The Recovery Hour

In this episode of The Recovery Hour we have some of our partners in recovery, Chief Deputy Scott Freeman from the City of Conyers Police Department and Chad Jones, Assistant VP of Business Development for Viewpoint Health, as special guests. Both as Champions of Change, share their experiences with serving their community on the Steering Committee for The Rockdale Stepping Up Initiative, discuss...

In this episode of The Recovery Hour we have some of our peers in recovery, Steven Fambrough and Patricia Holcomb, as special guests. Both as Champions of Recovery, share their experiences with advocacy and why they feel it's important to use their voices to RECOVER OUT LOUD! This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his co-host Tanisha Character, both as p...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have some of our local Certified Peer Specialists, Paula Boyd, Natalie Eskew and Carolyn Peacock, as special guests. All as people with lived experience, they share their own personal experiences of working their recovery while navigating and adjusting to a pandemic as their new norm. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery w...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have a few of the members of the Rockdale Recovery community as special guests. They share their own personal experiences and well and why they are passionate and committed to supporting their recovery. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his co-host Tanisha Character, both as persons in long...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have several of our community partners as special guests, including, Commissioner Doreen Williams, Brenda Ernest, Claudette McFarlane, Carol Gaddy and Lewis Usher. They reflect back on how they were impacted throughout this year, the progress that has been made in the Rockdale Recovery community and share their hopes and visions for the ye...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have a very enthusiastic author and champion of recovery, Jeff Vickers, as a special guest. He shares his own personal recovery journey as well and why he is passionate and committed to recovering out loud and the recovery mottos that helped him along the way. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers a...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we Latrenda George along with several of our powerful Youth Advocates of Rockdale County. These young people are taking a stand and making a change for Mental Health in the world around them! This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his co-host Tanisha Character, both as persons in long term recovery....

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Charlie Gasner of the Rockdale County Public Defender's Office as our special guest. He shares his own personal experience working alongside the Rockdale Accountability Courts and the passions that keep him intentional about the work that he does. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his c...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have the author of The Relentless Cultivation of You, Thaddeus Garrett as our special guest. He shares his own personal recovery story and life experiences that led him to writing his first book, as well as why he is passionate about the message he shares in his book. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carr...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Nora Haynes and Leroy Bryan as special guests. They share their experience with the Opening Doors to Recovery Project that is being implemented in Rockdale County and why they are passionate and committed to supporting their local recovery community. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and hi...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Christie Wilson and Carol Gaddy as special guests. They share their own personal experiences and tell and why they are passionate about second chances. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his co-host Tanisha Character, both as persons in long term recovery. On this podcast we strive to br...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have members of NAMI Georgia as well as our local NAMI Rockdale Newton affiliate as special guests. Our list of guests include both Bernie and Diane Marinelli, Claudette Harden, Monique Carter, and Carol Gaddy. They share their own personal experiences and journey of advocating for change as well and why they are passionate and committed t...

This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his co-host Tanisha Character, both as persons in long term recovery. In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour your hosts do a Q&A session to provide the recovery community and you as listeners, in depth insight to what goes on behind the scenes and what the Stepping Up Initiative is all about. Th...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Valerie Randolph, owner of VR James Agency, as  a special guest. She shares her passion to empower and educate the community on financial literacy so that we can live productive lives of whole health and wellness. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his co-host Tanisha Character, bot...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Shante Smith and Troy Gunn, owners of Simply Naked Candle Co. as special guests. They share how their own personal experiences lead them on a therapeutic path to entrepreneurship and why they are passionate and committed to supporting their local recovery community. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill C...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Mary Ross of GNO Movement and Karen James of We Are the Village INC., as special guests on the show. They share their own personal experiences with developing small businesses and why they are passionate and committed to supporting their local communities. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Commissioner Doreen Williams and Judge Nancy Bills as special guests. They share why they are passionate and committed to supporting their local recovery community. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his co-host Tanisha Character, both as persons in long term recovery. On this podcast we...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have some of our partnering Forensic Peer Mentors from Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network as special guests. They share their own personal experiences and well and why they are passionate and committed to supporting individuals in their process to re-enter society from the criminal justice system. This podcast is hosted by the world re...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Commissioner Doreen Williams and the Rockdale Stepping Up Initiative along with several Rockdale Community allies as special guests. They reflect on National Recovery Month and the effects of their local recovery community. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his co-host Tanisha Character...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Jeff Breedlove from the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse as our special guest. Jeff share's his recovery story as well as speaks about Georgia Council on Substance Abuse and what they do, along with National Recovery Month and his passion to erase the stigma our mental health and substance use. This podcast is hosted by the world re...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Shevander Dykes, Cathy Beddows and Tremaine "Hurricane" Johnson as special guests. This week in honor of Suicide Prevention Week we have dedicated our show to address the issue, raise awareness and support the prevention of suicide around the world. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Danielle Mayberry of the local Rockdale County ViewPoint Health Center as a special guest. She explains why she is passionate and committed to supporting the local recovery community as well as provides tons of resource information about the services they provide at ViewPoint Health. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recove...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have our very own CAT10 ENT team as special guests. They share their own personal experiences and well and why they are passionate and committed to supporting their local recovery community. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his co-host Tanisha Character, both as persons in long term recover...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Kenya Phillips of Recovery World LLC. as a special guest. She shares her own personal recovery experience and involvement with NAMI as well as several of her current successes. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers and his co-host Tanisha Character, both as persons in long term recovery. On thi...

In this episode of Grit & Grace - The Recovery Hour we have Logan Joiner of New Life Motorcycle Ministries and Sidney Ragland of Street Burnaz Motorcycle Club as special guests. They share their own personal experiences and well and why they are passionate and committed to supporting their local recovery community. This podcast is hosted by the world renowned recovery warrior, Bill Carruthers...