Stay Free Forever

Stay Free Forever

Stay Free Forever is a monthly podcast aimed at helping people, especially those who are currently and formerly justice-involved, to remain free and avoid incarceration or re-incarceration. We do this by talking about replacing risky thinking and behavior with sound, positive pro-social choices. Each discussion is guided by former corrections and parole officer Clifford Fewel, a journalist, writer, speaker and owner of the cognitive behavioral education company Stay Free Forever LLC.

Episodes

Stay Free Forever E12: Former death row inmate and mental health assistant Craigen Armstrong

January 31, 2024 • 57 mins

Interview from the Twin Towers Correction Facility in LA with the leader of a successful  movement to help and treat severely mentally ill patients, while also restoring and truly rehabilitating lifers and other convicted felon volunteers by permitting them to serve in a meaningful way

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SFF Podcast E11: Artist, blacksmith and former tobacco chewer Steve Fontanini

December 11, 2023 • 42 mins
Artist and blacksmith Steve Fontanini confronts years of addiction to smokeless tobacco and explains how he keeps it from controlling him.
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Stay Free Forever Podcast E10: County Judge and Christian Bo Zeerip

November 19, 2023 • 42 mins
Judge Bo Zeerip discusses the challenges of being a County Court Judge in Delta, Colorado, and offers specific advice — to attorneys and their clients — as to how to appear and behave in court.  He shares how his Christian faith informs and influences his decision-making as he attempts to do justice, make room for mercy, and run an efficient courtroom, all the while looking out for the rights of people who are innocent until proven...
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Stay Free Forever E9: Teenager Tanksi Duran

October 28, 2023 • 39 mins
15-year-old Northern Arapaho Tanksi (tungk-SHEE) Duran shares her thoughts on bullying, teen suicide, friendship, hip-hop and learning from the elders.
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Stay Free Forever E8: Recovering addict and abuse survivor Austin Peavler

September 2, 2023 • 58 mins
At a point in his recovery from chemical and sexual addiction where he can articulate specific ways in which he is confronting and changing his own self-destructive thoughts and behavior, Austin Peavler describes his journey toward integrity and peace. As with the main character, Odysseus, in his favorite tale, "The Odyssey", 39-year-old Austin has survived setback after setback ; mostly self-imposed. 
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Stay Free Forever E7: Law student and former WHP trooper James Weck

July 8, 2023 • 52 mins
U.S. Army and Wyoming Highway Patrol veteran James Weck shares proven methods to avoid tickets and manage chaos.
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Stay Free Forever E6: Caregiver and DV survivor Samantha Johnson

June 17, 2023 • 36 mins
It began with a near-fatal beating that led to addiction, homelessness and losing her children. Hear Samantha Johnson recall her painful yet promising journey to recovery, sobriety, self-reliance and a career serving the sick and helping those who struggle as she did.
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Stay Free Forever E5: Lifeskills guru Trevor Lloyd

May 29, 2023 • 38 mins
"We understand there is the law, and we have to act in accordance with it...but there's also a human here who has some needs! Are those sets of laws are helping me help this person? And sometimes they don't," says the man whose company, since 1975, has helped folks stop breaking laws and start living right.
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Stay Free Forever E4: Former judge and recovering opioid addict Terri Smith

April 23, 2023 • 49 mins
From judge to judged; peer support specialist and former judge Terri Smith recounts her journey from trauma and addiction through recovery and redemption.
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Stay Free Forever E3: Contractor and recovering meth addict Kimberly Smith

March 30, 2023 • 28 mins
From athlete to addict to adult; Kimberly Smith shares lessons learned and how to keep them from fading.
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Stay Free Forever E2: Horse rancher and recovering alcoholic Russell Hebah

March 4, 2023 • 28 mins
A Native American man chooses to overcome his addictive past
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Stay Free Forever E1: White-collar felon and restaurant cook Sarah Blakeman

February 20, 2023 • 38 mins
Stay Free Forever's Clifford Fewel interviews Wyoming native Sarah Blakeman about her life, and about the "slippery slope" toward grand theft on which she found herself. "Just like an alcoholic doesn't start out in life saying, 'I think I'm gonna be an alcoholic,'" Sarah says, "I didn't start out thinking that I'm going to be a thief." Sarah shares how being caught, sentenced, incarcerated and freed has led her to a life of authent...
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