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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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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Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts by Michael Brody-Waite
In this week's podcast Coach Blu speaks with Michael Brody-Waite, entrepreneur, author, TedX speaker, and person in long-term recovery. Listen as Michael describes life as an addict, spending every waking hour doing whatever it took to stay high, including stealing from my friends and family.
Michael describes taking a chance on himself and seeing that his addiction didn't have to be a death sentence, in fact, it could be utilized to create an unstoppable force. Michael moves from addict to entrepreneur and leader. As many of you on Team Addict to Athlete understand, to turn the mess into a message you only need to flip the script. Use the same energy in a positive light thus producing amazing outcomes. In his book 'Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts', you will hear that your addiction does not have to dictate your future. It's time to use the same energy for positive outcomes, rather than the negative aspects of active addiction. You have the power to become an agent of recovery.
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Intentional Walk by Corey Harrington
An intentional walk occurs when the defending team elects to walk a batter on purpose, putting him on first base instead of letting him try to hit. Intentional walks -- which count as a walk for the hitter and a walk allowed by the pitcher -- are an important strategy in the context of a game. They can be used to put a runner on first base, setting up a potential double play.
Listeners, today's podcast features Corey Harrington an inspiring man who had aspirations of playing professional baseball and due to some unfortunate experiences, made it as far as the minor league. But his story didn't end there. Listen as Coach Blu and Corey talk about the secrecy of addiction and the fear of letting other people know. Then intentionally walking into recovery by choosing to let others in. Personal accountability, a healthy dose of trust, and Corey has now been able to turn the mess into a message. Corey shares his story on athlete to addict to athlete and ultimately Ironman.
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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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Turning The Mess Into The Message
When is it time to share your story? When do you feel as though your message of recovery is worth telling? On this week's podcast, the agents of recovery, Max Hall, Brock Bevell, and Blu Robinson discuss how to share your story, how to know when it's time and how powerful your story can be if offered through genuine desires to help. We all can get better at developing and maintaining a sense of resilience. Chances are, all of us will experience some kind of adversity and face some tough times at some point in our lives. We are absolutely amazing people who have the capacity to bounce back after problems, which is why it is so important to know how and when to share your story.
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One on One With Coach Blu: Game Changer
On this week's One on One With Coach Blu we open take calls from our listeners. This week's topics include Coach Blu talking about the Team's 10 years of service, Athlete Ward talking about things she learned in recovery, Athlete Armitage talking about her feelings about stigma, and Team Captain Olsen talking about getting insight on ways to cope with adult ADHD.
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Understanding Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
On this week's podcast, Max, Brock, and Blu offer some insights into Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and how it can be used to help manage withdrawal symptoms and reduce cravings in people who have been addicted to opioids. The guys have different opinions on the use and promotion of using MAT and this podcast will help you develop some personal insight as to why. MAT is one of many options for treating substance use disorders. No single option is appropriate for everyone. MAT is an adjunctive treatment or assistive therapy to the overall treatment of a person with a substance use disorder.
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Captain My Captain with Athlete Chelsie Olsen
Today Coach Blu interviews one of our very own Team Captains. Chelsie Olsen is a member of the Home Team of Addict II Athlete. Athlete Olsen and Coach Blu have a very long history. He has seen her successes and assisted her through some low points in her life. Listen as she describes life in addiction, her surrender, and her request for help. She shares how to use child protective services as a resource rather than a roadblock despite having significant issues, which has created a resource for her to understand that families are forever. Her story is one not to be missed as she describes never quitting, the true meaning of grit, and how to open your heart and trust again so that anything can happen.
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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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Brock Bevell: Fit For Duty
This week, on the agents of recovery podcast, we hear Brock Bevell's story. Brock speaks openly about his life, his work as a police officer and undercover agent, which ultimately led him to addiction’s doorstep. Brock speaks about how important it is to stand up and take your place in recovery. He has figuratively broad shoulders by which he has carried his recovery, his work with those struggling with addiction, and the re-establishment of relationships. His is a story that brings out a sense of realism that will benefit anyone who has a loved one or if you yourself have struggled with addiction.
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This Is Max Hall
In today's episode we hear from NFL's Max Hall and the life choices and situations he found himself in navigating through addiction and recovery. Max details his path through college at Brigham Young University and professional football with the Arizona Cardinals the injuries that kickstarted his addiction and more. Max's story is real and the tools he has learned have helped him remain humble and inspirational.
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Meet Coach Blu
This week we introduce Coach Blu. Coach Blu has a very powerful recovery story and has not allowed that his past to make him a victim of addiction or circumstance. Listen as he goes into detail about things he learned, ways he has navigated childhood trauma, and how he's turned the mess of addiction into the message of sobriety. This is an episode not to be missed and we are excited to feature each of the Agents of Recovery Podcast hosts on the next few episodes.
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One on One With Coach Blu: The Rebound
On today's podcast Coach Blu and Athletic Director Marissa talk about lessons learned from Covid 19, the keys to staying ahead of the illness, among other interesting insights. Coach Blu speaks about his 25 years of sobriety and they process emotional capacity and how much you're able to give others who seem to take and consume more than they produce.
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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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Agents Of Recovery: Meet The Agents Of Recovery
Welcome to The Agents of Recovery Podcast. Listen to the NFL's Max Hall, Coach Blu Robinson of Team Addict II Athlete, and Brock Bevell of Chase the Vase. They help men overcome addiction, produce a more excellent lifestyle, and inspire movement from being a victim of addiction to an agent of recovery. These men in recovery come together to address addiction, recovery, communication, and relationship roadblocks that hinder hope and healing.
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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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Officer Down, But Not Out
Today Coach Blu interviews Brock Bevell and the incredible story of fulfilling a lifetime dream of becoming a law enforcement officer, working undercover then following a terrible accident, falling into the world of addiction, a world he never thought he would ever cross into. Listen as Brock describes falling into the grips of addiction after losing his identity, job, and relationships, only to find spiritual redemption through the process of erasing the addiction and replacing it with purpose, service, and compassion. It is true that addiction does not discriminate and this powerful story reinforces the fact that once an addict always an addict is simply not true.
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