Blu Robinson 3/16/23 Blu Robinson 3/16/23

Minor League: Navigating Relationships

The Minor League podcast is hosted by 17-year-old Savannah Robinson and her father and therapist Coach Blu Robinson. Anyone can benefit from this podcast. This teen and father duo bring a great unique, and informative perspective to many topics. They often address communication, teen issues, parent-child relationships, and confidence.
This week Savannah has guest Coach Blu in the studio to talk about navigating relationships. Relationships in the teenage years can be quite volatile. What is love and the different forms? Why is it important to love yourself before loving anyone else? They discuss this and more about how all relationships can be challenging but beneficial if you put in the work.

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Blu Robinson 2/20/23 Blu Robinson 2/20/23

An Accidental Activist: Ed Bisch

Coach Blu speaks to Ed Bisch and his battle with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family concerning OxyContin on this week's podcast. Listen as Ed talks about February 2001, when his life was blindsided as he learned his 18-year-old son Eddie was found unresponsive in his bed. Questing some of his son's friends, he learned that OxyContin had been used unbeknownst to it posed. Police on the scene told Ed that local kids were dying from “Oxy” and the situation worsened. The drug, they said, was spreading quickly across the country and already causing chaos locally.

Bisch has sounded alarms about the dangers of opioids now for more than 2 decades. As the founder of Relatives Against Purdue Pharma (RAPP), he attended countless public hearings, trials, and protests and is a claimant in a class-action lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company, the creators of Oxy. Listen as he describes his lifelong battle for Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family to take responsibility for stealing one out of the millions of lives their medication has taken from loved ones.

Bisch’s activism got him noticed by others fighting against opioid abuse, including Beth Macy, author of “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America.” Macy wrote about Bisch in her latest book, “Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis.”

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Blu Robinson 2/13/23 Blu Robinson 2/13/23

Substance Use Disorder and Their Impact on Community

On this week's episode, Coach Blu was invited to sit on a panel at the University of Utah with Randall Carlisle from Odyssey House recovery, a former TV news acre, and Evan Done of USARA. This community recovery connection organization helps people find resources and training in recovery. Listen as they answer a student leadership board questions on how addiction recovery and addiction services are rendered in our community. It is incredible to see the differences and similarities and how addiction recovery is handled in Utah.

This panel discusses the following questions; What is a substance use disorder? What is the accessibility like for low-income folks to treatment? What might this look like for unsheltered individuals? How might mental health impact substance use? What does substance use look like on college campuses? How might stress exacerbate substance use disorders? What could these stressors look like? How do incarcerated people access treatment for substance use and what does that process look like? How have you seen how the stigma around substance use affects caregivers and those receiving treatment?
How can parents, educators, and leaders in our communities work towards addressing substance use disorders and supporting those affected by them?

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Blu Robinson 12/10/22 Blu Robinson 12/10/22

Expand Your Circle of Relationships

The relationships we form with others are vital to our mental and emotional well-being and survival. In this week's episode, Coach Blu talks about expanding our circle and building healthy relationships. It is through relationships that we will either excel at life or fail. It has been said that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with, so make sure to choose wisely.

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Blu Robinson 11/16/22 Blu Robinson 11/16/22

One on One With Coach Blu: Parental Relationships

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 is 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 questions through direct messaging or jump on the zoom link provided to be a guest and participant on the show. We discuss addiction, recovery, mental illness, health and wellness, and much more. Today we discuss parent child relationships.

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Blu Robinson 8/30/22 Blu Robinson 8/30/22

Repairing Relationships After Addiction

In order to start rebuilding and repairing relationships after addiction, you have to rebuild yourself into a new person. Listen as the Agents talk about how they have established relationships and what tools they use to bridge the gaps. Remember it’s significant to take into consideration what your actions have done to others before repairing relationships with them. If you aren’t able to see how you’ve hurt the ones you love, how can you fix what was broken? Taking steps to repair every relationship is different, and often depends on how the relationship was impacted by addiction. Some friends and family members set hard boundaries during active addiction, while others encourage codependence. Listen to these great relationship tips and how to build relationships after addiction.

