Sober Podcast

The sober mom, Kim Bellas and founder of Sober is the New Cool joins our host Jamie Brickhouse today on the Sober Podcast. Our soberlebrity guest shares after her son started having grand mal seizures due to epilepsy, she made the decision to give up alcohol for 3 months to support her son. With that one decision, the quality of her life started to get continuously better. She started a social med...

Lissi Seneway joins our Soberlebrity host, Jamie Brickhouse for an enlightening interview on her experience within the substance abuse field, and where it’s brought her. Hear about how she’s maintained a collection of poetry throughout her entire life and is on the verge of her first book release – Moonbeams and Melted Spoons: A Collection of poetry. Tune in on the very first live poetry reading o...

What do you do when money and managing your finances is your drug of choice? The Sober Podcast is bringing you a special treat today with Matthew E. from Brooklyn who is an active member of Debtors Anonymous and has been solvent for over 12 years. Matthew shares the insanity which lead him to finding recovery - consistently juggling bills, thwarting eviction from being months behind on rent, borro...

Kevin Franciotti is a Denver-based ketamine-assisted psychotherapist and addiction and mental health counselor with over 15 years’ experience in community mental health, harm reduction, and direct service work. Kevin completed a BS in Behavioral Neuroscience from Northeastern, where he started a Students for Sensible Drug Policy chapter, and an MA in Psychology from The New School. As a student he...

Founder and CEO of Rehab Studios, Claire Comai joins us on the Sober Podcast today to recover out loud and share about her new brand. Hear Claire share about her own sober journey and how she came up with such a brilliant strategy with over 3 years sober. Both hailing out of New York, Jamie and Claire discuss the couture merchandise of Rehab Barbie ranging from beaded bracelets with expressions su...

Martin Lockett is a substance abuse counselor, author, public speaker, and advocate for reducing DUI fatalities. He spent 17.5 years in prison for a DUI fatality that claimed two lives and severely injured another. In an impassioned vow to his victims’ families and friends at his sentencing, Lockett devoted the rest of his life to honoring his victims’ legacies by helping others who struggle with...

Today on the Sober Podcast our soberlebrity is Carrie Wessling who operates the Research and Development for Costa Rica Recovery. Carrie joins our host Jamie Brickhouse to discuss her journey in sobriety and how her little brother’s wedding lead her on the path to get sober and stay sober. She shares how she’s walked through the tough times sober, by following suggestions and being willing to do t...

Join Gigi Langer and Jamie Brickhouse for another outstanding interview on the Sober Podcast. Gigi wrote the award-winning book, 50 Ways to Worry Less Now: Reject Negative Thinking to Find Peace, Clarity, and Connection. She has 35 years of sobriety and holds a PhD from Stanford University. Listen to how an incredible woman has achieved freedom from addiction and how she has applied principles to...

Michele Weinstat currently serves as General Counsel at The Fortune Society, a not-for-profit agency serving those impacted by the criminal justice system.  In recovery for over 33 years, Michele is herself a formerly incarcerated person, who returned to the practice of law following disbarment due to a drug-related felony conviction.  Prior to The Fortune Society, Michele has served as a V.P./Lab...

Wil Del Pizzo - owner of Built Strong Strength Club  out in California is here to share his journey in the past 13 years of continuous sobriety with our host, Jamie Brickhouse. Wil shares how he found sobriety, the ups and downs throughout recovery, and even a couple anecdotal tales from being an active alcoholic. Listen to how Wil stays conscious of his side of the street as best he can to contin...

After 20+ years of struggling with meth, heroin, and alcohol addictions Joshua Saunders is joining our host Jamie Brickhouse on the Sober Podcast to recover out loud! He is our latest soberlebrity, and shares how he was given a 2nd chance when facing 5 years in state prison. Listen to this inspiring story of how he continues to maintain his sobriety since March 11, 2019. A favorite mantra of his i...

Listen to our latest soberlebrity, Hunter Canning with our host, Jamie Brickhouse share some sobriety out of New York and recover out loud on the Sober Podcast! Hunter is an actor, puppeteer, producer, and photographer. Raised in the outer canyons of Los Angeles, Hunter has been a professional actor in New York for the past decade. Notable credits include Broadway’s War Horse (Lincoln Center), Blu...

