Love & Be Loved with Lena Cebula
This week's podcast features Lena Cebula, an author, and survivor. Lena has a powerful story that completely encompasses the "Erase and Replace" philosophy as she struggled with drug addiction and found herself caught in human trafficking. Her book is a spiritual autobiography called “Miraculous”, and she is the founder of Love & BLoved an organization that grew from her personal journey. Listen as she speaks from the heart understanding the principles of overcoming adversity through doing the challenging and difficult work of healing from the trauma that had been caused. How she turned her mess into the message and now finds herself thriving in marriage, raising her 3 beautiful children, and focusing her efforts toward helping others in her situation by blogging, speaking, and standing as an advocate for women in need, and victims of human trafficking. We invite you to listen to her message and please share with others who need to hear stories of forgiveness and second chances.
For more information on Lena Cebula and her work please follow the links below.
Website: https://loveandbloved.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lenacebuladoterra
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lenacebula/
Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1583527
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Coach Blu on The WASP (We Are Superman Podcast)
This week we present Coach Blu on The We Are Superman Podcast with Coach Bill. If you are not subscribed to the WASP please do so. It is an awesome podcast and the continuation of the podcast Coach David Clark started. Listen as they speak about recovery, addiction, and healing in terms of open communication and coaching techniques. Coach Bill has a long history of athletic development, cross country running and has a unique method of bridging the athletic world to the mental health aspects of life.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-are-superman/id1244973869
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Living Sober with Pro Skater Brandon Turner
In this week's episode Coach Blu talks with Pro Skater, Brandon Turner, a prodigy who struggled with substance abuse for years and has turned the mess of a life in and out of jail into a message of recovery, sober coaching and so much more. Listen as Brandon speaks about growing up in a lifestyle of surfing, skating, and living fast. Brandon talks about the challenges addiction brings and how he now invests with those wanting the same freedom he has found in recovery. Brandon discusses how his life has a sense of purpose in helping people in recovery get clean, investing in coaching them, and how healthy relationships are key to happiness. This is one not to miss.
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A Spartan In Life & Recovery
On this week's podcast, we hear from Addict II Athlete's very own Ambere Holmes. Listen as she discusses her own journey through life and recovery. The ups and the downs that she experienced along with the unknown questionable desire to turn her mess into a powerful message. Listen to her ability to cope through tremendous trauma, heartache, addiction and emotional turbulence to become a professional, an athlete and, a mother. Ambere conquers not only her addiction but family issues, her education, and horrible debt. Significant strength can be drawn from this podcast as we can learn the valuable lesson that no one is too far gone, and whatever obstacles you face in life, if you face it, challenge yourself to endure it, you can conquer anything in your path.
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Becoming a Believer
On this week's podcast coach Blu talks with Heath McDougal-Deans, team captain, ultra runner, minster, therapist, and most of all, a father. Listen as he talks about his life. The struggles that he overcame to be more than he ever thought possible. Heath is a brave man who shares with our listeners some of his story about being a gay man and life in the LGBTQ+ community. This is a true story of redemption, compassion, and love. Listen to how belief changed his world and placed him on the top to inspire, teach and love.
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Drug Trafficking to Middleweight Champion with Ian "The Hurricane" Heinisch
In this week's episode Coach Blu speaks to Ian "The Hurricane" Heinisch. Listen to this powerful story as the Hurricane nickname not only embodies his fighting style but also symbolizes the whirlwind of a journey this young fighter has faced outside of the cage. Heinisch recalled being deported from Canada back to the U.S. while working there illegally. Instead of finding legal work in the states, he ended up getting into the drug trade.
Heinisch then left his family and hopped on a Greyhound to Indiana. Shortly after arriving, Heinsch traveled to New York then on to Amsterdam. Drug trafficking from Spain to South America. Getting caught with a kilo of cocaine and imprisoned at Canary Islands. After his release, returning to New York he was ultimately taken into custody to serve his time at Rikers Island.
Ian worked on himself and after serving his time he fought back and became a middleweight MMA Champion. Ian will show you that you never give up on what you truly want in life.
