The Jamie Kern Lima Show
How to Live Fully & Create the Life of Your Dreams! Secrets to Your Best Life, Love and Business Now w/ Mallory Ervin
14 Jan 2025
Full Episode
Mallory Ervin is a small-town girl turned internet and entrepreneurial superstar. She's a best-selling author, an online mega-influencer. She's also the founder of Living Fully Co. I'd never felt so worthless in my life. Because you attached worthiness to appearance? A hundred percent. So many people right now listening to us are struggling with perfectionism, with people pleasing.
How have you gone through that, navigated it, overcome it?
The perfectionism almost killed me more than the addiction. It crippled me and it became something that I almost lost my life to. And I ended up in a treatment center for six months of my life. These were prescription medications that were being prescribed to me that I had become dependent on and was taking them in a way that was not prescribed.
I just wonder, had you not gone through one of the hardest things of your life, addiction and being in recovery for six months and actually being stripped down to learning to love yourself for who you are, could you be showing up as actually who you are today, having all this success?
A 0% chance. Number one, I wouldn't be alive today. You don't think you would have lived another eight weeks? I was that close, like my body was shutting down.
What do you say to the person listening right now who knows it's them right now and no one else in their life does?
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. It's me. It's me to have sat 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 that they went through in their past. 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.
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