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April 27, 2025 18 mins

 Sabrina Johnson’s Unfiltered Comeback from Sexual Abuse, Alcoholism, and Silence

Some stories don’t get whispered. They get buried until someone brave enough digs them up and dares to speak.
This is that moment.

On this soul-igniting episode of Rise From The Ashes, Sabrina Johnson breaks her silence after decades revealing a childhood trauma that nearly stole her life. From sexual abuse at the hands of her aunt’s husband to alcohol poisoning that almost turned fatal, Sabrina’s story isn’t just about pain. It’s about what happens when divine intervention meets an unrelenting will to heal.

Now a hypnotherapist and ethical sales mentor, Sabrina shares how an unexpected pregnancy saved her life and sparked a 25-year transformation fueled by truth, motherhood, and relentless purpose. This isn’t another comeback story. It’s a blueprint for redemption.

You’ll hear:

  • The first public telling of Sabrina’s teenage trauma
  • How she turned pain into power through hypnotherapy and mindset work
  • Her near-death experience with alcohol and the divine moment that pulled her back
  • The truth about healing fractured family bonds and herself

Bold, raw, and gut-wrenchingly real, this is the conversation millions are afraid to have but desperately need to hear. If you’ve ever felt broken, buried, or too far gone, this story proves you're not.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
ladies, gentlemen, people around the world, thank
you very much for joining usonce again.
This is rising.
She is burnout to brilliance.
This episode is quite specialbecause I have a guest here that
has come through so many things, and to rise again for what

(00:23):
she's come through is quiteextraordinary.
I met her through a mutualacquaintance.
His name is Mike Check out thefinance community on LinkedIn.
Her name is Sabrina Johnson,and before we go into who she is
and what she does, I want totake a moment and pause for a
moment to recognize mothers,daughters, sisters, who serve

(00:52):
others relentlessly, regardlessof what they're going through in
their lives.
You matter, so thank you forbeing you, sabrina.
I want to let you introduceyourself, because I am rubbish
at introducing people.
Sabrina, who are you?
What do you do?
And tell the world about a bitabout you my name is Sabrina.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I am a hypnotherapist and mindset mentor.
I've been in hypnotherapy forthe past five years.
When I started hypnotherapy itwas just five years.
When I started hypnotherapy itwas just my side passion project
.
I was working full-time insales, which is the complete
opposite from what I do, but Ihad a sales career for 25 years.

(01:37):
So the reason I mentioned thatis because I also offer an
ethical sales program to anyindividuals, teams or businesses
that are looking to restructuretheir sales operation cycle and
how they function there.
So, yeah, that is the mainthing that I do.

(01:58):
How I got there is a longerstory, so any questions so far.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'd love to learn about how you got here actually.
What happened going back a fewyears ago, the transition that
sounds like to me.
It was a corporate structureyou were in and the badgering
corporate structures sometimesthey're not too great.
What's your experience and howdid you come from the sales
industry to corporate into doingwhat you need?

(02:23):
It's just a radical shiftmindset from sales and corporate
into mindset and hypnosis.
That's like day and night yeah,it is.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's quite a change, but if you think about the
different sales processes andhow people are thinking through
that process, it's not as muchof a shift.
Because I would get curious,like, why are people saying
something completely differentthan what they mean?
And that's what would happenwhen I would offer the product

(02:57):
or service that I was offeringat the time, people would be
excited to learn about it.
But then, when it actually gotto the, people would be excited
to learn about it.
But then, when it actually gotto the do you want to commit to
this, it would be a complete oh.
I think actually I'm going toweigh in all these different
things.
So if you think about thefascinating mind and how we
think and react to differentthings, that's initially what

(03:19):
got me intrigued.
But, going back, I've beenthrough many different
challenges within my life and itactually started when I was
about age 14, 15, that I wentthrough something pretty major
and I'm going to bring this uptoday and it'll be the very

(03:42):
first time that I've ever sharedthis.
To bring this up today andit'll be the very first time
that I've ever shared this.
That shows how much I trust Bazand I think it's important
because I do have an upcomingevent and I will have to talk
about it then, so it'll be anentrance way into that event
coming up in May.
So my childhood was I wouldn'tsay that it was bad, I never

(04:08):
characterized it as bad, but Ihad a mother who was a very
caring mother.
She did everything that shepossibly could to support us,
our family.
And then I had a father who wasan alcoholic and while he tried
to maintain a business, hewasn't consistent, reliable or

(04:28):
dependable by any means, and so,as you can imagine, the
relationship started to fallapart, and when it did, my mom
would take me over to my aunt'shouse so that I could spend some
time with her, and she wassomebody that I grew very close
to when I was young because ofhow much time I spent there.
And when I initially startedgoing there, she was unmarried.

