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Hip Sobriety with Bree Nicoli

Today we have Bree Nicoli on the podcast. She is a very special guest. I’ve known Bree since she was six years old when I lived with her dad, Max, who was also in recovery. Bree started with inhalants, graduated to marijuana, and then experimented with acid and molly. But when she found, cocaine, it was over. Bree is now twenty-four years old and is 3 years clean. She has over 12K followers on Instagram and runs her own business. It’s been a privilege to watch her learn and grow into a strong woman. Listen to her wild story! We SHAIR our stories every Tuesday so subscribe to us on iTunes and Stitcher […]

By |2021-02-17T15:28:49+00:00January 1st, 2019|Alcoholism, Cocaine, Female Speaker, Marijuana, Podcast|0 Comments
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Romance in Recovery with Nicole Lynn

Nicole Lynn is with us today. She sent SHAIR an email about a topic that gets brought up time and time again in recovery. Should we form romantic relationships with someone who is also in recovery? Or is better to date and marry outside the rooms? Nicole and her fiancé raise four kids together, run a home together, do life together, work full-time, and also both work their own recovery programs. Nicole wants to share her story as an active recovering addict in a lifelong committed relationship with another recovering addict. CLEAN DATE: FEBRUARY 10TH, 2015 Listen to Nicole’s Story Here are a few highlights from our interview. To get the […]

By |2021-02-17T15:29:03+00:00October 16th, 2018|Alcoholism, Cocaine, Female Speaker, Podcast|2 Comments
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The Yoga Recovery Lawyer with Suzula Bidon

  Suzula Bidon’s hippie parents named her after a word they found in the bylines of a Grateful Dead album. Growing up in the woods of Wisconsin in a counterculture lifestyle, Suzula struggled with isolation and depression all through her childhood. This led her to self-medicating with gateway drugs like alcohol and tobacco and ended with heroin and methamphetamines. Her addiction led her to federal prison and a serious criminal record. Today, Suzula is a practicing attorney, recovery advocate, and a Minnesota Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS). She is the creator of the Recovery Yoga Meetings® and has been teaching it since 2012. Recovery yoga meetings help people live and […]

By |2021-02-17T15:29:06+00:00October 2nd, 2018|Cocaine, Drug addiction, Female Speaker, Hallucinogens, Heroin, Marijuana, Methamphetamines, Podcast|0 Comments
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SHAIR 183: The Record Collector with Shane Watson

Shane Watson is a writer, Youtuber and prevention specialist. He speaks to kids and adults about substance use for an organization called Not My Kid. It’s a nonprofit that educates students not only about addiction, but also unhealthy relationships, depression, self-injury, bullying, and suicide.  His blog is called the Silver Ladder and he has an unbelievable story of addiction and recovery. Here is a glimpse of his experience. If being regularly jolted awake by the tormented screams of inmates in neighboring cells wasn’t bad enough, there was the fact that I was sharing a cell made for a single inmate with three other people. We were crowded four-deep in a […]

By |2021-02-17T15:29:17+00:00August 14th, 2018|Alcoholism, Cocaine, Drug addiction, Heroin, Male Speaker, Methamphetamines, Podcast, Uncategorized|2 Comments
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SHAIR 182: Bars, Bedrooms, and Bad Decisions with Cyndy L

Cyndy L says her story in recovery involves being a slow learner. She went to her first meeting at twenty-one years old, but she didn’t pick up her one-year chip till she was forty. She fell in love with alcohol at a young age, leading her to a lifestyle of bars, bedrooms, and bad decisions. It took her a long time to realize the role her childhood and genetics played in her alcoholism. Some people are proud to say they are the first person in their family to go to college, get a degree, or open their own business. Cyndy jokes that she’s proud to be the first alcoholic in […]

By |2021-05-25T16:01:14+00:00August 7th, 2018|Alcoholism, Cocaine, Female Speaker, Podcast|0 Comments
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SHAIR 180: The Miracle of the Mundane in Sobriety with Mark Goodson

