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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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This week on Let’s Try This Again, I sit down with the multi-talented artist Vic Mensa for a raw, honest conversation about sobriety, healing, and what it really takes to break free from addiction. I open up about my own struggles with food addiction, and Vic shares his journey of letting go of drugs, alcohol, and even unhealthy relationships with sex-getting real about the moments that forced him to change. He talks about the night he crashed his car while drunk and high on Molly, and how that wake-up call, paired with a powerful moment of prayer in a mosque, led him to finally listen when God gave him a second chance.
Vic breaks down what sobriety means for him-not just abstaining from substances, but rebuilding his relationship with himself and others, including getting involved with Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. We talk about the concept of anhedonia, or the inability to feel pleasure, and how years of chasing extreme highs left him feeling numb to everyday joys. Vic gets vulnerable about the guilt, shame, and darkness that came with addiction, and how, over time, he’s learned to find happiness in the simple moments again.
If you’ve ever battled addiction in any form-or just felt stuck in a cycle you couldn’t break-this episode is for you. Vic’s story is motivating and relatable, reminding us that real change takes honesty, support, and a willingness to listen when life (or God) gives you a sign. Tune in for a conversation full of laughter, wisdom, and hope for anyone ready to try again.
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0:00.0 | I learned about this concept called Anhadonia recently from Lena Waith gave me a book. |
0:07.0 | Anhedony is the inability to experience pleasure. |
0:11.0 | Wow. |
0:12.0 | Most often brought on by reliance on extreme pleasures, like sex and drugs, etc. |
0:20.0 | Skydiving. |
0:22.4 | Like, you know, I'm a skydiving type of nigga. |
0:22.9 | Right. |
0:26.2 | And it made it click for me like, |
0:31.9 | damn, that's why sometimes in this phase of life I can feel like, man, everything is boring. |
0:33.5 | It's because I've fried my brain's pleasure center, you know. |
0:40.0 | What's up, you guys? |
0:41.3 | I'm your host B. Simone and welcome to the Let's Try This Again podcast. |
0:45.2 | Let's just try again. |
0:49.2 | All right, you guys, welcome back to another episode of Let's Try This Again. |
0:53.5 | I am your host, B Simone. And before we get into |
0:56.1 | this handsome guest, I know y'all see him |
0:57.9 | Right to my right. He looking cute, but |
1:00.5 | He ain't single. He ain't a relationship. And we're going to talk about that. |
1:03.5 | But thank you all for coming back. The OGs. |
1:07.1 | Thank you. If you're an O.G, thank you for being here. |
1:10.0 | Thank you for coming back. |
1:10.9 | I love you guys so much. |
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