MJs Progress Not Perfection

Rochelle not only celebrates 6 months clean and sober today, but last night she messaged me that her case (we discuss what happened for her to catch a case) was dismissed in court yesterday and CPS closed the case! She had a really rough time and inevitably lost her kids and boyfriend all in a fast spiral during quarantine. She’s doing amazing now with using both AA and celebrate recovery! Her tik...

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Kevin did most of his using days in Jersey and like me found sobriety out in Los Angeles. He did have a relapse that involved drinking, a tiger and ring worm, but you’ll hear all about that. Today he celebrates 4 years without a drink or a drug! To help MJs Progress Not Perfection Meeting Center Association with any kind of donation use the link below to find venmo/cashapp/PayPal options https://m...

Molly has been caught up being sex trafficked at different points in her life. We discuss how her sobriety in the past differs from how she currently works a program. Also we discuss how she gives back and helps other women just like her. Molly is one of many women that I’ve met and interviewed from Ohio with very similar stories, we talk about how she was trafficked with someone else that’s been...

Nick has found a huge creative outlet for him in creating dark but funny memes about addiction and recovery. He has been sober since September 2015 and quickly found himself telling his story through memes. We discuss where he draws inspiration for some of his work along with how it helps him stay sober. You can see more from Nick at his Instagram tagged below which his handle is @darksidespoon In...

Krissi is a writer and video creator on tiktok that likes to focus on mental health and addiction/recovery. She’s definitely had her ups and downs with running off to get married before even graduating high school and having two hit & run accidents on her record before even getting her drivers license! You can follow Krissi on Instagram and tiktok by using the links below! Krissi tiktok https://vm...

Mike fires off one inspirational thought after another for a very uplifting hour episode! This episode is all recovery talk for sure, I don’t think we shared one “war story” from using days. Mike started inspire2inspire as a way to try and help as many people in addiction world wide as possible. We both felt so amazing after our talk, he’s definitely going to be joining the show much more often. I...

Ashley is about a month shy of hitting a milestone of 1,000 days completely sober! After getting three DUIs relatively close to each other she was locked up for some time. We discuss how she stays sober today, what kind of program she does and how and why she started her podcast! She had wanted to do one like mine and when we recorded this I gave her some pointers and she got hers started right aw...

Brian has been making recovery memes for pages like dank recovery back when it used to exist on Facebook and now enjoys making also recovery themed videos as well under the name str8pepperdiet. We talk a lot about how we both depend on comedy as a way to cope and live with our pasts. We talk for awhile because we are both from south Jersey born and raised miles from each other. So we had lots to d...

I think anyone who has had or continues to have patterns with their drinking/using and different relationships will really be able to resonate with Sarah’s journey. She’s a california born and raised girl that has bounced around a bit, usually running from a relationship or to a new one. That is both with drugs and dating. We get into how she found drugs/alcohol as a teenager and how it went into...

To help MJs Progress Not Perfection Meeting Center Association with any kind of donation use the link below to find venmo/cashapp/PayPal options https://my.bio/mjspnpmca “This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Without a healthy mind, being truly happy and at peace is HARD. The good news is, therapy works. BetterHelp is customized online therapy that offers video, phone and even live chat session...

We made it to episode 50!!! Thanks for all the support so far! Steve already had his long back story in part one the other day, but this is really our part 1 that we recorded first! We talk mostly about how he went viral on the page Dodo for saving a dog.. check it out to see if you remember this dodo story from a few years ago! His full story can be found on his YouTube page linked below! Steve’s...

This is technically part 2 of us talking, but really part 1 of being released with part 1 to follow as part 2 with audio only.. okay, I’ll explain. We recorded an episode that had to be cut short at 45 min when I was getting my kid from school. When I went to edit what we had turns out the video is messed up, but the audio worked perfectly. So, we sat down again and talked about all new things abo...

Stigmas with alcohol and being a mother are so wild that I am honoring this guests wishes by not releasing her name. Even though she’s sober now 11 years she is still not ready yet for her son or exes to hear her tell her story. It’s a very important episode to release because her story is going to relate to most mothers that listen to the show, maybe even fathers. She never got a DUI and doesn’t...

Shelby got has been sober since July 1, 2002. She has a podcast (linked below) called Confident Sober Women. She has a Facebook group with the same name (also linked below). She dedicates her life to helping others as a social worker specializing in trauma. Her podcast is all about transforming your life beyond recovery! Sorry the episode got cut short, we can point blame at the guy trying to brea...

Saryn definitely had the same tendencies as I did with moving state to state to avoid her problems! We talk about how alcohol and meth kept landing her in jail and losing her children. She’s back home in Texas and starting to figure this recovery thing out! She’s very regimented on how she works her recovery today taking it more serious than ever before. To help MJs Progress Not Perfection Meeting...

Michelle recently celebrated her longest mark to date of over 2 years clean and sober! She grew up in Texas discovered drugs and alcohol as a teenager which lasted into her late 30s. We discuss how her relationships she had impacted her using and graduating into newer and harder drugs. Also discussed why she got sober and how her recovery is working for her. You can check out her podcast called Th...

Jules Muck aka Muckrock is an artist known all over the world. She started out using spray paint growing up around NYC at a young age. Eventually became a way for her to support her drug habit. She spent many years in addiction, including being on a roof in NYC blocks away from the World Trade Centers and watched the second plane hit from the roof. I met Jules when I was newly sober and would atte...

I sat down with Tara, Ashlee and Foster to discuss different stigmas around addiction and recovery. How even people in recovery judge others in recovery and same with in addiction. We especially go over how the medical field and doctors perceive addicts when we get admitted to the hospital, even in recovery still, doesn’t matter to them. They have all individually been on the show to tell their st...

Ashlee told me she left out the “nitty gritty” of both her addiction and recovery and was ready to talk about it! Soooo watch to find out what she wanted to add about her addiction and what she wanted to add about a big part of her recovery! Again the link for the program in Ohio where she volunteers called Ohiocan are below for more info in that area! You can also follow them on Facebook at the l...

Mykee is my amazing wife that has been sober since 2/29/20! She was recently diagnosed with MS and runs daily meditation meetings at the meeting center we started together back in July.. this is some of her story, she will be back on in other episodes in the future! Post script- had some technical difficulties with one of the camera angles with audio soo 95% of this I’m not on camera, so yeah 🤷‍♂...

I’ve always been good at writing, just never liked writing about myself. I drank from 11-31 and used pills from 22-31 and this is my story. Thank you again Josh for helping guide me through it, below is the link to his podcast called An Atheist Reads the Big Book and below that is the link to watch his episode with his story! Josh’s Podcast https://anchor.fm/atheistinaa Josh’s episode https://yout...

Irene discovered drugs, specifically opiates as a young teenager. She was a functioning addict all through Jr/Sr High going as far as getting high during school to make it through the day. She had to face some tough losses early on which helped her find a way to get clean. We discuss how her years went in addiction to how her 14 years clean in recovery now looks! “This podcast is sponsored by Bett...

Hannah spent years in addiction always being able to find the best dealers in her area growing up along the canadian border. We discuss her in and out of rehab and jails while maintaining a wild life in the drug scene where she lived! Now she’s on work release from jail and not too far from being home permanently! You can find her Facebook group that’s all about addiction and recovery at the link...

Vince and I met when we were teenagers! We were both the messy ones out of our friends groups. Babysitting us while having a night out drinking was never fun. Like myself, Vince went from drinking to drugs after high school and had our 20s into our 30s driven strictly on how and when we are going to get high. He is a big advocate of how well the vivitrol shot worked for him and recommends it to an...