Rise From The Ashes
"Burnout to Brilliance: Great CEOs, No Burnout"
Leadership is tough. Burnout makes it tougher.
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Rise From The Ashes
One More Drink Would’ve Killed Me
Sabrina Johnson’s Unfiltered Comeback from Sexual Abuse, Alcoholism, and Silence
Some stories don’t get whispered. They get buried until someone brave enough digs them up and dares to speak.
This is that moment.
On this soul-igniting episode of Rise From The Ashes, Sabrina Johnson breaks her silence after decades revealing a childhood trauma that nearly stole her life. From sexual abuse at the hands of her aunt’s husband to alcohol poisoning that almost turned fatal, Sabrina’s story isn’t just about pain. It’s about what happens when divine intervention meets an unrelenting will to heal.
Now a hypnotherapist and ethical sales mentor, Sabrina shares how an unexpected pregnancy saved her life and sparked a 25-year transformation fueled by truth, motherhood, and relentless purpose. This isn’t another comeback story. It’s a blueprint for redemption.
You’ll hear:
- The first public telling of Sabrina’s teenage trauma
- How she turned pain into power through hypnotherapy and mindset work
- Her near-death experience with alcohol and the divine moment that pulled her back
- The truth about healing fractured family bonds and herself
Bold, raw, and gut-wrenchingly real, this is the conversation millions are afraid to have but desperately need to hear. If you’ve ever felt broken, buried, or too far gone, this story proves you're not.
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Sabrina just proved the opposite.
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ladies, gentlemen, people around the world, thank you very much for joining us once again. This is rising. She is burnout to brilliance. This episode is quite special because I have a guest here that has come through so many things, and to rise again for what she's come through is quite extraordinary. I met her through a mutual acquaintance. His name is Mike Check out the finance community on LinkedIn. Her name is Sabrina Johnson, and before we go into who she is and what she does, I want to take a moment and pause for a moment to recognize mothers, daughters, sisters, who serve others relentlessly, regardless of what they're going through in their lives. You matter, so thank you for being you, sabrina. I want to let you introduce yourself, because I am rubbish at introducing people. Sabrina, who are you? What do you do? And tell the world about a bit about you my name is Sabrina.
Speaker 2:I am a hypnotherapist and mindset mentor. I've been in hypnotherapy for the past five years. When I started hypnotherapy it was just five years. When I started hypnotherapy it was just my side passion project. I was working full-time in sales, which is the complete opposite from what I do, but I had a sales career for 25 years. So the reason I mentioned that is because I also offer an ethical sales program to any individuals, teams or businesses that are looking to restructure their sales operation cycle and how they function there. So, yeah, that is the main thing that I do. How I got there is a longer story, so any questions so far.
Speaker 1:I'd love to learn about how you got here actually. What happened going back a few years ago, the transition that sounds like to me. It was a corporate structure you were in and the badgering corporate structures sometimes they're not too great. What's your experience and how did you come from the sales industry to corporate into doing what you need? It's just a radical shift mindset from sales and corporate into mindset and hypnosis. That's like day and night yeah, it is.
Speaker 2:It's quite a change, but if you think about the different sales processes and how people are thinking through that process, it's not as much of a shift. Because I would get curious, like, why are people saying something completely different than what they mean? And that's what would happen when I would offer the product or service that I was offering at the time, people would be excited to learn about it. But then, when it actually got to the, people would be excited to learn about it. But then, when it actually got to the do you want to commit to this, it would be a complete oh. I think actually I'm going to weigh in all these different things. So if you think about the fascinating mind and how we think and react to different things, that's initially what got me intrigued. But, going back, I've been through many different challenges within my life and it actually started when I was about age 14, 15, that I went through something pretty major and I'm going to bring this up today and it'll be the very first time that I've ever shared this. To bring this up today and it'll be the very first time that I've ever shared this. That shows how much I trust Baz and I think it's important because I do have an upcoming event and I will have to talk about it then, so it'll be an entrance way into that event coming up in May.
Speaker 2:So my childhood was I wouldn't say that it was bad, I never characterized it as bad, but I had a mother who was a very caring mother. She did everything that she possibly could to support us, our family. And then I had a father who was an alcoholic and while he tried to maintain a business, he wasn't consistent, reliable or dependable by any means, and so, as you can imagine, the relationship started to fall apart, and when it did, my mom would take me over to my aunt's house so that I could spend some time with her, and she was somebody that I grew very close to when I was young because of how much time I spent there. And when I initially started going there, she was unmarried. She was a single aunt. She was raising three boys, so I had three cousins that I got to play with, and then that changed about, I don't know two years after starting going there.
Speaker 2:So it would have been from 12 to 14, 15 years old that I was going through that transition with her. I wasn't used to seeing her in a relationship. So that was an adjustment in itself. But after she got married I thought the guy was a really good guy. He seemed to be decent. It didn't take too long. Just to cut it short here he started sneaking into my bedroom late at night, waking me up, and when a man does that, you can only imagine what he what his intentions?
Speaker 2:Yes, thank you. You can only imagine what his intentions were, and they were definitely not good. Nor was I prepared at that age to really understand why or what was even happening, and so his excuse or reasoning for his behavior was to get me ready to be a woman, to learn these horrible things that he then later made me do. So that experience in itself threw me into a completely different I was no longer a child, made me think of life in a completely different way, because you don't have a choice but to you start to Not trust people. And I'm sorry, I didn't expect to get teary please.
