Rewrite Your Narrative: How Lara Love Hardin Went From Addiction to Success (ep. 590)

Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

John O'Leary

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Lara Love Hardin is a four-time New York Times bestselling collaborative writer… yet for years, she lived in constant fear that someone would Google her and uncover her checkered past.

When a worsening addiction from prescribed painkillers lead to smoking heroin, Lara began stealing neighbors’ credit cards and other identifying information to buy groceries and gas after her cash went to buying drugs. Caught, Lara was convicted of 32 felonies and was sent to a year in County Jail, drug treatment and supervised probation.

Today, Lara joins us to share her downward spiral from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter.

Hear Lara share how she learned to forgive herself and others, navigate life as a felon on probation, prove to herself that she is more good than bad, and much more.

My friends, today’s conversation is about lying and stealing. But more importantly it’s about healing, redemption and how we all have the power to rewrite our narratives to embrace the many lives we're meant to live.

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0:44.2	Welcome to the live-inspired podcast with John O'Leary. John is the number one national best-selling author of the book On Fire.
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1:01.0	John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from accidental living and more fully live your life story.
1:13.1	Here's your host, John O'Leary.
1:18.9	Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary.
1:26.5	Today, you're in for a wild ride and one that I know you're going to love because you're going to savor our guest.
1:35.1	She is a four-time New York Times collaborative writer, yet for years she lived in the constant fear that someone would Google her name and in doing so would uncover her checkered past.
1:41.2	So what is that checkered past?
1:48.0	Well, she was prescribed some painkillers, and those pain killers led to an addiction, and the addiction led to a worsening addiction, and eventually led to an even cheaper fix called heroin.
1:54.0	And yet, Lara had to begin stealing neighbors' credit cards and other identifying information to pay for that addiction.
2:00.0	It eventually led to her stealing information to pay for that addiction. It eventually led to her
2:00.9	stealing information and pay for her groceries and her gas after her cash went to buying drugs. Eventually,
2:09.2	caught. She was eventually convicted of 32 felonies, was sent to a year in county jail,
2:16.8	then drug treatment, and then eventually
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