Our host Jamie Brickhouse has the pleasure of interviewing Jaana Woodbury today on the Sober Podcast! She can be noted for her philanthropy and advocacy work in raising awareness towards addiction and mental health issues. Specifically, Jaana was part of an effort to shed light on family systems in addiction. Her family was featured on Sesame Street’s, “Parental Addiction” series, which received a...

Accomplished journalist, Mark S. joins the Sober Podcast today to discuss how he found his road to recovery and how he maintains his sobriety of over 11 years. From growing up in an alcoholic home, to moving to NYC in his twenties; Mark shares openly how addiction brought him to complete misery. When he was given the opportunity of rehab or a 12-step fellowship, Mark took his chances with the 12 s...

Tim Lodgen joins our host Jamie Brickhouse on the Sober Podcast today to recover out loud. After 27 years of battling alcoholism and multiple suicide attempts, Tim shares how his last suicide attempt started his journey to sobriety. Now, with 17 months sober, Tim is able to help others by sharing his greatest lessons in sobriety, the path he’s taken from being hopeless to hopeful, and the acceptan...

Chris Thompson is on a mission to scale the most epic wave of real life comeback stories by empowering people to help people. In 2019, he founded a platform called Sober Sidekick, to fuel this purpose. Now over 100,000 members and many who have claimed - “Sober Sidekick saved their life.” Support the show Contact Sober Podcast: Follow on Instagram: @sobervers   Twitter: @soberverse Like us on Face...

Ric Ryder joins our host Jamie Brickhouse today to share his experience, strength, and hope! Ric is an accomplished singer, actor, Broadway performer, and vocal coach. He’s made 7 appearances on Broadway and shares some enlightening tales about performing, and his journey of over 27 years of sobriety. Ric shares how slogans as simple as playing the tape through helped him achieve continuous recove...

Joy Priest, an accomplished poet, and author joins our host Jamie Brickhouse on the Sober Podcast today! She is the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets' Anthology , forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2023. She shares a bit on how the book came to be and how she’s helping others from her hometown have a voice. Joy shares how the process of her writing has changed for the better in...

Today we have Mike Fiore on the show – CEO & founder of Inspire 2 Inspire joining our host, Jamie Brickhouse. Listen to Mike’s incredible story of hope and how he survived the loss of both parents to AIDS due to their own addiction. While in treatment he started a non-profit and got fully incorporated, went on tour as a motivational speaker, and started a clothing line. He turned his mess into...

Melissa Febos joins us on the Sober Podcast today with our host Jamie Brickhouse. Melissa is a bestselling award-winning author of four books, most recently, Girlhood , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative . She shares how her struggles with addiction and path to sobriety have unfolded in her books and how writing has...

Laurie Anderson joins us today on the Sober Podcast with our host Jamie Brickhouse to recover out loud! Laurie shares her incredible message of how her son’s own addiction was what lead her to recovery, but after a period of staying sober for others, she started to stay for herself. Please join us while Laurie shares her incredible strength, commitment, and dedication to her sobriety. If you’d lik...

Lona “LC” Currie joins our host Jamie Brickhouse for our last interview celebrating Pride Month. LC is a sober trans man as well as an advocate & speaker for Inclusion for all! He is the host of the Recovery Soulfood Podcast, and shares about what it’s been like transitioning in recovery and online via his podcast. Jamie and LC discuss all the struggles faced going through the transition proce...

Join us today for our 2nd interview in honor of Pride Month with our host Jamie Brickhouse and Ethelyn Friend (she/her) who is a queer white theatre artist & educator based in NYC. Raised under the wing of New York School poets and an early student of Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman, her original writing for performance merges her lifelong investigations of poetry, theatre, & the extende...

We are kicking off Pride Month with our host Jamie Brickhouse and our first honory guest, Scott Alexander Hess. He is the author of six novels, including Skyscraper, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and The Butcher’s Sons, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015. His latest fiction - a pair of novellas The Root of Everything & Lightning was named a best book of 2021 by the St. Loui...

We have a special guest joining our host Jamie Brickhouse today! Our founder and CEO Dr. Harold Jonas. Listen to how Dr. Jonas’s life has transformed since getting sober in 1987, where he’s been and the road, he’s continued to choose for almost 35 years of continued recovery! Also get a personal overview of our new product SOBERCOIN and listen to how Sober Network has steadily helped those struggl...