“I didn’t feel seen. I didn’t feel heard. I didn’t feel safe.”

Sarah French grew up in a world where safety wasn’t a given. Violence at home. A fractured bond with her father. Abuse that left scars too deep to name until years later, when they roared back through the surface.

She joined the military at 17 to escape and for the first time, she felt something new. Stability. Brotherhood. A thread of healthy masculinity around her. But the wiring was still survival. She knew how to push through, not how to heal.

In this conversation, Sarah speaks with raw honesty about addiction, OCD, the nervous system’s defence strategies and the long road back to softness. It’s not a straight line it’s a series of reckonings.

Heads up: we had some tech gremlins visit during recording, so you’ll notice Sarah’s background shifts halfway through. New location, same real talk.

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“I used to think pain was love — that if it hurt, it must be real.”

Laura Vickers grew up believing she had to earn safety, affection and worth — especially from men. But the men around her were broken, absent, violent or emotionally shut down.

From addiction and emotional chaos to moments of complete collapse, Laura speaks about what it means to reclaim your identity when you were never shown how to hold it in the first place.

This conversation is about survival, yes — but it’s also about choosing to live with your eyes open. To stop running. To stop repeating what broke you.

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“I created this monster to protect that scared little boy in me - but I don’t need him anymore.”

James “Shinny” Davenport is a former pro boxer, rock band frontman and viral host of The Shinny Show. But behind the masks was a terrified kid doing anything to feel loved.

From addiction to alcohol, cocaine, crack or chaos, Shinny shares how the need for attention shaped his life and how his ego almost cost him everything. Fame, recovery, relapse, fatherhood or the long road back to peace - this is a raw account of what it means to rebuild from the inside out.

He doesn’t hold back on the lies he told himself, the masks he wore to survive or how he finally came home to the man he really is.

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