On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business
553 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsThere are people who launch books and end up just having a nice thing to put on their shelves. Then there are people who launch books that transform their careers—and lives. As a former member of the first group, Legacy Launch Pad publisher and New York Times bestselling author Anna David strongly urges you to be part of the second.
In this show, she talks to entrepreneurs and authors about how to intentionally launch the book that will serve as the best business card and marketing tool you’ve ever had—and then how to use that to build your business even more.
Named one of the best publishing podcasts by LA Weekly, Feedspot, Podchaser and Kindlepreneur, On Good Authority features solo episodes as well as interviews with best-selling authors, entrepreneurs and publishing insiders. It has had over a million downloads, regularly appears on the top 100 career podcast list and manages to make discussions about publishing funny. Popular episodes include interviews with Chris Voss, Robert Greene and Lori Gottlieb.
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Feeding the Good Wolf with Brad Vos
April 03, 2018 07:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBBrad Vos is a mental health and addictions recovery advocate who, in his words, "promotes the opportunity, and not the sacrifice, that recovery provides." Canada-based, he's someone who's tried numerous roads to sobriety, including 12-step and SMART Recovery, but finds he has a "bad wolf" who can talk him out of staying on the right path. But he's determined to let the good wolf take charge, something that's evident in his new project—the website Sobertunity, which also includes a...
Ask the Shrink: Can You Tell When Patients Are Lying to You?
March 28, 2018 07:00 - 8 minutes - 7.83 MBMost every addict who's been in therapy has lied to their therapist or psychiatrist. The question is...do shrinks know when you're lying? We asked LA board certified psychiatrist Dr. Josh Lichtman for his take.
How to Balance Work and Life with Recovery Elevator’s Paul Churchill
March 27, 2018 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBIt’s hard to picture Paul Churchill as an active alcoholic. He’s nevertheless got the back story to prove it—including years of destructive drinking, a DUI and a suicide attempt. Yet no one could accuse him of resting on his laurels once he found sobriety in September of 2016. No, sir. He launched the podcast Recovery Elevator soon after getting into recovery and then, 20 episodes in, decided to start an accountability group. Now Recovery Elevator is something of an empire—with re...
Ask the Shrink: What Do You Do When a Patient is Treatment Resistant?
March 21, 2018 07:00 - 8 minutes - 7.33 MBSome people suffer from depression and other mental issues that doesn't respond to medication. What are they—and their doctors—supposed to do? Double board certified psychiatrist Dr. Josh Lichtman lays out some options.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper on Trying to Seduce a Bipolar Man With a Jesus Complex
March 20, 2018 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBWe all have stories. Some of us have funny ones. Others have tragic ones. If you're Natasha Vargas-Cooper, you have both. If you listen to the podcast regularly, you know about Natasha but for anyone new around here...she is a wondrous sprite who graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA with a double major in history and public policy and has been published in such places as The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine and GQ, among many others. Her ...
Ask the Shrink: How Do We Break Down the Stigma Around Mental Illness?
March 14, 2018 07:00 - 8 minutes - 7.85 MBAddicts are increasingly more comfortable coming forward and sharing about their problems. But the same doesn't seem to be true for those suffering from mental illness. What can we do about that? Dr. Josh Lichtman, a Los Angeles-based board-certified psychiatrist, breaks down his thoughts.
Losing A Brother to a Heroin Overdose with Stephanie Wittels Wachs
March 13, 2018 07:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBStephanie Wittels Wachs has endured something a sister should never have to experience. In February of 2015, she lost her brother Harris to a heroin overdose. Her brother wasn’t some low-bottom, down-and-out guy. Quite the opposite. He was actually nothing short of a legend in the comedy business, having been hired as a writer on The Sarah Silverman Show a year after graduating from college. From there, his career was on fire—he wrote on numerous MTV Movie Awards and was a write...
Ask the Shrink: What is Narcissism and NPD?
March 07, 2018 08:00 - 7 minutes - 7.14 MBWe live in a world where everyone is diagnosing our president as narcissistic. So what, exactly, are we saying and are we allowed to diagnose someone we don't know based solely on their symptoms? Dr. Josh Lichtman provides some answers.
Ryan Hampton on What Can Happen When People in Recovery Come Together
March 06, 2018 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBYou surely know about Ryan Hampton by now. Not only has he become one of the world's leading recovery advocates, fighting to take down nefarious treatment centers and shady players but he's also the author of the upcoming book American Fix: Inside the American Opioid Addiction Crisis—And How to End It. He's also one of my closer friends. We work on a lot of things together but the one we're most excited about right now is our upcoming Light Switch: Turning on Your Inner Hustle r...
Ask the Shrink: How Do You Separate Depression and Anxiety?
February 28, 2018 08:00 - 8 minutes - 8.1 MBIn this episode, I talk to addiction psychiatrist Dr. Josh Lichtman about how depression and anxiety manifest—and overlap.
Developing Healthier Relationships with Laura McKowen
February 27, 2018 08:00 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBI've long admired Laura McKowen. The sober mama is a prolific writer (you can see her many posts over at LauraMcKowen.com), podcaster (for years she co-hosted HOME, now she's co-hosting Spiritualish) and all-around honest person living in recovery. What do I mean by honest? Well, follow her on Instagram and you'll see more than just Ghandi quotes and hot photos. The woman spills it out there—and people love her for it. While we met at the Unite to Face Addiction rally in the f...
