Mess to Millions

Erica Carrico
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What if your rock bottom was actually the foundation for your empire? Welcome to Mess to Millions, the unfiltered podcast where trauma becomes triumph, breakdowns turn into breakthroughs, and pain fuels serious profit. Hosted by Erica Carrico, cancer survivor, single mom, recovering perfectionist, and proof that sometimes you have to fall apart to finally fall into place. Eight years ago, cancer gave Erica an ultimatum: change or die. What followed was her “life explosion era”: divorce, job loss, and starting over from scratch. The twist? Losing everything became the catalyst for building a multimillion-dollar purpose-driven business and helping over a million people discover that their hardest chapters can unlock their greatest comebacks. This show is for women who have survived what should have broken them, who are done with toxic positivity, and who are ready to believe their mess can become their million-dollar message. Each week, Erica goes deep into the stories we usually whisper about: childhood trauma, burnout, divorce, toxic relationships, business failures, and how to alchemize all of it into abundance. Expect raw conversations, healing strategies, business wisdom, and yes, a few tears (the good kind). Because transformation isn’t always pretty… but it is powerful. Your biggest disasters might be your most valuable education. Your deepest wounds might hold your greatest wisdom. And your story? It’s not just your superpower, it could be someone else’s survival guide. Subscribe now to Mess to Millions and join us in rewriting what success really looks like. Because your breakdown might just be your breakthrough.

  1. 1D AGO

    EP 32 - Built An Empire, Still a Child in That Room: Breaking Generational Silence

    She stands on ancient New Mexico land and something cracks open inside her. Not suddenly. First there's coldness, confusion, resistance. Then silence. And in that silence, something she's been carrying her entire life... something that doesn't even belong to her...finally puts down what it's been holding. You can build an empire, help thousands of women find their voices, win on every external stage...and still disappear in specific rooms with specific people. In this Soul Series episode, Erica Carrico returns from a transformative retreat with a discovery about ancestral patterns: the inherited wounds, silenced voices, and unlived dreams that move through your nervous system before you ever choose them. You'll learn why recognition of these patterns, not blame, is where true freedom begins, and how understanding your lineage shifts everything about the wealth and impact you're capable of building. Erica has always understood that soul-aligned business requires looking at the whole self. She shares her childhood on red dirt in New Mexico, the silence that defined her family, and the moment her grandfather, a man who never said "I love you" to anyone in his life, finally broke the pattern. This conversation is Erica's honest reckoning with what it means to build in Mess to Millions when you're simultaneously untangling generational stories. For anyone ready to move from inherited patterns into genuine freedom, this is the episode that names what you've been feeling all along. Get my book Awaken Your Purpose at https://ericacarrico.com/books And if you're ready to build a Six Figure Soul-Aligned business, learn more about my award-winning program, Soul Business Accelerator. Your Six Figure Roadmap here: https://go.ericacarrico.com/soul-business-accelerator To learn more, visit: http://www.ericacarrico.com/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters: http://missionmatters.com/author/Erica-Carrico/

    16 min

  2. MAY 13

    EP 31 - The $60K Bet That Rewired My Fear

    She stood at the door of a plane at 15,000 feet, freaking terrified. Later, on a platform above the highest commercial bungee jump in the world, every cell of her body screamed not to do it. Yet she jumped—not because the fear vanished, but because something else mattered more. This is not a story about fearlessness. It's about what happens when you stop letting fear make your decisions. In this episode of Mess to Millions, you'll discover the framework that separates invented fear from real danger—and why most of us hand the steering wheel to both without question. Erica walks you through a five-step process to reclaim your agency, including the one calculation that changes everything: the true cost of *not* doing the thing that terrifies you. You'll see exactly how fear whispers through logic and the voices of people you love, and how eight years of business growth, millions in revenue, and a lifetime of compounded impact can slip away when you let it lead. Erica Carrico knows this reckoning intimately. At 36, cancer forced her to face the ultimate fear, and what she learned in that crucible reshapes everything that came after. When you've stared down death itself, she discovered, everything else shrinks to its true size. This conversation is her invitation to you: to build the one life you won't regret, one brave decision at a time. Get my book Awaken Your Purpose at https://ericacarrico.com/books And if you're ready to build a Six Figure Soul-Aligned business, learn more about my award-winning program, Soul Business Accelerator. Your Six Figure Roadmap here: https://go.ericacarrico.com/soul-business-accelerator To learn more, visit: http://www.ericacarrico.com/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters: http://missionmatters.com/author/Erica-Carrico/

