Josh Trent: How to Overcome Any Addiction + Limiting Belief (The Way Forward Podcast)
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
What if everything you believe about money, love, worthiness, and safety was installed in you before you ever had a say in the matter?
Josh Trent, host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast and identity transformation architect, sits down with Alec Zeck for one of the most raw and real conversations he's ever had.
Josh opens up about hitting rock bottom in 2014... $80,000 in debt, freshly fired, putting his mom in a mental home, and stuffing everything he owned into a duffel bag. That moment became the launchpad for over a decade of deep inner work.
Josh also gets honest about his journey through pornography addiction, his experiences with plant medicine (including a brutal Ayahuasca ceremony where he screamed in a room full of strangers), and why he believes emotional epigenetics means we're not just healing for ourselves but for seven generations forward and back.
This conversation covers what it actually looks like to dismantle an identity built on pain, why safety is a paradox, and how the bridge between knowing and doing is the real final frontier of human growth.
In this episode, Josh Trent uncovers:
- (06:30) Breaking down the old identity: the tools and 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 step-by-step 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 why we unconsciously pass 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 |
| 0:05.2 | inherently broken, but we're not broken. We are here to thrive. And man, it's so challenging in this |
| 0:09.9 | current construct. Basically everything is a f***-sci-op. Almost everything I thought about women, |
| 0:15.1 | marriage, family, health, wellness, spirituality, finance. All of this shit is completely backwards. |
| 0:21.9 | I created the BTFA model, which is belief informs thought, which informs feeling, and then |
| 0:26.2 | dictates action. |
| 0:27.5 | Most people want to go right to the A. |
| 0:29.3 | Even CBT therapy, or most talk therapies, traditionally, they approach the A. |
| 0:32.9 | But I run in a reverse in the blueprint. |
| 0:34.8 | When it comes to breaking down a limiting belief that someone has, like, I believe I am unworthy. |
| 0:39.9 | What would that look like to get to the root of that? My first question would be, when was the very first time in your life that you can ever remember feeling that way? Josh Trent, thank you for being here, my man. Thank you for having me. Yeah. So I've given you a 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 was the studio. |
| 1:28.8 | I mean, that's kind of how this is, though, too. 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. And it's just a living room in an apartment. That's all it is. Well, you're a vibe curator. You just create a good vibe and then, you know, |
| 1:46.6 | something good comes from it. That's all it is. Well, you're a vibe curator. You just create a good vibe and then, you know, something good comes from. Who cares 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. This guy, I love that on my couch too. I know spread out. I just added that because I want to be able to have two guests at a time. So yeah, it was nice. |
| 2:03.8 | And I found one that matches this. I know. I just added that because I want to be able to have two guests at a time. |
| 2:01.3 | So yeah, it was nice. |
| 2:02.8 | And I found one that matches this. |
| 2:03.8 | So if anyone knows how to do this, maybe I'll do a master class on how to make your own podcast studio. |
| 2:08.2 | It's not that hard. |
| 2:08.9 | Anyway, man, so I actually had you on a previous podcast, which was Health Freedom for Humanity a while back. |
| 2:16.9 | And that's how we were acquainted. Yeah. |
| 2:18.8 | Yeah. Stanton introduced us. That's right. Shout out to Dr. Holm. Yeah, he's the man. He's the man. |
| 2:25.0 | So if people haven't heard that podcast episode, I think it's still up. Definitely go check it out. |
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