From Darkness to Purpose: Elizabeth Carson on Trauma, Transformation & Taking Your Power Back

Oh man.

My whole like beginning life was a little dark.

I mean, I, like I said, I was, you know, experimenting very young, selling drugs very young.

I mean, I moved out of my parents' house when I was 14 and down the apartment from us, I was living with my high school sweetheart and his drug addicted father at the time.

And so there's no oversight.

So I learned how to sell real drugs because a couple doors down, there were some guys that were selling weed.

So they brought me in and they taught me the game.

So I learned how to sell weed.

And, you know, then I was partying at college parties when I was a freshman in high school.

So I met a lot of connections.

And in meeting those connections, I found guys that made fake IDs.

So then I supplied my entire high school with fake IDs.

So that was a hustle I did.

And then also I actually got in touch with some other college kids who had Oxycontin.

And I realized, whoa, I can get these pills for like $5 for a pill and sell them for $80 a pill.

I was selling them for $1 a milligram.

And that was bad because my life, I've never wanted to hurt people.

Right.

It was just I was trying to make money.

I was trying to just make money.

So one day I remember this like it was yesterday.

I had a knock on the door and it was a girl and she comes up to me and she's like, hey, you know, my boyfriend is blah, blah, blah, blah.

I'm just going to call him Bob.

Right.

My boyfriend is Bob.

Oh man.

My whole like beginning life was a little dark.

I mean, I, like I said, I was, you know, experimenting very young, selling drugs very young.

I mean, I moved out of my parents' house when I was 14 and down the apartment from us, I was living with my high school sweetheart and his drug addicted father at the time.

And so there's no oversight.

So I learned how to sell real drugs because a couple doors down, there were some guys that were selling weed.

So they brought me in and they taught me the game.

So I learned how to sell weed.

And, you know, then I was partying at college parties when I was a freshman in high school.

So I met a lot of connections.

And in meeting those connections, I found guys that made fake IDs.

So then I supplied my entire high school with fake IDs.

So that was a hustle I did.

And then also I actually got in touch with some other college kids who had Oxycontin.

And I realized, whoa, I can get these pills for like $5 for a pill and sell them for $80 a pill.

I was selling them for $1 a milligram.

And that was bad because my life, I've never wanted to hurt people.

Right.

It was just I was trying to make money.

I was trying to just make money.

So one day I remember this like it was yesterday.

I had a knock on the door and it was a girl and she comes up to me and she's like, hey, you know, my boyfriend is blah, blah, blah, blah.

I'm just going to call him Bob.

Right.

My boyfriend is Bob.