Speaker 1:I? This is incredible and thank you so much for sharing this, because it what you're speaking to now. I know from the other people I've interviewed really you're not alone. You're not alone going through this, and the bravery, the strength you're showing people right now is what we love about you, because what you're speaking isn't a small thing. It's incredible strength and courage on your part. So, thank you. If you're willing to continue, please do.
Speaker 2:Yes, and thank you for that. It gave me the time that I needed to clear my throat, so that it just put me in a different frame of thinking, and I was extremely angry. I was angry at him One for making it so that when I went to my aunt's house it was no longer an enjoyable experience. It was something that I started dreading, and I she was my favorite person. So it it destroyed that relationship. So it destroyed that relationship, and then it also made me wonder who I could trust, and I felt completely alone because it wasn't anything that I could tell my family and my family. I didn't feel that they would believe me, nor understand where it was coming from. So that was years that I spent blaming myself for not saying anything when I got older, not being confident in myself, because again, when you're put through a situation like that, you would think it would do the reverse, like you're attractive enough for some old, nasty man to be attracted to you. But that's definitely not what it does. It makes you really think negative about yourself, like you feel disgusting. So I struggled for years with self-confidence, trusting individuals. I was an angry person, so I was lashing out at my mom even she didn't even know, and that led me down to drinking very heavily from the age of about 16 to 19. I did, thankfully, meet a very good man who is still and now my husband today. We've been together for 25 years. I've at least had that support system to lean on, and he has actually saved my life in more than this way.
Speaker 2:When I was drinking heavily, we went to many different parties over the weekend because, as a teenager, that's all I could think of and that was something that would definitely numb those experiences that I didn't want to remember and allow me to enjoy the people that I was spending time with. And so that's what I did. I numb myself in that way and I drank way too heavily. One night I actually completely passed out. I was told that they slapped me quite a few times to wake me up and I wasn't responding. They called the ambulance and they had me picked up and brought to the hospital. They were able to bring me back. I came to awareness. I wasn't. My heart didn't stop or anything. Thankfully I was still living. I was just not cognitive at all. I had alcohol poisoning and they said that if I would have had one more drink, that probably would have done it and I would have died, but they pumped my stomach and yeah. So I spent some time recovering from that as well during my earlier, later adulthood slash teenage years.
Speaker 2:What got me out of that was actually getting pregnant. What got me out of that was actually getting pregnant, and that was divine, because I was heavily contraceptive. I did not want to get pregnant at a young age. I knew I wasn't going to be able to afford it. I wasn't stable, so I did what I traditionally knew how to do to prevent that. But of course it happened anyways and today I'm very much thankful for it.
Speaker 2:I would never take it back, because hearing that I was pregnant was what made that switch in my brain change and go. You need to get serious. You need to clean yourself up. You need to now be responsible. You have a child on the way, and it was a struggle. I'm not going to say it was easy by any means, but I got through it. Stopped drinking I was actually smoking at that time as well. I stopped everything cold turkey the moment I found out. So that was one or two challenges that I went through at that time. No, I you must have been reading my mind, because I was going to stop there for a second and see if what you had to say.
Speaker 1:Firstly, thank you for sharing that while you're speaking into now, as I said before, takes courage, but it also takes self-awareness, and from someone who's recovered also from alcoholism and addictions smoking, drugs, many other things I've woken up in some of them, places as well, not knowing and hospitalized, but through completely different circumstances. What you're speaking to now, severino, is it's horrific and disgusting to even think that it went on and it still goes on today. But even you having a conversation with me says so much about who you are as a person, how far you've come, and this is what I learned about you and people like you, because you don't have yourself. This isn't the conversation about your story. This is a conversation about hundreds and thousands, if not millions, of other women your age and all the way through age ranges that have been through similar circumstances and, quite frankly, I'm honored that you trust me enough to have that conversation with another man that you've never really met before other than a couple of Zoom meetings. But I'm blessed to have this and be a part of you sharing that story.
Speaker 1:This is what this podcast is about People like you, our story. This is what this podcast is about people like you, and it's this is what I say when people say there's no judgment, there is no judgment here. I want you to share comfortably, confidently, and this is a safe place where there's unconditional love I empathize very good.
Speaker 1:I can't understand what you've gone through. I I can't comprehend that, but I can empathize and you do a very good job. I can't understand what you've gone through. I can't comprehend that, but I can empathize and have some understanding from how you're sharing with me. But this is the message that people need to hear, because all because it happens, whatever happened, doesn't mean it's the end.
Speaker 1:You met an amazing person. You have a family, an amazing family. You have a very supportive best friend and a husband. Marriage is not easy. Relationships are never easy, but you, against a lot of odds, beat them all and you stood up for yourself, your family and you did the right thing. That's what motherhood is about, that's what being a parent is about, and, behalf of every single child out there, every single person who's been through similar circumstances, reach out to supreme, have a conversation with her. The links are below. This is part one, and if you're resonating with this and to the audience they're going, oh my God, and resonates with you. Maybe it resonates with somebody else. So share it with somebody. Share Sabrina's message and let allow someone else to be helped. Sabrina, do you want to continue or do you want to pause and let's go into part two, which is entirely up to you.
Speaker 2:Do you mind if we pause for a little bit and go into, of course?
Speaker 1:I need. Ladies and gentlemen, share this message. Go and save someone's life and improve someone's life. This is about Sabrina, holding space with her. I'm sending lots of love to Sabrina and you, my audience. Thank you for listening. I'll see you on part two very shortly. In the meantime, this is Rice from the Ashes. This is Sabrina Johnson. I'm Baz Porter. Thank you for listening. Share the message. See you soon.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I'm sorry, my nose got a little.
