and radical self-awareness helped Claud find her voice again
• 🔁 Healing in fragments—and why that’s still healing
• 🌿 Reinvention beyond the label of “victim”

• Her father wound and seeking male validation
• The slow, manipulative progression of grooming by a church leader
• The blurred lines of abuse and why recognizing it took years
• The link between unresolved trauma and severe social anxiety
• How survival mode made her believe “this is just who I am”
• Why healing isn’t linear—and why that’s okay
• Learning to love herself without earning it

When spiritual leaders abuse their power, the pain cuts differently. It shatters trust, identity, and even faith. Claud’s story is a masterclass in radical ownership, deep unlearning, and the slow, courageous journey back to self. If you’ve ever doubted your trauma because it didn’t look like abuse, this episode will wake you up—and remind you that your pain is valid, even when the world denies it.

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In this raw and soul-shaking episode of Survival Mode Disrupted, Cristina shares the kind of story that makes you stop, breathe, and believe again. From an abusive childhood to the unimaginable grief of losing three children, facing her husband’s infidelity, and surviving a rare form of bone cancer—Cristina takes us through every dark corner and shows us what it means to fight for light.

Highlights:

• 💔 The silent impact of verbal abuse growing up
• 🕊️ Grieving three children and the power of unprocessed pain
• 🧠 Living 20 years in survival mode—and finally waking up
• 🦴 Her bone cancer journey and facing possible amputation
• 🔥 The trauma personas we don’t realize we wear (fixer, pleaser, perfectionist)
• 🙌 Rebuilding her marriage and learning radical self-love
• 💬 Letting go of relationships that trigger your trauma

• The trauma of living in fight or flight from childhood
• How unresolved grief shows up in the body
• The gut-punch moment of being diagnosed with cancer after a string of tragedies
• Survival mode coping vs. healing-centered action
• The painful process of releasing friendships that no longer align
• How trauma impacts your identity and relationships
• Finding purpose in pain and reclaiming your voice

This episode isn’t about surviving. It’s about choosing yourself—even when life throws you its worst. Cristina’s story will break you open in the best way. She reminds us that healing doesn’t happen by accident—it’s a radical, daily decision. If you’ve ever doubted your ability to reclaim your life, this is your wake-up call.

• 💻 Website: www.ChristinaPSimmons.com (under construction)
• 📸 Instagram: @ChristinaPSimmons
• 📖 Book coming Summer 2025 — follow her journey online!

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Dr. Robb Kelly has lived it all—homelessness, addiction, childhood abuse—and clawed his way out with unshakable truth and unapologetic science. In this no-holds-barred episode, he and Leticia dismantle survival mode from every angle: the trauma that lives in your nervous system, the addictions passed through generations, and the lies society feeds us about healing.

• 🧠 How trauma rewires your brain to crave chaos
• 🥊 Why we stay in pain because it's familiar
• 🧬 The gut-brain connection that no one is talking about
• 🚫 Why talk therapy alone isn’t enough
• 🧘🏽‍♀️ The power of somatic work, breathwork & NLP
• 🧪 What neuroscience really says about healing
• 🔥 A firestorm call to stop living life on mute

• Surviving childhood trauma and addiction
• How the nervous system stores trauma and creates cycles
• Recognizing the silent symptoms of survival mode
• Why most therapy misses the mark—and what actually works
• How food, breath, and body awareness impact healing
• Breaking free from inherited trauma
• Reclaiming your identity after loss or abuse

Too many people are calling survival success.

Stuck in cycles that feel familiar but are killing them slowly.

This episode is a wake-up call: for your body, your mind, and your future.

It’s not just about healing—it’s about remembering who the hell you were before the world told you to shrink.

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• 📚 Daddy, Daddy Please Stop Drinking — Available on his site
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Angie Berrett’s journey is one of silence, survival, and disruption. A nurse, a trauma-informed movement coach, and a survivor of child abuse—Angie didn’t remember the trauma until decades later. What followed was a radical, raw reclamation of self through play, movement, and nontraditional healing methods. This episode is your permission slip to explore what healing can really look like.

• 💥 Childhood trauma stored and forgotten… until betrayal unearthed it
• ⚡️ Why chaos feels safe—and calm feels terrifying
• 🧠 The science behind stored trauma and nervous system overload
• 🐘 How pretending to be an elephant helped her reclaim power
• 🍄 Psychedelics, shaking, and breaking free from shutdown
• 🌀 The healing power of movement that doesn’t retraumatize
• 🔥 What it really means to complete the cycle and stop surviving

• How trauma stored in the body can go unrecognized for years
• The connection between chaos addiction and unprocessed trauma
• Why traditional yoga wasn’t healing—and trauma-informed movement was
• What “play” really means as a healing modality
• Using psychedelics like psilocybin and ketamine to access buried emotion
• The nervous system’s response to threat—and how to regulate it
• Releasing trauma without reactivating it

Too many women are living with buried trauma and calling it “normal.” Angie’s story shatters the myth that healing only happens in therapy rooms. Her body remembered what her mind forgot—and through movement, play, and awareness, she found a path out. This conversation is a wake-up call to your nervous system. You don’t have to keep stuffing it down. There is another way.

