From the Grave Podcast

"Everything I've ever wanted has hung on the principle of surrender." When I walked into recovery, they asked me how the fight was going. Not good. So they told me to do the one thing my ego hated most: give up. Ten years sober later, surrender is still the hardest and most important spiritual principle I know. In this solo episode I get into why surrender rocks the whole ego and wh...

"There's nothing anyone's gonna say to me or about me that I haven't already said to myself worse." The reason I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore is that I spent most of my life as my own persecutor. In this solo episode I get into why the judgment of others only matters as much as your judgment of yourself. I also cover why self-improvement turns into an e...

"Our culture has given us the technology of gods, but we have wings without wisdom." Brian Maierhofer is a clinician and somatic therapist who found Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell in a treatment center library at 20, got sober in a 12-step program before his 23rd birthday, and wrote his graduate thesis on the 12 steps as the hero's journey. We get into how Carl Jung shaped the first...

"God can't bless you from a fake place." Floyd Prescott III has served LSU Football for over 20 years. It started with a volunteer Bible study in a dorm in 2003 and grew into the team's pastor. No title asked for, no job description, just service. I met Floyd when I spoke to the Tigers, and he prayed over me right before I walked on stage. We get into why ego makes service look...

You spend years in your head trying to make the right decision, and years later you're still talking about the same thing. Overthinking isn't the problem. It's the symptom of never learning to trust yourself, and you can't think your way into self-trust. You have to act your way into it. I get into where that lack of self-trust comes from, why love gets mixed with judgment, the...

Chris Howard is more than seventeen years sober, the founder of Ethos Recovery, and an interventionist who doesn't sugarcoat anything. We talk about what happens when trauma becomes your identity, why so much of the treatment industry has traded real change for comfort and amenities, and why Chris now aims for quality of life instead of abstinence alone. We get into failure to launch, parents...

You got the job, the body, the routine, the relationship… and you still feel hollow. Here's why. Most self-improvement teaches you to rearrange the furniture on the Titanic. Real change happens in the basement, in the inner world most of us were never taught how to face. In this episode I talk about why productivity and achievement can be the most socially rewarded form of avoidance, what hap...

Britt Reid has lived through addiction, grief, prison, losing his career, and the kind of shame that can swallow a person whole. In this episode, Britt opens up about losing his brother to an overdose, his own battle with addiction, the crash that changed his life, prison, recovery, faith, and what it means to rebuild when you can’t undo the past. We talk about the 12 Steps, making a living amends...

Rob Banghart survived addiction, incarceration, homelessness, and an attack that nearly killed him in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas. But this conversation goes way beyond the survival story. Rob and I talk about what recovery becomes after the chaos is over—when the work shifts from simply staying sober to actually learning how to live. We get into God, surrender, childhood trauma, the 12 Steps, l...

There’s a lot of judgment flying around right now. Everybody dissecting everybody. Celebrities, addiction, politics, religion, sexuality, recovery, whatever gives people something to point at. But how much of that judgment is actually helping anybody? This episode started as a rant about AI slop and scripted content and somehow turned into a full rip on judgment, shame, Christianity, recovery, aut...

Light Watkins joins me for a conversation about what transformation actually looks like when you stop trying to force it. We talk about the “tortoise approach” to changing your life, transformation without self-rejection, cultivating presence, finding purpose through curiosity, addiction and dependency, intentionally choosing difficult things, learning to hear your intuition, and trusting the next...

People are increasingly turning to AI for therapy, mental health advice, and some of the most painful questions a human being can ask. And I get it. AI is available at 2AM. It’s patient. It doesn’t judge you. It can help you understand patterns, articulate what you’re feeling, and sometimes say the thing you’re too ashamed to tell another person. But understanding your pain is not the same thing a...

