Finding Your Strength with Sober Paul
In this week's episode, Coach Blu talks with Paul Lapine, a man who is following his strength by opening a sober gym in Brooklyn, New York to strengthen the recovery movement and lay the foundations of sobriety. Listen as they discuss principles of recovery that create pathways of success by strengthening purpose, principles, and outcomes with exercise and fitness. Follow Paul on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/soberpaul_/ and https://www.instagram.com/lapine_fitness_studio/ or schedule with him here https://lapinefitness.totaltransformationtoday.com/schedulettr
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Disney On The Rocks
On today's podcast Coach Blu take a deep dive into his experience while attending a mental health and addiction conference in Orlando Florida. Following the conference, he was able to attend Walt Disney World Epcot theme park and was absolutely blown away by how much drinking of alcohol had become part of the Disney experience. After a 40-year absence of alcohol within the Disney theme park experience, 10 years ago wine and beer were introduced and now, September 2022, new park rules allow the spirits to openly flow. Listen as he discusses some of his thoughts and what he discovered from Walt Disney himself about why he would not allow the consumption of alcohol in his parks originally. Become informed about what you should be aware of before you book a family experience to a location like this and what you should know about potential triggers before you invest in Disney resorts for your next family vacation.
**Clarification on Disney lobbying to lower drinking age at Disney parks. We have found that to be misinformation-https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/disney-world-drinking-age/
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First Lady of Recovery Kathryn Burgum
Today Coach Blu interviews Kathryn Burgum, the first lady of North Dakota. As First Lady, Kathryn's priority is supporting and developing initiatives to eliminate the shame and stigma of the chronic disease of addiction in North Dakota's communities.
In long-term recovery for 20 years, she shares her personal experience and encourages others to do the same to normalize the conversation around the disease of addiction. She is spreading the word that addiction is a chronic disease and not a character flaw. Kathryn plays an active role in supporting the Office of Recovery Reinvented as the chair of the Advisory Council. Check out their free online upcoming educational event on November 3, 2022 to put Advocacy Into Action. This is an episode you don't want to miss!
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Creating A Path To Wellness
Today Coach Blu speaks with Katie Hanke. At one time, Katie weighed 380 pounds, had 26 medical diagnoses, took 50 prescriptions, had chronic depression/anxiety, and struggled with addictive eating, opioid, and alcohol use. Listen as she describes her journey by turning her mess into a powerful message. She is now a mom, nutrition and wellness coach, and certified personal trainer. A story of hope, self-exploration, self-experimentation, consistency, and discipline will inspire you to erase and replace aspects in your own life.
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Watching the Sunrise with Coach K
On this week's podcast Coach Blu talks with Herb Kieklak, a Running Coach, Mentor, and Agent of Sobriety. Listen as they talk about the concepts of change and healing through recreation and service. Coach K talks about obstacles to recovery and how he used his healing as a bridge to assist others in jail overcome personal challenges and becoming healthier through running.
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Current Affairs and Sad Choices
This week the Agents of Recovery talk about the current affairs and the sad choices of recovery. They talk about the stigma of mental health and the new light being cast on sensitive issues by prominent people in the NFL and other platforms. They talk about the sad situation of the Las Vegas Raiders receiver, Henry Ruggs III, charged with driving under the influence (DUI) resulting in death after his car rear-ended another car and left one person dead.
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The Running Punk: Jimmy Watkins
This week Coach Blu interviews artist and Sober Punk Runner Jimmy Watkins who reached the 800m final in the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2006 and set a Welsh indoor record, only to leave the sport to join a band and explore some deeper roots. Listen as he then reaches a plateau to rediscover his relationship with running, the freedom within, and adding his own personal twist and love for music. Jimmy certainly embodies what erasing and replacing old habits with new habits means. He never settles for mediocrity and truly being able to use gifts and talents to spread the mutual love of music, running, and being alive with the world. Learn more about Running Punks.
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The Recovery Warrior
On this episode of the Addict II Athlete podcast Coach Blu interviews Jonah Grant Sr. Listen as Jonah discusses his life of recovery, his Native American Heritage, powerful life lessons he learned through adversity, and by turning the mess of addiction into the message of sobriety. He has been able to overcome tremendous barriers in life and become a warrior of recovery. Listen as they discuss the spiritual journey that recovery often takes and the metaphors of healing addiction through being open to the mentors, coaches, and friendships recovery has to offer. Coach Blu invites Jonah to take on the challenge of becoming an official Recovery Coach of the team Addict II Athlete to help those within his tribe and in the reservation community. We are lucky to have such an amazing individual on our team, listen and I'm sure he will agree.