(04:55):
She was a single aunt.
She was raising three boys, soI had three cousins that I got
to play with, and then thatchanged about, I don't know two
years after starting going there.
So it would have been from 12 to14, 15 years old that I was
going through that transitionwith her.

(05:16):
I wasn't used to seeing her ina relationship.
So that was an adjustment initself.
But after she got married Ithought the guy was a really
good guy.
He seemed to be decent.
It didn't take too long.
Just to cut it short here hestarted sneaking into my bedroom
late at night, waking me up,and when a man does that, you

(05:42):
can only imagine what he whathis intentions?
Yes, thank you.
You can only imagine what hisintentions were, and they were
definitely not good.
Nor was I prepared at that ageto really understand why or what

(06:02):
was even happening, and so hisexcuse or reasoning for his
behavior was to get me ready tobe a woman, to learn these
horrible things that he thenlater made me do.
So that experience in itselfthrew me into a completely

(06:25):
different I was no longer achild, made me think of life in
a completely different way,because you don't have a choice
but to you start to Not trustpeople.

(06:45):
And I'm sorry, I didn't expectto get teary please.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
I?
This is incredible and thankyou so much for sharing this,
because it what you're speakingto now.
I know from the other peopleI've interviewed really you're
not alone.
You're not alone going throughthis, and the bravery, the
strength you're showing peopleright now is what we love about

(07:13):
you, because what you'respeaking isn't a small thing.
It's incredible strength andcourage on your part.
So, thank you.
If you're willing to continue,please do.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yes, and thank you for that.
It gave me the time that Ineeded to clear my throat, so
that it just put me in adifferent frame of thinking, and
I was extremely angry.
I was angry at him One formaking it so that when I went to
my aunt's house it was nolonger an enjoyable experience.

(07:50):
It was something that I starteddreading, and I she was my
favorite person.
So it it destroyed thatrelationship.
So it destroyed thatrelationship, and then it also
made me wonder who I could trust, and I felt completely alone

(08:12):
because it wasn't anything thatI could tell my family and my
family.
I didn't feel that they wouldbelieve me, nor understand where
it was coming from.
So that was years that I spentblaming myself for not saying

(08:41):
anything when I got older, notbeing confident in myself,
because again, when you're putthrough a situation like that,
you would think it would do thereverse, like you're attractive
enough for some old, nasty manto be attracted to you.
But that's definitely not whatit does.
It makes you really thinknegative about yourself, like

(09:06):
you feel disgusting.
So I struggled for years withself-confidence, trusting
individuals.
I was an angry person, so I waslashing out at my mom even she
didn't even know, and that ledme down to drinking very heavily

(09:33):
from the age of about 16 to 19.
I did, thankfully, meet a verygood man who is still and now my
husband today.
We've been together for 25years.
I've at least had that supportsystem to lean on, and he has

(09:57):
actually saved my life in morethan this way.
When I was drinking heavily, wewent to many different parties
over the weekend because, as ateenager, that's all I could
think of and that was somethingthat would definitely numb those
experiences that I didn't wantto remember and allow me to

(10:21):
enjoy the people that I wasspending time with.
And so that's what I did.
I numb myself in that way and Idrank way too heavily.
One night I actually completelypassed out.
I was told that they slapped mequite a few times to wake me up
and I wasn't responding.
They called the ambulance andthey had me picked up and

(10:45):
brought to the hospital.
They were able to bring me back.
I came to awareness.
I wasn't.
My heart didn't stop oranything.
Thankfully I was still living.
I was just not cognitive at all.
I had alcohol poisoning andthey said that if I would have
had one more drink, thatprobably would have done it and
I would have died, but theypumped my stomach and yeah.

