The Dumpster Fire Recovery Podcast

Hosts Rick and Guy discuss how recovery is a lifelong process with many valid pathways—from 12-step and faith-based programs to therapy, medication-assisted recovery, harm reduction, peer support, and holistic approaches. Through personal stories and practical examples, they explore avoiding “recovery tribalism,” the role of recovery coaching and warm handoffs, and how people can mix approaches to...

Hosts Rick Albers and Guy Lynch sit down with licensed clinician Devon Frontczak to explore how Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the 12-step model can be combined to support lasting recovery. Devon shares her lived experience, professional work delivering DBT skills, and practical ways those skills (distress tolerance, emotion regulation, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness) compliment...

Guest Marilyn tells her candid story of addiction and recovery: a teenage accident, an eating disorder, amphetamine and alcohol dependence, stints in a Scientology-affiliated rehab, legal trouble and jail, and repeated relapses. She shares how court mandates, treatment failures, and a turning point at Sacred Heart led to surrender, faith, marriage, sobriety, baptism, and a new family life — an unf...

In this episode Rick and Guy sit down with Jason Frontczak — former addict, ex-prisoner, and now peer recovery coach and CEO — to trace his journey from homelessness and incarceration to founding a recovery coaching business. They discuss harm reduction, medically assisted treatment, boundaries between coaching and counseling, and the spiritual turning point that sparked lasting change...

Hosts Guy Lynch and Angela Valdivia talk about Crossroads Recovery's new Soulback Sober Bar, the growing partnership with Port Huron Odyssey, and local recovery services including housing and intensive outpatient programs. They discuss harm reduction, the MORT team's overdose-reduction work, Narcan distribution, coping skills and boundaries, and invite the community to get involved and support rec...

On this episode of the Dumpster Fire Recovery Podcast, host Rick and co-hosts Guy and Angela sit down with Blake Harvey to explore his path from early sobriety through relapse to sustained recovery. Blake shares honest stories about sober living, parenting, financial change, and finding his identity as a queer man in recovery. They discuss the difference between emotional and physical bottoms, the...

In this episode of the Dumpster Fire Recovery Podcast, hosts Rick, Guy, and Angela speak with Kyle Latham, a peer recovery coach who shares his raw journey from homelessness and violent lows to long-term recovery and meaningful work in the field. Kyle describes his turning point, time at Sacred Heart, and the people and programs that helped him rebuild his life. The conversation explores themes of...

In this episode of Dumpster Fire Recovery, hosts Guy Lynch and Rick Albers welcome Ken Jones of Odyssey House to discuss harm reduction, the Mobile Outreach Response Team (formerly the Mobile Overdose Response Team), and how community collaboration is saving lives. They cover Narcan distribution, jail outreach, residential and outpatient services, and the real stories of people rebuilding their li...