One on One with Coach Blu: Think Before You Act
On this week's episode of One on One with Coach Blu, we take a deep dive into the fallout over the Brigham Young University versus University of Utah rivalry football game played on September 11, 2021, and controversy over the Board of Director's Make-A-Wish, Mr. Todd Noall's decision to wear a shirt depicting former BYU quarterback and NFL great Max Hall's mug shot as a gesture of poor sportsmanship. Listen as Coach Blu describes the significance behind the issue of losing 255 people a day to addiction and overdose and the negative stigma this kind of action promotes. There are hundreds of stories of people who have lost their battle to addiction and to have the audacity to mock someone who has redeemed themselves and placed recovery as a primary driving force in their life is simply disrespectful. We have much work to do at the stigma of addiction and recovery is very real and the assistance of community support groups is very much in need.
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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What is Your Why?
In this week's episode, The Agents of Recovery talk about discovering and understanding your personal "Why". Listen as Max Hall, Brock Bevell, and Blu Robinson discuss how we all should be acquainted with what we do in life and the pursuit of discovering our soul purpose. The Agents discuss how your "why" sets you apart from everyone else. It's your purpose. It's what inspires you to take action and live a sober, productive, inspiring, and relationship-based lifestyle. Your "Why" is also what inspires others to take action, as you spread your ideas, produce experiences that bring emotional awareness, service opportunities, and ultimately sobriety.
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Commitment, Habits, And Perseverance
This week the Agents of Recovery Max Hall, Blu Robinson, and Brock Bevell talk about how they found the commitment to change, the new habits they learned, and how to take it further than they ever had before as they persevere in their own sobriety. Remember we are human. We change. We can get comfortable in our environment, but sometimes we get too comfortable and the desire for change kicks in. It’s a good thing, but it can also be your enemy if you allow it.
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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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Addiction Recovery Resources
In this week's episode, the agents of recovery discussed substance use, rehab, addiction treatment, resources, and homelessness. This episode will discuss some of the details of what we are noticing that unfortunately is turning into a trend of blame-shifting and avoiding responsibility. We discussed ways you can utilize your own talents and willingness to help those in need.
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The Minor League: Living in The Moment
On this week's show, 15 yo Savannah kicks off our new season of the minor-league podcast. Listen as she and Coach Blu discuss being mindful about your own needs, being consistent in your pursuits and, being willing to see the world through your own eyes rather than on your phone.
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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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Reaching A Boiling Point: Fight Like Max
Ever feel like you've reached a boiling point? Listen to this week's podcast and hear how the agents of recovery ensure that they don't fall back on old behaviors and processes that lead to dysfunctional thinking resulting in relapse. Listen as Max, Brock and Blu discuss how they all work around and through the stress that life sometimes hands them.
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The Pornography Trap
Due to the sensitive topic, listener discretion is advised. In this week's episode Coach Blu will discuss pornography addiction in a new series that will help bring awareness, insight, and change to one of the most deadly addictions we've ever experienced, pornography addiction. Deadly in that it leaves the user dead inside experiencing guilt, shame, self-doubt, and extreme loneliness and is catastrophic to relationships. Listen as Coach Blu begins the process of teaching what pornography addiction does to the human brain, the emotional turmoil, and sets the platform for more dialogue and series introduction on overcoming pornography addiction.
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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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Olympic Dream or Nightmare
On the heels of Olympic gymnast hopeful Simone Biles going for gold, she dramatically withdrew from her gymnastics competitions, saying she wasn’t mentally ready to safely compete. Listen as the Agents discuss their thoughts, their insights, and offer up opinions and thoughts as to what this means in regards to the human condition.
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Recovery Playbook
This week Coach Blu offers up 2 Patreon Bouns episodes to you the listener to get a feel as to the content offered as a Patron Subscriber. This is two short sections of our recovery playbook.
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We Got You: Listener Q & A
On this week's podcast the Agents of Recovery answer listener questions that have been submitted through social media. Listen as they discuss real issues concerning relationships, addiction recovery, and more.
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One On One With Coach Blu: Dependance or Abuse
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. We discuss topics of addiction, recovery, mental illness, health and wellness, and much more. Today we answer questions on family conflict and the difference between addiction abuse and dependence.
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Are We Aware Yet?
Today the Agents of Recovery discuss the shocking overdose statistics for 2020. Listen as they discuss the situation, issues, and problems with the current path that most people are on when it comes to receiving help, identifying core issues, and waiting for the government to step in and help. Brock also introduces the Take 10 initiative, and opportunities for you to step outside your comfort zone and help those in need.
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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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One on One With Coach Blu: 2020 CDC Overdose Report
On today's podcast Coach Blu takes an emotional deep dive into the new CDC report of overdose death rate increases in 2020. Listen as the coach passionately describes some of his own thoughts on why what is currently going on is not working. Flaws in the system, money-hungry people out to make their own wealth, and many other issues contribute to the ignorance being felt in the addiction recovery world.
The system is absolutely flawed and it's up to us to come up with solutions because the troops aren't coming. The new data reports deaths from drug overdoses in the U.S. soared by nearly 30% in 2020, reaching a record high of 93,331. This is the sharpest annual increase in at least three decades and reflects the increase of synthetic opioid fentanyl in the illegal narcotic supply and the pandemic's toll on the opioid crisis.
There is so much that needs to change that we need to all be collaborating together on how to do it. Because what is currently being done is obviously not working.
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Olympic Dreams Up In Smoke?
In this week's episode, the agents of recovery discuss the recent events with Olympic hopeful Sha'Carri Richardsons violation of USA track and field due to testing positive for marijuana for which she was honest and accountable. Listen as the agents discuss the integrity, honesty, and level of person Richardson is simply because she is more than just an Olympic athlete.
Richardson who qualified to participate in the 2020 Olympics this summer, reportedly was blindsided by emotions that were introduced by a reporter who disclosed the death of her biological mother in a very inappropriate situation and manner. She reported that she tried to hide because she was going through so much pain.
Listen as the agents talk about the methods by which her honesty came forward and that in our eyes she is still an Olympic qualifying athlete and person for simply being an agent of integrity.
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