    22 min

  3. MAY 6

    EP 30 - Cancer, 50 ER Visits, and a Coach Who Told Me to Surrender

    She sits in silence before she speaks, and when she does, it's about a dishwasher—how he told her every time, how he wanted a thank you for the ordinary work of a home that stayed ordinary only because she was drowning. Then the story expands: hospital rooms in the Australian outback, a baby who couldn't breathe, fifty-plus emergency visits, an eighteen-month breastfeeding journey she carried alone. Six years of it. She was alone for six years. In this episode of Mess to Millions, Erica Carrico speaks directly to the women living this pattern: capable, ambitious women who end up carrying everything—the income, the children, the mental load, the emotional labor, and a partner who needs permission to show up. You'll discover what happens when that tolerance finally breaks, and what becomes possible on the other side of choosing yourself. This is about identity shift, about reclaiming your worth when you've been pouring from an empty cup. Carrico knows this terrain by heart. She speaks as someone who counted every feed, planned every trip, held every crisis alone through her own ten-year marriage—and then chose to become the woman she was always meant to be. This conversation is an act of recognition for every woman who has done everything and received a thank you for the dishwasher, and a reminder that soul-aligned living begins when you stop accepting crumbs from the table you built. Get my book Awaken Your Purpose at https://ericacarrico.com/books And if you're ready to build a Six Figure Soul-Aligned business, learn more about my award-winning program, Soul Business Accelerator. Your Six Figure Roadmap here: https://go.ericacarrico.com/soul-business-accelerator To learn more, visit: http://www.ericacarrico.com/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters: http://missionmatters.com/author/Erica-Carrico/

    38 min

  4. APR 29

    EP 29 - Started Over at 40 with Nothing: Here's My Wealth Formula

    "I didn't need permission." It's a sentence that lands differently at 36 than it does at 25—the kind of quiet realization that rewrites everything you thought you knew about money, possibility, and who gets to build wealth. What if the only thing standing between you and financial security was the belief that someone else had to provide it? On this episode of Mess to Millions, Erica Carrico walks through the exact wealth-building blueprint she used to transform from post-divorce financial devastation into multimillion-dollar net worth. She breaks down compound interest in numbers that sting and inspire: $20 a week from age 25 becomes $280,000 by 65. Wait ten years, and that same commitment only reaches $120,000—meaning a single decade of delay costs you $160,000 in pure time value. You'll learn five concrete strategies: automating savings before anything else touches your account, opening retirement accounts strategically, investing in index funds, building real estate wealth, and scaling a business as the ultimate accelerant. This is soul-aligned business built on one radical truth: financial security is not someone else's responsibility. Erica carries her own unfinished grief into this conversation—the women she watched exhaust themselves waiting for permission, the years she invested in someone else's future instead of her own. She's speaking directly to you, Sister, because the pattern doesn't have to continue. Your six-figure roadmap starts with believing you're allowed to build it. Get my book Awaken Your Purpose at https://ericacarrico.com/books And if you're ready to build a Six Figure Soul-Aligned business, learn more about my award-winning program, Soul Business Accelerator. Your Six Figure Roadmap here: https://go.ericacarrico.com/soul-business-accelerator To learn more, visit: http://www.ericacarrico.com/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters: http://missionmatters.com/author/Erica-Carrico/

