From The Depths of Darkness to The Light of Success

"It's unlimited coaching in your pocket as a user, as a client, you track your mood, your sleep, stress, and you journal, and your coach that we match you to will read and respond to each and every journal. You can journal a thousand times a day and your coach would respond a thousand times." Jonathan along with his family created an app for younger people and post secondary students to have a coa...

"It would, when you're caught up, when you're actually caught up in the grips of addiction and all that, it's not like I could just stop, I needed to go to treatment. I needed to go to jail. I needed like something to happen in order for me to really hit that bottom." Pittsburgh rapper Colicchie rose up from years of struggling with addiction to find success and hope in his music. A rapid decline...

"I realized that people don't like root against you and stuff like that. So it's funny  no one's like oh yeah, I hope you fail. People are actually like really supportive and stuff. So it was such like popping a pimple on the middle of the back and just being like, ah, that feels good." Tim McCarthy is someone who you would meet, and see a guy who is happy, funny and would do anything to make...

"Like I was drowning myself in alcohol and cause how much, like you can't get more literal than that kind of dream. And fortunately, like I was able to really pay attention to it and think about it and not just push it aside and be consumed with how I was having a hangover, which I was, that was the way my life was for like the last 18 months of my active addiction." We have Sarah from the "Sober...

"Yeah, I'm definitely learning as this pandemic it goes through its phases and me getting back into the work field and dealing with customer service, I'm noticing a lot of negative interaction with customers and things like that. And it really affects my mood and I'm realizing how one little thing can set my whole day off for me. And I was diagnosed with BPD almost a year ago now, and it hasn't ev...

"So I was like that's what I'm meant to do is I need to share these things that other people are ashamed of sharing, are embarrassed to share so that they don't feel alone. And then it helps me not feel alone too, to know that other people feel the same thing." The infamous "Sober Single Mom' Gentry Jones is on todays episode, she has grown her following over the course of the last year or so on I...

"And I got to a certain point when I entered recovery rehab for the first time in 2013, I just turned it off, anything to do with music, but seven years later it didn't leave me alone." In this episode we have a former guest from episode 24 Justin Hamilton, he has turned his life around in so many great ways! He is a father to his amazing children! He is a christian hip hop artist now, sharing his...

"So basically you're taking, an intangible thought. From the ether that comes through, say an idea or a feeling that ignites you into. And within that action with every action, there's a reaction and 2012 I put it out, say like a rocket of desire and wrote it on a card, probably two years previous because I was banned from the United States." Ryan John Phillips was born in North Vancouver B.C on J...

"I was doing really well professionally, but I was doing equally as terrible personally. And I remember at 27, collecting an award with the Denver business journal for the top 30, under 30 for engineering that year. And while I'm going up to collect this award, I had this ankle monitor taped up my leg because you could see it. If I was wearing a skirt and I was wearing slacks and you could still s...

"We all know things don't always work the way we want it to, but the more you push yourself to stay in routine and find what works for you. I know I, myself do a lot of like deep breathing exercises, if I'm having like a bad anxiety attack or I feel it coming, I'll look around the room and I'll start to count things and, I've learned a lot of techniques throughout counselling throughout the years...

"It's kinda the first time where people don't really have the high school distractions at home distractions. That's when, all of these feelings started coming up and all of these previous emotions started coming up and I realized I don't have any of the tools for this. I don't know how to deal with any of this." Harry Potvin is the host of the podcast The Mental Corner, a former swim team captain...

"At this point, my awareness level has shifted in so many ways, and I'm now at the point where I want to help other people move through those motions of just, going through all the things that life throws up. Different ways to potentially cope, obviously different things work for different people." On today's episode I am joined by Shelby Hayle, who is also the owner of Hayle Creative Co. We dive...

"Painting is such a good release because it changes my focus where I have to think about what I'm trying to create. I always thought, okay, I was lazy or I'm just a slob or there were all of these negative things that I told myself about what I didn't do that everyone else around me did." If you would like to follow Jami and her journey head over to Instagram @theneurodivergentnurse or here are so...

"I always kinda, I guess I grew up with a mindset of scarcity and lack and I think maybe I didn't get the right attention or I just, I didn't receive the proper things that a child should receive. And so that ended up manifesting in the way that I thought about myself and doing that for awhile." In this podcast, Angus Mitchell tells his own experience with depression and how he found a way to love...

"So the eternal love is not the love that I think of. It's the love for everything and everybody and disregarded material objects." If you would like to follow Dylan and his journey with martial arts and his mediation practices head over to Instagram @theviolentguru Martial arts has played an important role in Dylan's life. It has given him the discipline that he needs to stay on the sober path. M...

"So I don't necessarily blame social media. I think that is a problem that I have within myself. I do think social media can be toxic. Of course, I think there's such thing as toxic positivity. I think there's such thing as irresponsibility on social media. I think that I can't say anything really bad about social media." You can follow Hayley and her journey over on Instagram @recoverybaddie, she...

"Oh, what do I want more of in my life right now? Oh, I want more opportunities to make a difference. I really, when I was serving as a pastor, I got to work in shelters. I get to work with lots of different people who'd seen marginalization. I got to work with families who were raising children and varying beloved family members after they died. I really loved getting to make a difference in thei...

"So I started a company called lady boss, apparel, www.ladybossapparel.com, and it's for women empowerment. It's for women to support women to stand in their own unique power. And it's to bring like community about the way it came about was I was looking for. A t-shirt or a hat or something that said lady boss, and I couldn't find anything. So I say, Hey, I'll start my own. So I trademarked it. An...

"I started to do panels at sober livings in my area. And then we became a nonprofit. Probably I would say maybe two months ago or something like right around there. We were officially, it's a process. That's why a lot of paperwork, a lot of headaches. Like detailed, tedious things that like, it doesn't excite me too much, put a drug addict in front of me, that gets me excited. Let's do that. But m...

"So this year I've been really showing up online to try and support, especially the younger people that might not know there's a better way of living that are out there partying and stuff, because there is a million people showing up Partying online drinking, sharing their cocktails and everything. And I just I want to see the sober community come and flood the internet with like how much fun sobr...

"It was a straight trip. I make a bad joke in the book about if I was able to bottle up that and sell it as some sort of a non-addictive drug we'd all have one hell of a ride. I went through some of the craziest stuff I've ever been through. I've done lots of drugs in the past hallucinogenics and other crazy things and combinations thereof, and had some crazy trips, but never till I went through t...

"Yeah, I'm sure you had that experience too, going into rehab. Suddenly, those strangers don't feel like they're strangers anymore. It's very fascinating to me how that could happen. You can have very similar experiences to people you just met. And you suddenly feel really close to them and yeah, that was what drove us to do this documentary!" If you would like to follow Tegan and Zeina's journey...

"Yeah, man I learned that vulnerability is a strength and I feel like we've been programmed to think that it's a weakness because especially like you said, men, like we're supposed to be like strong and like sure of ourselves and the moment that we have feelings and something to talk about, we look like a bitch. You know what I mean? And it's that's not the case, but you're actually, I feel like f...

In this episode we will be talking with blogger Cecile Leger and all about blended families.  A blended family is defined as a family with at least one child from one or both parents' previous relationships. The rearing of children of different biological parents is not new, but it is significantly more prevalent than in previous generations. Blended families are often the result of remarriag...

Good friends are a very important commodity. You know what I mean by that is obviously! It doesn't mean that it has to be a longtime friendship. Although I will say this as I've gotten older, my long-term friendships, especially people that I've known for a very long time or have known me for a long time. Those are super important to me, and I try to feed those as much as I can, which means, like...