Shannon Hatfield grew up in section 8, her dad in federal prison, and her mom spent 2 decades working through OxyContin, black market heroin, and finally fentanyl. She's now a chiropractor running Evolve Sport and Spine working with professional athletes and anyone needing help. Shannon talks about what growing up inside that house actually looked like: finding her mom nodding out with cigarettes on her chest, being brought to the ER as the "normal daughter" so her mom could look functional enough to get Dilaudid, building boundaries as she got older, and being told "you think you're better than us" every time she took a step towards furthering her education. Her brother was also deep in meth and heroin while she was in college. Shannon gets into the medical philosophy that came out of all of it: the system was made so that over-prescription is the rule not the exception, the insurance model is broken by design, and her job is to sit with people long enough to actually figure out what's wrong.

My Parents' Addictions Led Me To Become A Doctor w/ Shannon Hatfield | The Hopeaholics Podcast #356

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0:00 - Cold open: "people just want to be heard"
2:51 - "Both my parents were addicts"
3:26 - Her mom's path: Vicodin to OxyContin to heroin to fentanyl
4:14 - The call from the OC sheriff: her mom was gone
4:33 - Nine months later: dad on life support
6:34 - First NFL client after graduating
6:51 - Flying to Texas to take boards one month after her dad died
7:32 - Why she practices the way she does: root cause, not symptom
15:21 - Growing up in section 8
16:45 - Finding her mom nodding out
17:40 - Being used as a prop at the hospital
18:03 - Building walls, getting called "you think you're better than us"
19:25 - Her brother in the thick of meth psychosis
23:46 - How she turned trauma into fuel instead of an excuse
28:41 - Her parents once sent her to AA
38:19 - Evolve Sport and Spine: what she does differently
46:52 - "At any given moment we have the choice to change direction"