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Stories of AddictionChristian - 15 Months of Sobriety After A Lifetime Of AlcoholismChristian, 45, has been at the Gault House Sober Living Environment for over a year. Christian has been addicted to alcohol, weed and a little bit of everything else. He started drinking and smoking pot early in life, and it rapidly progressed in volume and frequency. At his bottom, he was physically unable to walk into the store to buy more booze and resorted to paying strangers to bring him his booze to drink in his truck, where he was sleeping at the time. After numerous DUIs, a devastating divorce and a directionless life, Christian finally had enough and kick-started h...2020-12-1529 minStories of AddictionCarlos - Alcohol, Cannabis, And PsychedelicsCarlos, 45, grew up in the East Bay and Northern California. In his teenage years, after numerous Grateful Dead shows and experimentation with using and selling psychedelics, he was eventually consumed by alcoholism and trapped in a cycle of relapse brought about by cannabis use and his drinking. This is the story of how he came to arrive at the Gault House SLE, and what his hope and inspiration for recovery look like today. He joins Paul Noddings to tell his journey to us, providing wisdom and courage for those who are going through the same. To learn m...2020-12-011h 03Stories of AddictionJeff K Has Good Times Hiking To Pick Mushrooms But Bad Times With Alcohol And MethJeff K’s best times with drugs consisted of hiking trips where he and his friends went hunting for psychedelic mushrooms. He remembers it as a fun experience of connecting with friends, something that he didn’t to come down from. But then there’s the flip side. As Jeff progressed into alcoholism and meth addiction, he started to struggle in leading a decent life and cultivating fulfilling relationships. There were times he wanted to kill himself and getting arrested was just a normal part of his miserable existence. He even became homeless for two years. Things started to turn a...2020-11-1719 min
GladPod: The Gladiators PodcastS1 E5: The One With The SuperfanAddicted to the show since the age of 10, Superfan Paul Noddings joins our fifth episode to tell Jet and Dave what kept him hooked on all things Gladiator and how his passion has shaped his life ever since he started a childhood obsession that has never really left him.
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IMPACT LEARNINGPartnering with Higher Education to Design Courses and Degrees with Whitney KilgoreProduction team:Host : Maria XenidouProducer: Julie-Roxane KrikorianIntroduction Voice: David Bourne Contact us:impactlearningpodcast@gmail.com Music credits:Like Lee performed by The Mini VandalsTransition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks Where to find more about Whitney Kilgore and iDesign:Whitney Kilgore on LinkedIniDesignLX Pathways Mentioned in this episode:BFGoodrichSunGard Higher EducationHTMLL...2020-06-0400 minStories of AddictionElijah - Seeking ClarityElijah is a 26-year-old Oregonian who began smoking pot as a sophomore in high school. He soon began drinking and eventually turned to cocaine which took over his life. Unable to hold onto a job and grappling with mental health concerns, he is newly sober (13 days at the time of recording) and a resident at the Gault Street Sober Living Environment. He has never been to a treatment facility and is determined to hold onto his mental clarity through sober living.2019-10-0824 minStories of AddictionRobert - Finding Relief In RecoveryRobert is a 61-year-old man from Southern California and a current resident of the Gault Street House Sober Living Environment. The son of alcoholic parents, he picked up his first drink at only ten years old, malnourished, afraid, and seeking an escape. His drinking led to cocaine use and jail, and finally a desire to free himself from the misery of addiction. He has been struggling towards sobriety for a long time and has renewed his commitment to sobriety with a move to a Sober Living house. He is currently three months clean and sober. Robert at times finds...2019-09-2446 minStories of AddictionTwelve Steps To RecoveryLosing a loved one at a young age and having to grow up in an abusive environment can take its turn for the worse. With this kind of background, Dave, a client of The Gault House Sober Living Environment in Santa Cruz, California, eventually turned to marijuana, LSD, and meth at age fourteen. Spinning out of control, he later progressed to full-blown heroin addiction. Dave shares his entire story of addiction and recovery and the twelve steps he took to get to where he is now. Treading the spiritual path, he found a spiritual awakening that pushed him to...2019-09-1744 minStories of AddictionCrank, Gangs And PrisonEverybody has a chance at a better life, even when that chance means reforming your life in prison. In this episode, Paul Noddings interviews Tommy who is a 43-year-old male from the Hayward area of San Francisco Bay. Tommy started using crystal meth at age 13 and was soon living a within-the-gang lifestyle. This led to a long period in prison which led to a desire to experience a different lifestyle. Tommy’s road to healing and recovery is inspirational. He