Dr. Camille Filardo-Kraft is an athlete, counselor, educator, and business owner who is passionate about collectively constructing positive concepts. The three fundamental elements that motivate Dr. Kraft are creativity, activity, and connectivity. When these three factors intersect, she is at the apex of her game. Her strong leadership practices are…
Joseph Carlucci Adevai is Senior Pastor and Founder of Grace Church of North Brunswick, NJ. He is also the former CEO of Serenity Springs Recovery a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Edgewater, Fla. He worked on Wall St. for 25 Years and retired in 2009 as SVP of a…
After spending almost 20 years struggling with addiction Paul finally made the conscious decision change. With 1 year left on his decade long prison stay he began to work on himself from the inside out. Through internal work and a shift in his mindset he has been able to stay…
Patricia Love is a professional life coach, NLP, EFT who motivates and builds confidence in women who struggle with being seen and heard in their personal or business lives. Turning her own life around from being broke and broken at 57, she made the decision to turn “Her Mess, Into…
Danielle Gregorich is an Arizona native. She is an Air Force wife and a sober Mom of two children. She is a multiple suicide attempt survivor, a kidney cancer survivor, and a stroke survivor. DG started writing about her sobriety publicly in 2018 after she suffered a massive stroke four…
Growing up in a small garden apartment community, Alan and his brother lost their father at a very young age. Trying to manage in the wake of this tragedy alongside an emotionally destroyed mother and a brother who spiraled downward into mental illness, Alan navigated in the only way he…
Dr. Gelfand is a board-certified rheumatologist with over 40 years clinical and teaching experience. Over the last three years he was involved with patient care and teaching rheumatology to a new Internal Medicine Residency Program of HCA in Myrtle Beach, SC, until he semi-retired last July, 2018 to devote most…
John Luppo is a Modern Day Miracle. He is a man who has endured much trauma, tragedy, and loss. His life is seriously what Hollywood Movies are made of. Raised on the streets of New York City in the borough of the Bronx in an Italian Catholic family he went…
Josh Torbich is the Executive Director of Christian Recovery Centers Inc. He also serves as the Director of the Ocean Isle Beach Celebrate Recovery and is the chairman of the Brunswick County Opioid Task Force. He holds a Masters degree in Education with an emphasis on Business Management and Christian…
Manny Mendez received his school of hard knocks diploma in some of the hardest correctional institutes since he was a youth. After gaining his physical freedom he began a long journey to free his mind from the prison of addiction. Throughout all of this, his comfort came in the form…
I am a family man with 7 children, six daughters and one son. I am a retired Police Officer who was run over on duty and ultimately retired from the injuries. The injuries caused me to endure numerous knee surgeries and constant rehabilitation. To deal with the pain, I was…
John Mabry’s story of addiction begins where most people’s end. At 22, he was involved in a horrific SUV accident that claimed his right leg as well as the life of his friend. (The vehicle flipped 10 times in less than 10 seconds.) It’s the sort of shocking, violent twist…
Behind closed doors, millions of people abuse opioids. Nicholas Bush was one of them. In this beautifully raw and refreshingly honest memoir, Bush boldly allows readers into his addiction-ravaged community. We see how heroin nearly claimed his life on multiple occasions, how it stole the lives of his young siblings…
While alcoholic falls from grace are as common as they are tragic, there isn’t often an Olympic pedestal involved somewhere in the story. Unfortunately for three-time Olympic champion Carrie Steinseifer Bates, her story has one in it. Her decades-long plunge into alcoholism didn’t just devastate her family and destroy relationships—it…
In 2013, Kim Bellas' 15 -year-old started having seizures. Like most teenagers, he enjoyed going to parties and socializing. A significant aspect of these parties was the consumption of alcohol, and her son was unable to drink due to his seizures. As a mother, it was instinctive to make him…
Don't miss the upcoming interview with Emily Souther. She's been there and done it all and come out the other end, doing well.
At 16 years old I dropped out of highschool and got my GED. I moved out of my home and got an apartment with my boyfriend. I went to work full-time for my father at his landscape company. I was a good kid who struggled in school and just couldn't…
Michael R. DeLeon, a successfully acclimated ex-offender who after nearly 8 years of drug addiction and gang involvement, spent 12 years in state prison and half-way houses for a gang-related homicide. Michael plead guilty in a very emotional and complicated case involving the murder of his own Mother by people…
Michael DeLeon has been there and done that - addiction and incarceration. If you think that the legalization of recreational drugs is a good thing, you need to listen to this upcoming episode.
Dr. Libby Stuyt is a psychiatrist in Colorado and she is seeing firsthand the devastating effects of marijuana. If you're on the fence about this drug, don't miss this episode.
For the past ten years Cynthia Munger has devoted her time to the issues of substance use disease with special focus on Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family and their role in the opioid crisis. In 2019, Cynthia wrote and presented to Boston Opioid Spoon Conference a paper entitled, “The…
Alcoholism is one of the biggest public health crises in the United States today, and it has been for generations. We know this because of the statistics and information on alcoholism and addiction that have been collected over the years, showing how alcohol and substance abuse have affected people across…
Michael Blanchard was an alcoholic. Now he uses his photography to help not only himself, but others. Listen to his story of redemption as our next episode.