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• 🐘 Free 5-Min Playful Movement Sequence for Overwhelm on her site
• 📱 All her social media + contact info available there!

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At 15, she became a functioning heroin addict.

At 20, she was arrested in a police sting.

At 29, she was ambushed by Thai authorities—and everything she thought she knew about survival was shattered.

In this visceral, emotional, and deeply human episode, Holly Dean Johns opens up about the unimaginable:

📍Growing up in a home that doubled as an escort agency

📍Using heroin with her mother

📍Being betrayed by friends in a drug sting

📍Enduring 7 years in a Thai women’s prison with 120 women in one cell

📍And how a single moment of clarity helped her begin the long journey out of addiction and trauma.

But this isn’t just a story about drugs or jail.

This is a story about choice. About ownership. About building a life after survival mode.

• Growing up in chaos while pretending life was “normal”
• The power of addiction to numb pain—and the cost of that numbness
• What prison in Thailand really looks like
• The culture shock of surviving behind bars as a foreign woman
• What trauma looks like years later—and how it crept up after she got out
• Why healing often starts after the storm, not during it
• Her journey from inmate to peer mentor and published author

This episode is a masterclass in radical honesty, resilience, and grace.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in a cycle of self-destruction… if you’ve ever judged someone for how they cope…

If you’re trying to understand addiction, trauma, or your own survival mode—you need this conversation.

Because sometimes, survival looks like heroin.

Sometimes, it looks like 22 centimeters of floor space.

And sometimes—it looks like choosing to live, fully, no matter the scars.

📘 Book: Holly’s House: Seven Years in a Thai Prison – Available on Amazon, Audible, Apple Books, and more

🎧 Audiobook – Apple, Spotify, and all major platforms

🌐 Just Google her name and you’ll find her work everywhere.

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What happens when your whole life has been a lie?

At 15, Aria made the boldest decision a child could make—she left home to save herself from abuse. But what she didn't know was that her escape would eventually uncover a devastating truth:

She had been abducted as a child.

In this raw, gut-wrenching, and soul-shaking episode, Aria shares how a chance encounter on a random street in New Orleans unraveled 30 years of secrets, lies, and generational manipulation. From growing up in an abusive home to finding out her mother had erased her identity and kept her from her father’s entire side of the family—this is the kind of story that rips the rug out from under you.

But this isn’t just about trauma.

This is about radical ownership, self-preservation, and the power of choosing YOU—even when the odds are stacked against you.

• The moment Aria knew she had to leave home at 15
• The terrifying truth she discovered decades later
• How survival mode shaped her relationships and identity
• The emotional weight of reconnecting with a family she never knew she lost
• Trauma bonding, radical self-awareness, and choosing healin
• Why self-reinvention is the most powerful form of revenge

If you’ve ever questioned your upbringing, struggled with guilt for walking away, or felt like survival mode was your only option—this episode will hit hard.

Aria’s story is proof that even the most broken beginnings can lead to powerful, purpose-driven futures.

And that radical truth-telling is the first step toward liberation.

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This isn’t just another podcast—it’s a revolution.

In this debut episode, I’m breaking down exactly why Survival Mode Disrupted exists, who it’s for, and what you can expect from every raw, unfiltered conversation we have moving forward.

But before I ask anyone else to get vulnerable, I go first.

I share my personal story—how I learned to smile through pain, achieve through trauma, and survive by shrinking myself.

You’ll hear the truth about what survival mode looked like in my life: the abuse, the betrayal, the masks I wore, and the moment everything cracked open.

I walk you through the three phases that changed everything for me:

1. Awareness – Finally naming the pain I was normalizing
2. Reprogramming – Rewiring the beliefs survival mode planted in me
3. Reinvention – Choosing a version of myself that wasn’t born from trauma

This episode sets the tone.

It’s raw. It’s real. And it’s your invitation to disrupt the survival mode in your life—starting now.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, silenced, or like you’re just going through the motions... this is for you.

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Survival Mode Exit Plan is the no-BS guide to breaking free from burnout, trauma loops, and high-functioning pain.

This book is raw, disruptive, and exactly what every strong-but-silently-struggling woman needs.

👉🏽 Buy now. Heal loud. Live free.

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