offers some great advice to anyone wanting to go down that path. He shares his journey to the dark si...2019-09-1050 minStories of AddictionJail And Prison Caused Life ChangeThe great Nelson Mandela once said, “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” This quote strongly applies to how Billy made his way through constant terror from bullies growing up. Having started weed at age eleven, he progressed to booze and drugs thereafter. In this episode, Billy shares his life story from childhood to present day, going to Genesis House, finding work as a bouncer, succumbing to alcohol, doing stand-up comedy, and eventually being an addict again. His timeline may look bad, but being in jail...2019-09-0336 minStories of AddictionJ.J. - Alcohol And MethDysfunctional family life tends to manifest for some people into addiction. Having learned he was adopted at a very young age, J.J. has since tagged himself as different from everybody else. He then spiraled into his story of addiction, beginning at 14 years old. A client at The Gault House Sober Living Environment, J.J. is on his recovery from his drug of choice, alcohol, along with meth. He shares his story with us on how he went through years of struggle, going in and out of his addiction across significant events in his life—from getting a divorce, me...2019-08-2747 minStories of AddictionDon’t Give Up On Hope!A 26-year-old male shares his journey from alcohol in middle school to heroin in his mid-twenties and how his life fell apart. This is a powerful interview with wise words from a young man. Blake has been 95 days clean and sober. Will it last?2019-01-1724 minStories of AddictionProfessional Mother Struggling With AddictionAndrea did not start using drugs until her twenties. She married and had children but she lost these to drugs and alcohol. Andrea has lived in her car for over a year but maintained an Executive Assistant job in Silicon Valley. Now Andrea has eleven days clean, will she be able to stay that way?2019-01-1027 minStories of AddictionBeating People Up While High On DrugsLuke had very little structure in his early teens. Smoking weed occasionally at eleven years old led to smoking pot heavily at thirteen. Luke is a big, strong, young man who was a stud on the football field. A broken arm introduced him to pain pills, which lead to heroin and then crack. He could not get off the drug train and would openly smoke crack on the Bart train system in San Francisco. A month in rehab would give his body a break but he was soon back onto the cycle of weed, pills, heroin, and crack. Luke’s...2019-01-0331 minStories of AddictionMeth And Mother Of Two BoysKatie was an athletic teenager, winning a national championship for springboard diving. A back injury led to too much idle time and Katie used that time to party, smoke weeds and drink beer. A car accident at age 21 added more idle time and heavier use of drugs and alcohol but then Katie met her husband and the two of them got sober, got married, bought a house and had the first of their two boys. Katie started drinking "socially" but soon her behavior was very anti-social, attacking her husband and scaring her kids. A flesh-eating bacteria and the loss...2018-12-2715 minStories of AddictionSkateboarding On HeroinSterling is a 34-year old male from Santa Cruz, California. He talks honestly about this addiction to heroin (and use of other drugs) that lasted for nine years. He came as close to losing a wife and two children that he loves. His honesty is inspiring.2018-12-2038 minStories of AddictionHeather - Cocaine and AlcoholHeather had ambitions of becoming a doctor. However, too much alcohol caused her to redirect her goals towards becoming a paramedic. After several years as a paramedic, Heather became a firefighter where she handled many horrific calls. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder crept up on Heather. With the Fire Departments being generally a heavy drinking “boys club,” Heather soon after joined into the drinking and then added cocaine by her own choice. Friends encouraged her to get into recovery. Now, Heather has been two months clean and sober.2018-12-1346 minStories of AddictionWhitney, Beautiful Woman Suffers Heroin AddictionWhitney is a very attractive, slim, blonde, blue-eyed, white woman; not the typical look associated with severe drug addiction. Whitney had her wisdom teeth removed as a teenager and received Vicodin for the pain. This was her first abuse of opiate drugs and it led her to heroin and meth. For most of the past five years, Whitney has been homeless, living on the streets of Santa Cruz, California. Her addiction caused her to lose several jobs and to steal from homes and stores, where the hardware store became her specialty. Her boyfriend went behind bars for these crimes...2018-12-0618 minStories of AddictionDomestic Violence And Divorce Empower Alcohol AddictionMike's parents divorced when he was eight years old. Their domestic violence affected him. He was drinking hard at twelve years old and looking for a group of people where he could fit in. He found Skateboarders and Punk Rockers were his people. Heavy alcohol use was his thing. Rehabs, jail, lost jobs did not help Mike. Now Mike is four months sober. Will his sobriety