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Addiction in the Elderly Population
Today's podcast we invite back Dr. B, Faried Banimahd, M.D., CEO of American Addiction Institute of Mind and Medicine. They discuss the growing issue of substance use and misuse among the elderly (adults over the age of 60), particularly of alcohol and prescription drugs, as one of the fastest-growing health problems in the United States. Addiction in the elderly population can be extremely serious. Listen as they discuss prescription drug abuse and the misuse of prescribed medicines where they may abuse their own medicine in a way that is not instructed by the doctor, or more than is necessary. Listen to tips for conversations and ways you can raise a concern without hindering or hurting the relationship.
The aging of the American population has created a sense of urgency among long term care (LTC) providers as they begin to realize the scale of substance use and misuse among older adults. Between 2006 and 2020 rates of diagnosed substance use disorder (SUDs) among older adults was projected to more than double from 2.8 million to 5.8 million. This trend is likely to continue over the next 20 years inline with continued growth in the number of Americans 60 years or older.
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Primal Freedom
In this week's podcast episode Coach Blu interviews Alex Corbett, a member of the Primal Roots running and recovery group located in England. They believe in the healing power of nature and fitness. Listen as they discuss the erase and replace philosophy and how Alex turned a life of alcoholism, aggression, and self-doubt into a life of service, running, and relationships. There are so many correlations between running and recovery and Alex does an excellent job at describing why moving from the traditional methods of recovery opened his mind, heart, and body. Alex goes from an addict to runner. Alex has a powerful story and when you feel the love that he has for the freedom of sobriety has brought to his life, we hope that it will inspire you to do the same for yours.
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One on One With Coach Blu: Wine Culture; Normalizing Alcoholic Moms
Welcome to our weekly live show, One on One with Coach Blu. Coach Blu is a licensed mental health therapist and certified substance use, disorder counselor. Today's cohost Addict II Athlete's own Athletic Director Marisa Robinson. Marissa is a Certified Recreational Therapist. This is an open topic so by which you the listener can participate by submitting your own questions through direct messaging or, jump on the zoom link provided to be a guest and participant on the show. We discuss topics of addiction, recovery, mental illness, health and wellness, and much more. Today's topic: Wine Culture; Normalizing Alcoholic Moms.
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How to Face Fear with Pat Miletich
On today's podcast, we speak with Pat "The Croatian Sensation" Miletich. Listen as Coach Blu and Pat discuss his history and family, ultra running, a career in mixed martial artist (MMA) well known for his fights within the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Interestingly, the conversation focuses on overcoming fear, replacing it with faith, belief, and strong perseverance related to personal grit. Pat is very passionate about not backing down from a fight whether it be from addiction or life itself.
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The Gold Medal of Recovery with Carrie Steinseifer Bates
In this week's podcast Coach Blu speaks with Carrie Steinseifer Bates, a 3-time Gold Medal Olympic Swimmer having competed in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles California. Listen as she describes life just below the waterline, growing up in an alcoholic home, and how she used the freedom of the pool to escape the world, discovering the water as a safe place where she would work out her fears, frustrations, and a good place to work out emotions because “No one can see you cry under the water”.
Following her 1984 Olympic success, Carrie missed qualifying for the 1988 Olympics. As that chapter closed she continued to progress in College, swimming, and coaching, starting a family, and becoming a mother. Unfortunately, addiction also began to take a stronghold and as she describes it, "distracted her from what her true and authentic purpose was".
Listen as she describes her recovery in aspects of several treatment episodes and then coming to an awakening that she faced and knew the only way to genuine recovery and sobriety would be laid upon the foundations of honesty. With multiple treatment episodes under her belt, like false starts on an Olympic journey of recovery, she finally learned and ultimately took the dive into understanding, emotional balancing, and overcoming adversity where she became the woman and mother she had always wanted to be. After 18 years absent from the water she took the plunge again and became an Ironman triathlete. Carrie says, “True Champions never let the fire inside them die out”, and she is an example of what can happen if you truly want to go for gold in recovery.
Today she continues to maintain an active lifestyle and has found her true calling in assisting those on the starting blocks of sobriety by working at Hazleden Betty Ford in Oregon. This is a podcast not to be missed, as you will feel the passion she has for life noticed after gold in the Olympics but also, life after addiction.
