#11: “Are You Secretly Addicted to the Fight?” — Jessica Brandon on Trauma, Success & Survival

On this week’s episode of the Capital T, Truth podcast, Larry Yatch sits down with entrepreneur Jessica Brandon for one of the most personal and revealing conversations we’ve had to date.Jessica built a multi-million-dollar business, raised a daughter as a teenage mother, and overcame a childhood marked by chaos, addiction, abandonment, and instability. But beneath the success was a deeper question:Why did she always feel like she was fighting?Together, Larry and Jessica unpack the hidden relationship between trauma, achievement, control, fear, and survival. They explore how the very patterns that helped Jessica succeed in life and business also kept her trapped in a cycle of hyper-independence, anxiety, anger, and emotional exhaustion.In this episode, you’ll discover:• How childhood trauma can become the fuel for extraordinary success • The hidden “Fight-Control-Fear” loop that drives many high performers • Why control doesn’t eliminate fear—it creates more of it • How trauma shapes leadership, relationships, parenting, and business • Why some people unknowingly create problems they can fight their way through • The surprising connection between worthiness and the desire to be saved • How nervous system healing differs from mindset work aloneLarry also shares powerful lessons from his years as a Navy SEAL, revealing how fear, anger, survival, and emotional conditioning show up both in combat and everyday life.This is a conversation about trauma, resilience, entrepreneurship, healing, and what happens when the fight that once protected you becomes the very thing holding you back.🎧 Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts.👉 TruthPathMastery.com/podcast