Recovery Internet Radio

Big thanks to Jeff J for visiting us and telling us his story! Our favorite line from this show was: You’ve got a disease. You are not responsible for what you’ve done but you’re responsible for what you do now. Your disease is incurable. The most we are going to be able to do is put it into remission. We are going to give you a program to follow, 12 steps. You follow that program and your disease...

Anna had a humble Midwest upbringing but thrust herself into the fast lane in New York then LA where the lifestyle caught up and Anna lost herself.  She's been working hard to reconnect with the essence of who she really is without the escape hatch of booze and drugs. Welcome home Anna! Who you really are is a miracle and a bright light.

Today we are joined by our friends, Julie Funkhouser and Meredith Speir, who tell us about their personal and professional journeys. Julie and Meredith are cofounders of The Recovery Connection, a trauma-informed addiction treatment center intentionally designed to inspire a purpose-driven healing experience on the path to freedom. We discuss resilience and adversity in recovery and business, as w...

Rick & Rob invite Brady C and Brian B to talk about Christmas chaos and what recovery is like through the holidays today. 

On the episode today, we interview Jimmy R and discuss his recovery story. We cover his journey into sobriety, service and overcoming adversity in recovery.

Today we interview our friend, Dave Yates. Dave is a fulltime road warrior comedian and entrepreneur in recovery. Dave talks about his Hot Sauce company and what its like to be a sober comic. www.hahahotsauce.com www.yatescomedy.com 

Rick interviews Toby M about the manifestation of alcoholism, the progression of the disease and 31 whopping years of recovery!

We are joined by Eric Majoesk as he discusses his professional life and unorthadox road to recovery and healing. We discuss various approaches to recovery and treatment modalities. We then discuss the use of psychedelics for substance abuse treatment, trauma and other acute mental health disorders. 

In this episode, we are joined by our friend Wes Walker. We discuss his personal recovery, the addiction treatment industry and everything in between. We cover gambling addiction, effective clinical models, business models, managed care models and building a homegrown community treatment center.

On this episode of Recovery Internet Radio, we hear the story of Roman Braly. Roman has a fast story of chaos and carnage and shares about the foster system, his adoptive family, working for cartels and prison stays. We then discuss all of the gifts of transformation, the promises of recovery and all some moments of reflection form his journey. Be on the lookout for a new podcast by Roman and his...

On this episode of Recovery Internet Radio, we interview longtime friend and colleague, Gary Fisher. Gary served as Executive Director of Cirque Lodge, a world-class treatment center in Sundance, Utah for over 20 years. We talk about his recovery story, gratitude, opportunity, building and scaling Cirque Lodge, retirement.

Christine grew up in the fog of denial. Neither she nor her family had any awareness or understanding of addiction. A series of unhappy and unhealth relationships led her to her first twelve step meeting. Christine has, over a long and bumpy history faced her codependency and a series of other process addictions. Life in an Ashram and devotion to a Guru accelerated her recovery. Through the twelve...

Join as as we speak with our friend, Brenda Napholz. Brenda is a mother who has battled addiction in her family for over ten years. She is the President of The Break, a teen center in Crystal Lake, IL. She is also a Peer Recovery Support Specialist, community activist and champion for young people in the community.  Brenda joins us to talk about her family, transformation, grief, The Break, parent...

It was in the genes, but it hit hard and fast. A natural mother the fear of losing her kids led grudgingly to rehab. Still not believing she had a problem; angry and unhappy she drank again. After getting sober and working a program again for several years her reaction to health problems led to another relapse. Shortly after that relapse she sobered up again but this time with daily meeting and go...

Join us as we talk with our friend Nick about his recovery journey, professional evolution and expereince in the behavioral healthcare industry. Nick runs a treatment facility, has an intimate relationship with recovery and has a real job ahead to imprint his treatment and management style on an existing facility and philosophy. Let’s get an inside look at Nick’s challenges and successes in this c...

His story spans decades; his job as an AP photojournalist took him to many places in the country and the world; often gone for weeks. His family missed his presence and his wife and he became increasingly estranged. Her genetics took her to her coping skill of choice; drinking. For years her drinking was hidden until it couldn’t be hidden any longer. She had been a closet drinker, convincing the k...

He grew up in what is now Silicon Valley to a hard working business family. He was always the black sheep but never doubted his strong Catholic roots and excellent parochial education. He would tell you that he was an alcoholic from his first drink but that the disease took a long and winding road. He spent many years running the family business, working 100 hour weeks and trying to raise four kid...

She grew up conservative and religious in a small Texas town. The good girl to the core She always did the right thing and nevvvvver disappointed her Mom. A good education, some grace and maybe a little luck and she was working a dream job and married a dream man. Years later her son got into drugs and landed in rehab which landed Kay in Al Anon A few years later she and her husband divorced but n...

Ann B. shares her story of adventure and recovery! Fri, 2 June 2017

A second generation Irishman felt the shame from his grandfather’s alcoholism through his Mom. A good kid growing up in a religious family he always looked down on alcoholics and alcoholism. He always thought that if he drank “like that” it would kill his Mom. Irish Catholic guilt kept him out of the booze through college, the Navy and into his early career. Coke and weed were somehow OK but it wa...

Nicole was a good kid.... She was more concerned about your feelings than her own. She wanted to make everyone else comfortable, but as it turns out... At her own expense.  Her first experience with death was at age two, and although she didn't remember it, the incident changed her family forever.  Her second experience was as the result of giving to others, and the third was a result of phys...

Nurse Jack has been a guest on the show in the past and as a result of some recent listener questions we decided to ask him back to finish the story.  Nursing and narcotics addiction do not go well together and “Jack” got in big trouble both legally and professionally.  “Jack” talks about not only his downward spiral and ultimate crash but his tangled and bureaucratic way back to nursing and an un...

He was the second youngest of five, born unexpectedly at home.  After the first two kids Mom didn’t have much left and Eric was the favored one raised mostly by his oldest sister. He did what he wanted and ran the streets of Queens from an early age.  He quickly graduated to what he called a “hoodlum”; drinking, using drugs and stealing.  His family’s dysfunction and his “bad” behavior bought him...

Patrick grew up on the near West side in a good Italian neighborhood; Dad a cop and part time jewel thief and Mom a hard working patronage employee.  By sixth grade he stopped caring about school and by high school his uncle bribed him into graduation with a ½ oz. of coke to the guidance counselor.  He got a no-show job like lots of kids in the neighborhood but quickly moved up to driving for some...

Two DUI’s was a good starter for Tom S.  That and a few other drug and alcohol fueled calamities got him to call one of his old grade school buddies who had found some happiness and sobriety some while back.  The first year was fine but the second year he started to think he had it managed and by the end of that year was smoking weed and before long back to drinking, hiding and lying.  After a per...