Beauty In The Breakdown

This episode is the first episode I've done in a group setting.  I tried to have everyone that I interviewed all at once, but I ran out of microphones (so we're missing a fella).  During this episode we all get to catch up to see how we're all doing with our adventures in sobriety.  On this podcast the guests that I have on board are James Segroves, Paul Britt, Andy Spreeuwers, and Robert Davidson.  We not only touch base on our cu...

I spend a lot of time very late at night scrolling through social media sites for video and audio clips of people pouring out their heart on matters that we all come face to face with on our journey of finding out who God is, and how we can learn to fully trust him.  On this episode I have a montage of many clips of people giving testimonies of their lives in Christ and what a difference it makes.  Some of the messages are clips ex...

Low and behold...A man that has been lifted out of the pit.  I've known Wade for a while but never really engaged in any conversations of sobriety and spiritually.  Recently within the past few months it seems as though Wade has come to the end of his ropes, and while saying that I don't necessarily mean that he hit rock bottom, but I think from the way it sounds was that he just realized how tired he was doing things on his own.  ...

This one-hour interview is super entertaining as well as informative.  For those of you that don't know Robert Davidson I have some good news...I don't know him either.  We have a ton of the same friends, grew up in the same part of town, but he and I have never actually ever met.  It's because of this show that we crossed paths. So, upon chatting with him while I was posting episodes and going through some really ruff chapters, Ro...

Everyone has a story.  Some are darker than others.  Some have happy endings and don't even seem real.  But every once in a while, you hear a story that will keep you up at night.  This story is one story I heard that did just that.  I was told by a friend who referred Andy to the show that Andy had quite the story to tell.  I had no facts and knew nothing of what he went through to get clean.  Upon hearing all that Andy had to say...

Doing small things with BIG LOVE has become a thing that I try my best to live by.  In this episode I dissect my life over the past 890+ days since going sober.  I talk about some very personal experiences that I've delt with that have has some lingering effects.  Effects for the better as I can totally feel and see the significant changes.  I don't always like things at first when confronted with change, then come to find out the ...

Getting to sit down and catch up with and old friend is always a real treat.  But getting to sit down and chat to make an episode of a podcast is a pretty amazing thing as well especially when you're catching up with an old friend.  James Seagroves and I go way back to when we were in daycare together.  We even started drinking around the same age.  During the time I've been doing this show, James has been listening.  I was very mu...

Not too long ago I was in a conversation with a man that I work with named Dale.  Dale is really great to conversate with about anything really so from time to time I'll share with him things about personal struggles or mind-boggling matters.   Since my friend that has gotten out of recovery was doing so well, I approached Dale to tell him the good news.  Dale asked, "what was your friend in recovery for?"  I told him it was alcoho...

When I started this podcast my beginning intentions were to interview others who have overcome addiction or are still actively barreling through it not overcoming much.  Little did I know that I would be sitting alone for the majority of the time telling my life story in the mic on all the episodes.  Believe me when I tell you that I've never imagined me sitting alone with a microphone in my face spatting out how I overcame my addi...

When it rains it pours.  Sometimes life can drop an unexpected bomb on us that completely is out of our control, or something that eventually catches up to us that we didn't maintain correctly. In this episode I tell a story of the curve ball that life threw at me while all seemed well. At first everything seemed like it was completely under control but in all actuality the situation kept getting worse by the second.  I lost sleep,...

Back from a super long extended break and boy do I have plenty to talk about.  Life has been full of its ups and downs and all arounds.  The good, bad, and the ugly.  Still sober of course but hanging on for dear life at times so it seems. Hoping to keep the shows coming on a regular basis with plenty to share I have some real struggles that have crossed my path since last September and I've have overcome quite a bit.  During this ...

Title says it all! This one is for the drinkers in the back!  I'm trying my best to be loud and clear here; Only speaking out of 100% experience with what I experienced with alcohol concerning myself and others.  Quitting drinking or "drying out" as some like to refer to it, is an absolute nightmare to go through.  It's basically starting over again.  It's throwing away something that's had it grip on you so much that when you deci...

Hard times fall on us all.  That is something we always hear, and we are constantly aware of.  But when it actually happens those moments in time seem to drag on and surround us with darkness and pure struggle.  I've spent a ton of time in hospitals this summer with family and friends in support of their needs.  But one that sticks out the most is my friend Charlie who lost the love of his life Miwa.  Charlie is the most amazing pe...

After a long break over the summer, I've returned with quite an emotional episode.  Although my emotions are in check, I've have felt the need to discuss somethings that have been going on in my life that involve some radical change.  Changes that are hard to understand.  Some changes that were made because things just had to go.  But some changes happened due to life throwing its curve balls at us all and we can do nothing but go ...

A few weeks ago, I was in my daily reading, and I came across the word shipwrecked.  Little did I know that I would live out the feeling of that word on a daily basis.  Life has begun to feel a bit dry, same ole same ole, feeling tired all the time, easily frustrated for almost no reason at all at times.  "Where is the peace that I had?" I would ask myself from time to time.  I felt as though I wasn't' exactly walking in the rest t...

Being brought out of a life of addiction and a consistent downward spiral is quite riveting. As I have shared in the past episodes pieces of my story that allowed me to get on this new path to making things right with God, myself and others, there were still some other things that I still needed to share.  In this episode I dive into some personal struggles of the heart that I faced, finally deciding where I should be planted in a ...

Have you ever received a phone call from someone that uplifted you?  Have you ever witnessed an accident and immediately felt the urge to pray through your inner self or out loud to God or whoever you fancy?  I ponder these things and have a strong desire to grow in this area because I truly believe we bring life to others by lifting others up in prayer.  Praying and sending good thoughts to others is something special and what I b...

When pursuing God, I cannot begin to express the importance of a good healthy and most certainly daily devotional life.  I go over some things in this episode that you may have heard of some of the others.  But to really get the direct impact from Gods word and to understand him more, I talk about how there are certain things that are extremely beneficial to get into the routine doing. I also play some clips from some folks giving ...