The Mark Howley Show

"When you know you only have so much time...are you just running the treadmill getting spit out by the corporations...?" Welcome Paul Brinkmann, an Ironman--Maui!--triathlete to The Mark Howley Show! What does it take to be an IronMan athlete while also being a family man, lawyer, non profit organizer, bar owner...? Check out this episode to motivate yourself and build awareness around e...

"The things that normal people do to feel good, if you want to be excellent, you can't do that those things." Welcome Jason Ricci to The Mark Howley Show, a world renowned, legendary harmonica player based out of New Orleans. We discuss many topics on the podcast today including his rise to excellence, discovering his bisexuality among a hetero dominant music genre, a long road to sobriety, his pa...

Welcome Margaret Nyamumbo, founder of Kahawa 1893 , a Kenyan coffee company, aiming to bring Kenyan coffee to the world in a way that benefits our women farmers. Nyamumbo grew up in Kenya seeing the hard work of coffee farmers, including her family, given very little for their sweat. She tells us 10% or less of coffee profit comes back to the farmers. More disparagingly, women farmers own none of...

Welcome to GLENNPISODES! We are giving you a compilation of Glenn and Mark's funniest, UNCENSORED moments in the studio. From stories on the road, inappropriate jokes, sales call tales, and all other hilarious banter between old friends. Have a laugh and enjoy! Thank you for supporting our podcast! Please like, follow, subscribe from your listening platform. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @...

Welcome Lauren White, a UK motivational speaker, addiction counselor, social media influencer, ambassador to multiple companies and overall go getter! She comes on today to share her passion for motivating those in their 30s to break free from addictions ranging from alcohol to sugar to vaping. She has a strong background in addiction counseling and offering wellness and health on a physical, emot...

We invited two passionate individuals Amy Wheat, Opioid Specialist and Anji Jorstad, Behavioral Health Supervisor from the Snohomish County Human Services . They discuss the impact of their reach in the fentanyl epidemic and homeless crisis. Snohomish is a small community about 40 minutes North of Seattle. Many believe the inner cities are where the darkest tragedies of drug abuse takes place alth...

"We are in an undeclared state of emergency in US education." Welcome Tommy Shultz, the CEO for American Federation for Children. The AFC is the largest school choice advocacy group in the USA. Their mission is to bring better educational opportunities to mainly low income families by changing laws and becoming political aggressive so these children can escape the generational poverty and crime th...

“We do not sell, we allow them to buy.” Welcome Simon Severino, the CEO of Strategy Sprints, a highly successful and leading growth advisory consultant agency that advises Fortune 500 companies and high ticket B2B digital businesses. Simon is an expert sale and marketing strategist delivering newfangled sales techniques for digital companies with a global market. He promises by employing his tacti...

Welcome Dr. Linda Thornton to The Mark Howley Show! Tune in today for this inspiring TRUE story! Dr. Thornton is the first female trained black prosthodontist (aka she is an expert in dentures) and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Dental Corps. She grew up in a poor family in New Jersey as the youngest of five girls. Her father was determined to educate his daughters and support them in...

Welcome Chris Carlton, the third and final recovery story in our Christmas Series highlighting individuals who have overcome addiction. Chris candidly shares his long battle with alcoholism and the torment it brought his family. Today, he is celebrating nearly 4 years sobriety and became the father he desperately wanted to be.  TUNE IN TODAY FOR THIS INSPIRING STORY.  You are not alone....

Welcome Jenn Labesky, the second sobriety story in our Christmas series to support those in recovery over the holiday season. Jenn is a true survivor. She has overcome decades of anorexia, severe alcohol and drug abuse, a suicide attempt, two decades in a physically abusive relationship,homelessness and being sex trafficked. She is six years sober and celebrating one year of recovery from her eati...

Merry Christmas! Our TMHS Christmas Series Special is focusing on recovery stories from three different guests. We are highlighting individuals that have overcome substance abuse and intense personal struggle to support others in recovery over the holiday. You are not alone. Welcome Todd Gross, our first of three guests sharing his grueling story of Oxycontin addiction and various substance abuse....

