Ep.331 How Winning Twice Made One Woman Lose Everything

Evelyn Adams beat impossible odds—twice. She won the New Jersey lottery in 1985 and 1986, taking home $5.4 million. It should’ve secured her life forever. Instead, she gambled it all away in Atlantic City and, within two decades, ended up broke and living in a trailer park. Her downfall wasn’t bad math—it was mindset. She mistook luck for skill. Winning twice convinced her she had a special touch, a gambler’s intuition. But luck repeated feels like proof, and that’s the trap. Success can sedu...