Episodes
325
May 19, 2023
Michael Fiore 20 Years an Addict Raising Fentanyl Awareness
Michael Fiore is the Outreach Coordinator for Voices for Awareness and Project Facing Fentanyl (Home of National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day, August 21). Michael is C.E.0. & Founder of Inspire 2 Inspire providing resources to addicts...
325
May 12, 2023
Jared Callahan Clean Slate A Movie about People in Recovery
Jared Callahan is an award-winning, Emmy-nominated director / producer. He founded and runs People People Media, a production company based on a 95-acre farm in the San Francisco East Bay that specializes in personal and unique stories that help...
322
May 5, 2023
Jen Zoe Hall Horse Powered Healing
From a small town in Southeast Missouri, Jen Zoë had always been fascinated with horses. Her career with horses, however, did not begin until the age of 30 when she started taking horseback riding lessons. She quickly realized that the traditional...
321
April 28, 2023
Ellen Elizabeth Escaping Alcohol to Living Her Dream
Ellen Elizabeth is an author & coach representing people who are dealing with the struggle and the shame that comes from feelings of inadequacy, especially the feelings of the inability to quit addictive behavior. She wants to inspire people to...
320
April 21, 2023
Ricki Friedman Walking away from Weed Changed My Life
Ricki Friedman is a motivational speaker, mentor, creator and top100 podcaster who has transformed thousands of lives worldwide with her no BS approach and innovative ideas. Ricki helps people take steps forward with her walking podcast, Steps Forward...
318
April 14, 2023
Ken Makimsy Middleton Alcohol is Not Your Friend
Ken Makimsy Middleton is obsessed with helping people build the best versions of themselves. Ever since he experienced a tremendous turnaround from an entrepreneurial endeavor when he gave up alcohol on November 10th, 2018, his mission has been to...
316
April 7, 2023
Leann Blaskowsky the Dangers of Marijuana in Pregnancy and Newborns
Leeann Blaskowsky is a board-certified neonatal nurse practitioner. In her words: since 2009 I have been living and working in Colorado, and I am faced, almost daily, with counseling families about marijuana use during pregnancy and...
317
March 31, 2023
Former NFL QB Max Hall. His Recovery Story.
Max knows what it's like to hit the highest highs and the lowest lows. The former BYU and AZ Cardinals quarterback is a husband, father of 2 and high school football coach. While playing in the NFL, he suffered multiple concussions and a...
315
March 24, 2023
Bill Bodner DEA What the DEA is doing to Fight Drug Trafficking
William “Bill” Bodner, a 31 year veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration, assumed the role of Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Los Angeles Field Division in June, 2019. As the Special Agent in Charge, Mr....
319
March 17, 2023
Dr Tracy Strawberry Clean Sober Saved and Saving Others
Dr. Tracy Strawberry is an international speaker, published author, CEO, and wife of baseball legend Darryl Strawberry. After many years of battling addiction, alcoholism and other life controlling issues, Tracy surrendered her life to Jesus...
314
March 10, 2023
Khallid Muhammad (aka Kent Jamz). American Rapper. How I Recovered.
Khallid Muhammad is the son of Nation of Islam Minister Tony Muhammad. He was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to Los Angeles at the age of six. Muhammad formed OverDoz. in 2008 and released one album and four mixtapes with the group. He is known...
313
March 3, 2023
Sonia Kahlon Her Journey to Sobriety and Helping Others
Following five years of sobriety, Sonia Kahlon founded EverBlume which provides online small group recovery meetings with supportive peers and a recovery coach facilitator. Each group is uniquely tailored based on the characteristics of its members....
323
Feb. 28, 2023
Derek Maltz former DEA. Details the Massive Rise in Fentanyl Deaths
Derek S. Maltz retired from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) after 28 years of dedicated service and is currently working for Pen-Link Ltd as the Executive Director, Government Relations. Mr. Maltz is also a National Security, Public Safety...
311
Feb. 24, 2023
Joseph Kafy Addicted at 15 but It's Never Too Late
Joseph has overcome his struggle with drug addiction, after being a slave to it for 11 years. His addiction has led him to serve two separate prison sentences and being at a place where suicide seemed like the only option. Finally he realized his only...
312
Feb. 17, 2023
Rev Fred Shaw the Shocking Over Medicating of our Children
Reverend Frederick Shaw is the Director of Public Affairs and Spokesperson for the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR), a more than 50-year mental health industry watchdog. He’s also the Executive Director of the NAACP...
311
Feb. 10, 2023
Sam Quinones Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, including New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Dreamland: The True Tale of America's...
309
Feb. 3, 2023
Ryan Phillips - Benzos are not the Cure for Addiction- I Know
Ryan grew up with a great childhood and a close-knit family. All he focused on was becoming a successful hockey star which his parents fully supported. Ryan left home at the age of 16 to play professional hockey. This is when things began to change....
308
Jan. 27, 2023
Dr Michelle Humeidan Pioneer in Alternatives to Opioids for Pain Management
Dr. Michelle Humeidan, MD is an Anesthesiology Specialist in Columbus, OH and has over 12 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY / CHANDLER MEDICAL CENTER in 2011. Dr. Humeidan is providing pain...
307
Jan. 20, 2023
Robert Kanter. Fentanyl's Destructive Impact How We Got Here
Robert G. Kanter is the world's most respected international media commentator and recovery advocate addressing the fentanyl epidemic. He is an empowering thought leader and public speaker who is recognized as a subject matter expert in the field. His...
306
Jan. 13, 2023
Jason Yamas. I Once Controlled the Crystal Meth Market in the SFO Gay Community
Jason Yamas is a queer fiction and nonfiction writer making his prose debut as author of Tweakerworld: A Memoir (Unnamed Press, 2023). Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and was one of San Francisco’s...
305
Jan. 6, 2023
NY Times Best Selling Author Judy Mandel - Tried to Save My Addicted Niece
Judy L. Mandel is a former reporter and marketing executive. After the death of her parents, she knew that it was time to write the story of her family; their emotional and physical survival of a devastating plane crash that killed her older sister...
304
Dec. 30, 2022
Clint Arthur Millionaire Celebrity Entrepreneur and Former Pot Addict
Clint Arthur is a Wharton Business School graduate & award-winning Speaker & Info-Marketer who appears frequently on The Today Show, ABC NBC CBS Fox TV News & Talk Shows. He’s shared the stage with Martha Stewart, Dr Oz, Suzanne Somers, Caitlyn...
303
Dec. 23, 2022
Cammie Wolf Rice Fighting the Opioid Epidemic Now and for the Future
Cammie’s a mother, an advocate, an author and an agent for change. She has personal experience dealing with the dangers of opioid misuse through her own son’s battle from childhood through his passing at 32. Cammie has transferred her pain into...