7 Ways to ERASE Trauma Without Therapy or Medication
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Aaron "Sgt. Q" Quinonez, a Marine combat veteran turned entrepreneur and mental health advocate who went from homelessness to building a thriving company and coaching leaders across the country.
Sergeant Q breaks down the neuroscience of unhealed trauma, how it silently destroys relationships and success, and the simple daily habits that actually rewire your brain for resilience. He also gets into the raw personal story that changed everything for him.
If you've ever felt stuck, reactive, or like you're running on empty — this one's for you. The tools are simpler than you think, and someone in your life needs this conversation as much as you do.
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Healing Thru Service (SgtQ's book): https://a.co/d/0dJUDkmO
The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk): https://a.co/d/0hVet8ZJ
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| 0:00.0 | Your brain is a supercomputer. It is the most powerful machine that will ever operate. |
| 0:03.9 | People don't really understand the mechanics of mental health. They think it's all in your head, but it's actually physical neural connections. When we have these traumatic experiences, it damages the way we see things. Now, here's the crazy thing. When you can name the emotion that you're feeling, it reduces the effect by 50%. And then if we can reframe it, we start to heal. Your brain |
| 0:21.4 | can't tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined. So when you're thinking about |
| 0:26.1 | something, your brain is actually reliving it. But if the emergency is only happening in your brain, |
| 0:33.3 | that threat never leaves. That's what we know as an anxiety attack or panic attack. |
| 0:37.7 | How do you stop that? |
| 0:38.8 | Okay, here's a tip. |
| 0:39.7 | This is something super easy. |
| 0:44.1 | What it is, Brad Lee, back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio. |
| 0:48.8 | Folks, I got a real treat for you. |
| 0:51.2 | U.S. Marine Special Operations Leader changed to Marine First Anglico. |
| 0:56.3 | Yes, first Anglico. Operator. Aaron, Sergeant Q. Kignon, Kignon. How do you say that? |
| 1:04.9 | Kionones. Kionez. Don't look at it. If you look at it, you throw you off. |
| 1:09.1 | Kono. Kano, I did a thing that it was what would you do on television. It was John Kinonez. Yes. Chinonez. Same name. I couldn't pronounce that one either. What's happening? That's why everybody just calls me Q. It just makes it easier. Is it Sergeant Q? Yeah. So in the Marine Corps, you go by your last name and nobody could say it. And so it just became Q. When I got out of the Marine Corps, I was a sergeant. So Sergeant Q. When I got back into working with veterans and in the nonprofit space, everybody knew me as Sergeant Q. So it just kind of stuck. I branded it. And it just kind of took on a life of its own. Yeah. So, so guys, |
| 1:44.2 | if you guys don't know who he is, |
| 1:45.8 | you can follow him on Instagram at sergeant period Q underscore, |
| 1:50.9 | sergeant dot Q underscore, |
| 1:53.3 | um, |
| 1:57.2 | entrepreneur for sure, |
| 1:59.0 | went from homeless to a massive janitorial company now speaking on stages all |
| 2:04.5 | over helping people get through trauma basically yeah everybody experiences trauma at some point in |
| 2:10.6 | their life it could be from their childhood it could be from a car accident a bad breakup the death |
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