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 03 - Corporate Climbing While Slowly DYING
What happens when you take all your childhood trauma, perfectionism, and people-pleasing... and aim it at climbing the corporate ladder?
In this episode, I'm getting real about my years in corporate America, where I was praised for the exact same behaviors that were destroying me. Where "dedication" was code for ignoring my body's warning signals. Where I was building someone else's empire while slowly dying inside.
I worked 60-70 hour weeks. Got the promotions. Earned the raises. Looked successful on the outside while feeling completely empty on the inside. Because I was working from a place of unworthiness, trying to prove I was valuable instead of knowing I was valuable.
And then my body said enough.
Cancer at 35 became my wake-up call. My "change or die" moment. The point where I had to ask: if I survive this, what kind of life do I actually want to live?
You'll hear about:
- Why corporate culture rewards the behaviors that destroy you
- How perfectionism disguises itself as "high standards"
- The difference between working hard and working at the wrong things
- Why external validation never fills the void of not knowing your purpose
- How cancer forced me to choose between transformation and death
- The questions that changed everything: "Am I building my dream or someone else's?"
If you're in corporate burnout right now, if you're climbing a ladder that's leaning against the wrong wall, if your body is screaming at you to change something... this episode is your permission slip.
You don't need cancer to give you permission to transform your life. You can choose it right now.
Your exhaustion is not a character flaw. It's information.
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http://www.ericacarrico.com/
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