(11:08):
So I spent some time recoveringfrom that as well during my
earlier, later adulthood slashteenage years.
What got me out of that wasactually getting pregnant.
What got me out of that wasactually getting pregnant, and

(11:32):
that was divine, because I washeavily contraceptive.
I did not want to get pregnantat a young age.
I knew I wasn't going to beable to afford it.
I wasn't stable, so I did whatI traditionally knew how to do
to prevent that.
But of course it happenedanyways and today I'm very much
thankful for it.
I would never take it back,because hearing that I was

(11:54):
pregnant was what made thatswitch in my brain change and go
.
You need to get serious.
You need to clean yourself up.
You need to now be responsible.
You have a child on the way,and it was a struggle.

(12:15):
I'm not going to say it waseasy by any means, but I got
through it.
Stopped drinking I was actuallysmoking at that time as well.
I stopped everything coldturkey the moment I found out.
So that was one or twochallenges that I went through

(12:43):
at that time.
No, I you must have beenreading my mind, because I was
going to stop there for a secondand see if what you had to say.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Firstly, thank you for sharing that while you're
speaking into now, as I saidbefore, takes courage, but it
also takes self-awareness, andfrom someone who's recovered
also from alcoholism andaddictions smoking, drugs, many

(13:14):
other things I've woken up insome of them, places as well,
not knowing and hospitalized,but through completely different
circumstances.
What you're speaking to now,severino, is it's horrific and
disgusting to even think that itwent on and it still goes on

(13:37):
today.
But even you having aconversation with me says so
much about who you are as aperson, how far you've come, and
this is what I learned aboutyou and people like you, because
you don't have yourself.
This isn't the conversationabout your story.
This is a conversation abouthundreds and thousands, if not

(14:01):
millions, of other women yourage and all the way through age
ranges that have been throughsimilar circumstances and, quite
frankly, I'm honored that youtrust me enough to have that
conversation with another manthat you've never really met
before other than a couple ofZoom meetings.
But I'm blessed to have thisand be a part of you sharing

(14:29):
that story.
This is what this podcast isabout People like you, our story
.
This is what this podcast isabout people like you, and it's
this is what I say when peoplesay there's no judgment, there
is no judgment here.
I want you to share comfortably, confidently, and this is a
safe place where there'sunconditional love I empathize

(14:49):
very good.
I can't understand what you'vegone through.
I I can't comprehend that, butI can empathize and you do a
very good job.
I can't understand what you'vegone through.
I can't comprehend that, but Ican empathize and have some
understanding from how you'resharing with me.
But this is the message thatpeople need to hear, because all
because it happens, whateverhappened, doesn't mean it's the

(15:15):
end.
You met an amazing person.
You have a family, an amazingfamily.
You have a very supportive bestfriend and a husband.
Marriage is not easy.
Relationships are never easy,but you, against a lot of odds,

(15:35):
beat them all and you stood upfor yourself, your family and
you did the right thing.
That's what motherhood is about, that's what being a parent is
about, and, behalf of everysingle child out there, every

(15:59):
single person who's been throughsimilar circumstances, reach
out to supreme, have aconversation with her.
The links are below.
This is part one, and if you'reresonating with this and to the
audience they're going, oh myGod, and resonates with you.
Maybe it resonates withsomebody else.
So share it with somebody.

(16:19):
Share Sabrina's message and letallow someone else to be helped
.
Sabrina, do you want tocontinue or do you want to pause

(16:41):
and let's go into part two,which is entirely up to you.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Do you mind if we pause for a little bit and go
into, of course?

Speaker 1 (16:46):
I need.
Ladies and gentlemen, sharethis message.
Go and save someone's life andimprove someone's life.
This is about Sabrina, holdingspace with her.
I'm sending lots of love toSabrina and you, my audience.
Thank you for listening.
I'll see you on part two veryshortly.
In the meantime, this is Ricefrom the Ashes.
This is Sabrina Johnson.

(17:06):
I'm Baz Porter.
Thank you for listening.
Share the message.
See you soon.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Thank you, I'm sorry, my nose got a little.
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