In March 2019, I spoke with Milly Day, who was part of the small team behind Recovery Trekking. The idea was to guide people in recovery along the Camino de Santiago, the old pilgrimage route in Spain, as a way of healing the mind and body.
In May 2019, I spoke with Nick Jaworski, the chief executive of Circle Social and the host of the Recovery Executive Podcast. His company helps treatment centers with their marketing, and he argues that honest marketing works better than the tricks that gave the field its bad reputation.
In this episode, released in May 2019, I spoke with Calvin McGinn, PhD, and Joyce Ann McGinn, the founders of McRISC, a software tool that estimates a person's long-term risk for substance use disorder.
In April 2019, I spoke with Bryan Robinson, PhD, a psychotherapist, professor, researcher, and author. He is widely recognized as one of the leading experts on workaholism. He had just published #CHILL: Turn Off Your Job and Turn On Your Life, and we talked about why so many people feel driven, how a few quiet minutes a day can change that, and what calm actually feels like from the inside.
In March 2019, I spoke with Harry Derbitsky, who teaches the three principles uncovered by Sydney Banks and wrote The Evolution of Addiction Recovery. I had been reading his book, and much of it matched my own thinking at the time.
In January 2019, I spoke with Mani Saint-Victor, MD, a physician, hypnotist, and coach, and the author of Thinking About Quitting Medicine, which now runs to two volumes. He left his psychiatry residency to build a different kind of working life, and most of his coaching today is with physicians who are asking the same questions he once asked.
In December 2018, I spoke with Michael A., who had written an article about going through more than two dozen rehab stays over six years before he finally found something that worked.
In November 2018, I spoke with Bob Coates, the founder and CEO of SyMedica, a health care consulting company. At the time, he was also working in Washington, D.C., as the health care consultant for a lobbying firm, and he had been following the federal opioid bill closely as it moved through Congress.
In October 2018, I spoke with Jennifer Elizabeth Masters for the second time. She is a coach and the author of Orgasm for Life, a book about sexuality, communication, and intimacy between partners.
In September 2018, I spoke with Hoke Kimball, author of Transitions: Collected Poems about Addiction and Recovery. He had stopped drinking in September 1989, and the poems in his book were written during his first years of trying to stay sober.
In August 2018, Karen Newell joined me for the first time. Karen is a co-founder of Sacred Acoustics, which makes meditation recordings built on binaural beats, and our conversation covered sound, meditation, gratitude, and what it means to treat the whole person.
In July 2018, I spoke with Jennifer Elizabeth Masters, a self-love coach and author, originally from Toronto, who now lives in a cottage on a horse ranch outside Santa Clarita, California.