Grit + Grace™ - Two Guys Talking In Recovery

We're back. Season 1 was about survival — the internal fight, the six inches between our ears, the forever battle just to stay in the room. This season is something different. This is the season of healing. From the inside out. A lot happened during the time away. Sponsor changes. Step work. Life. The kind of stuff that reminds you why rigorous honesty isn't just a phrase — it's the on...

Projection doesn't announce itself. It never says "I am afraid of this thing so I am going to put it on you." It just quietly rewrites the story until you genuinely believe the problem is out there — when the whole time it was in the six inches between your ears. Projection is just insecurity with an alibi. You take the thing you can't face about yourself and put it onto someone else so you don't...

A craving is a whisper. An obsession is a hostage situation. Most people in early recovery know what a craving feels like — that immediate pull, the thought that shows up uninvited and knocks on the door. What nobody warns you about is what happens when you don't answer that door and it kicks it in anyway. That's the obsession. That's the thing that moves in and runs the whole show from the moment...

Self-love sounds simple until you've spent years being the one person you absolutely cannot forgive. This week the conversation goes somewhere most people avoid — the difference between guilt and shame, between a sentence you serve and a life sentence you hand yourself. The hardest part of getting sober isn't putting the bottle down. It's standing in the quiet afterward and realizing you still hav...

"I'm fine." It's not an answer. It's a door slam. Before the work, before the honesty, before any of this — "I'm fine" was the universal shutdown. The two words that ended every conversation that got too close. Nobody could help you if you were fine. Nobody could ask questions if you were fine. Nobody could see what was actually happening if you just kept saying you were fine. It wasn't a lie told...

You give it to everyone else. Your friends, your coworkers, the guy who cut you off in traffic. But when it's your turn — when you're the one who screwed up, fell short, or needed help — grace is the last thing you reach for. This week, Colton and Matthew get into it. Colton nearly lost a golf cart off a flatbed, stared at his phone for five minutes before making the scariest call of his day, and...

Nobody's waiting for you to feel ready. The road doesn't care about your comfort level. This week, Colton and Matthew get into what it actually looks like to take the next right step while your hands are still shaking — not after the fear clears, not when you feel confident, not when the timing is right. Now. Scared. Anyway. We're talking about the difference between waiting for courage and choosi...

Grit & Grace — Episode 2: The Seriousness Trap We deleted 75 takes of this intro. Not because we weren't ready — because we couldn't stop laughing. And somewhere in that mess, we found the episode. This week, Colton and Matthew break down the lie that you have to be stoic, heavy, and perfect to be taken seriously in the fight. The truth? That kind of armor gets exhausting. Walking on eggshells...

GRIT & GRACE | Episode 1: Breaking Isolation ​The scariest neighborhood on the planet isn't a place on a map—it’s the six inches between your ears when you’re navigating it alone. For a long time, we tried to manage that neighborhood by staying silent, building walls, and pretending we had it all figured out. In this debut episode, Matthew and Colton sit down in the car to tear those walls dow...