Welcome Timothy Jones, MD founder of The Mom & Mitchell Foundation organized in 2021. He knows personally about the profound and devastating effects of mental health disorders on family, friends, and communities. In Tim’s family alone, he has lost his maternal grand mother, his mother, and his son, Mitchell, to suicide. Our conversation goes into the loss of his son and family members to the genes...

Welcome Pete Sousa! ESPN commentator, news anchor, and sober podcast host "Payoff with Pete." Nothing like two Philli boys and their east coast energy! Pete and Mark discuss sobriety, early sobriety challenges, and career growth while in recovery. Pete shares the intimate details of his road to recovery while living in a halfway house desperate for new opportunity, he realized he wanted a career w...

Welcome J Muenz to The Mark Howley Show! She blew us away with her funny, charming and unapologetic feminine power. She is an intuitive business mentor, spiritual guide and healer (but that hardly covers it). Muenz's most recent intuitive calling is to focus on international Wild Woman retreats where she can connect more deeply and empower her clients. Her focus and passion is lifting women up so...

Meet Mark Shelfo, the program director of PEER Seattle. Peer Seattle focuses on cultivating powerful, healthy lives by providing peer emotional support and development services to the LGBTQA community impacted by addiction, mental health and/or HIV/AIDS. Their services now stretch all over the state of WA. Marc candidly describes his own intense experience coming to terms with his sexuality,...

OUR EPISODE WITH D.A.D.S MARKS THE START OF SEASON 3! THIS MONTH WE ARE HIGHLIGHTING NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE UPLIFTING OUR COMMUNITY IN SEATTLE, WA WHERE OUR SHOW IS PRODUCED.   Meet Marvin and Jeanett Charles, founders of DADS, that started in their living room in 1998. DADS stands for Divine Alternatives for Dads Services. They wanted to apply the lessons they had learned during t...

Welcome to our show Thomas Jøren Neilsen, owner of  TJN LLC . He is a 2x Clio Award Winner, involved in projects of multiple VMA nominations, and sound designer for VMA winner " BOA " by Megan Thee Stallion. Jøren was called to this work from an early age, he shares with us the growing pains and success he has found from committing to his passion. His resume extends from working with Blink 18...

Sam Matthews, NP founder of Angels Psychiatry has been in the mental health field for over a decade. He specializes in care of children, adolescence and beyond. Sam discusses topics such as medicating minors, diagnosing and interviewing young patients, the increasing conversation around gender dysphoria, and common misconceptions around mental health in children. Sam is a graduate of Gonzaga Unive...

Join Bridget (daughter) and Mark (Dad) once again as they come together for another episode to celebrate Bridget's birthday! She requested we publish this on her birthday so here we are! We titled our episode "Three Doors" as we comically choose three blind topics to discuss with one another in complete bluntness. A sneak peek into our relationship as a father/daughter production and fam...

"We are the anti-pod coffee company."  Meet the founders of Nomi Brew, Naomi Masdon and Scott McMartin who are launching a cutting edge new product that aims to eliminate pods from single serve coffee machines. A long trial and error process has finally resulted in a coffee machine that offers a great cup of coffee without the trash. A bewildering statistic, "Globally, more tha...

Happy 4th from The Mark Howley Show! We decided to offer this special episode on Independence Day to acknowledge the veterans, military, civic duty officers, police, fire and all members that help protect and serve this country and all they have endured. This special features Jaime Martinez, a retired combat medic and recovering addict working with Summit, the largest behavioral health corporation...

"A Recovery Story" is a segment of our show dedicated to individuals that have overcome their challenges with substance abuse and personal struggle. Today we welcome Ken Davies who shares his sobriety story that began at a very young age. "I came in with a white flag...I surrendered...I needed to know there was another way to live." Ken discusses how AA and fellowship sustained his sobriety and ch...

Welcome Joe Barksdale to The Mark Howley Show! Our episode today dives into a raw conversation on suicide, depression, a late in life autism diagnosis and many career changes after being drafted in 2011 by the Oakland Raiders. Using humor and honesty, he opens up about the challenges he faced when he decided to leave the NFL, became a musician, then a comedian, then an autism advocate and now in s...