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Just Start
On today's podcast Coach Blu speaks with Ed Barnett, an athlete he met through Coach David Clark and the Ten Principles Legacy Warriors group. Listen as he describes life before a meeting Coach Clark that ended up changing his life. Ed describes the meeting as a turning point in his life that put him on the path to weight loss, overcoming adversity, and opened up possibilities he never thought possible. Ed describes his life working in the NASCAR industry, the tools he learned about himself through his weight loss journey, becoming an athlete, and the tools throughout that have now positioned him as the owner of ECB Sports Management and MMA. Ed has an inspiring story and shares memories of Coach Clark that he holds very dear. Listen and be inspired to just start your recovery, just start your weight loss, just start living your life.
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Remembering Superman
Athletes, today we are dropping a very special episode. This was the very first interview I was able to do with the late Coach David Clark in 2017. Having thought this episode was lost when our former platform Pod Bash moved to the Radio Ronan network, I was happy to have found this episode and relive the chemistry, content, and friendship that developed from this meeting. In the short time, we were able to know David he taught us a lot about life, sobriety, and of course living every moment as if it's your last.
We lost Coach David Clark following a surgery he had last May. February 5, 2021, would have been Coach Clark's 50th birthday. What a fitting tribute to be able to re-experience the relationship we had with Coach Clark. Listen and enjoy as we discuss so many of the founding principles Addict to Athlete has come to know.
David shares his story of recovery from alcohol. He shares how he went from a 320lb alcoholic to ultra runner, coach, vegan, and sober warrior.
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Boston Strong with Henry Ward
Today's guest is ultra-runner an advocate of recovery, Henry Ward. Henry discusses the intricacy of his addiction, how difficult and challenging it was to uproot himself from his hometown of Boston Massachusetts, and make a fresh life in Arizona. Then to have that fresh life consumed once again by alcoholism, emotional isolation, and ultimately therapeutic intervention. Listen as he describes how difficult it was navigating addiction with a new marriage and how his choice of turning his life over to something of greater value has created a path to recovery, stronger relationships, and ultra running. Henry shares how he moved from addict to ultrarunner and more.
Learn more about Henry Ward's efforts to advocate for sobriety through his nonprofit program Running Without the Devil.
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Being A Child Of An Alcoholic And Addict
Today Coach Blu speaks with Team Captain and Athlete Holly Davies. Listen as Coach Blu and Holly open up about being the child of an alcoholic and addict in the family system. Children of alcoholics and addicts often have to deny their feelings of sadness, fear, and anger in order to survive. Since unresolved feelings will always surface eventually, they often manifest during adulthood. Listen as they discuss similarities between what they both learned growing up in a home where addiction was so prevalent. There are many ways that children of alcoholics or children of an addict navigate the family system and when the right principles are applied, can break the cycle of addiction for their own family. Athlete Davies gives amazing insight into what it's like growing up in such a home and then, watching the healing process begin. There is forgiveness, understanding, and accountability that is learned and can be heard as she says, "Being a child of an addict is part of my story. It doesn't define who I am." This is an amazing opportunity for anyone who struggled with addiction and their family system to know how it affects the children.
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Adventures Within Recovery
Today Coach Blu interviews AIIA Certified Recovery Coach Tara Butson as she speaks about her own recovery journey, her desire to turn the mess of addiction into a powerful message of sobriety in Telluride, Colorado. Coach Butson and her husband have created the San Juan Outdoor Adventures company and with the beautiful backdrop of the Colorado mountains, she utilizes those aspects with the AIIA Telluride chapter.
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Above The Influence with Mishka Shubaly
Today Coach Blu speaks to Mishka Shubaly, ultra runner, author, singer/songwriter, comedian, Yale professor, and dear friend of Coach David Clark. Following Coach Blu's attendance at Coach Clark's memorial, he listened to The We Are Superman and Rich Roll podcast and learned more about Mishka and his influence in the recovery world. Mishka was an addict turned athlete and addict turned ultrarunner. Mishka is also an accomplished writer, having published 6 books on addiction, life, and the world as he sees it. Listen as he and Coach Blu talk sobriety and what it takes to rise above the influence.
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Ultramarathon Man
Today Coach Blu gets the opportunity to interview ultrarunner, author, and speaker, Dean Karnazes. Dean has an extensive ultrarunning career having won the Badwater ultramarathon, participated in 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days, and much more. Listen as Dean and Coach Blu discuss running, lifestyle, and more importantly, creating a sense of awareness through balance and emotional connectivity.
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