Off The Clock Toolbox Talk

Daniel chats with podcast project partner, Kat Wahamaa from Mom’s Stop the Harm about losing her twenty-five year old son Joseph to the unregulated drug crisis, and about the unintentional and intentional harms that are taking place in Canada, from decision makers in Ottawa to families sitting around their tables at home. Kat points out how the drug poisoning crisis is traumatizing an entire gener...

An expanded part of Kale’s Story, Trevor Botkin and Kale Moth discuss the specifics of working on an oil rig and other tough work sites. Belonging and paychecks pull us in. Identity and pride in hard work keep us there. Kale says, “That much time spent with the same 4 or 5 guys… you’re spending more time with them than your actual family. That group almost becomes your family… You get a full-time...

Self-identified squishy meat bags, Jason (guest co-host), Karen (host), and Jonas (OTCTBT Steering Committee member), discuss trauma with Registered Clinical Counsellor, Sabine Sasakura. (Go to 18:51 for the squishy meat bag context). Starting with trauma referenced in the Deconstructing Your Inner Asshole episode https://www.buzzsprout.com/2207100/13213723 , and including the birth of children, t...

Twenty-five year old Kale Moth tells his story of being swept away by life on an oil rig at the ripe old age of 18. With guest co-host Trevor Botkin, Kale explores what he thought it meant to be a man, and how his commitment to self and family rapidly deteriorated with the introduction of harder drugs that can be commonplace in the oil and gas industry.  Kale's deterioration led to loss of em...

As a unique bonus episode, the Season 1 Sampler combines clips from Season 1 together with music to keep you moving at work or play. Its a great place to find which episodes of Off the Clock Toolbox Talk are the most helpful for you, your co-workers, friends and family. Special  thanks to supporters, Nightingale Electrical and Wesgroup Properties for hosting on-site promotions of Off the Clock Too...

Trevor Botkin tells his story of recovering out loud from the superintendent's office to using alone in a basement. We start our conversation discussing what, if any, of the various initiatives addressing substance use in the trades, would have made a difference to Trevor at the height his unregulated drug use. Trevor shares his mindset: his fear of being uncovered as an imposter, feeling def...

Continuing the conversation from Part 1, Karen, Daniel and guest, Jason from Nightingale Electrical, talk about the seven forms inner asshole can take. We discuss the shame inner asshole imposes when we let him hide in the dark, which is true for most addictive behaviours, including porn addiction. We talk about how that imposed shame puts us into 4 states of stress: fight, flight, freeze and fawn...

Daniel and Karen discuss what our inner asshole looks and sounds like with special guest, Jason White from Nightingale Electrical.  After setting up some safety parameters, we build the metaphor that our mind is like a nightclub with a bouncer that helps balance our thoughts and gives all parts of our experiences equal voice. For many of us, however, our inner bouncer hasn't been doing a grea...

Tylenol, beer, whiskey, cocaine, and many others! This is a safer using conversation like most of us have never had before. Harm Reduction Coordinator, Lianne Radmore, inspires us to think of our substance use differently and understand how we can (and do) access harm reduction principles in order to be safer with our substance use [of all types!]. This is about changing our thinking about our rel...

Colby and Greg join us to share what the Tailgate Toolkit is, and how its helping men in construction navigate the drug poisoning crisis. https://thetailgatetoolkit.ca/ Greg shares his experiences hiding an opioid addiction that stemmed from a car accident, and how that brought him to helping other men as a Tailgate Toolkit Facilitator. Through talking about the current realities of substance use...

Therapist, and Building Hope Producer, George Passmore, joins us to discuss the realities that motivated him and Building Hope project partners to create the Building Hope YouTube video https://youtu.be/0BFiCM1Qlmk . George shares three themes that shaped the creation of Building Hope: navigating emotional pain from unresolved trauma, navigating physical pain from injury, and a 'work hard/pla...

Picking up right where we left off in Building Hope: Part 1, George and Daniel move into a discussion about harm reduction (taking care of ourselves) and Drug Use For Grownups by Carl Hart. Daniel asks questions about how to deal with people who think they're helping, but they're not, which leads to a discussion about the complexities of families and substance use. George and Daniel disc...

Host, Daniel, gives his take on the proposed trades podcast script, and the script is immediately axed, allowing Daniel and co-host, Karen, to dive deep into some of the real issues related to the drug poisoning crisis in the construction industry in British Columbia. Daniel and Karen discuss if drugs are good or bad, how we should approach talking about substance use in the trades, physical and e...