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Betty Guadagno: From Addiction to Awakening: A Life-Changing Journey | DSH 1503
21 Aug 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
too when they when they watch podcasts and stuff about pre-birth men what about hitler why do babies die like everybody always has extreme examples extreme example right and yeah you know like i actually do believe that everybody chooses the things that they go through in this life and from a soul perspective none of it matters because none of this is actually happening
Chapter 2: What was Betty's childhood experience in Las Vegas?
Okay, guys, got Betty here. She grew up in Vegas and now she's back.
Chapter 3: How did Betty's overdose lead to a spiritual awakening?
Let's go. All right. Welcome back. Let's do it. Thank you. Have you been back since you spent your... I have. Yeah, yeah.
Chapter 4: What insights does Betty share about pre-birth planning?
Okay. I know you were here at 12 years old. And how long were you in Vegas for? I was here until I was 25. So big chunk of that, like very, those formative years. Yeah. Were you happy to leave? I was happy to leave. Yes. And I've been in New York for the last 17 years. Okay. Yeah. I know you went through a lot in Vegas. I did. Yeah. A lot of stuff happened to me here. Yeah.
Could you briefly explain your story, I guess, for people that are watching for the first time? Yeah. I'll give you my backstory. It's very traumatizing. It's a little trigger warning. But yeah, I grew up in like this really impoverished, chaotic, dysfunctional family. And I just thought that it was all really normal. Like we would steal our groceries.
And my dad, instead of having weekend business trips, he would have weekend trips to jail. Doesn't everybody's dad do that? And I, you know, my mom, she was like just a kleptomaniac and we never had any money.
Chapter 5: How does Betty describe her communication with loved ones who have passed?
We were really impoverished. We moved once or twice a year. We were always getting evicted. Just a really chaotic upbringing. But I started, my parents were coping with addiction. So like every time, you know, a bill would come that they couldn't pay, they would just eat a pill.
Chapter 6: What role does numerology play in Betty's life?
And then all of a sudden it didn't matter that they couldn't pay their bill. Or if we had to move suddenly, they would smoke something.
Chapter 7: How does Betty perceive the concept of a simulation theory?
And like all of a sudden it didn't matter that we, our life was completely uprooted. So I watched my parents' addiction really progress over the course of their life. And the Oxycontin epidemic specifically out here in Las Vegas was really crazy. And my parents were doctor shopping and they were both prescribed over a thousand pills each every month and they were still running out. Every month.
Chapter 8: What is Betty's perspective on finding one's soul mission?
It was crazy. Yeah. They were taking like 30. Yes. Like fistfuls of pills all the time. And then like selling them to try to make some money and then always running out. And in 2007, my parents were about to be evicted again. The lights were turned off. The gas was turned off. They were at another bottom and they just made a decision that enough was enough.
And they ended up ending their lives together intentionally. They overdosed. Yeah. And it was like the most traumatizing. my sister and I found them and yeah. So like Vegas kind of holds that memory for me, but I've done a lot of inner work today. And like, I communicate with my parents in the spiritual realm. And so It's not as heavy as it used to be for me to come back here. But I ran.
I ran away from that grief. I ran away from that stigma, from that trauma. I medicated and sedated myself with my own addiction. I abandoned everything in my life. My sister was 18 when they died. I was 23. And I just abandoned her. And I just was like, I'm leaving. Wow. Yeah. It was like the worst. The absolute worst. Yeah. But that's what my addiction made me do.
And in some weird way, I thought like, oh, well, I got to carry out the legacy of my family. You know, like my parents were addicts. That means that I have to be an addict and killed them. And so I'm going to let it kill me. And it was some weird like living out legacy thing, even though the legacy was like totally dark and traumatizing. Yeah.
And then in 2019, you experienced your own overdose, right? Yeah. Yeah. My addiction, oof, man, it became so insane. I mean, I was on drugs for 20 years. Wow. But the last two years of my active addiction, my life evaporated. I lost all my teeth. These are paid for. Holy crap.
And I would have I had like these huge holes all over my face and my arms because every time that I got high, I thought that bugs lived inside me. So I would pick myself open with razor and I would cut myself with razor blades and I would burn myself trying to get the bugs out of me like it was crazy. That's how I know that addiction is a disease.
You know, like I have the dis-ease of addiction because who would consciously choose to use substances when that is the outcome? I knew that was going to happen every time. And I was obsessive and compulsive. I had to do it anyway. And so then in 2019, yeah, I took too much and I overdosed and I had this really spiritually transformative experience in my overdose.
And I had overdosed lots of times before in my life. And I had hit bottom lots of times before in my life. But this particular time, something miraculous happened. And the first part of my experience felt like a life review. And I'm not just a person who experienced trauma in my life. I'm a traumatized person who maliciously, intentionally traumatized other people. Like it was my job.
I wanted everybody to hurt as deeply and badly as I hurt. And so I went around causing mountains and mountains of harm to other people. And in my life review, I was feeling that. I was feeling all of the pain that I had inflicted upon other people. And it was tremendous. It was agonizing. And then I went into all of these other life situations.
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