Episode 1 - One of my oldest friends, Terry Brown was a banker and then an actor and now he handles communications for a non-profit. We had lost touch over the past several years - consumed by the obligations of family, and I’ll confess I didn’t hold out a lot of hope as I watched from afar as he wrestled with addiction. But here he is - 2 years sober - and this interview is the best conversation we’ve ever had

Episode 2 - Connie Clotworthy was born and raised in Detroit where she discovered drinking and drugs at a very early age and eventually gravitated toward bartending before becoming a very successful mixologist at high end restaurants here in Los Angeles where her drinking found an environment to thrive. But a DUI, a car crash and a pyrotechnics catastrophe, drove her reluctantly into recovery where she struggled for years before a sponsor helped her discover the power of the present and meditation as a conduit to God. She now runs a non-profit - Worthy Beyond Purpose - that focuses on teaching meditation to kids and has traveled the world sharing her practice and technique.

Episode 3 - Douglas Mallon joined the marines at the tender age of 17 and found a new level of drug and alcohol abuse that led to a lifetime of obsession that was eventually quelled thru surrender and prayer.

Episode 4 - Jenny Aurthur’s freedom and joy belies a journey to sobriety that took her thru two family suicides that blew apart an unusual and close knit family and then - in sobriety - she had to contend with a third suicide when her best friend took his own life.

Episode 5 - Wendy Adamson went from a privileged life in Santa Monica to becoming a ward of the court - in and out of jail for narcotics and violence - before a shooting outside her apartment changed her life.

Episode 6 - Katy B’s journey is largely a search for meaning and validation and love. It takes her thru the Mormon religion and many would be suitors but its only once she finds it inside herself that she is able to recognize it around her, and then— it seems so obvious.

Episode 7 - James McLain and I grew up in the same bucolic stretch of the Gold Coast where The Great Gatsby was set and we both struggled with our uneasy place in a world that conferred social status thru an archaic set of values. I often thought how my life might have turned out had I taken the route James took into investment banking, and it’s somewhat poetic that both paths ultimately lead to sobriety.

Episode 8 - Joey Repice was a musician living in New Jersey bombing in and out of Manhattan to play gigs and to score before he fell afoul of heroine and only kicked when he had something akin to spiritual visitation. He now runs an amazing hot sauce company that I whole heartedly endorse!

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Episode 10 - Philly Mike grew up in a rough section of Philadelphia where just not getting your ass kicked was a constant challenge and eventually found succor in booze and comedy.

Episode 11 - DJ Verrett was serving 20 year prison term for drug related charges when his life was changed by an old lady carrying a pink box…