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For A Clean Cause with Wes Hurt
This week Coach Blu talks with Wes Hurt, the founder of CLEAN Cause and a recovering addict and alcoholic. Miraculously for Hurt, after six rehabs over 20 years and the realization that something needed to change, he finally got sober and found recovery in 2014.
Often, people who want to go to treatment cannot afford it, and the same problem is true for sober living – there just isn’t enough funding or resources to meet the need. Wes says he wanted to build something sustainable – founded on purpose to make a difference - through healthy drinks and great design. So in addition to creating purified water and organic energy drinks, CLEAN Cause where 50% of all proceeds are donated to develop sober living scholarships for those who are pursuing recovery. To date, Clean Cause has assisted 2,593 people on their path to recovery.
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From Prison To Rio Olympics with Tony Hoffman
This week Coach Blu speaks to Tony Hoffman a top-ranked BMX amateur with multiple endorsements to a man in trouble when in 2004 Tony committed a home invasion armed robbery and was ultimately sent to prison for two years. Violating his probation and in the depths of addiction, he made a choice and a promise to himself that ultimately saved his life. After paroling from prison Tony started living out his dream, with his addiction behind him. Tony is a Former BMX Elite Pro and placed 2nd at the 2016 World Championships in Medellin Colombia in the Masters Pro class. Tony coached Women’s Elite Pro, Brooke Crain, to a 4th place finish at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil. His story is full of redemption as he has seen some of the highest highs, and the lowest lows. Tony has presented on the prestigious TEDx stage and his Goalcast video that went viral in February of 2020 has been viewed more than ten million times. He is the Founder and Director of The Freewheel Project, a non-profit organization that mentors thousands of youth through action sports.
Listen as they discuss the significance of turning the mess into a message and allowing the difficult times in life to become the platforms to success when you make the decision to become actively engaged rather than withdrawn and hidden.
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Humble Accountability
This week Coach Blu interviews a special guest he worked with years ago. Portia Louder talks about her 4 and half years in federal prison, events that led to her addiction, and ultimately recovery, redemption, and healing. Portia shares how she found freedom in prison. This is a powerful example of taking accountability and seeing the good in the absolute worst. Check out her book this October, Living Louder. Here is an excerpt about her interaction with Blu Robinson.
Before I was sentenced, I met with a therapist and told him I wasn’t sure how to prepare for my sentencing.
“I’m facing up to seven years in prison, and I can’t imagine being away from my family for even one year. How could I ever prepare for seven?”
“What you are facing is difficult, but there are worse things,” my therapist said. “You could spend seven years in your addiction, being isolated and disconnected from your family and everyone around you. I think that would be worse. In prison, you would still be able to become an amazing person. That’s not the case with addiction.”
Become an amazing person. That stuck with me. I needed a goal, something to hold on to. I went back to the unit and wrote down a list of things I could do to become an amazing person. That night I laid in my bunk and begged God to give me the strength to move forward. “I need help.” I cried. “I want to make the best of this, but I can’t do it alone.”
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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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The Mayor of Running With Bart Yasso
This week Coach Blu revisits the mayor of running, by interviewing Bart Yasso. Listen as we release this interview originally airing on June 6, 2016. Having thought we lost this episode, it was wonderful to rediscover, and as you're here, still very reverent.
Bart Yasso joined Runner's World in 1987 to develop the groundbreaking Runner's World Race Sponsorship Program, creating a vehicle for Runner's World to work with over 7,000 races representing 4 million runners per year. Inducted into the Running USA Hall of Champions.
Yasso also invented the Yasso 800s, a marathon-training schedule used by thousands around the world. He is one of the few people to have completed races on all seven continents from the Antarctica marathon to the Mt. Kilimanjaro marathon. In 1987, Yasso won the U.S. National Biathlon Long Course Championship and won the Smoky Mountain Marathon in 1998. He has also completed the Ironman five times and the Badwater 146 through Death Valley. He has also cycled, unsupported and by himself, across the country twice.
Listen as both he and Josh Hansen visit with Bart about addiction, recovery, and how great minds think alike.
