Rise From The Ashes
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Rise From The Ashes
From Ashes and Illness to Inner Power
Sabrina Johnson’s Radical Mindset Rebuild After Losing Everything
What do you do when life takes everything from your home, your health, your identity and dares you to rise anyway?
In this gripping second chapter with Sabrina Johnson, we uncover what happened after the trauma. After the silence was broken. After the truth was spoken.
From meeting her future husband while on a date with his friend to losing every possession in a house fire that spared only their infant son's room, Sabrina’s resilience was forged in fire literally.
Left with just $348 and a newborn, Sabrina and Strider began again from scratch in New York. But the real battle was still ahead: three different cancers, a brutal fall, gallbladder disease, and years of recovery. That’s when Sabrina “flipped the switch.”
She refused to be defined by illness, and rewired her entire life one small, defiant habit at a time.
Guided by Atomic Habits, hypnotherapy, and a soul-level refusal to settle, Sabrina rebuilt not just her health but her purpose. Now, she teaches others how to unlock the 95% of the mind that holds us hostage or sets us free.
If you’ve ever felt like your comeback was impossible… Sabrina is living proof it’s not.
You’ll hear:
- The wild way she met her husband (hint: awkward first date with the wrong guy)
- The fire that took everything but left them just enough to rebuild
- How cancer and trauma became portals to purpose
- Why tiny, consistent shifts can outrun even the biggest breakdowns
- How she helps others rewire their subconscious and reclaim their power
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Rice, and the Ashes Burnout to Brilliance. This is part two, and I'm here with Sabrina Johnson. We left off with a very courageous story, but a story that quite personally and I think will resonate with so many people the courage of one person stepping forward and speaking her truth. Her truth matters not just you and I, but potentially millions of people, and I want to honor her and honor the people who have had the courage and are speaking up. And if you're not just yet, know you're not alone, royce, and the Ashes is about people coming together and sharing real stories. So thank you, sabrina, for sharing that. Let's go back into where you got married and your life pivoted somewhat, and it was a while ago, 25 years, but you don't look anywhere near the age. Suddenly, he's not adding that. What's your secret? Because is it aloe vera? Is it l'oreal? What go on?
Speaker 2:yeah, I put on lotion okay, every single day, morning and night. That's important. But I eat healthy and I exercise that's helping what?
Speaker 1:okay, so let's go back into how you met your husband, how that came about. You've had obviously you've had a child. You've had a couple kids. They're all grown up, I take it now they are. What was that journey? Like something incredible, but obviously relationships are straining, yeah, but you're still together, that's. That says a lot about the character, his character and your commitment to each other.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we actually. It's funny how we met, because we grew up in a similar area, but we never met each other when we were younger. And we found out later down the line that we had a lot of really close friends when we were younger as well, but never met. And it was when I was 20. Nope, I wasn't even 20 yet. We met when I was 18. We're going to call it 18.
Speaker 2:So I was, coincidentally, dating his friend at the time and I was set up on a blind date with his friend for a wedding.
Speaker 2:My friend was getting married and so when I showed up at the wedding, I was this, his friend's date, and that's where I was introduced to him at first. And his friend and I we talked and we dated over the phone long distance because they also lived in North Carolina and I lived in New York. So I went to visit them in North Carolina and when I went to visit his friend, who I was dating maybe three months maybe it wasn't serious or anything like that he was sick and, long story short, he didn't spend time with me or do anything with me the entire time I was there, and so my husband's name is Strider and that left him with the task of showing me around the area, getting to know me and, as you can imagine, getting to know me we just clicked. It was a completely different feeling from his friend. I was like no, this guy is. He's serious, he's very honest, he's open, he's caring and, of course, I found him attractive.
Speaker 1:So it's always helpful.
Speaker 2:Yes, so it did cause a little bit of a rift there with his friend, but we were honest and open with him and what was going on and so, yeah, they made up. They did their bro thing behind my back.
