Category: Podcast
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Tribe Sober is changing lives!
In this Episode: In this episode of Back Porch Chats, we talk to Janet Gourand who quit drinking after a long struggle with alcohol. She tells how she finally got sober in 2015 when she found her “people.” She used her 25 years of experience in training and development to design and facilitate workshops to…
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Living behind the Mask of Mental Illness
Charlene Madden joins this episode of Back Porch Chats to share her story of childhood sexual violence, domestic abuse, mental illness, and suicide ideation. Listen as Vince and Jeanna have an open and authentic discussion to help remove some of the stigmas that surround those topics. Charlene is a mother of 3 children, wife, daughter,…
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Masculine Anger with Stephan and Vince
In this episode: Stephan Neff is an anesthetist, bestselling author, speaker and show host, and alcoholic in recovery. Stephan knows the challenges of trauma, depression, anxiety, and PTSD firsthand. As a man trying to drown his sorrows, he found out the hard way that the critters can swim. But the past does not equal the…
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Sailing Sober with Paul Trammell
In this Episode: In this episode of Back Porch Chats, we talk to the author of seven books, Paul Trammell about living sober as a solo sailor. Paul talks about how his decision to stop drinking alcohol led to living a nomadic life on the sea and the completion of his book Alcoholics Not Anonymous,…
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Steve Bisson Get’s Straight to the Point about Therapy
In this Episode: In this episode of Back Porch Chats, Vince and Jeanna talk to Steve Bisson about managing trauma and addiction with therapy and getting help from sober communities. Steve Bisson has worked in the mental health/addiction field since 1999 as a therapist, coach, author, and podcaster. He has owned his private practice, Straight…
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Serge Prengel: A Rewriting of the 12-Steps
In this Episode: In this episode of Back Porch Chats, Vince and Jeanna talk to Serge Prengel who looks at the science behind 12-step programs in his book, The Proactive Twelve-Steps: A Mindful Program for Lasting Change. Serge is certified in Focusing, Core Energetics, and Somatic Experiencing. His work draws from Systems-Centered theory. He is…
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Theo Fleury: From Gold Medal Olympic Hockey Player to Childhood Trauma Advocate
In this Episode: Listen in as Vince and Jeanna talk to Theo Fleury, best known as an Olympic Hockey gold medalist and Stanly Cup winner, Theo Fleury now takes his story of abuse and addiction recovery public. His best-selling books, Playing with Fire and Conversations with a Rattlesnake, offer tools that help people who have…
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Laura Stack: It’s Not Your Grandma’s Marijuana Anymore
In this Episode: On November 20, 2019, Laura Stack’s 19-year-old son, Johnny, died by suicide after becoming psychotic from dabbing high-THC marijuana concentrates. Laura responded by forming the nonprofit, Johnny’s Ambassadors, to educate parents and teens about the dangers of today’s high-THC marijuana on adolescent brain development, mental illness, and suicide. In this episode of…
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Art and Recovery with Tamlin Allbritten
In this Episode: In this episode of Back Porch Chats, Vince and Jeanna talk to Tamlin Allbritten who has worked for 40 years with families, children, and people in rehab using art to help them understand each other, their feeling, and recovery. During the month of January, Tamlin will be working with the Drug Education…
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Peter Murphy’s Story: Once Apon a Time You Lived in a Castle
In this Episode: Meet Peter Murphy, writer and recovering alcoholic with 50 years of sobriety. In this episode, Peter tells how he was abused as a child by a priest, his descent into alcoholism, waking up drunk in a gutter, and how writing helped inspire his recovery. Episode Highlights: Burying his mother’s suicide in his…
