Recovery Internet Radio: Recent Episodes
Recovery Internet Radio
Join our hosts, Rick Atwater and Rob Ryberg, as they travel across the human experience of recovery through the power of story. Recovery Internet Radio is here to ask the hard questions, share good stories, and be a friend to those wherever they are in their life journey.Recovery is not just a state of mind, it's a way of life sourced from your heart. Recovery can be found through many doors—some are just more wide open than others.
Today we are joined by our friends, Julie Funkhouser and Meredith Speir, who tell us about their personal and professional journeys. Julie and Meredith are cofounders of The Recovery Connection, a trauma-informed addiction treatment center intentionally designed to inspire a purpose-driven healing experience on the path to freedom. We discuss resilience and adversity in recovery and business, as well as the gifts and beauty that have come as the result of a purpose-driven life.
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Rick & Rob invite Brady C and Brian B to talk about Christmas chaos and what recovery is like through the holidays today.
On the episode today, we interview Jimmy R and discuss his recovery story. We cover his journey into sobriety, service and overcoming adversity in recovery.
Today we interview our friend, Dave Yates. Dave is a fulltime road warrior comedian and entrepreneur in recovery. Dave talks about his Hot Sauce company and what its like to be a sober comic.
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Rick interviews Toby M about the manifestation of alcoholism, the progression of the disease and 31 whopping years of recovery!
We are joined by Eric Majoesk as he discusses his professional life
and unorthadox road to recovery and healing. We discuss various approaches to recovery and treatment modalities. We then discuss the use of psychedelics for substance abuse treatment, trauma and other acute mental health disorders.
In this episode, we are joined by our friend Wes Walker. We discuss his personal recovery, the addiction treatment industry and everything in between. We cover gambling addiction, effective clinical models, business models, managed care models and building a homegrown community treatment center.
On this episode of Recovery Internet Radio, we hear the story of Roman Braly. Roman has a fast story of chaos and carnage and shares about the foster system, his adoptive family, working for cartels and prison stays. We then discuss all of the gifts of transformation, the promises of recovery and all some moments of reflection form his journey. Be on the lookout for a new podcast by Roman and his co-host, Chris Bennett, Gut Level, coming later this month.
On this episode of Recovery Internet Radio, we interview longtime friend and colleague, Gary Fisher. Gary served as Executive Director of Cirque Lodge, a world-class treatment center in Sundance, Utah for over 20 years. We talk about his recovery story, gratitude, opportunity, building and scaling Cirque Lodge, retirement.
Christine grew up in the fog of denial. She nor her family had any awareness or understanding of addiction. A series of unhappy and unhealth relationships led her to her first twelve step meeting. Christine has, over a long and bumpy history faced her codependency and a series of other process addictions. Life in an Ashram and devotion to a Guru accelerated her recovery. Through the twelve steps and her other practices she is living a life of gratitude for life’s lessons.
It was in the genes, but it hit hard and fast. A natural mother the fear of losing her kids led grudgingly to rehab. Still not believing she had a problem; angry and unhappy she drank again. After getting sober and working a program again for several years her reaction to health problems led to another relapse. Shortly after that relapse she sobered up again but this time with daily meeting and good sponsorship. Meanwhile she manages to finish a master’s degree in counseling and get a job. Diagnosed with cancer in 2020 she drank again but this time she found out about living one day at a time and faced her feeling of valuelessness. She decided that she loved herself more than her old friend alcohol.
Join us as we talk with our friend Nick about his recovery journey, professional evolution and expereince in the behavioral healthcare industry. Nick runs a treatment facility, has an intimate relationship with recovery and has a real job ahead to imprint his treatment and management style on an existing facility and philosophy. Let’s get an inside look at Nick’s challenges and successes in this competitive arena.