Episode 97

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21st Dec 2025

Survival Mode Isn’t Just Trauma… Sometimes It’s a Diagnosis

Georges Cordova shares his survival-mode story through a decade-long battle with advanced melanoma, including multiple surgeries and brain tumors.

He breaks down the mental and emotional shifts that helped him beat the odds — and why healing isn’t just physical, it’s whole-body and deeply internal.

In this episode, we explore:

  1. 🧠 Why the mind clings to what’s familiar — even suffering
  2. ⚡ How “deciding to win” changes the entire fight
  3. 🙏 Surrender as strategy, not defeat
  4. 🧹 Forgiveness as emotional detox (and why clutter keeps you sick)
  5. 💛 Receiving support as part of healing (yes, receiving)

🎙️ What We Talk About:

  1. Georges’ background: CTO → holistic health coach
  2. The moment he decided he would be the first in his family to survive cancer
  3. “Survivor guilt” and the responsibility of using your story to help others
  4. Faith, mindset, and resilience as survival tools
  5. Emotional clutter, forgiveness, and how unresolved pain lives in the body
  6. Surrendering without “drifting”— continuing to row through the storm
  7. Why gratitude is often a sign of deep integration and healing
  8. How support, community, and receiving can open space for “miracles”

🔑 Key Takeaways:

“No one is ready to hear they have cancer.”
“The mind goes to what is familiar… even when it’s suffering.”
“Surrender isn’t sitting in a boat and drifting — you surrender and keep rowing.”
“No one will believe in you until you believe in you.”

🙌 Why This Episode Matters:

Because survival mode doesn’t only come from relationships, childhood, or burnout — sometimes it comes with a diagnosis and a deadline.

Georges shows what it looks like to stop letting fear drive the process, and instead choose action, mindset, faith, and ownership.

This episode is for the woman who feels like she’s been fighting for her life — emotionally, mentally, physically — and needs a reminder that she still has agency.

Not because it’s easy… but because you’re not here to drown.

💬 Connect with Georges:

  1. Website: isyourhealth.com
  2. Email: georges@isyourhealth.com
  3. Clarity Call: Visit his website to book a complimentary call (support for prevention, healing, and caregivers)
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Survival Mode Disrupted with Leticia R Francis
Disruptive 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.

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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