This is what the work was for.
The Mental Wealth Show with Rich Jones
Rich Jones
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Rich reflects on five years of sobriety and his personal healing journey, realizing that all the hard work was preparing him for this exact moment. In this raw, unscripted episode, he shares how his personal growth has become the anchor he needs to navigate a sudden family health crisis. It's a powerful look at how the work we do on ourselves equips us for the challenges we can't see coming.
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, what's good? This is Rich, and you're listening to The Mental Wealth Show, a podcast about |
| 0:04.7 | mindset, personal growth and high performance. And this episode is about personal growth. |
| 0:11.4 | It's about this healing journey that I've been on, what's been going on these past couple of |
| 0:16.0 | months because it's been a lot. So I wanted to talk a little bit about that, how I've been able to navigate some of what's going on and kind of what's happening from here. |
| 0:29.9 | I think that's where I'm going to go with it. |
| 0:31.3 | I don't have notes for this. |
| 0:33.4 | I just literally was like, you know what? |
| 0:35.1 | It's been a minute. |
| 0:35.8 | I got a lot of stuff on my mind. |
| 0:37.9 | Let me turn the microphone on and see what happens. |
| 0:42.4 | And I think I'll start off on the big thought that I have today as I'm realizing that |
| 0:48.3 | this whole alcohol quitting in 2020, physical healing, mental health and emotional health healing journey that I |
| 0:58.5 | really started to dive deeper into in 2021 and was on for several years. And healing is forever. |
| 1:05.1 | So even still now, but it feels like the whole reason that I was on this journey was so that I could get to a place |
| 1:13.9 | today where I could be part of the decision about my mom's care since she's starting to lose |
| 1:19.4 | some of her mental faculties. |
| 1:21.9 | And I've talked before about having an aging parent and how much that sucks and being in that season of life and having |
| 1:31.8 | to make some really difficult decisions and being across the country. It's crazy because before |
| 1:37.5 | I even came to California over a decade ago, this was part of what I was worried about. Now, it's not as dire, |
| 1:47.7 | but like the what if something happens at home? What if I need to be home? What if I need to get |
| 1:51.8 | there quickly? It was something that I worried about. And I don't think that I would be |
| 1:59.1 | in the state of mind that I am today. I don't think that I would |
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