Episode 58

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26th Oct 2025

Using Pain on Purpose

Coach Latrea grew up navigating disability, hospitals, and a home shaped by addiction. Survival mode taught her to aim for “just get through today.” Adulthood tried to keep her there. She said no. In this conversation, she walks us through the mindset shift that removed her limits, the faith that grounded her, and the daily practices that turned pain into purpose. We map her story to the 3 phases of exiting survival mode so you can do more than cope. You can rise.

  • Survival as autopilot: how “unscathed today” becomes a ceiling
  • Reclaiming belief as a strategy, not a slogan
  • Using your story as fuel instead of a cage
  • Parenting and disability: what kids and parents actually need
  • Why community beats silent suffering every time
  • Practical ways to move from surviving to thriving

🎙️ What We Talk About:

  • Growing up disabled while managing family addiction and chaos
  • Bullying, hospitals, and the cost of “just get me through the day”
  • The moment she took the limits off and chose sky-level vision
  • Teaching kids with disabilities identity, not just independence
  • Coaching parents through grief, comparison, and real self-care
  • Leticia’s 3 phases to exit survival mode applied to Latrea’s story:
  • Self-awareness: naming autopilot, people-pleasing, and the “minimum day” mindset
  • Reprogramming: belief work, language shifts, purpose anchoring, boundary setting
  • Reinvention: showing up as the limitless version daily and building systems that match


🔑 Key Takeaways:

“You can do the hard stuff.”
“Your story isn’t a sentence. It’s a strategy.”
“Belief is the engine. Action is the road.”
“Stop praying for the rain to stop and start asking for strength to walk through it.”


🙌 Why This Episode Matters:

High achievers in survival mode are experts at shrinking their dreams to fit their nervous system. That ends here. This episode gives you the mindset, the language, and the practices to turn pain into propulsion and remove the ceiling you learned to live under.


💬 Connect with Coach Latrea:

Website: coachlatrea.net


🔗 Resources & Links:


Listener Action

Write one limitation you’ve been living under. Replace it with one belief and one behavior that align with who you’re becoming. Then do the behavior today.


Episode CTA

You were not built to break. You were not built to just survive. Share this episode with a woman who’s ready to take the ceiling off her life and leave a 5-star review so more survivors find their way home.


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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