    1 min

  5. APR 22

    EP 28 - How to Figure Out What Business to Start

    If you have ever said 'I want to start a business but I have no idea what,' this episode is for you. 💜 I spent years traveling 50 countries searching for my purpose. I took out a $60,000 loan for a master's degree because someone told me it was the responsible choice. I earned $29,000 a year with two babies at home and a marriage falling apart. And it was not until cancer hit at 36 that I finally stopped searching and started building. What I discovered changed everything. Your purpose has been revealing itself your entire life. The business you are meant to build is not something you find. It is something you recognize. And when you build from that place, from your actual gifts and your actual story and your actual fire, you cannot be copied. You become completely unstoppable. In this episode of the Mess to Millions Podcast, I am sharing the Golden Ticket Framework from my book Awaken Your Purpose, the exact process that has helped hundreds of women go from completely lost to building six and seven-figure businesses they absolutely love. You will learn: 💜 Why your salary is capped as an employee and how that changes completely when you own a business 💜 Why most people start the wrong business and burn out within a year 💜 The Golden Ticket Framework: three questions that reveal exactly what your business should be💜 Why you do not need to have it all figured out before you start💜 How your business evolves as you evolve, and why that is a feature not a flaw 💜 The five steps from Awaken Your Purpose to go from confused to completely clear Stop the search, sweet soul. Your purpose is already inside you. This episode will help you find it! Get my book Awaken Your Purpose at https://ericacarrico.com/books And if you're ready to build a Six Figure Soul-Aligned business, learn more about my award-winning program, Soul Business Accelerator. Your Six Figure Roadmap here: https://go.ericacarrico.com/soul-business-accelerator To learn more, visit: http://www.ericacarrico.com/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters: http://missionmatters.com/author/Erica-Carrico/

  6. APR 15

    EP 27 - Rewire Your Brain: Listen Daily

    This episode will reprogram your mind. Put it on repeat. Here's why most people stay stuck, no matter how hard they try. They look at their current results, those results create thoughts, those thoughts create emotions, those emotions create a vibration, and that vibration drives actions that create... the exact same results. Over and over again. The only way to break the cycle? You have to start with a NEW image first. A new image of the life you want to live and the person you are becoming. That new image creates new thoughts. New emotions. A new vibration. New actions. And completely new results. This is not woo woo. This is neuroscience. And this episode is your tool for making it happen. Based on the teachings of Neville Goddard, a teacher whose work has completely transformed my life, this episode is designed to be listened to on repeat. In your car. On your walks. While you get ready in the morning. Let these words become your new image. Let them reprogram the beliefs that have been quietly creating your reality. Because sweet soul, you are not stuck. You are not broken. You are just running old software. And today we are installing something new. 💜 Get my book Awaken Your Purpose at https://ericacarrico.com/books And if you're ready to build a Six Figure Soul-Aligned business, learn more about my award-winning program, Soul Business Accelerator. Your Six Figure Roadmap here: https://go.ericacarrico.com/soul-business-accelerator To learn more, visit: http://www.ericacarrico.com/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters: http://missionmatters.com/author/Erica-Carrico/

  7. APR 8

    EP 26 - The 99% Principle Do What 99% Won't. Live Like 99% Don't.

