She was the number one salesperson at an AT&T call center for six months straight — high on opioids the entire time. Brittany Blake grew up as the invisible middle child in a small Idaho town, survived sexual trauma she couldn't name until a classroom lesson did it for her, and spent four years managing a full-blown OxyContin addiction while holding down a career and a life that looked completely fine from the outside. In this episode, Bryce sits down with Brittany — a member of his Lab coaching group — to trace the full arc from suppressed childhood pain to ten years of sobriety, a thriving multi-state real estate business, and a mission to open rehab facilities of her own. Her story is the proof that you don't have to be defined by what happened to you.Listen in!Takeaways:Hyper-independence isn't a strength when it comes from neglect. It's a coping response — and it quietly becomes one of the most reliable predictors of addiction because you never develop the skill of letting people in.Brittany didn't know why she was numbing herself for years. The source of an addiction is almost always buried deeper than the addiction itself — and until you address the source, the behavior has nowhere else to go.Being a high-functioning addict isn't rare, especially among entrepreneurs. The drive, the performance, the external success — it can all coexist with a private prison for a very long time.Drugs work. That's the honest part nobody says out loud. They provide real relief from real pain. The cost is a debit that always comes due — and the feelings underneath are still there, waiting, when the numbness wears off.Victim shame is its own compounding wound. The story Brittany didn't ask to be part of was twisted into one where she was the villain. That betrayal made the wall around her even thicker — and confirmed everything she already believed about not being able to trust anyone.The subconscious screams what the conscious mind refuses to say. Four years of addiction were driven by trauma Brittany had pushed so far down she didn't know it was still running — until therapy cracked the door.One conversation with the right person at the right moment can change everything. Two words from her father — "you're me" — did more than four years of isolation ever could.The decision to stop happened in a bathtub in Moab, Utah, with pills still in her hand. She kept those pills in her cupboard for years — not to use them, but to prove to herself she didn't need to.Recovery is not just physical. The mental reconstruction lasts six to twelve months minimum, and no one who hasn't been through it can fully understand what that weight feels like. That's not a complaint — it's a qualification.You cannot get sober in the same environment where you became an addict. Changing everything — the relationship, the apartment, the career path, the people — wasn't dramatic. It was required.Brittany didn't go to an inpatient facility, but she built every element one herself: therapy, surrender, forgiveness, environment change, community. The building blocks are the same whether the building is formal or self-constructed.Rehab facilities collapse time. They give people the structure, resource, and environment to do in a compressed period what Brittany had to piece together alone. That's not a small thing.The most qualified person in any recovery space is someone who's been in it. Not because credentials don't matter — but because the mental experience of addiction cannot be taught from the outside.Brittany's purpose isn't abstract. She knows exactly what she wants to give the people sitting in the dark, wondering if they can make it out — because she was one of them.Being a recovering addict doesn't disqualify you from an abundant, successful life. It just requires that you actually do the work — the identity work, the inner work, the daily maintenance of who you're choosing to become.Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast!Brittany Blake can be found using these hyperlinks:on IG @thebritblakeand on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/share/1DhESrArex/?mibextid=wwXIfrYour story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better.If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success!Please visit BrycePrescott.com to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs.Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott
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