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 10 - The Day I Put Down the Wine Glass: My Sobriety Story
I woke up one morning and couldn't remember if I had bathed my kids the night before.
That was the lowest moment of my motherhood. And the moment everything changed.
Drinking had always been part of my life. Sorority in college. Living abroad and trying local wines. Corporate recruitment culture with boozy lunches and happy hours. Marriage, where a cheese platter and a bottle of wine became our only reprieve.
It never felt like a problem. Until it did.
In March 2020, I won International Coach of the Year in Australia. On that same trip, I finally decided to leave my marriage after 7 years of trying to find the courage. I flew home, told my husband I wanted a divorce... and then the entire world shut down.
Nine months trapped in a house with someone I'd just asked to divorce.
Homeschooling two kids. No gym. No mountains. No escape.
The couple-times-a-week glass became nightly. The nightly glass became two. Then a bottle. The 5pm start became 3pm. And all day, I thought about when I could have my first drink.
My best friend said I was just coping. But if you feel like you have a problem, you DO.
In this episode:
💜 How "normal" drinking became a problem
💜 What alcohol actually does to your body and mind
💜 The morning that broke me open
💜 Why I needed to go through my transformation sober
💜 The book that changed everything
I haven't had a drink since. Not because I'm "fixed," but because I finally understand what alcohol was taking from me.
If something in this episode makes you uncomfortable - pay attention to that.
Get Awaken Your Purpose at ericacarrico.com/books 💜
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