The Drunkalogues

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Episode 60 - Amir Farhang Sep 28, 2021

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Amir grew up in Tucson, Arizona where his family - Iranian Immigrants - owned and operated a cowboy bar - a business Amir was fated to inherit. But when a family friend told him about an opportunity in the advertising business in Los Angeles, he leapt at the chance and never really looked back. His story is one where the trappings of success insulated him from himself and his journey thru sobriety has largely been about getting reacquainted with who he truly is.

Episode 59 - DJ Verrett Sep 07, 2021

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His new audio book - An Inside Job (https://tinyurl.com/vbes6cet) chronicles his life from an idyllic childhood in Harbor City, CA to a single regrettable decision that would ultimately result in an arrest on drug charges and a twenty year prison sentence. After doing whatever he needed to to survive in jail and managing his misgivings with booze and heroine, he found an unlikely path to salvation in the form of a 70 year old lady carrying a pink box. He's been sober for 16 years now and currently works as a clinical supervisor helping incarcerated men prepare for re-entry to the real world.

Check out the book here: An Inside Job https://tinyurl.com/vbes6cet

Episode 58 - Philly Mike Aug 20, 2021

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Philly Mike is an actor and writer and stand up comedian who grew up in a pretty rough section of Philadelphia where just not getting your ass kicked every day was a constant struggle. He found booze and comedy early on as effective means of escape and eventually found himself with a pretty successful stand up career. It seems his recovery was precipitated by a couple near brushes with real trouble, and he had somewhere along the way picked up enough self knowledge to look for help.

Episode 56 - Joey Repice May 19, 2021

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Joey Repice grew up just outside of Manhattan popping into the city to work in restaurants, play gigs as a drummer and to party. He watched as his adolescent recreational drug and alcohol use blossomed into a full blown heroine addiction whose maintenance consumed his every waking hour. After successfully kicking his habit he nearly relapsed when his ex-girlfriend died of an overdose and was only saved by what he feels is some sort of spiritual intervention. He now lives in Oregon and is just launching his own brand of Hot Sauce - Joey's Hot sauce - whose depth and roundness of flavor is really unprecedented in my experience.

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Episode 55 - James Mclain May 06, 2021

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James McLain and I are childhood friends who grew up in the same bucolic stretch of Gold Coast Long Island where The Great Gatsby was set. We shared a lot in common as kids, and I saw a lot of myself in him so I was particularly curious to see how the path not taken - he is an investment banker - still ended in sobriety. He talks here about his different approach to recovery and how - unlike traditional 12 step programs - he sees alcoholism as something in his past...

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Episode 54 - Katy B. Apr 20, 2021

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Katy is an independent film producer who latched on to Mormonism in her teens as a way of life that managed to be celebratory while eschewing alcohol. Still, she somehow managed to do Mormonism alcoholically. Her journey thru recovery is marked by a search for love and validation that when she finally finds it feels so easy it's impossible to believe it was hard to find in the first place.

Episode 53 - Wendy Adamson Mar 23, 2021

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After her mother committed suicide when she was only seven years old, Wendy Adamson started running away to live with the homeless hippies in Topanga Canyon. Her father made her a ward of the court, and she split her time between juvenile detention and foster homes. An horrific shooting in her late thirties led to a profound spiritual epiphany and she has since devoted herself to undoing the pattern of destruction in her own family and society at large. She tells here the origin story of her son's inspiring non-profit - HavASole - that gets sneakers on the feet of kids in need.

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Episode 52 - Jenny Aurthur Mar 09, 2021

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Jenny Aurthur grew up in a somewhat nomadic family - traveling in a large bus to organize neighborhoods for the Communist Labor Party, and while her parents never married, they maintained a strong family dynamic. So it was especially traumatic when she lost two members of her family to suicide and then - in sobriety - grieved as her closest friend also took his own life. Despite all that her joy remains in tact and reverberates thru this convo.

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Episode 51 - Douglas Mallon Feb 23, 2021

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Douglas Mallon really discovered booze and drugs when he enlisted in the navy at 17 years of age, and his story after that is largely one of obsession and how he learned to break its fever grip thru prayer and surrender. He's now 25 years sober, a proud father and author of multiple books won't you please welcome Douglas Mallon.

Episode 50 - Connie Clotworthy Feb 09, 2021

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Connie Clotworthy was born and raised in Detroit where she discovered drinking and drugs at a very early age and eventually gravitated toward bartending before becoming a very successful mixologist at high end restaurants here in Los Angeles where her drinking found an environment to thrive. But a DUI, a car crash and a pyrotechnics catastrophe, drove her reluctantly into recovery where she struggled for years before a sponsor helped her discover the power of the present and meditation as a conduit to God. She now runs a non-profit - Worthy Beyond Purpose - that focuses on teaching meditation to kids, and she has traveled the world sharing her practice and technique.

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