Overcoming addiction and finding your voice. An interview with Justin Balunsat featuring Devinne Bravoco.

The Lindsey Elmore Show

Lindsey Elmore

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine

5.0 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of the Lindsey Elmore Show, Lindsey has a raw and real conversation with recovering alcoholic and real estate investor Justin Balunsat. He left his six figure income job to start Just Divine Properties, which is now a successful real estate company focusing on large scale luxury renovations and additions. But Justin’s story is far from normal. He was raised in a military family, and survived sexual abuse from both men and women. He became a college athlete and survived addiction. He has now come to the understanding that one of the most important things we can do is protect our state of mind. After Justin’s interview, we hear from his fiancée Devinne Bravoco who was with him during the days of his drinking, and even has stood by his side when she found him drunk on the streets of New York. She pours her heart into a letter to him, detailing their highs, and lows, and why she is grateful to have made it through their struggles together.

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to today's episode of the Lindsay Elmore show.
0:04.0	I have a real and raw conversation on today's show with Justin Balensat about how he went from working a high-powered corporate position but drowning in alcoholism to an entrepreneur who is now celebrating his alcohol-free life.
0:27.4	After I talk with Justin, we will hear from his girlfriend who was with him during the days
0:35.8	of his drinking, found him on the streets of New York, passed out drunk,
0:41.1	and has stood by his side throughout the entire recovery process. Let's get to the show.
0:48.7	Welcome to the Lindsay Elmore Show, a podcast that helps you find fulfillment amidst chaos.
0:53.8	On this show, I interview
0:55.4	thought leaders, doctors, creatives, spiritual gurus, and game changers who inspire you to
1:01.3	pursue your dreams, overcome obstacles, and leave your mark. After a successful career as a New York City luxury hotelier, Justin Balonset set his sights on real estate investing and created Just Divine Properties with co-founder Devin Bravico in 2018.
1:31.4	After a 15-year career of climbing the corporate ladder, Justin left his six-figure income job
1:40.3	in an attempt to start all over in a life that he designed himself.
1:48.0	Three years into his entrepreneurial journey,
1:51.0	Justin and Just Divine Properties are a successful real estate company
1:56.0	focusing on large-scale luxury renovations and additions. But real estate investing is just the
2:03.2	tip of the iceberg. Justin is also a varsity football coach at a New Jersey high school,
2:09.6	an event manager at a world-class event space and plans to start his own podcast. Now all of that
2:16.8	seems great. But what I'm here to talk to him
2:19.7	about today is the way that his journey is different than many other entrepreneurs. Justin's journey,
2:28.2	his story, has been far from normal. He was raised in a military family and survived sexual abuse from both men and women.
2:40.4	He became a college athlete and he survived addiction that threatened to take his life.
2:49.3	He survived the corporate world and he has come to the understanding now
2:56.5	that one of the most important things that we can do is protect our state of mind.
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