last?2018-11-2937 minStories of AddictionHayley Does Cocaine While Working At The District Attorney's OfficeHayley was adopted as a baby to loving and caring parents. She did not party in high school; her early adulthood started well. At the age of 23, Hayley was awarded a court settlement after a car accident, and with the money she bought a home. This allowed her to live alone and to hide the volume and frequency of her drinking. Even her boyfriend didn't know she was doing cocaine so she could drink more alcohol. Hayley's downward spiral had started. She knew it was happening but she didn't want to stop drinking and doing cocaine because she enjoyed...2018-11-2219 minStories of AddictionMike's Heroin ShareMike started using alcohol at age fifteen and progressed quickly to ecstasy, cocaine, norco, roxy and heroin. Mike was expelled from high school two months before graduation for selling marijuana cookies at school. After this, Mike sold loads of drugs to fund his own drug habit. He got into debt selling drugs and he felt sick every morning. This caused him to consider recovery. Now he is three months clean. He seems solid in his recovery but he could relapse at any time, just like any other addict.2018-11-1517 minStories of AddictionMichelle - Bad Parenting, Child Sexual Molestation, Alcoholic And Student Loan Debt - Honest And Positive AttitudeMichelle is a single woman aged 29. Her parents did not provide a good environment for her and her siblings growing up. At age eleven, Michelle's uncle sexually molested her and used guilt to keep her quiet. Michelle was in denial that she had a problem with alcohol for a long time, until she had literally spent all her money on alcohol and had no source of income to buy more alcohol. Her honesty in discussing her journey is exceptional. Michelle has a positive attitude that shows the miracle of human spirit. Get inspiration from Michelle as she shares her...2018-11-081h 18Stories of AddictionSteve Alcoholic - Suicide By Alcohol: Steve Used Marijuana As A Gateway Drug To AlcoholSteve used marijuana as a gateway drug to alcohol. He started using marijuana at age thirteen with an older brother and some friends. By age fifteen, he got into alcohol. By age seventeen, he stopped using marijuana because it did not mix well with his heavy alcohol use. Everything Steve did had to have alcohol involved with it in order for him to find it fun. Steve was a functioning alcoholic until his mid-40s when his addiction caused his life to fall apart and he tried to drink himself to death. Suicide by alcohol was prevented by Steve's...2018-11-0114 minStories of AddictionKendra - Back Pain Pills Heroin Homeless Recovery: A Thirty-Four-Year-Old Woman Shares Her Ten-Year Journey Of Back Pain Pills, Heroin, Homelessness And RecoveryMeet Kendra, a thirty-four-year-old woman who shares her ten-year journey of back pain pills, heroin, homelessness and recovery. Kendra’s emotions are etched on her face. She is not the best narrator but her story is real, beginning with a car accident in her teenage years that caused her to suffer chronic back pain. The medications eventually progressed, and soon she was using and abusing pain pills and heroin by the time she was 24. Kendra soon found herself homeless and has attempted recovery multiple times, only to relapse. Discover how she turned her life around and the motivations she ha...2018-10-2315 minStories of AddictionMarty: Blood Cancer To Heroin Addiction And BackMarty, a 31-year-old male, talks about his real-life experience with heroin addiction and his journey of recovery. He is a client of The Gault House Sober Living Environment in Santa Cruz, California and he bravely shares his inspiring story of overcoming the tough experiences and the mental battles with addiction. Starting with being diagnosed with cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, he talks about how that nihilistic view affected his decisions. He lays down the path to progression in taking pills and drugs - going from one to another - and soon the withdrawals that led him to pursue the path to...2018-10-0953 minStories of AddictionAquia, A 20-Years Old Female, Started Abusing Alcohol At Age 12Born to a teenage mother, Aquia, an African American female who is now 23 years old, started abusing alcohol at age 12 when she felt her mother loved men more than her and her brothers. That opened the door to drug abuse. Aquia started using Methamphetamine at the age of 18 and was living either on the streets or in jail. At age 22, Aquia was using heroin but all of her drug and alcohol use came to a stop when she came to Santa Cruz to get recovery. Now Aquia is living at Gault House in Santa Cruz, California and working a 5...2018-05-0842 minStories of AddictionIvy’s Heavy Use of Alcohol and PillsIvy’s recovery from addiction was a long journey that started when she first got hooked on alcohol at the age of sixteen. Her relationship with alcohol led to cocaine and an abusive boyfriend who got her pregnant with a son. Soon after, she developed breast cancer which gave her unlimited access to pain killers. She reached such a low point in her life where her only options became ending it or getting sober. She opted to join a sober living home where she got a lot of support from