Mess to Millions
What if your rock bottom was actually the foundation for your empire?
Welcome to Mess to Millions, the unfiltered podcast where trauma becomes triumph, breakdowns turn into breakthroughs, and pain fuels serious profit. Hosted by Erica Carrico, cancer survivor, single mom, recovering perfectionist, and proof that sometimes you have to fall apart to finally fall into place.
Eight years ago, cancer gave Erica an ultimatum: change or die. What followed was her “life explosion era”: divorce, job loss, and starting over from scratch. The twist? Losing everything became the catalyst for building a multimillion-dollar purpose-driven business and helping over a million people discover that their hardest chapters can unlock their greatest comebacks.
This show is for women who have survived what should have broken them, who are done with toxic positivity, and who are ready to believe their mess can become their million-dollar message.
Each week, Erica goes deep into the stories we usually whisper about: childhood trauma, burnout, divorce, toxic relationships, business failures, and how to alchemize all of it into abundance. Expect raw conversations, healing strategies, business wisdom, and yes, a few tears (the good kind). Because transformation isn’t always pretty… but it is powerful.
Your biggest disasters might be your most valuable education. Your deepest wounds might hold your greatest wisdom. And your story? It’s not just your superpower, it could be someone else’s survival guide.
Subscribe now to Mess to Millions and join us in rewriting what success really looks like.
Because your breakdown might just be your breakthrough.
Mess to Millions
EP 01 - Born into the Mess
What if the beliefs running your life aren’t even yours? What if they were programmed into you before you could even name them?
In this raw and vulnerable first episode, I’m taking you back to where it all started: childhood. The little girl in New Mexico who learned that safety meant being perfect, that emotions were dangerous, and that wealth was something only men could create.
I’m sharing the patterns that shaped everything from my eating disorder to my million-dollar business collapse, and the moment I realized I could rewrite the rules I’d been living by for decades.
This isn’t about blame. This isn’t about making anyone the villain. It’s about understanding how generational trauma becomes generational wealth when you’re willing to do the work.
You’ll hear about:
- Why perfectionism and people-pleasing became my survival strategy
- The money story that kept me playing small for years
- How childhood programming shows up in adult relationships and business
- The one question that changed everything: “What if I could do this?”
- Why breaking patterns is the greatest gift you can give the next generation
Whether your childhood trauma looks like mine or completely different, this episode will help you start questioning the beliefs that have been running in the background of your life.
Because your mess? It’s not your ending. It might just be your beginning.
Grab your coffee, maybe some tissues, and let’s get real about where transformation actually starts.
To learn more, visit:
http://www.ericacarrico.com/
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