Episode 24

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19th Aug 2025

The Hidden Pattern Keeping You Stuck in Survival Mode

Survival mode isn’t just trauma-driven—it’s the quiet autopilot life where emotions, thoughts, and actions run on repeat. In this electrifying episode with transformational coach Kelly Meyer, we break down how survival mode hijacks your nervous system, keeps you addicted to chaos, and traps you in toxic cycles of identity.

  • 🚨 What survival mode really looks like (and why most people don’t realize they’re in it)
  • 🌀 The dangerous cycle of recycled thoughts + emotions running 95% of your day
  • 🎵 Positive vs. negative triggers (and why your brain clings to pain more than joy)
  • ⚖️ Why eliminating negative thoughts is more powerful than just “thinking positive”
  • 🔥 How to reprogram your nervous system and reinvent your identity

🎙️ What We Talk About:

  • The truth about autopilot living and why it feels “normal”
  • The toxic marriage we form with our emotions (and how to divorce it)
  • Why peace can feel “boring” when you’re addicted to chaos
  • The role of perception and meaning in shaping your future
  • How to break cycles of anger, hurt, and reactivity
  • Self-awareness, reprogramming, and reinvention as the 3 phases to exit survival mode
  • Why ownership is the first step to reclaiming your power


🔑 Key Takeaways

“Survival mode isn’t just chaos—it’s autopilot.”
“Your brain calls chaos ‘safe’ if that’s what it’s used to.”
“Eliminating negative thoughts is more powerful than stacking positivity.”
“If you can own it, you can control it. And if you can control it, you can change it.”


🙌 Why This Episode Matters:

Too many of us are unknowingly living recycled lives—same thoughts, same emotions, same cycles—while calling it normal. Kelly and I rip that illusion apart. This episode is a wake-up call to stop being addicted to chaos, challenge your brain’s wiring, and consciously reinvent yourself. Because you were not built to survive on autopilot—you were built to thrive.


💬 Connect with Kelly:

🌐 Website: Project Find Your Fire

📖 Author, Coach & Speaker


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About the Podcast

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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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