{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Selling From the Heart Podcast","title":"The Hidden Addiction Behind High Performance featuring Lance Wright","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1895,"description":"Lance Wright is an Addiction Recovery Specialist, TEDx speaker, author, and founder of Life Over Addiction. With more than three decades of personal recovery experience and years working professionally in behavioral health, Lance helps individuals, families, and working professionals navigate addiction, stress, identity, and personal transformation.\nThrough his concept of “Thought Addiction,” Lance explores how deeply rooted narratives, beliefs, and emotional conditioning can influence behavior. His work helps people reconnect with purpose, resilience, and lasting change through awareness, neuroplasticity-based practices, and honest human connection.\nSHOW SUMMARY\nIn this episode of Selling from the Heart, Larry Levine and Darrell Amy welcome Lance Wright for a powerful conversation about high performance, addiction, validation, and the internal pressures many sales professionals carry.\nLance shares his extraordinary journey from addiction and incarceration to recovery and transformation, along with the lessons that helped him rebuild his life.\nThe conversation also examines a form of addiction that can easily hide behind professional success: the constant chase for validation. The next sale, ranking, award, or big win may provide a temporary high—but what happens when your sense of worth depends on achieving the next one?\nLance challenges sales professionals to separate who they are from what they achieve, recognize unhealthy coping patterns, and have the courage to seek support before those patterns become destructive.\nUltimately, this conversation is a reminder that sustainable success begins on the inside.\nKEY TAKEAWAYS\nYour performance is not your identity. Sales results change. Your sense of worth cannot depend entirely on quotas, rankings, or recognition.\nValidation can become a chase. The emotional high of winning fades quickly when achievement becomes the primary source of fulfillment.\nPressure can reveal deeper beliefs. Rejection and uncertainty can...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/n0ZRdDRG3wDfbthdUV_eFsMqptVAYkz5BxmFn3LZimI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xOTcw/NWMwNmUwYTM4MTNj/OTUwMTkzNzZkYzRj/NGEwMC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}