Speaker 1:Didn't mind anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we continued to date and eventually we moved in together and that's how we started. We lived in North Carolina for about three years. From there we moved to Kentucky because he was offered a job as a truck driver with his uncle and that was supposed to be good money back then. And so while he was driving truck, I was going to college, and that's when I got pregnant. When I got halfway through college, I found out I was pregnant. Not only that, we had a house fire. We lost everything.
Speaker 2:The only room that was untouched in the entire house was my son's room. We felt that was a blessing, because he was three months old. He needed everything. We did not need what we had. We didn't care about that. We didn't have much. We didn't care about that. We didn't have much. We did have a savings about $348, I believe was what it was and yeah, between there and $460. But we took that money and we moved back to New York where there was family who could support us after not being able to find another place in Kentucky to rent out. So we cut our losses short and did that.
Speaker 2:Now we ended up staying with family, for it was about a year until his mother said hey, can you move in with me Because I need your help. I'm getting older, I have a farm, I have a three-bedroom house. I don't need that room, just build me a mother-in-law house on the property and I'll be good. So we did that for about six years and then, of course, we finally got our own place, and that was around the same time.
Speaker 2:I had my daughter actually because I got pregnant at his mother's house and then we moved in literally the day I was going to have her. So it's like own house. My husband had a lot of work to do, a lot of work to do, but he's a good man, so he made sure to take care of everything and get the house safe. So from there it was really good. For quite a while we raised our beautiful children. My daughter is 20. My son is 21. He's in the Air Force, my daughter is a cosmetologist and, yeah, so very proud of my kids Would not take that back for anything in my life. Trying to think of around the year it was, I believe it was around 2008. I'm getting too specific with time periods.
Speaker 2:Sorry that's how my head works. I ended up getting really sick, so I had many different health challenges, but I ended up with a bad gallbladder, I had cervical cancer, I had skin cancer and actually another form of skin cancer. There was three forms of cancer that I was having to battle through this period of time A bad gallbladder and I had also fallen 16 feet off of a ladder and injured my neck, shoulder, knee, hip, back. So that was a challenging period.
Speaker 1:So you went from fire cancer falling cancer falling. What on earth made everything still stick together? Because all of that on its own is challenging, but having kids and a husband trying to hold everything together, that must have been huge. Yes, you had your husband's support, because Shredder sounds like he's got his head screwed on a bit more than most people.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But that shows drive within you, sabrina. Yeah, that shows it's beyond grit, it's beyond determination. You are on a mission. What is really driving that mission? Because I think that's why, from what I'm hearing, you do what you do today with mindset and the hypnosis thing. Is that correct?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is. When you go through so many different challenges, there comes a period of time where you just get tired of dealing with sicknesses, doctor's appointments, recovery, medications, yes and you just flip. I don't know a better way to explain that. You flip the switch from I am not doing this anymore. I am not doing this anymore. Instead, I'm going to move forward and figure out a way out of this and have a good life. And I had a lot of time in bed and in recovery to learn, so I was reading a lot of different books, and that's why the mindset was becoming so intriguing, because I learned that there were things that I could do to help me recover that I didn't even know was possible.
Speaker 1:What was your favorite book that you would recommend to somebody Stands out above all else. I'm just intrigued because there's so many of them.
Speaker 2:Honestly, and you're probably going to laugh at this, I would recommend Atomic Habits no.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't laugh. I've read the books. It's incredible.
Speaker 2:That was my absolute favorite book because it taught me how to change the bad habits that I had and how I could just take small steps to move forward make small steps and for what you just said there is so important and they're not, they're underrated.
Speaker 1:People are looking for these massive wins. The massive wins come, but they don't often come very rarely in my experience all at once. The small steps make the big steps possible. The small, incremental, little shifts in your day.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just they layer up and then they tend to snowball and you've experienced it. So, moving from Kentucky with nothing, essentially, apart from your son of belongings everybody's safe, thankfully into New York. What possessed you to become an entrepreneur? Because sales corporate world fairly stable-ish.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:To oh, I just want to be an entrepreneur and have no stability, complete uncertainty, chaos and a bit of fun. So that was a huge switch for you Chaos and a bit of fun.
