Remember Your Why

Shana has been sober since November 2021. She had tried to get sober for close to two decades prior to that.  As most alcoholics, the booze had a hold on her. She went to treatment centers, sober living, AA and struggled to find recovery, but she never gave up. Shana also struggled with mental health issues, and you will hear her share about that during this podcast.  Now a mom, recovery and life...

Mary and Ralph got sober together back in October 2020.  When they met they were both using and drinking heavily and not their best selves, but they knew deep down that they were good people so they pushed through all of the struggles, the violence and arrests to get to the place they're at today. They have their own apartment, dogs and living a happy life in recovery. But meth and drinking t...

Joe recently celebrated a year of sobriety. He picked up in his teen years with school parties- drinking and weed- weekend warrior type of scenario. But that quickly progressed, as it does with addiction. For the most part, it became a daily thing.  Once he got out of high school, he got an apartment with a girl in the Bronx. He thought he was in love, but he was still young and unsure of his futu...

Ryan is a speaker and humanitarian who speaks his truth and inspires others on the daily. But he has had many serious struggles and situations that he's needed to overcome. Ryan was one of Canada's most well known marijuana smugglers and he earned the title, "King of Weed." He was featured on an episode of National Geographic's 'Locked up Abroad.' Prior to that,...

Caroline lives in a small village just outside of Bristol in the UK. She has been sober since November 2012.  When she was 13/14 years of age she started messing around with drinking and weed. She was very attracted to the people who were doing things more exciting and fun. Pills came into the picture and the disease of more was prevalent. Heroin was next at the age of 17, and she felt that she&ap...

Anora's date of sobriety is December 8, 2018. Took her two years before that to be gifted by the program. It was a struggle and a gift. She had two stints in rehab before that.  A large part of her drinking was filling up what was empty inside. It filled a void. It's crazy to think how many of us had good parents, good education, kind siblings and beautiful children, but still had that e...

Patrick has been sober since 1986. His addiction began around 13 years of age at a friends house with some punch that was different from what he drank as a kid. He says he became an "instant alcoholic." He felt peaceful and accepted, which we all longed for. His interest in playing sports changed because he just wanted to drink. It was a psychic change. Knowing the drink was there was al...

Mal has been sober since 1987. Alcoholism did run in his family, mostly in his uncles, who were great role models to him growing up.  He first picked up a drink playing around with it here and there at the age of twelve/thirteen. It got serious when he was fifteen going to a school dance and he was going to meet girls, and he felt the need to feel comfortable, so he drank Southern Comfort and that...

Lindsey is a sober coach with 3.5 years of sobriety under her belt.  She offers one on one coaching as well as a group coaching program called 'Sobriety is Your Edge.' She feels everyone is at different stages in their journeys so it varies to a degree. This helps spread the word that recovery is possible and that you do not have to drink.  Lindsey was 'Friday Night Lights' in...

Nicole has been sober for five years now. This is her second date. She was thirty three months when she relapsed.  She grew up in a community in Canada where drinking alcohol, no matter the age was widely accepted. Did not seem out of the ordinary. The drinking culture was to "work hard, play hard." She first got really drunk at twelve years of age. She was very social and quite the plan...

Chloe has been sober since October 5, 2022.  She first picked up when she was 13 going on 14 and things progressed quickly- one day she was smoking week, the next doing pills, then she was doing ketamine. The drugs made her feel less depressed, but as we know- the cycle is: it takes it all away, but brings it all back ten fold. The height of her addiction included homelessness, sleeping on drug de...

Vince has been sober since 2022.  For 40 years he had a lifetime of using substances to cope with his life. He experienced a lot of childhood trauma and a lot of loss. He had been running from his addiction from a young age.  Now he is present and stops to see the little things in life, such as a butterfly landing, or looking at a cardinal, or having best friends. Clarity is a beautiful thing. And...

