Mallory Ervin
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199 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Mallory Ervin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, yes.
It feels weird.
And then... Yeah, it's where our brain goes automatically.
And I wish that it didn't, but it just does. It is our nature to go back to that, to go back to that, to go back. Because it's... It tells you a lot about a person, but it's like, why can we not just learn the person from talking to them?
They knew what they, they really knew what they were doing with my case. Yeah. Because the perfectionism almost killed me more than the addiction.
A 0% chance. Number one, I wouldn't be alive today. That's how low of a point I was at and how bad it was for me. I would not, I do not think I would have lived another eight weeks. I really don't. So like, I think it really saved my life. Really? How did you not enter treatment? A hundred percent. You don't think you would have lived another eight weeks?
I was that, I was that close to, like my body was shutting down and I, it, it saved my life, which it, You know, recovery saves people's life first, but then it changes people's lives and then it gives them a whole new life. You know, if you had asked me before 2014, when I walked into that treatment center, you know, what's the best thing that ever happened to you in my life, in your life?
And I would talk to you about being on the Miss America stage. And I'll talk to you about like the moment that I was crowned Miss Kentucky. I wanted to win so bad. And the moment they put that crown on my head, it changed my whole life. That was my moment. That was my like taking your makeup off on QVC finally moment. That was my, when they placed that crown on my head, changed my whole life.
I said on my last day of treatment, you stand up and you say something. That was the best thing that ever happened to me. That was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life was going to a treatment center. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
And I always thought it would be a part of my story that I was embarrassed about and that I wouldn't share and that I would just like let stay in the shadows. I would be thankful for it because it saved my life. But like I would just, I wouldn't really talk about it.
You know, I would just keep moving forward in this great life that I have, really grateful that I'd been blessed enough to have my life saved. But it was the best thing that ever happened to me. And I thought it would be the worst thing that ever happened to me. And it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
And whenever people come to Instagram or YouTube or a podcast and they see me or the Jamie Karen Lima Worthy event in my feather blazer. And when they see me showing up joy filled and happy with three kids and you see my peony garden in the backyard and you see the sweatshirts and the pajamas. I want them to remember that I spent six months in a treatment center.
Because I think that when we think of people that have, that have stories that have a dark part or like, well, you know, she was addicted to drugs at one point in time. I think that we just, it just, it's a kink in the armor. And,
I want you to remember that this is the face of addiction, that this is my office, and I've got six amazing girls that work for me, and my businesses do millions of dollars in revenue, and this is my husband, and these are my kids, and this is what my home looks like. But I also want you to look at my face and remember that this is the face of addiction.
It's not someone that's on the streets with needles laying there that's a homeless person. It's not somebody that's strung out that you're saying, oh, poor, pitiful them. It's me. It's me too, sitting by this beautiful peony arrangement with my face on a book.
That is a powerful part of my story because I think that people count themselves out of their dreams because of things like they went through in their past. And I want you to not be embarrassed about the things that you went through, especially those things that are dark and a little seedy and feel a little sketchy to you and that you don't want to say at the PTA meeting.
I want to keep reminding people that that's part of my story because I still feel worthy of the things that I have today, even though like. I went to rehab after I wore the Miss Kentucky crown.
And no one else in their life does. I was that person. I was very isolated and oftentimes at the end of addiction. And your addiction piece can be something different. It can be a mental health challenge. Like maybe you're dealing with like severe depression or maybe you are in a relationship that's really bad that you know you need to be out of.
Maybe you're in like a dead end career and you just feel like hopeless about your life and sad. If you, A, if you're at that point in your life, I want to say, this is going to be a really weird thing for me to say, especially to that person in this state, but I want to say it because I believe it. Get excited because rock bottom is the best place to build the most incredible life.
And if you can walk out of this and if you can get through this thing, you will have one million times better of a life than you did before you went through this thing. These things, these terrible, terrible things that happen to us in our lives, usher us into the greatest life than you can ever imagine.
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