It's Time to Give Trauma a Salty Fuck You!

This week’s episode of The Salty Goddess Podcast veers away from menopause to tackle something heavier, rawer, and closer to the bone: suicide and resilience.

Anne Margaret Perry honors Jonathon Feit, CEO of Beyond Lucid Technologies, and his vow to fight until suicide reaches Level Zero. Through her own stories, starting with the magic of her first EMT card and her starry-eyed idealistic viewpoint,  to the brutal realities of inner-city EMS, from cosmic lessons of stardust to the bloody-nosed glory of a Buffalo Bills comeback, she dismantles the myths around suicide, trauma, and ego, and the importance of teaching children to navigate barriers, roadblocks, mistakes and stumbling blocks.

This isn’t a TED Talk or a Hallmark movie. It’s a salty, irreverent, and deeply human conversation about survival, scars, and the daily decision not to give in.

Takeaways:

• Suicide and substance use disorder aren’t weakness; they’re trauma responses.

• Ego sabotages resilience.

• Resilience isn’t noble; it’s messy, feral, and stubborn.

• Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is just not die today.

If BILLS Mafia Members, can hang on year after year, being devastated by loss after loss, disappointment over and over again, you too can learn that same resilience, trust me. AND, if the Bills can come back from a 15 point deficit, in under 5 minutes left in the fourth quarter, you can too.

👉 Share this episode if you know someone who needs to hear it. And remember: survival is sometimes the saltiest middle finger you can give to trauma.