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SHAIR 188: Every 7 Minutes with Corey Burgess

We have a lot of high-profile guests on this show, but many of our listeners love to hear real stories from real people who battled drugs and alcohol and came out on the other side. Corey Burgess is one of those real people. She has been an avid SHAIR listener since she got out of treatment in August of 2016. She had a few relapses since then, but she was thrilled to officially celebrate one year of sobriety this past June and would love to share her story of recovery from her addiction to alcohol and prescription painkillers. CLEAN DATE: June 13th, 2017 Listen to Corey’s Story Here are a […]

By |2021-02-17T15:29:09+00:00September 18th, 2018|Alcoholism, Drug addiction, Female Speaker, Podcast, Prescription Drugs|0 Comments
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SHAIR 187: Dave talks about Chris

Today we have a very heavy and heartfelt episode with Dave from Dopey Podcast. His cohost Chris recently passed away after a tragic relapse and overdose. Many of our listeners reached out and wanted to know what happened. We’re so grateful for Dave to join us to discuss Chris’s death and the future of Dopey Podcast with our recovery family across the world. Listen to Chris’s Story Here are a few highlights from our interview. To get the full story please join us on the podcast now! Dave says Chris was one the smartest people he ever met. This was one of the gifts that lead to his downfall. Chris […]

By |2021-05-25T16:01:20+00:00September 11th, 2018|Crack, Drug addiction, Heroin, Male Speaker, Marijuana, Podcast, Uncategorized|1 Comment
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SHAIR 185: Cleaner Daze with Tess Sweet

Tess Sweet is an award-winning producer and director known for Cleaner Daze, a dark comedy series about addiction written by a recovering drug addict. Cleaner Daze shines a light on the realities of living with addiction and reminds us that there is a little “fucked-up” in all of us. Tess never had a goal in life. She always had artistic inclinations, but she didn’t know quite where she belonged. Instead of finding herself, she discovered drugs, and sunk deeper and deeper into a pit of danger and despair. Tess experienced a terrifying moment that compelled her to get clean, but afterward, she had to start life all over again. Learn how […]

By |2021-02-17T15:29:13+00:00August 28th, 2018|Drug addiction, Female Speaker, Heroin, Marijuana, 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 181: The Victim Suit with Denise W.

Denise and I met 5 years ago when she was a patient at Costa Rica Recovery. We saw each other in passing at the AA and NA meetings. And when she finished her treatment, she went back to the United States. She recently returned to Costa Rica to share her story on the anniversary of her 5th year in sobriety. It impacted me so much, I asked her if she would be willing to share her story on the podcast and here we are. Denise has an intense past full of childhood trauma and abuse, self-loathing, and racism that developed into full-blown alcoholism and a long pattern of destructive relationships. […]

By |2021-05-25T16:01:09+00:00July 31st, 2018|Alcoholism, Drug addiction, Female Speaker, Podcast, Prescription Drugs, Trauma and Abuse, Uncategorized|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 179: 25 Years, One Lesson with Andrea Dye

Andrea Dye is a directionally challenged expat who no longer has to huff shoe polish to feel alive. She focuses on cultivating the positive impact of living a balanced life and collaborates on non-commercial interests with cool folks around the world. She is the author of 25 Years 1 Lesson and has a hell of a story for you today. Andrea became a raging alcoholic at the age of 14, and eventually graduated to other drugs. She was rebellious and selfish, with no intention of ever getting clean. She hated being sober so intensely that while in rehab she tried to break open an conditioner so she could huff the […]

By |2021-05-25T16:01:02+00:00July 17th, 2018|Alcoholism, Drug addiction, Female Speaker, Marijuana, Podcast|0 Comments
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SHAIR 177: The Warrior Within with Sarah Mabry

Sarah Mabry is the wife of our former guest, John Mabry (SHAIR 165). John has been sober for two and a half years and now hosts the High Sobriety Podcast, but before he got clean, his addiction put Sarah and his kids through unimaginable emotional destruction. This is Sarah’s first podcast. For the first time she gets to share her story out loud. Sarah is not a recovering addict or alcoholic, but drugs and alcohol still took her over her life. She is here to talk about what it was like being the wife of an addict and what it is like now living with a spouse who is in […]

By |2021-05-25T16:00:54+00:00July 3rd, 2018|Alcoholism, Drug addiction, Female Speaker, Podcast, Prescription Drugs, Uncategorized|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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