1958: Rebuilding After Rock Bottom: Money, Motherhood, and Redemption
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
What would you do if your life completely spun off course…before you even had a chance to understand who you were?
My guest today, Nikki Mammano, says she didn’t set out to become a drug dealer in Hawaii—she was a teenager running from trauma, searching for a fresh start, and instead found herself pulled into a dangerous underground economy that nearly cost her everything.
In her new memoir Breaking Good, Nikki shares the raw, unfiltered story of addiction, survival, incarceration—and ultimately, rebuilding her life from nothing. We talk about how she rose through the ranks of a drug operation, why she chose loyalty over leniency when she was caught, and the moment that changed everything: discovering she was pregnant and deciding to start over.
This is a conversation about second chances, financial survival, and what it really takes to rebuild—not just your bank account, but your sense of self.
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| 0:00.0 | So Money episode |
| 0:00.8 | 1958. |
| 0:02.5 | Rebuilding after rock bottom, money, motherhood, and redemption. |
| 0:08.3 | You're listening to So Money with award-winning money guru Farnoosh Torabi. |
| 0:13.2 | Each day, get a 30-minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds, |
| 0:18.4 | authors, influencers, and from Farnoose yourself. |
| 0:22.5 | Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons? |
| 0:26.2 | Sorry, you're in the wrong place. |
| 0:28.5 | Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life. |
| 0:31.7 | Welcome to So Money. |
| 0:34.9 | I was too young to really understand what was going on. My brain wasn't developed. I was an addict. I was too young to really understand what was going on. |
| 0:38.5 | My brain wasn't developed. |
| 0:40.1 | I was an addict. |
| 0:41.2 | I was running from my pain. |
| 0:43.0 | And I always say, you know, I came into suburbia. |
| 0:45.1 | I had my kids and I became the person. |
| 0:47.2 | I always was. |
| 0:48.7 | You know, we tend to become new people when we go to the process of healing and learn more about ourselves. |
| 0:55.5 | But we also return to ourselves, the person that we were born, you know, to be before the |
| 1:00.3 | trauma happened. |
| 1:01.3 | And so I was someone who was very much living a traumatized life and running from my pain, |
| 1:07.5 | but it wasn't me. |
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