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Bare It All with Linnsey is where nothing is off limits. From thriving in recovery to building businesses, raising kids while chasing dreams, diving deep into mental health, and making a real difference in the world — we talk about it all. This podcast is raw, real, and completely unfiltered. Whether you’re healing, hustling, or just trying to make it through the day, you’re in the right place. We’re here to inspire, empower, and remind you that you can rise from anything.
Welcome to Bare It All With Lindsay. You guys, I am so freaking excited for this podcast. I decided to make the first episode a chance for you guys to get to know me. I wanna share my story with you and a little bit about what you can expect to see on Bare It All With Lindsay. With Bare It All With Lindsay, you guys were gonna have so much fun.
Speaker 1:So if you're easily offended or you're sensitive, probably not the podcast for you. We're gonna share everything from recovery, thriving in recovery, single moms, raising children and entrepreneurship, you guys all the things and it's gonna be completely unfiltered. So I'm so freaking excited. I wanna share with you guys my journey. I think it's so important to truly show people that no matter how far gone you are, you can literally come back from anything.
Speaker 1:On my journey, I had an extremely low bottom. Addiction took me to homelessness, losing parental rights of five of my children, having everything I've ever loved in life taken from me, losing it. I even lost some of my teeth. Let me tell you, like my bottom was so low. And some of the biggest misconceptions that people think is that if you struggle with addiction and alcoholism, you came from a family.
Speaker 1:But that's actually not the case with me, you guys. I came from an incredible family. But even as a kid, I was so self centered and just worried about me. Worried about what I wanted, what Lindsay wanted. It doesn't matter if I took off, stole my parents' car, like whatever I did, I didn't care as long as Lindsay got what Lindsay wanted.
Speaker 1:And those are like deep things inside of you. The, you know, the selfishness, the self centered, all of that. By the time I was 16, I had my first child. I had a second child at 18. And when I turned 18, I had this brilliant idea that I was gonna go work at the strip club.
Speaker 1:And that's addiction really really manifested itself. I remember having to be drunk like every single night in order to get on stage or to do lap dances or all these things, right? And then it got to the point where I would work all night and then I would go home and I couldn't take care of the kids because I was so tired. That's where I was introduced to meth. And literally, I figured I found all the answers to my problems, you guys.
Speaker 1:I was able to work all night and then take care of the kids all day. And that quickly spun out of control to the point where I ended up having another kid. So I had three kids by the time I was gosh. I was probably, like, 21 at that point. And I remember being in the car with some whatever guy I was dating at that time.
Speaker 1:And we got pulled over and they found drugs and guns and everything in the car. They took those three kids and my mom ended up having to take them. I lost custody of them. And that was like at the point where I think my addiction just completely spun out of control because I couldn't do enough drugs to numb myself from the shitty human being that I felt I was at that time. In my addiction, for the next few years, I ended up getting pregnant two more times, getting zero prenatal care, giving birth to two children back to back that were both pause talks.
Speaker 1:They were taken from me from the hospital. My mom had to take them. My addiction took me to extremely, extremely low places. By the time I was 23, I had five children, had custody of none of them. I was a horrible drug addict and my addiction went on for twelve years until finally I had reached the point where I was pregnant with my sixth child.
Speaker 1:I was still using and at that time my mom was like, I'm not taking this child. I'm done. I'm not taking another child. Nobody wanted to talk to me. I had burned every bridge you could possibly imagine.
Speaker 1:I had fucking nothing. When I'm talking about a homeless drug addict, I'm not exaggerating. Horrific. And by that time, my final kicking off moment was walking down the street. My feet were bleeding because I had dollar store sandals on that I probably reglued like five times.
Speaker 1:And like one change of clothes that I stole from goodwill. Nobody wanted to talk to me. I had nowhere to go. I had been hiding in a bathroom from a taxi driver because I ran from the taxi because I had no money to pay him. And the gas station attendant kicked me out of the bathroom.
Speaker 1:So I'm walking down the street homeless, nowhere to go, bleeding feet and I finally found some crack house to go stop at and I'm in the bathroom getting high, six months pregnant. And I remember at that point, at that point, the pain of staying the same became greater than the pain or the fear of changing. I remember so many times I would go into rehabs. I mean, went to probably 13 different rehabs and never stayed longer than a week. And the minute I got sober, I was so overcome with guilt and shame that I was like, can't fucking do this.
Speaker 1:I'm out of here. Like I cannot even handle what I've been through the last twelve years. But that point in that bathroom, I was like, I either wanna die or I wanna change. And I remember calling my dad and he picked me up from this crack house and dropped me off at rehab and I did five months at that rehab. And then I got out of there.
Speaker 1:And I remember it took several months to where I could even function. Probably thirty days before I even knew who the fuck I was. Like I was in such a fog. And once I started getting sober, it reminded me that those core values down deep inside of like who I was, that I was such an intelligent person. I ran my mom's PR firm with her as a kid.
