From Homeless to Hope: LisaBeth Thomas on Resilience, Redemption & Saving Lives
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this deeply moving episode of The Mike Litton Experience, host Mike Litton sits down with LisaBeth Thomas—a powerhouse entrepreneur, speaker, media consultant, and the inspiring founder of Texas Women in Business and Not On Our Watch.
LisaBeth opens up like never before, sharing her journey from leading one of Austin’s top ad agencies—producing films with stars like Robert Rodriguez and Sandra Bullock—to losing everything: her home, her business, and her mother, all within a few months. But what happened next will leave you breathless—a divine moment on a Galveston beach that reminded her she was the real treasure.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
How LisaBeth rose from complete loss to inspire and empower thousands of women.
The founding of Texas Women in Business and its mission of authentic collaboration, not competition.
How her nonprofit Not On Our Watch is saving children from human trafficking through awareness and action.
Actionable insights for parents on protecting kids in the digital age. The real power of vulnerability in leadership, business, and life.
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a parent, or someone facing life’s toughest battles—this episode will inspire you to persevere, lead with heart, and never give up.
Subscribe now to catch more stories like LisaBeth’s that move you, challenge you, and motivate you to be your best self.
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| 0:00.0 | See, I was in business with my husband and we, I knew I shouldn't have married him. |
| 0:07.5 | It was a long, long, long story, but we were in business together. |
| 0:10.5 | I finally got the courage up to say, okay, I got to walk away from this. |
| 0:14.5 | This is horrible, right? |
| 0:16.1 | The Sunday school job, I was, and like I said, I was calling him the son of a, I was so mad. |
| 0:20.5 | I was like, you could do a miracle I was so mad. I was like, |
| 0:20.9 | you could do a miracle. You really could. And he didn't. And so I was walking the beach. |
| 0:27.7 | And what dawned on me is, there could be a wallet washed up or maybe a money clip or maybe |
| 0:33.9 | he dropped. So maybe somebody lost an engagement ring. So I start looking for money. You know, we had it all. So I finally got my courage up to say, I'm out. And there is a long |
| 0:44.9 | story of the insecurity and self-esteem with all that. And as we were going through the divorce, |
| 0:51.5 | it came bubbling up to the head that he hadn't filed |
| 0:55.0 | three years of our personal taxes from like nine years prior. |
| 1:01.5 | And the stat is on, he's 16, but the stat now is, Mike, that 34% of all 13-year-olds |
| 1:07.1 | thinks it's normal to post a nude photo or share a new photo. |
| 1:14.0 | So, yeah, we never would have thought of that, you know. I, yeah. So, um, he did. And the beautiful thing about when Brian |
| 1:21.9 | Montgomery is telling the story, he said, he's a 16 year old boy. He wasn't mad. He didn't say, he should have known better. You know, he does. Did you know there's a 16-year-old boy. He wasn't mad. He didn't say he should have known better. |
| 1:30.0 | Did you know there's a technology that's actually an app on your phone that uses sound waves to tell your brain what you want your brain to do? |
| 1:38.0 | We had a young man that was a guest on our podcast, the Michael Litton experience, who had a traumatic brain injury. |
| 1:43.8 | He was sleeping three hours a night. |
| 1:45.7 | He's using Newcomb now and he's sleeping more. |
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