Mark Goodson is a very active member of our SHAIR Recovery group, and it’s about time we had him on to tell us his wild story. His life of addiction started before he ever took his first drink and eventually triggered an episode of drug induced psychosis that led him to bizarre behavior, like stripping down naked in a Mexican church. Now Mark Goodson’s a sober husband, dad, and writer at his website called The Miracle of the Mundane. Merriam-Webster defines the word ‘mundane’ as dull, but Mark finds ordinary life to be a miracle, and his sobriety has unleashed his creativity on a whole new level. CLEAN DATE: October 13th […]

By |2021-02-17T15:29:21+00:00July 24th, 2018|Alcoholism, Cocaine, Drug addiction, Male Speaker, Marijuana, Podcast|0 Comments
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SHAIR 175: What It Was Like with Laura Alvarado

In addiction, there are two sides to the story. We usually have recovering addicts on the show to share their experience, but today we have an unusual guest. SHAIR host Omar Pinto interviews his ex-wife, Laura. She recounts how addiction systematically dismantled their marriage and their future as a family with their daughter. This is an important episode that shows the pain and confusion family and friends go through with a person in active addiction. Laura also tells us how she learned to forgive, heal, and practice self-love to transcend the ruin that addiction caused in her life. Listen to Laura’s story! Here are a few highlights from our interview. […]

By |2021-02-17T15:29:27+00:00June 19th, 2018|Alcoholism, Cocaine, Female Speaker, Podcast|0 Comments
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SHAIR 174: Genius Recovery with Joe Polish

Joe Polish is founder and president of Piranha Marketing. His Genius Network and GeniusX masterminds feature household guests like Peter Diamandis, Tony Robbins, Sir Richard Branson, Steve Forbes, and John Mackay. Joe is the creator of Artists for Addicts and Genius Recovery, an organization’s whose mission is to change the global conversation around addiction and recovery from one of judgment to one of compassion. He is currently working on an addiction recovery book with former SHAIR guest, Anna David. Joe is a dynamic individual who is seeking tools for recovery in any shape or form, even ibogaine and ayahuasca. His is an inspirational story full of new insights into addiction and how to break […]

By |2021-05-25T16:00:41+00:00June 12th, 2018|Alcoholism, Cocaine, Crack, Drug addiction, Eating Disorder, Eating Disorders, Hallucinogens, Heroin, Main Slider, Male Speaker, Marijuana, Methamphetamines, Podcast, Podcast Archive, Prescription Drugs, Sex and Porn Addiction, SHAIR your story, Trauma and Abuse, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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SHAIR 173: She Recovers with Dawn Nickel

Dawn Nickel is the founder of She Recovers, a community that focuses on women’s recovery from anything and everything, including drug addiction, alcoholism, codependency, love and sex addiction, eating disorders, workaholism and perfectionism. In Dawn’s view, we are all recovering from something, and we’re stronger together. She’s a strong advocate for the view that each woman in or seeking recovery must be supported to find the tools and pathways that will work best for her as an individual. Dawn has been in recovery since 1987. Alcohol free since that time, she struggled until 1989 with a marijuana addiction and was then both alcohol and drug free for nearly 11 years before […]

By |2021-02-17T15:29:30+00:00June 5th, 2018|Alcoholism, Cocaine, Drug addiction, Female Speaker, Podcast, Prescription Drugs|0 Comments
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SHAIR 170: Being Human with Vasavi Kumar

Vasavi is a savvy entrepreneur, licensed social worker, and a plant-based chef. She holds dual Masters degrees in Special Education and Social Work. She has been featured extensively on TV and in the media. She is now a personal development coach who truly believes that with impeccable character, work ethic, and unwavering values, you can do, be and have anything you want! Vasavi is also a grateful recovering addict and alcoholic who got out of rehab 6 months ago and has just finished moving out of a sober living home. She had always been successful on the outside, but inside she was lost, empty, and addicted to cocaine. Then she […]

By |2021-02-17T15:29:35+00:00May 15th, 2018|Alcoholism, Cocaine, Female Speaker, Podcast, Uncategorized|2 Comments
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