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SHAIR 133: “Little Miss Sobriety 2.0” with Rebecca Spuller, alcoholism, depression, suicide and recovery!

Rebecca Spuller joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast. Today Rebecca walks us through her horrific battle with alcoholism, depression, suicide and death in the family.  It’s an incredible journey from recovery and how she transformed her life. In the past 11 months, she’s gotten sober, left a 6-figure job to start my own consulting company and basically, just reinvented her life.  She created a blog called My 2.0 Project where Rebecca has chronicled everything she’s been doing since shortly after she got sober. When she first started this blog, it was under the cover of anonymity due, in part, to her profession as a corporate HR manager, but also, because she […]

SHAIR 131: “Use Your Voice” with Kellie Ideson, addiction, suicide, grieving and recovery!

Kellie Ideson joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast. Kellie has jumped into recovery with both feet. We met when she was working with Paul Churchill over at Recovery Elevator.  Kellie is a recovery warrior, a mom, a realtor, a marketing guru, wellness advocate, and a budding writer. Join us now as Kellie takes us through her horrific battle with drug addiction and her amazing transformational journey into recovery. SHAIR and organifi have teamed up to give SHAIR listeners 20% OFF of their Superfood Powdered Green Juice.  Click on the image below and use Promo Code: SHAIR to get 20% OFF of your order. Organifi is an organic, superfood supplement line that makes quality trusted nutrition convenient and accessible. Their most popular product, GREEN JUICE, solves the […]

By |2021-02-17T15:30:38+00:00August 15th, 2017|Alcoholism, Female Speaker, Podcast, Prescription Drugs|0 Comments

SHAIR 123: “Taking the Mask Off” with Cortland Pfeffer, Mental Health, Addiction and a Spiritual Solution.

Cortland Pfeffer joins today us on The SHAIR Podcast.  Cortland is the author of “Taking the Mask Off: Destroying the Stigmatic Barriers of Mental Health and Addiction Using a Spiritual Solution.” Cortland spent years as a patient in psychiatric hospitals, treatment centers, and jails, before becoming a registered nurse and working in the same facilities. This is a story about recovery that goes inside the mental health and addiction field, revealing the problems and providing a spiritual solution. Join us now as Cortland takes us through his battle with addiction and his inspirational journey of recovery. SHAIR and organifi have teamed up to give SHAIR listeners 20% OFF of their […]

SHAIR 122: “One Is Too Many…” with Amy B. Mother, Wife, Recovering Alcoholic

Listen to Amy’s story now! Amy B. joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast, and Amy got sober 10 years ago using 12-step recovery. Most recently she became a recovery coach and is participating in an internship with a long-term up to two years sober treatment living facility. She joins us today to share with us her unbelievable battle with alcohol and her inspirational journey into recovery. Clean Date: August 4, 2006 Below are few questions Amy answered for us on the show. Omar: So tell us what is your anniversary date? Amy B. : My anniversary date is August 4th. I did the calendar thing, and I have 3,927 […]

SHAIR 116: “Sex in Recovery” with Jennifer Matesa, a meeting between the covers.

Listen to Jennifer’s story now! Jennifer Matesa the author of Sex in Recovery: A meeting between the covers joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast. Sexuality in the context of recovery is rarely talked about openly, in part because our broader culture may inhibit us from sharing our true experiences. For some, the prospect of sober sex feels like uncharted waters–in the past, we’ve rarely had sex without first numbing ourselves with drugs and alcohol. What does it mean to have an intimate relationship in sobriety? Exploring that question deepens our recovery journey. With this groundbreaking work, Jennifer Matesa uncovers the challenges real people encounter when they start taking their […]

SHAIR 113: “The Wisdom of 12-Step Spirituality” with Dr. Jane Galloway, Author of The Gateways.

Jane Galloway the author of The Gateways- The Wisdom of 12-Step Spirituality joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast. The Gateways are…A Gateway, a Bridge, an Opening into living the Spiritual Life that the Steps promise! What YOU get from this is TOOLS, Inspiration, Time to release the Shame and move into the FREEDOM. Is there more to recovery than just staying sober and clean? Dr. Jane Galloway offers an emphatic “yes” to this question in her groundbreaking 12 Step companion guide, The Gateways: The Wisdom of 12-Step Spirituality. Galloway presents the 12 Steps squarely in the context of 21st-century spirituality with breadth, skill, and sensitivity that helps readers of […]

SHAIR 106: “Holy Addiction” with JoAnn Miller: Suboxone – the Cure or the Epidemic?

JoAnn Miller is a recovery advocate and the founder of Holy Addiction. And this is her story… “If you had told me the day I snuck in that window that I would own a blog with traffic, would be working with a radio station and three of the coolest guys in the recovery community, I wouldn’t have believed you. The past year of my life has been one crazy ride.  I gave up drugs and picked up a mission. The day I typed addiction into the search bar on Facebook, I was shocked.  I was an active regular social Facebook user, and I had no idea that this world, our […]

TSP 069: “Chasing the Dragon” with Katrina King: A Tragic Story of Opiate Abuse

Today we have Katrina King joining us on The SHAIR Podcast. Katrina contributed to an interview for the FBI’s documentary on opiate abuse, “Chasing the Dragon” and has been interviewed for several other podcasts and articles on addiction awareness and recovery. She is currently working hard at completing her first book, a memoir on her family’s tragic experiences with drug abuse, and is attempting to return to school to become a certified addictions counselor. The obstacles are many, yet she remains determined and undeterred to personally reach out and make a difference in the lives of youth in emotional pain and despair due to depression, abuse, and drug addiction. She […]

By |2021-02-17T15:40:58+00:00June 7th, 2016|Female Speaker, Heroin, Podcast, Prescription Drugs|3 Comments

TSP 062: “Recovery is an Inside Job” with Erin Bahadur, a recovering addict, NASM certified personal trainer, and blogger!

On Today’s Episode of The SHAIR Podcast we have Erin Bahadur joining us on the show today. She is the founder of Erin’s Inside Job, a recovering addict, NASM certified personal trainer, fitness instructor, and blogger. Her goal is to help everyone realize that true wellness comes from within (and sometimes through desserts). “I started this blog as an outlet to help me get outside of myself.  This statement may sound like a contradiction to the concept of an Inside Job, but it’s not.  I wanted to be able to take the improvements that I was making on myself (the inside) and share them with others (the outside).  I also believe that true wellness […]

048: Group Of Drunks with Seth Manter – Do you have a problem with the concept of GOD? Now celebrating 5 years sober, Seth shares his concept of a higher power.

On today’s episode of The SHAIR Podcast we have Seth Manter joining us and he recently celebrates 5 years Clean and Sober.  I met Seth through Shane Ramer of the That Sober Guy Podcast and he is a riot.  He takes us through multiple years of drug and alcohol abuse and the bottom that led him into recovery. The thing I love most about Seth is his passion for recovery. When he get’s into his journey of recovery you can almost picture him beaming with the sunlight of the spirit.  It’s a power and moving story, you don’t want to miss this episode. Clean Date: October 7, 2010 This episode was brought […]

By |2021-02-17T15:41:33+00:00January 12th, 2016|Alcoholism, Cocaine, Drug addiction, Podcast, Prescription Drugs|2 Comments