I just got back from speaking to the LSU football team—and this trip felt completely different. Usually, I walk into these rooms fired up, pacing, breathing fire and ready to deliver a message. This time, I felt empty. Insecure. Completely unprepared. An hour before the talk, breathwork brought me back to a moment from middle school that I had carried for decades without fully understanding. I tho...

What if healing isn’t about constantly trying to fix yourself? In this episode, I sit down with Svea—a somatic healing teacher living in Paraguay whose mission is to help humanity meet God again. We talk about trauma, shame, grief, nervous-system healing, Jesus, spiritual warfare, the intelligence of the body, and why we can’t think our way out of wounds that need to be felt. Svea shares how achie...

Life doesn’t hand you a script. It gives you a reality—and asks what you’re going to do with it. In Episode 148, Scott riffs on the surprising spiritual lessons he’s learning in improv class. The foundation of improv is simple: accept the reality you’ve been given, contribute to it, and keep the scene moving. Life works the same way. We can waste years resisting what happened, blaming our past, wa...

Send us Fan Mail What if the breath is the bridge between your conscious and unconscious mind — and you've been using it wrong your whole life? In this episode, I sit down with Eric LaCour, breathwork facilitator, yoga teacher, and founder of Preservation Yoga Studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Eric has built his entire teaching philosophy around two things: breath for the body, story for the...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a point where talking about change stops working… and you’re forced to decide who you actually are. In this episode, Scott sits down with Jeremy Plummer for a conversation about obsession, discipline, and the cost of choosing a path most people won’t take. This isn’t about motivation or quick fixes. It’s about what happens when you stop negotiating with yourself and commit...

Send us Fan Mail Some people plan their lives. Others follow the fire. In this episode of From The Grave Podcast , Scott sits down with world-class striking coach Jason Strout for a raw, free-flowing conversation about obsession, fighting, skateboarding, punk rock, creativity, and the strange way life seems to guide us if we’re paying attention. They talk about growing up in the 80s and 90s—buildi...

Send us Fan Mail This might be the funniest episode in FTG history… and somehow also one of the realest. Zach Cohen (lead vocalist / guitarist of RedRumSociety) is back, and we go everywhere: moving to North Carolina, losing the band trying to save the band, not writing a song for three years, legal chaos, shame, identity, meditation, and what it feels like to come home and still feel empty. We ta...

Send us Fan Mail Fear doesn’t always leave when you pray. In this episode, Scott Russell breaks down the difference between feeling fear and letting fear govern your life. He talks openly about anxiety, mental health medication, early recovery, shame, suicide ideation, and the spiritual confusion that can come when faith doesn’t immediately remove suffering. Using the metaphor of childhood “monste...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 142, Scott breaks down the trap of being addicted to potential — the comfort of “I could’ve” and “someday” that keeps you from risking real effort and real change. He also dives into fear-based religion vs. lived spirituality, radical open-mindedness, and why you don’t need to broadcast belief… you need to walk it out . Plus: a real-life moment from the lagoon — kids fi...

Send us Fan Mail EP 141 — Kick the Can Most of us don’t relapse from drugs—we relapse from discomfort . From emotions we never learned how to sit with. From feelings that show up uninvited and demand to be seen. In this episode, Scott talks: Navigating the “I’m not okay” moments in sobriety The lie that healing should feel good Why milestone anniversaries can feel heavier than expected The truth a...

Send us Fan Mail EP 140 — Reclaiming Your Inner Square Footage Most of us are living in a tiny sliver of who we really are. We’ve locked the doors to the rest of the house—afraid of the dark, the mess, the memories. But what if the call is to reclaim every room? In this episode, we dive into: Thought responsibility and emotional square footage Why the lie of “I need to use to be okay” keeps us tra...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 139 of From the Grave Podcast, Scott returns from a week-long spiritual retreat in Joshua Tree and drops an unfiltered monologue on the discomfort of change, the illusion of control, and the radical call to inner transformation. This episode is a deep dive into: - The power of community-based healing - Breathwork, Vedic meditation, and dopamine detox - How pain is often...

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