I Was a Doctor — Then I Went to Prison | Dr. Linda Varisco

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Dr. Linda Varisco had it all — a wealthy upbringing in Long Island, a thriving chiropractic business, and a picture-perfect life. But when her marriage to a crack-addicted, cheating husband imploded, her world spiraled out of control. In a shocking twist, she got entangled with a criminal enterprise running through her business, leading to federal charges for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. In this entertaining and unfiltered interview, Dr. Varisco reveals how she went from living in luxury to serving a year and a day in federal prison — and how she rebuilt her life from the ground up. #PrisonStories #TrueCrimeInterviews #WhiteCollarCrime #RedemptionStory #WomenInPrison #TrueCrimePodcast #PrisonLife #lockedinwithianbick Buy her books: Book 1: https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Million-Dollar-Smile/dp/B0DQHB6RF6 Book 2: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Right-Million-Dollar-Smile/dp/B0FB3QNQYW/ref=pd_bxgy_thbs_d_sccl_1/145-3040682-0764748?pd_rd_w=D8Nbx&content-id=amzn1.sym.dcf559c6-d374-405e-a13e-133e852d81e1&pf_rd_p=dcf559c6-d374-405e-a13e-133e852d81e1&pf_rd_r=3YCY59SGYR34T4NQT3WQ&pd_rd_wg=BLygp&pd_rd_r=f534e269-9786-4ee8-bb4b-aec22fae8cac&pd_rd_i=B0FB3QNQYW&psc=1 Follow her: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thelifeofmrpeaches?lang=en Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Get 50% off the Magic Mind offer here: https://www.magicmind.com/IANB50. #magicmind #mentalwealth #mentalperformance Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Use code LOCKEDIN for 20% OFF Wooooo Energy Buy Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop Timestamps: 00:00 Prison Stories & Bunkmate Drama 00:22 Introduction: Dr. Linda's Dramatic Life 01:46 Growing Up in Long Island 02:44 Family, Upbringing, and Parental Influence 05:33 Education, College and Career Choices 07:37 Switching to Chiropractic: Inspiration & Path 10:12 Starting Out as a Chiropractor 13:10 Early Business Partnerships and Trouble 16:02 Moving On: Cancun, Romance, & New Beginnings 18:08 Meeting Her Husband & Building the Business 21:02 Business Growth and Early Warnings 23:32 Betrayal, Lawsuits, and Business Collapse 25:43 Family Changes & Financial Struggles 28:08 Discovering Addiction & Heartbreak 32:32 Separation, Divorce, and Parental Challenges 36:46 The Aftermath: Rebuilding Business and Life 41:46 The Wrong Business Partners 44:35 The Big Mistake: Letting Others In 46:32 Warning Signs, Rapid Growth, and Anxiety 49:35 The FBI Raid: Clinic Seized 53:14 The Criminal Case & Legal Nightmare 57:04 Facing Federal Charges 01:00:01 The Trial, Plea, & Sentencing 01:04:09 Processing Prison & Self-Surrender 01:10:07 Prison Life: Friendships, Adjustment & Survival 01:16:16 Daily Reality & Finding Community in Prison 01:23:00 Loss, Tragedy, and Emotional Stories in Prison 01:26:30 Release, Halfway House, and Life After Prison 01:29:37 Rebuilding: New Career and Identity 01:33:31 Public Perception, Judgment, and Sharing the Story 01:36:01 Resilience and Lessons Learned 01:36:44 Final Thoughts, Humor, and Farewell Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm laying in bed one night. I'm on the top bunk. All the girls on the top bunk could see each other, right?
0:05.0	So I'm sleeping one night and I'm here, ah, ah, I'm like, oh, damn it.
0:11.1	So I, you know, I'm putting the pillow over my head and I'm hearing all this morning. I'm like,
0:15.7	it's like getting faster. After like 15 minutes ago, just come already.
0:20.5	From a luxury upbringing in Long Island to
0:22.8	running her own chiropractic clinic, Dr. Linda Verisco seemed to have it all until her world
0:28.7	unraveled. A husband addicted to crack, financial ruin, and a shocking federal indictment for
0:34.3	health care fraud left her facing prison for the first time in her life.
0:38.3	This is the entertaining story of how she lost everything and fought her way back to rebuild it.
0:46.3	Dr. Linda Veriscoe, how are you today? I'm great. Thank you. Welcome to Lockton. I know you had quite a journey to get here today. A lot of traffic
0:55.7	coming for the city, but you're fired up and ready to go. You bet. And I want to plug in your books at
1:03.3	the top of this episode. These are two different books, right? It's all, it's book one, book two,
1:08.9	and book three's coming out. All right. If you want to give the audience like the elevator pitch of what these are about, and we'll have to link in the description of this episode. I went to a publisher, brought him the books, and he said, it's awesome, Linda. It should be a Netflix story, but it's too long for one book. So he had me chop it up into three books. And each book leaves you with a
1:28.9	cliffhanger. And it's about your story, though. It's about my life, unfiltered. Yeah, the first
1:35.0	thing you asked me today was, could I swear in there? Could I be myself? So you already know it's
1:38.9	going to be a good episode when the guest is asking you that. Where did you grow up, Linda?
1:43.8	I grew up in Long Island, went to college, Villanova, went to chiropractic school in South Carolina, and then moved to Florida and been there ever since.
1:53.1	Where in Long Island?
1:54.1	Woodbury.
1:54.9	Okay.
1:56.7	I worked in the Westbury hold food for a little bit, and then I helped open the Massapequa one yeah and my family's from Rockville Center they live in that area not far
2:05.5	no and I did a little stint in North Valley stream for a couple months so that was interesting but
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