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Badass Basic Bitch

Freedom Unlocked: From Suicidal Corporate to Travel & Thriving with Connie

Badass Basic Bitch

Brianna Dunbar-DeMike

Self-improvement, Entrepreneur, Life Coach, Career, Mom Boss, Mom, Working Mom, Parenting, Education

4.2529 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In one of the most raw and inspiring episodes to date, we sit down with Connie, a travel entrepreneur and suicide survivor, who shares her powerful journey from corporate burnout and emotional rock bottom to a life of global freedom and thriving purpose. Connie opens up about the moment everything changed—the turning point that took her from suicidal ideation in a high-pressure corporate environment to building a life by design rooted in travel, healing, and empowerment. If you’ve ever felt s...

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0:00.0

What's up, Badi Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

0:18.7

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

0:24.0

things and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

0:30.7

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club. And I remember I called my mum and I called my mum and I sobbed.

0:40.7

And I just come out of this long-term relationship and I was heartbreaking because I just turned

0:47.4

30 and again just going back to that pressure, I thought I was going to be engaged.

0:52.0

Like I thought it was getting engaged on my 30th birthday. And that ended really unexpectedly. I just think that everything happens for a

0:59.8

reason. If we get so caught up in this, like, it has to go like this because this is what social

1:06.0

media, this is what society, this is what my friends are doing. This is what, you know, the people that I work with are telling me that I should be wanting

1:13.9

and doing in terms of striving to the next, you know, progression role or whatever.

1:19.1

And I think just letting go sometimes is like the most powerful thing that you can do.

1:27.8

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch.

1:31.5

On today's episode, we have an incredible guest, Connie Pearson, a travel entrepreneur and

1:37.1

suicide survivor who turned her darkest moments into thriving life of freedom.

1:43.1

She went from feeling trapped in a corporate grind

1:45.7

to unlocking a life of adventure, perfect, and financial independence. So thank you so much,

1:51.4

Connie, for being here today. Thank you so much for having me, Brianna. I'm so excited.

1:56.9

I'm a little bit nervous, but really excited. But that is the mood for 2025.

2:03.3

It's like pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone.

2:06.4

And when you know, you reached out to me, I was like, oh my gosh, little old me.

2:11.4

Like what?

2:12.5

But that's the imposter syndrome, which I think a lot of people can relate to.

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