Episode 5

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23rd Jun 2025

You're Not Broken, You're Patterned

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


🎙️ What We Talk About:

  • 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

🔑 Key Takeaways:

“The survival mode you’re stuck in? Someone put that there.”
“You’re not broken. You’re patterned. And patterns can be rewritten.”
“Healing isn’t polite—it’s disruptive. And it starts with awareness.”
“You’ll keep going back to the box until you realize you were never meant to live in it.”


🙌 Why This Episode Matters:

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.


💬 Connect with Dr. Robb Kelly:

  • 🌐 www.robbkelly.com
  • 📚 Daddy, Daddy Please Stop Drinking — Available on his site
  • 📱 Follow @DrRobbKelly on all platforms

🔗 Resources & Links:



🙌 Connect with Leticia:

Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | Website

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About the Podcast

Survival Mode Disrupted - The Podcast
Disrupted Unapologetic Conversations about Survival Mode
Survival Mode Disrupted is not just a podcast. It's a rebellion.

A raw, unfiltered space where we finally stop pretending we're fine and start telling the truth—the truth about the trauma we've carried, the identities they had to wear to survive, and the radical decisions we made to break free.

Because here's the deal: survival mode isn’t just a season. It’s a damn identity. One that so many were forced to adopt just to get through life, to stay safe, to stay needed, to stay sane. But eventually, it starts costing you more than it protects. Your peace. Your purpose. Your power.

This podcast is for the disruptors—the people who were told to stay small, stay silent, stay grateful for crumbs… and said “hell no.”

Hosted by Leticia, The Survival Mode Disruptor herself—a trauma recovery mentor, speaker, and woman who has lived through the fires of abuse, betrayal, and breakdown and still chose to rise—this show dives deep into the unapologetic exits from survival mode that no one talks about.

You’ll hear from women (and a few brave men) who walked away from toxic relationships, soul-sucking careers, generational dysfunction, religious trauma, cultural expectations, and the lies they were taught to believe about themselves. Not because it was easy—but because staying would’ve killed something sacred inside of them.

These are the stories of bold pivots, quiet courage, and messy but miraculous rebirths.

Each episode is a conversation—a disruption—meant to wake something up in you. Whether it’s a guest sharing the moment they chose themselves for the first time, or Leticia dropping a truth bomb that makes you question everything you’ve normalized, this podcast is here to shake the foundation of your survival mode identity and replace it with something truer. Something freer.

We’re not here for surface-level self-care tips or fake empowerment slogans.

We’re here to talk about what it really takes to:

Reclaim your voice after being silenced.

Reinvent yourself after being broken down.

Rewrite your story when everyone else wants you to stay the same.

Release the guilt of choosing YOU.

This is for those who are done performing. Done pleasing. Done pretending.

It’s for the ones ready to exit survival mode—not slowly, not quietly, but disruptively and unapologetically.

You won’t leave this podcast the same.
You’ll cry. You’ll rage. You’ll laugh.
You’ll see yourself in every story.
And more importantly, you’ll remember who the hell you are.

Welcome to Survival Mode Disrupted.
It’s not just a podcast.
It’s a movement.
And your exit begins here.

About your host

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Leticia Francis

I am not here to inspire you—I am here to activate you.

As a Survivor, Keynote Speaker, and Trauma Recovery Mentor, I know what it’s like to fight battles no one sees. I also know that breaking free is possible. My work is about disrupting survival mode, exposing trauma-driven success cycles, and giving women the blueprint to reclaim their lives.

🔹 200+ podcast features & speaking engagements
🔹 Global Women of Choice Award Winner 2022
🔹 Creator of the Survival Mode Exit Plan
🔹 Host of Survival Mode Disrupted Podcast