people who understand and have been through what she wa...2018-04-2429 minStories of AddictionClara Experience with Alcohol, Cocaine and HeroinInsecurity is often the factor that leads to addiction and abuse of drugs. Growing up with Tourette’s, Clara found that smoking weed was an outlet from her illness which then lead to drinking and getting addicted to alcohol. At the age of 20, she knew it was becoming a problem when she cheated on the perfect guy and stole money from her parents. She got tired of being angry with herself and the people around her and chose to work the 12 Steps of Recovery. In her early days of recovering from alcohol addiction, she shares how being present means be...2018-04-1712 minStories of AddictionOvercome And Recover In A Sober Living EnvironmentOvercoming and recovering from an addiction is never easy. That is, if you keep choosing to do it alone. There are many individuals who travel down the road to recovery who need your support as much as you need theirs. A sober living environment isn’t a treatment facility. Rather, it houses a family of individuals who are serious about overcoming and recovering from their addiction. While it may sound like a shortcut to recovery, a sober living environment is a place for people who are clean and sober and want to stay that way while they work their ow...2018-03-1309 minStories of AddictionStefan, A Story About Heroin Addiction, Shoplifting And RecoveryCuriosity plays a big role in every aspect of our lives. Stefan’s heroin addiction began with him being curious about drugs. He knew that he needed to experience the drug so that he can get the knowledge he was craving for. Although his addiction began with drinking a bottle of tequila at the age of twelve, this had negative effects on Stefan so he turned to smoking weed. This opened doors for him, one of which was shoplifting. Now, Stefan the House Manager at Gault House in Santa Cruz. Learn more of story of addiction, recovery and how he...2018-03-061h 35Stories of AddictionGetting Out Of The Spiral Of Addiction. The Story Of Amanda The BartenderAddiction comes to some of us like a wave of an innocent hand, or a margarita on our 15th birthday. Amanda’s spiral of addiction started like this and her wanting to fit in fueled it. The anxiety of going from high school to college made things go out of control when she started to cash out $70 for a gram of cocaine whenever she could cash it out. Amanda shares honest stories of being an addicted to alcohol and cocaine and her wonderful recovery.2018-02-2728 minStories of AddictionFood Addiction, Twelve-Step Program To Recovery with Michelle GoldbergerAlcohol addiction starts when everything goes black after that first drink and all you want is to keep drinking even when you know that it’s the wrong thing to do. Food addiction is the same. Any kind of sweet was the new alcohol for recovered alcoholic Michelle Goldberger. Her craving for food was insatiable until she started working the twelve steps at the COR Retreat Center. Even with a 60-pound weight loss, she still battles with food addiction. The desire to eat a lot is gone with the help of the program, but the addiction never leaves. Learn ho...2018-02-2039 minStories of AddictionA Conscious Connection With A Higher Power, Steps 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, & 12 Of The 12 Step Program with Paul and DaveSteps 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, & 12 of the 12 Step Program will let us admit the nature of our wrongdoings. These steps help us to prepare to tell the truth to other people about the things that we do wrong. Admitting this makes us accountable for those things and we realize that we cannot do this alone. With that realization, we become ready to ask help from people who really can help change ourselves. Learn how to listen to the voice of reason in your head and how to turn up the volume of that voice.2018-02-1239 minStories of AddictionSelf Honesty And Forgiveness, Steps 4, 8 and 9 of The 12 Step Program with Paul and DavePaul and Dave have a friendly discussion about Steps 4, 8 and 9 of the 12 Step Program. These three steps are related to each other because they deal with making a list of your faults, making a list of people you have harmed and apologizing to those people. In an effort to make the 12 Step program more easy to understand, steps 4, 8 and 9 are grouped together for discussion in this episode of Stories of Addiction. To learn more about recovery from addiction and to get started in the Recovery Lifestyle, join our mailing list here at www.ResponsibleRecovery.net and joi...2018-02-0633 minStories of AddictionPersonal Thoughts On The First Three Steps Of The 12 Step Program with Paul and DaveThe 12 Step Program to drug recovery is like taking a plane ride where you think you’re flying alone, but in reality you’ve got company on this journey of growth and change. The first three steps of the program will have a recovering addict admit that he is powerless over his addiction. Through this admission, he accepts that he needs help from people and from a power greater than he is. Learn more of the powerful effects of the first three steps of the 12 Step Program as Paul Noddings and Dave, his friend and former house manager for