Speaker 1:You know, I had a background in marketing and public relations. I had this great childhood and those are deep down still inside of you, but it just shows you how low an addiction can take you. I don't care who you are. You see all these, you know, basketball players and movie stars, they have everything And addiction and alcoholism will take every bit of it from them. Every bit of it.
Speaker 1:And so once I really remembered like who the fuck I am, I knew I was gonna build a life beyond my wildest dreams and failure was not an option. Because once I got sober and five months had passed and I was able to fix all these things, when I went into rehab, I had warrants for my arrest in like four different counties. I remember going to court appointment after court appointment, trying to just do the simplest things. I even have an ID. Like I had to go through so much just to become like a normal kind of functioning human being.
Speaker 1:But once I got past that point and started being a normal kind of functioning human being, I was like, screw this. I had all these dreams of having an incredible life and just because I'm starting at ground zero does not mean I can't accomplish that. It just means I have to do it at a really fast pace because I'm starting late in life. By this time, I had close to a year sober. I was living in a like low income apartment with my daughter and I had saved up and bought this $500 piece of shit car.
Speaker 1:And I decided I was gonna clean houses. And once I started doing that, I really realized that I could turn it into a large business. I had gotten a job at a local cleaning company And I only worked there probably for less than a month. And I was like, oh, I can duplicate this. And so I decided I was gonna start my own.
Speaker 1:I had my $500 car and I used to carry a piece of cardboard around in the trunk because this thing had no power steering. Like I literally had to park where I could only go forward. I could not back out. It wasn't happening. I couldn't back out of anywhere.
Speaker 1:And it leaks so much oil that I carried the cardboard and I'd slide it underneath the car at these beautiful homes that I cleaned so I didn't leak oil all over their driveway or in front of their house. And I'd be like carrying this into the trunk trying not to spill the oil. My trunk was so disgusting. I had to clean all my cleaning stuff in the back seat. I hustled my ass off.
Speaker 1:I would clean houses all day, you guys. Go home, feed the kids, and then go out and clean businesses all night. Like looking back at it now, I'm like, I don't even know how the hell I did it. But it's that hustle and that drive inside. Right?
Speaker 1:And the failure is not an option. Speed it up. I was able to build that cleaning business into a 7 figure business in less than five years, and that was my first business. And it truly allowed me to have the life that I'd always dreamed of. It gave me time freedom, it gave me financial freedom, all of these things that I always dreamed of.
Speaker 1:And when I first got sober and built my business, you guys, I was so embarrassed of my past that I was like, oh my god, what if somebody finds out I was a drug addict? What if somebody finds out that I lost custody of my kids? What if people find out that I have an arrest record? All the things. And one day I was like, you know what?
Speaker 1:Who gives a shit? Why hide this story when I can share it with so many people that maybe maybe if even if I saved one person. If there was one person out there that was at that point that I was sitting in that crack house either ready to die or change and my story reached them, then it was worth it for any embarrassment that I might have sharing it or any shame or guilt or any of that. And so I remember when I made my first TikTok and I did before pictures and after pictures. And I was so nervous when I released that you guys.
Speaker 1:I hit post and I did not look at my phone for like the whole day. I got so much positive feedback. Okay. I got crappy feedback as well but you know there's always internet trolls and who gives a shit about them, right? Like if you're that busy, if I'm that important that you're gonna come comment on my shit, then so be it.
Speaker 1:But I got a lot of really positive feedback. And that was the start of sharing my recovery journey. I think it's so important that people can understand that you can go from complete rock bottom and not just kinda get your life together. Like I think some people think that like when addicts or alcoholics get their shit together. Yeah.
Speaker 1:They go get a job at like, you know, Walmart or somewhere and they live in like a low income housing and they live like a basic life, but that's not how it needs to be. I don't give a shit if you lost every single thing you've ever had. There is no reason you can't build a life beyond your wildest dreams. I've been sober almost ten years and I truly feel that I built in these ten years more than most people have built in their whole life. And it's just about the drive and the mindset.
Speaker 1:Like it's literally the mindset. One of my favorite sayings and I live by is that I live as though everything is rigged in my favor and now I can't lose. And if I lose, like who gives a shit? Get up and try again, right? So here I am almost ten years sober you guys and I truly feel like I have really built a lot.
Speaker 1:I'm proud of where I'm at But I still struggle in so many areas, you guys. I am so ADHD. I'm sometimes like a 10 year old kid trapped in a grown up body. I'm impulsive. I'm all these things, but you can still thrive with that.
Speaker 1:And that's where I was like, I want a podcast. I want us to be able to talk about all these things, about the struggles in recovery, about the struggles in entrepreneurship, about raising babies and building businesses at the same time, about inspiring others, about making a difference in the world but doing it completely raw and just completely unfiltered. So now you can truly understand what to expect from Bare It All With Lindsay. We're gonna be having episodes coming out every two weeks, you guys, and I we're gonna have the best time all while we're inspiring people and we're just learning how to thrive in life together. Right?
Speaker 1:We're all in this together and we're all living life for the first time and we all have our issues. We all have our character defects. We all have our things. But we're gonna work through them together, you guys. I cannot wait to take you along on the journey.
Speaker 1:Love you guys.