Episode 56

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26th Oct 2025

The Rest of Your Life Can Be the Best of Your Life

This one is fire and truth. Jeremy walks us through surviving childhood molestation, parental addiction, rage, and repeat suicide attempts, then shows how he rewired his life with radical responsibility and daily discipline. We break down survival mode as a nervous system pattern and map the exact moves to exit it.

  • Why survival feels like safety and keeps you stuck
  • The addiction to attention and the lie of external validation
  • Self-acceptance, self-respect, self-esteem as the real foundation
  • Leticia’s 3 phases to exit survival mode: self-awareness, reprogramming, reinvention
  • Jeremy’s 4-step tool to process any heavy emotion in real time
  • Practical boundaries with self and others that stop the relapse loop

🎙️ What We Talk About:

  • Defining survival mode as chronic fight or flight and escape behavior
  • How childhood trauma trains the brain to normalize chaos
  • The hidden drivers behind sex addiction, rage, and people-pleasing
  • Why attention is today’s most common vice
  • The difference between self-care, self-love, and self-esteem
  • Boundaries that are not negotiable, with others and with yourself
  • Leticia’s framework in action:
  • Self-awareness: the moment you tell the truth without flinching
  • Reprogramming: changing language, identity, and emotional habits
  • Reinvention: living as the healed version now
  • Jeremy’s live process to handle grief, anger, and shame without destroying yourself

🔑 Key Takeaways:

“You are not your thoughts. The thoughts are yours.”
“Most people aren’t broken. They are protecting themselves.”
“If your emotions make the decisions, you relapse into your past.”
“Suffer with a purpose so the pain pays you back.”


🙌 Why This Episode Matters:

High achievers are experts at masking pain with productivity. That mask is expensive. It costs marriages, health, and identity. This conversation gives you a blueprint to confront what hurts, feel it without drowning, and redirect it into power. No more waiting for permission. No more settling. Choose the life that is built on truth, not trauma.


💬 Connect with Jeremy:

  • Email: inspiredbyunity@gmail.com
  • Phone: +1 413 459 5554
  • Socials: @inspiredbyunity on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X


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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