Ep 220: This Process Allows You to Overcome Any Addiction & Limiting Belief | Josh Trent
The Way Forward with Alec Zeck
Alec Zeck
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 128 minutes
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You’re not running your life… your belief system is.
Today I’m joined by Josh Trent, an identity transformation architect and the host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast. For nearly a decade, his work has centered on helping driven, burnt-out achievers unwind the emotional and belief patterns that run their lives.
Identity under pressure reveals how much of who we are was shaped long before we had a choice, with unconscious beliefs tracing back far beyond our own lived experiences. Nervous system regulation, money stories, and lineage show up as an interconnected web that influences how daily life is experienced and navigated. Addiction and self-abandonment surface as signals of deeper disconnection. Responsibility for the inner world becomes less about fixing what’s wrong and more about seeing what’s beneath the surface.
This episode speaks to anyone sensing that forward movement isn’t about more tactics, but by understanding the forces shaping personal choices, accumulated stress, and the kind of freedom that feels earned rather than chased.
You’ll Learn:
[00:00] Introduction
[06:30] Breaking down the old identity: the practices Josh used for transformation
[19:02] Is plant medicine a necessity when it comes to transformation?
[34:07] Getting to your root beliefs with the BTFA practice: a breathwork walkthrough
[58:45] Traditional talk therapy vs somatic approaches
[01:11:23] Understanding addiction as disconnection and the trap of trading one addiction for another
[01:27:05] Facing your biggest fear in real-time: how Alec nearly shut down his podcast
[01:41:24] Emotional epigenetics and unconsciously passing patterns down through generations
[01:53:58] The single most powerful practice: emotional inventory
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| 0:00.0 | None of us are broken. We feel broken at times. We've been taught by broken people that we are inherently broken, but we're not broken. We are here to thrive. And man, it's so challenging in this current construct. Basically, everything is a fci-op. Almost everything I thought about women, marriage, family, health, wellness, spirituality, finance. All of this shit is completely backwards. |
| 0:22.0 | I created the BTFA model, which is belief informs thought, which informs feeling, and then dictates action. |
| 0:27.4 | Most people want to go right to the A. |
| 0:29.2 | Even CBT therapy, or most talk therapies, traditionally, they approach the A. |
| 0:33.0 | But I run in a reverse in the blueprint. |
| 0:34.8 | When it comes to breaking down a limiting belief that someone has, |
| 0:38.5 | like I believe I am unworthy. What would that look like to get to the root of that? My first question |
| 0:42.4 | would be, when was the very first time in your life that you can ever remember feeling that way? |
| 0:47.1 | Josh Trent, thank you for being here, my man. Thank you for having me. Yeah. So I've given you a |
| 0:52.6 | shout out before a number of times since I've been in the studio because the idea for this studio came from you because I was on your podcast with Aaron Abke, Luke Story. We did this quadcast and I show up to what I'm thinking might be like some sort of commercial building or, you know, strip mall maybe. I don't know what I'm showing up to. I know it's not your house. When I show up and I'm like an apartment complex. Okay. This is interesting. And then I go in and you've turned, I think it was the dining room space or maybe it was a living room space. It was the whole living room. All of it. Yeah. like the whole thing yeah it's the studio I mean that's kind of how this is though too like you walk in |
| 1:31.1 | it's like it was a living room space. It was the whole living room. All of it. Yeah. Like the whole thing. |
| 1:27.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.4 | It's the studio. I mean, that's kind of how this is, though, too. |
| 1:30.2 | Like, you walk in and everyone who sees it on camera first and then comes in, it's like, oh, this is way smaller than it looks on camera. It's like that's the effect of lenses and things like this. It's just a living room in an apartment. |
| 1:42.3 | That's all it is. |
| 1:43.1 | Well, you're a vibe curator. |
| 1:44.5 | You just create a good vibe and then, you know, |
| 1:46.7 | something good comes from. |
| 1:47.6 | Who cares where it is. Well, you're a vibe curator. You just create a good vibe and then, you know, something good comes from. Who cares |
| 1:47.9 | where it is? Yeah. It could be in a field, could be in an apartment. Exactly. It's all good. Yeah. This is quite cozy because you and I are pretty big guys and so we're like way closer than the camera would make us here. I love that on my couch too. I know. I just added that because I |
| 1:59.5 | want to be able to have two guests at a time. So yeah, it was nice. I found one that matches this. |
| 2:03.9 | So if anyone knows how to do this, maybe I'll do a master class on how to make your own podcast studio. It's not that hard. Anyway, man, so I actually had you on a previous podcast, which was Health Freedom for Humanity a while back. And that's how we were acquainted. Yeah. Yeah. Stanton introduced us. That's right. Shout out to Dr. Hohm. Yeah, he's the man. He's the man. So if people haven't heard that podcast episode, I think it's still up. Definitely go check it out. I'm sure a lot of your perspectives has changed since then. So, you know, it's like 2021, |
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