Resp...2018-01-3024 minStories of AddictionThe First Three Steps Of Drug Recovery: Hope, Faith And TrustThe path to drug recovery has always been using the 12 Step Program to help change the lives of addicts. Mastering the first three steps: hope, faith and trust is critical to building momentum for recovery. Both Frankie M and Steve A admitted that they were powerless over their drug addiction. Their sponsors helped them realize that better days will come if they turn to a power greater than them. Making mistakes is part of the journey to recovery, but the challenge is to not make those mistakes over and over again. Frankie M and Steve A share their stories...2018-01-2347 minStories of AddictionSober Living Home Operator Mark FredricksonWhen a recovering addict keeps thinking that he will always be a victim of drug abuse, then the change that everyone is expecting to happen will not happen. Sober living home operator, Mark Fredrickson, knows all the struggles of getting away from drug addiction. He has been through the bumpiest of roads at the age of 10, but thanks to support groups, Mark was able to recover. Now he owns 8 sober living homes he calls Second Chance Sobriety where he helps addicts turn their lives away from drug abuse and become individuals who can serve their community. To l...2017-12-191h 26Stories of AddictionThe Phases of Getting Away from Heroin with Mitch RussoBeing in high school and playing in a rock band, Mitch Russo started using heroin at the young age of 16. Getting away from heroin wasn’t easy, but thanks to a miraculous phone call, his family and three and a half years of rehab, Mitch recovered his life from drug addiction. The end game of drug addiction is death. Listen in and find out how to get away from drugs and be a miracle to others. To learn more about recovery from addiction and to get started in the Recovery Lifestyle, join our mailing list here at www...2017-12-1232 min
Stories of AddictionBrandon Part 3 Heroin Meth Cocaine Weed AlcoholBrandon discusses his addiction and recovery from addiction. In Part 3, Brandon talks about how he is feeling after one year of sobriety and what his hopes are for the future. To learn more about recovery from addiction and to get started in the Recovery Lifestyle, join our mailing list here at www.ResponsibleRecovery.net and join the conversation taking place on our FaceBook group and follow us on Twitter.2017-12-0508 min
Stories of AddictionBrandon Part 2 Heroin Meth Cocaine Weed AlcoholInterview with Brandon on his addiction and his recovery from addiction. Part 2 covers the amount of heroin that Brandon was injecting and the early stages of his recovery. To learn more about recovery from addiction and to get started in the Recovery Lifestyle, join our mailing list here at www.ResponsibleRecovery.net and join the conversation taking place on our FaceBook group and follow us on Twitter.2017-11-2812 min
Stories of AddictionBrandon Part 1 Heroin Meth Cocaine Weed AlcoholInterview with Brandon about his addiction and recovery from addiction. In Part 1 we talk about his slide into addiction. To learn more about recovery from addiction and to get started in the Recovery Lifestyle, join our mailing list here at www.ResponsibleRecovery.net and join the conversation taking place on our FaceBook group and follow us on Twitter.2017-11-2113 min
Stories of AddictionDave's Story of Addiction, Part 3In today's episode, Sober Living Environment expert, Paul Noddings interviews a man he refers to as Dave One-Leg. In Part 3 of Dave's story, hear how he is currently managing his addiction and living a recovery lifestyle. To learn more about recovery from addiction and get started in the Recovery Lifestyle, join our mailing list here at www.ResponsibleRecovery.net and join the conversation taking place on our FaceBook group and follow us on Twitter.2017-11-1414 min
Stories of AddictionDave's Story of Addiction, Part 2In today's episode, Sober Living Environment expert, Paul Noddings interviews a man he refers to as Dave One-Leg. In Part 2 of Dave's story, hear how he found his way into a recovery program only to relapse a few years later. To learn more about recovery from addiction and get started in the Recovery Lifestyle, join our mailing list here at www.ResponsibleRecovery.net and join the conversation taking place on our FaceBook group and follow us on Twitter.2017-11-1413 min
Stories of AddictionDave's Story of Addiction, Part 1 In today's episode, Sober Living Environment expert, Paul Noddings interviews a man he refers to as Dave One-Leg. In Part 1 of Dave's story, hear how his alcoholism began, progressed, and eventually took over his life. To learn more about recovery from addiction and get started in the Recovery Lifestyle, join our mailing list here at www.ResponsibleRecovery.net and join the conversation taking place on our FaceBook group and follow us on Twitter. 2017-11-1416 min
Stories of AddictionIntro to Stories of Addiction PodcastThis is the Introduction episode of the Stories of Addiction Podcast with an overview of what you can expect from this show. To learn more about recovery from addiction go to www.ResponsibleRecovery.net and join the conversation taking place on our FaceBook group and follow us on Twitter. 2017-10-2305 min