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Blu Robinson 2/14/22 Blu Robinson 2/14/22

This Kid Saved My Life

In this week's podcast Coach Bu talks to Brandon Helmick, a father who stepped up to the plate at a moment's notice. Brandon speaks about how in the depths of his addiction and homeless he found out he was a father and his son was abandoned at the hospital right after birth. He recognized the need to sober up and be a dad for this innocent baby boy. Brandon wrote,

"This kid saved my life! Here I am 4 years clean from crack and heroin. I was an active user who lived in my car. Got a call one day that a woman gave birth to a son and left him at the hospital and I was the alleged father. She was also an addict so he was born addicted to heroin. I went to see him at the hospital and I just knew he was mine and he was all alone. I got to hold him. While I was holding him the nurse said he was starting to withdraw and it was time for his morphine. That moment changed my life because for once I wasn’t just hurting myself I was hurting an innocent child who depended on me. Long story short I got clean, did what I had to with children's services, and got full custody. Here is us now and I thank God. This kid saved my life.” Thank you for sharing your inspirational story Brandon Helmick. Help us create more podcasts by joining Addict II Athlete’s Patreon support page .

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Blu Robinson 1/5/22 Blu Robinson 1/5/22

One on One With Coach Blu: Teen Communication and Is Addiction a Sin?

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: I found marijuana in my teen's room! How do I talk to my teen about addiction and is addiction considered a sin?

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Blu Robinson 8/9/21 Blu Robinson 8/9/21

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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Blu Robinson 7/8/21 Blu Robinson 7/8/21

What Makes A Leader

On this week's podcast the Agents of Recovery, Max Hall, Brock Bevell, and therapist Blu Robinson, talk about what makes a leader. They discuss attributes and principles associated with stepping forward and taking your place as an individual in recovery, a leader in your family system, and as a principal-based person of recovery.

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Blu Robinson 6/30/21 Blu Robinson 6/30/21

The Minor League: Parents, Listen Up with Dr. Paul Jenkins

Welcome to the Minor League with 15 yo, Savannah Robinson. Today we speak to Dr. Paul Jenkins, child psychologist, from Live on Purpose about teenager relationships and family system development. Dr. Paul talks about the parent-child relationship and gaining clarity about your job as a parent. He and Savannah dig into the dynamic between control and maturity and establishing patterns of parenting for each stage of moral development. Building strong parent-child relationships is one of the best protective factors to keep your child from substance use and misuse.

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Blu Robinson 6/4/21 Blu Robinson 6/4/21

One on One With Coach Blu: Are We Aware Yet?

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 to be a guest and participant on the show. We discuss topics of addiction, recovery, mental illness, health and wellness, and much more. In today's topic, we talk about the loss a family has experienced and the reason we need to act rather than bring more awareness. Coach Blu speaks to Athlete Olsen and we answer a listener question about teenage addiction.

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Blu Robinson 5/21/21 Blu Robinson 5/21/21

One on One With Coach Blu: Wine Culture; Normalizing Alcoholic Moms

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Blu Robinson 5/3/21 Blu Robinson 5/3/21

The 'Long' Road To Success

Today, Christy Long, a single mom, a woman in long-term recovery, and member of Team AIIA talks about her recovery, her passion for service, and going back to school to pursue a career in counseling and therapy. Listen as she describes the mindset of wanting to help people that society seemingly has cast away. She shares how her passion is to help the prison population reacclimate into society after having dealt with the aftermath of incarceration. Christy has a very genuine heart and has turned the mess of addiction and emotional turbulence into a mindset and purpose to serve all those she works with.

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Blu Robinson 4/19/21 Blu Robinson 4/19/21

Building A Strong Home Team: How To Strengthen Families

Today we seek deeper understanding on how to strengthen families and build a strong home team as Dr. Paul Jenkins from Live on Purpose joins Coach Blu in-studio. Dr. Paul is a world renowned psychologist, author, speaker, and parenting expert. Listen as they discuss real principles to family system development and repair. When a problem occurs within the family system it is crucial to reconcile and mend the relationship. It is true that apologizing and granting forgiveness are helpful but do not always end in successful outcomes. Learn how to take personal accountability, show love, compassion, understanding and communication. Dr. Paul and Coach Blu process how the home team is strengthened when full of love, emotional investment, and accepting each other, will result in relationships that are destined for greatness.

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Blu Robinson 4/14/21 Blu Robinson 4/14/21

The Minor League: How to Talk to Teens

One of the toughest jobs of parenting and being a teen is talking about difficult subjects. On today's podcast, 15 yo Savannah and therapist Coach Blu discuss ways you can communicate to your teenager and avoid the breakdown or roadblocks typically seen in conversations. Teenagers have very difficult waters to navigate in this day and age and unless you can have an open and honest dialogue, it will be difficult for a parent to truly understand what their child is going through. Listen for tips and dialogue on how to open up communication and build a better relationship.