Gambling Recovery: Taking Back Your Life

In this deeply personal episode of Gambling Recovery: Taking Back Your Life, I sit down with Mark and Julie, two parents whose story echoes the pain, fear, and hope that so many families experience when a loved one is battling gambling addiction. Their 27-year-old son, Joey, had just entered an inpatient gambling rehab program when they found their way to a Gamblers Anonymous meeting. Lost and sea...

Today, we have a powerful and deeply personal story to share. My guest, Jason S, knows firsthand how gambling can take hold of a person’s life. How what starts as a thrill, a side hustle, or even just a way to pass the time can spiral into something that consumes everything: work, relationships, and even your own well-being. Jason’s journey began with poker games in high school, escalated through...

Today’s guest, Aaron Timms, is a freelance journalist from Australia, now living in New York, who has written for The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Guardian, and more.   Back in 2021, he wrote a powerful article for The Guardian about the rise of legalized sports betting in the U.S. and the marketing machine behind it . A piece that left a lasting impression on me. I remember thinking at...

Today’s guest is someone who spent 25 years living a double life, gambling from the moment he woke up until he went to bed, lying, deceiving, and destroying everything in his path, his marriage, his family, his finances, and, ultimately, himself. He was an action gambler, a stock market addict, a sports bettor, a blackjack and craps player. Anything to keep the machine going. He lied about where h...

Today, we’re stepping into the life of Bob S., a man whose journey with gambling addiction took him from the thrill of dominoes with his grandparents to a hotel room in Cleveland. A night where he hit his own rock bottom. At 37, with a new promotion in hand and a family waiting back home, Bob found himself drowning in despair, his life unraveled by a decades-long battle with a Gambling disease tha...

This is the story of my darkest days of my gambling addiction—a time when my choices weren’t just destroying my life, but my family’s too. I’ll share the raw truth about hitting my own rock bottom, including my three-month stay in county jail, and the journey that led to 13 years of sobriety. How I found hope through hopelessness.
 
But now, it’s not just about my recovery—it’s about helping other...