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Try as Hard as You Can, and Believe with Brandon Doman
On today's podcast Coach Blu interviews Coach Brandon Doman, Brigham Young University Quarterback, drafted to the NFL by the San Francisco 49ers and then coaching with the Brigham Young University Cougars as the offensive coordinator. Listen as they have a coach to coach conversation about the differences between calling the shots and making the plays. They dive deep into what a coach means to not only the players that follow but also, what can be learned by overcoming a closed mindset. They discuss the concept of relationships that need to be established in order for true team building and how to find inspiration when all seems too overwhelming or impossible. Coach Doman repeats time after time, to 'try as hard as you can and believe it's possible.'
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Staying Fit ODAAT with Miguel Reyes
Listen as Coach Blu interviews Miguel Reyes on his recovery path, finding redemption through the grace of having an incredible run-in with the law, family system issues, and then redemption. There are two parts of the story that begin with his own starting line, his history, the path he chose, and the significant issues he found himself in after promising he would never turn out like his father.
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Running Rich
On today's podcast Coach Blu interviews are our very own Athlete and a huge part of Team AIIA, Rob Rich. Along with his wife Stephanie. They dive deep into Rob's ability to strengthen the team by being an active member, the depression he suffered that almost took his life, turbulence that life sometimes throws at us, and how to overcome some of the darkest moments by constantly moving forward. Rob does an eloquent job explaining how the team has increased his desire to help those in need, inspire others to achieve goals and, never take life for granted. Listen to Rob give Coach Blu a dose of his own medicine when he was called to action rather than allowing fear to sideline him.
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Runners in Recovery With Bob Balfour
This week's podcast finds Coach Blu speaking with Bob Balfour, a pillar in his community, working his way through life by serving others who have been affected by addiction, are pursuing recovery, and building bridges between law enforcement and the recovery community.
Bob speaks about his childhood, situational issues through family systems that sidetracked his progression. Bob comes with a powerful history of seeing both sides of addiction, the consequences, and redemption. He talks about going from addict to ultrarunner and Ironman. Then turning his attention to health and wellness through running, coaching, and building others to do the same. Bob has truly become Boston-strong.
Bob is a storyteller, and as you listen to his life, you'll understand why he was also able to build a relationship with Coach David Clark, as Bob was a crucial mentor through David's Boston quad experience.
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It's Not Sweat, It's Badwater
This week Coach Blu interviews Jarom Thurston, an avid ultra-marathon runner, and Coach Blu's brother-in-law. Listen as Jarom discusses his running career, tackling adversity, pushing through the DNF's, experiences, and knowledge gained through never settling and not giving up. Jarom has a belief and attitude that nothing is impossible. Still, even at some of the most disappointing and darkest moments in the races he's participated in, he's always found a way to come back, return and get his heart back into the game. Jarom has been an inspiration, mentor, and even coach to the Addict II Athlete team since the beginning of our journey. It's easy to recognize the passion and the love he has for the sport of ultramarathon, running, and helping others achieve goals they never thought possible.
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Continuous Strength
This week Coach Blu interviews our own athlete, Selena Armitage. She shares about how her problems with a club foot and surgery led to opiate addiction as well as an abusive relationship causing emotional pain, which was relieved by her addiction. Selena, has worked to find her voice and her recovery. Athlete Armitage is an amazing woman who does not allow her physical disability and prosthetic limb to slow her down.
"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." -Martin Luther King Jr.
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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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Mindset Is Everything with Shadrach Feild
Coach Blu interviews Shad Feild, cowboy, pilot, and son of Lewis Feild. After a traumatic plane crash in August 2020, Shad didn't know if he would ever walk again. He met team Addict II Athlete when he started a HIIT class with Coach James Johnson to help him build his strength back. Coach Johnson immediately invited him skydiving with the team to help him erase and replace that experience.
Shad shares how his mindset was the pinnacle to being able to handle this trial. Shad said, "I was taught from a very young age to get back on that horse when you get bucked off! It’s not always easy to conquer our fears but it’s so freeing. I felt like it would be a good way to erase some of the negative brought on by the accident and replace it with something BIG, something I’d remember and have somewhat of a fresh start with my love for aviation."
You can watch the last few minutes of the plane crash here, subscribe to Shad's YouTube channel, and follow him on Instagram.
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