Chas 'Colicchie' is a recovering addict, hip hop artist and loving father. He is also incredibly motivational and inspiring for fellow addict and alcoholics.  His sobriety date is June 7, 2015. Not the first date he has had but the one he is keeping. When he was younger, he never felt whole. Just felt like an outcast. Once he found drugs and alcohol at a young age, it seemed to be the so...

Matthew is from Brooklyn, born & raised, and recently celebrated 14 months sober.  His drug of choice was crack cocaine. That drug brought him to his knees and took everything from him. His higher power was a crack pipe. It quite literally beat him down.  He had a very unpredictable childhood living with his father, and lots of trauma stemmed from that. It's been a long road working throu...

Darren is a happily married,  soon to be father and together with his wife, they will be welcoming their first child. He has been sober since 2008.  When things got to the height of his addiction, it became "bender city" and just wasn't fun anymore. Waking up with a hangover and needing a bump of coke and a beer just to "level out." That is where his addiction took him. He...

Seth has almost five years of sobriety. He picked up his first drink at 16 years old, and started drinking to feel accepted, as many of us alcoholics/addicts do.  He was alcoholic drinking early on. Growing up he was around all the men in his life using alcohol as a tool to deal with stress, and masking emotions, yet on the flip side, it also was how they celebrated. It was prominent in his life. ...

Michele got sober at age 19 and has 28 years of recovery under her belt. Alcohol and drugs brought her down fast and she just needed something from a very early age just to be "ok." Existing in her own head was painful and drinking made all of that go away. It was amazing until it wasn't. Hear her story here...

It took me over 20 years to get sober. The mountain I had to climb was monumental & it turns out, I was the mountain. I was my own worst enemy.  Definitely the hardest battle I have ever faced, but also the most rewarding because sobriety is beautiful. It's an everyday battle when suffering from addiction, but we're all worth a chance at a second chance at life. 

Skyler Ray is an addict in recovery & a Hip-Hop artist based out of Portland, Oregon. At the height of his addiction he was homeless at 18 years old, living under bridges, in the food lines or in prison for drug related charges. His 20's looked like that. He spent over 5 years incarcerated.  He now goes on his 'Road to Recovery' tour across the states talking to addicts in priso...

Maria has 16 years clean and sober. Consequences and an intervention all by the age of 16 were a part of her story.  Hear how she overcame all of this, and about the ultimatum she was given by one of her children, which ultimately led to her getting sober. Now she is living a beautiful life in recovery and couldn't imagine life any other way.

Growing up in the UK, Ian was able to walk into a bar at 15 and get served. He felt alcohol gave him the confidence he was lacking and thought of himself to be a good drinking buddy. Over time, he realized he was drinking to go out, drinking to stay home and wouldn't go out if drinking was not involved. He sensed the problem and after drinking for 30+ years, he decided it was time to make a c...

Gil started drinking at age 13 and things advanced very quickly for him, drugs and all, before the age of 16. He had made up his mind to get drunk as much as possible. He grew up in the city and was considered a street kid, so drinking made him feel accepted, He got in trouble at school and ended up in a therapeutic community, which was a very rough environment.  Gil got sober by age 26, but that...

Kristy just celebrated 3.5 years of sobriety. She's a single mom of two boys, working her dream job in fitness and that is all thanks to her recovery.  Losing her mom at the young age of 20, alcohol became her medicine and what helped her numb from the reality of it all.  Drinking through her emotions became her way of life. As alcoholism does, it only progressed as the years went on, which t...

Chad has been sober for six years. His first night drinking was quite a wild one, as you'll hear, and as he said, he was just always ready to 'dive in the deep end.' His drinking definitely progressed after college and he was a blackout drinker, so, like many others, a lot of his life is a blur. The insanity really came to fruition. Self pity. Loathing. Lying. Spiraling. It all play...

Ron was a boxer who had never taken a drug in his life until he wound up in prison. He grew up in a tough environment- a lot of criminals in his family- and surrounded by dysfunction. Alcohol became his best friend and pretty much ran his life. Hear how Ron overcame so much turmoil and pain and is now living a life in sobriety He also has his own podcast that helps many others with addiction.