    I was in high school the first time I truly understood what it takes to have an extraordinary life. I wanted to be a lifeguard. I didn't know if I could physically make it through the training. There were moments I genuinely didn't think I was going to survive the testing. But there was no Plan B. And that changed everything! That one decision, to commit fully with no exit strategy, is what eventually took me from a small-town girl in New Mexico to backpacking solo through Europe, to six months camping across Africa, to leaving corporate at 28 with zero safety net, to building a multimillion-dollar business while recovering from cancer and going through divorce. Forbes. New York Times. International Coach of the Year. 50 countries. A life I could not have imagined if I had stayed safe!! In this episode of the Mess to Millions Podcast, I'm sharing The 99% Principle. If you want to live a life that 99% of people don't live, you have to be willing to do what 99% of people won't do. 💜 You'll hear: 💜 The real stories behind every scary leap I've ever taken 💜 Why having no Plan B is actually your greatest asset💜 How to build a self-image that matches the life you want BEFORE the evidence shows up💜 The Bob Proctor and Neville Goddard teachings that rewired everything for me💜 The four-step framework for finally crossing the line most people only dream about crossing💜 Why the hardest moment always comes right before the breakthrough This is not a motivation speech, sweet soul. This is a roadmap. If you are ready to stop searching and start living... this episode is for you! Get my book Awaken Your Purpose at https://ericacarrico.com/books And if you're ready to build a Six Figure Soul-Aligned business, learn more about my award-winning program, Soul Business Accelerator. Your Six Figure Roadmap here: https://go.ericacarrico.com/soul-business-accelerator To learn more, visit: http://www.ericacarrico.com/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters: http://missionmatters.com/author/Erica-Carrico/

  8. APR 1

    EP 25 - I Wasted $36K on Social Media So You Don't Have To

    I wasted $36,000 so you don't have to. I invested in the best-known social media marketing company in the coaching industry. Six months. $36K. They promised growth and clients. What happened? My engagement went DOWN. I LOST followers. And they generated $18,000 total... it didn't even pay for itself!! Meanwhile, I was earning $150,000 a MONTH through the strategies that have nothing to do with social media. Here's what you're going to learn: 💜 Why social media will NEVER build you a consistent, predictable business💜 The difference between internal marketing (what 99% of people do) and external marketing (what actually works)💜 Why influencers with 500K followers are making less than $1,500/month💜 The Signature Workshop strategy that converts at 80%💜 How to get to $10K months without posting every day Post and pray is not a strategy. It's a prayer. And prayers don't pay bills. 💜 Ready to build a soul-aligned six-figure business WITHOUT social media? Learn more about Soul Business Accelerator: https://go.ericacarrico.com/soul-business-accelerator43575332 Get my book Awaken Your Purpose at https://ericacarrico.com/books And if you're ready to build a Six Figure Soul-Aligned business, learn more about my award-winning program, Soul Business Accelerator. Your Six Figure Roadmap here: https://go.ericacarrico.com/soul-business-accelerator To learn more, visit: http://www.ericacarrico.com/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters: http://missionmatters.com/author/Erica-Carrico/

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What if your rock bottom was actually the foundation for your empire? Welcome to Mess to Millions, the unfiltered podcast where trauma becomes triumph, breakdowns turn into breakthroughs, and pain fuels serious profit. Hosted by Erica Carrico, cancer survivor, single mom, recovering perfectionist, and proof that sometimes you have to fall apart to finally fall into place. Eight years ago, cancer gave Erica an ultimatum: change or die. What followed was her “life explosion era”: divorce, job loss, and starting over from scratch. The twist? Losing everything became the catalyst for building a multimillion-dollar purpose-driven business and helping over a million people discover that their hardest chapters can unlock their greatest comebacks. This show is for women who have survived what should have broken them, who are done with toxic positivity, and who are ready to believe their mess can become their million-dollar message. Each week, Erica goes deep into the stories we usually whisper about: childhood trauma, burnout, divorce, toxic relationships, business failures, and how to alchemize all of it into abundance. Expect raw conversations, healing strategies, business wisdom, and yes, a few tears (the good kind). Because transformation isn’t always pretty… but it is powerful. Your biggest disasters might be your most valuable education. Your deepest wounds might hold your greatest wisdom. And your story? It’s not just your superpower, it could be someone else’s survival guide. Subscribe now to Mess to Millions and join us in rewriting what success really looks like. Because your breakdown might just be your breakthrough.

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  • Creator
    Erica Carrico
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    33
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Mess to Millions

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