Speaker 2:So that was a huge switch for you. Well, you have probably learned by now I thrive in chaos. A little bit. Honestly. It was the same type of change in sales. I was sick of dealing with people not listening to me and taking my advice and respecting what I had to say. I'd gone as high as I could go. I wasn't going to go any higher, and so I had to do something for myself, and that's really what triggered me to get out of sales.
Speaker 1:I want to speak transition out of sales now, because sales is all psychology and finding out what the problem is. And then there's a whole thing around oh, I've bought people with it. So what do you do now specifically to solve people's problems? Because hypnosis is a wide range of things. I I'm not hitting up, I'm not hypnotherapist. I don't practice it, I have it. I've been under hypnotherapy and it works. But what made you choose hypnotherapy and mindset? Because they're hand in hand. But it's a very select modality, isn't it?
Speaker 2:It is, and there's a few different reasons for that. One of the main ones is being able to work with people who are in similar situations as I was, where either they've been through trauma or bad experiences in their childhood that they're having trouble getting past, or maybe they're stuck in their career and they just want to get out and they don't know how to move forward. Those are all individuals that I thrive working with, because I understand what you're going through. More than likely I've been through a similar situation. So that's one of the reasons, but another is I love genuinely connecting with people and talking with them and helping them, so it's my pleasure to be able to do that. But hypnotherapy specifically because it gets deep down into the subconscious, where 95% of your behavior belongs, and when you make a decision to go forward into your day, your subconscious is dictating that, whether you know it or not. That's why it's called the subconscious.
Speaker 1:It helps you to function on autopilot, yeah so if someone wanted to have a conversation with you, get hold of you. Where's the best place to go? Obviously, the links are below, but I just want you to say it for the people who can hear it and listen to the audio part of it, because they're just lazy anyway, please. Can you, please tell me where I can find you? Where's the best place to hold you?
Speaker 2:They can find me on LinkedIn. That is the absolute best place. I'm always there. I also have a podcast so they can go to my YouTube and find that and connect with me there, and I also have my business website.
Speaker 1:So what's the podcast called?
Speaker 2:Sabrina Sends Podcast.
Speaker 1:And what's the website called?
Speaker 2:NextWinLLC.
Speaker 1:So for them, people who don't hear that NextWinLLCcom.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, that site. Sorry, it will be that site.
Speaker 1:And then the YouTube Sabrina what is it? Sabrina podcast.
Speaker 2:Sabrina Sense podcast.
Speaker 1:The LinkedIn is the place that I would always recommend to connect with anybody serious. I will assure you, having multiple conversations with Sabrina, she is serious. If you are wanting something along the lines of hypnotherapy, please I do urge you to go and check her out Before we wrap up today. Is there anything you want to add, any tidbits, any advice you want to give anybody Before we depart and say goodbye to our audience, who are amazing, thank you very much for being here.
Speaker 2:I would love to Honestly. I always tell my clients you are not broken, you are human. We just need to walk you through the process of helping you to repair the things that you think are broken, so we can do that.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Sabrina, I want to acknowledge you and thank you for your kindness, your authenticity and your love here.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:when I say this, I don't think widely, I do mean it. It is truly an honor to have some interaction with you and learn more about you and your journey and meet individuals who have gone through challenging times but come built smelling of roses and willing to help other people, Because I truly believe that humanity needs more of that.
Speaker 2:So thank you very much Thank you, and it's really a pleasure connecting with you and an honor to be here.
Speaker 1:The honor, as I said before, is mine and I truly mean that From my listeners. Thank you very much. Please share this message. This was part two of Sabrina Johnson's interview and I'm looking forward to sharing much more time with her and I'll get into another, even more for myself. Share the message, enjoy the show, leave a comment, share and change someone's life. This is me signing off. Thank you very much, sabrina, and from my audience, I will speak to you and see you very soon. Take care bye.