Ask the Shrink: Do You Send Every Addicted Patient to AA?
February 22, 2018 08:00 - 7 minutes - 7.22 MBAA is a controversial topic within recovery circles. Some are all for it, some violently opposed. So where does a prominent addiction psychiatrist stand? Does he tell all his patients who are addicts to go there? The answer may surprise you.
Bucky Sinister on How Addicts Are Scared of All The Wrong Things
February 20, 2018 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBBucky Sinister is a poet, self-help author and comedian, he has published four books of poetry and two self-help books, including Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfists, Freaks, and Weirdos. His journalism, film reviews, and short stories have appeared on The Rumpus, The Bold Italic, and a number of other online and print publications. His novel, Black Hole, is flat out the funniest novel I've ever read about addiction. He's been something of a regular in my world—a repe...
Making Sense of Sexuality in Recovery with Jen Matesa
February 13, 2018 08:00 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBJen Matesa is a recovery powerhouse. Unafraid and unapologetic, she speaks out about two "s"'s that scare some others—namely, Suboxone and sex. She's written extensively about both—Suboxone in blog posts like this one and the sex in two of her four books...especially her most recent one, Sex in Recovery: A Meeting between the Covers (her previous book for Hazelden, The Recovering Body: Physical and Spiritual Fitness for Living Clean and Sober, also got into meditation, exercise,...
Laura House on Going From Bible Loving Texan to Drunk Foreign Exchange Student
February 06, 2018 08:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBIf there’s anyone who can make a ridiculous drinking story hilarious, it’s Laura House. A headlining comedian who has performed on HBO, Comedy Central, NBC, she is originally from Texas and moved to LA after starring in MTV’s cult-favorite Austin Stories. She’s written on the Emmy-winning shows Mom and Samantha Who, BAFTA-winning Secret Lives of Boys, as well as Nicole Byer’s Loosely, Exactly, Nicole, The George Lopez Show, Mad Love, Blue Collar TV and more. This story is about ho...
Getting off Fentanyl But Continuing to Do Drugs with Drew Grant
January 30, 2018 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBI first met Drew Grant through friends, when we both lived in New York. She was a young, dynamic, cool, talented writer who'd worked at Salon and The New York Observer, among many other publications. While I'd always found her somewhat fascinating, that feeling was only enhanced when, during a causal conversation, she mentioned that she had a brief addiction to Fentanyl. I was working at The Fix website at the time and so I did what I did whenever anyone mentioned drugs...promptly...
Coming Back From Darkness with Sean Paul Mahoney
January 23, 2018 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBSean Paul Mahoney isn’t your average bear. He isn’t your average human, either. That’s because he’s much funnier than your average human. As a blogger, playwright and podcaster, Sean shares his many witticisms with the world?—?including me, back when I used to edit his essays at AfterParty. Just over nine years sober, he’s now working in the mental health and recovery field…and as he says, it keeps life very “real.” In this episode, we discuss hitting (and coming out of) an ...
How to Combat a Tech-Related Addiction with Gabe Zichermann
January 16, 2018 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBGabe Zichermann is an unlikely hero in the addiction recovery world as he literally spent the first half of his career making sure we got hooked on tech. The world’s foremost expert and public speaker on the subject of gamification, user engagement and behavioral design, Zichermann is also the author of The Gamification Revolution (McGraw Hill, 2013), Gamification by Design (2011) and Game-Based Marketing (2010). But, as he observed addictive tendencies in both himself and the peo...
Why AA Doesn't Work with Producer Scott Steindorff
January 02, 2018 08:00 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBProlific TV and movie producer Scott Steindorff has convinced authors like Philip Roth and Gabriel Garcia Marquez to give up the film rights for their books. He's won Golden Globes and been nominated for Emmys. He's worked with Matthew McConaughey, Paul Newman and Nicole Kidman, among many others. But his greatest passion in life doesn't have anything to do with the entertainment business. His greatest passion is related to the fact that, at over 30 years of sobriety, he's watchin...
Becoming Accountable with Sober Evolution’s Austin Cooper
December 31, 2017 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBAustin Cooper didn’t want to live anymore. Like many people suffering from addiction, he was at the too-scared-to-live, too-scared-to-die crossroads. He’d forgotten that he had people who loved him. When those loved ones did an intervention, he knew he had a choice: to live or die. He chose to live…and in less than five years, he’s become an outspoken recovery advocate. It all started when he discovered some inspiring quotes that changed his life. He thought maybe those quotes...
Surviving Columbine and Finding Recovery with Austin Eubanks
December 26, 2017 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBAustin Eubanks shouldn't be alive. And he certainly shouldn't be thriving. An injured survivor of the Columbine High School shooting, Eubanks was shot twice as he watched his best friend get murdered in front of his eyes. Afterwards, a phalanx of doctors prescribed him everything he wanted and more, until he found himself on a drug cocktail that included not only stimulants but also benzos and opiates. Marijuana and harder drugs followed soon after. A few trips to rehab didn't d...
Drunken Escapades with Comedian Jodi Miller
December 21, 2017 08:00 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBJodi Miller is what they call bust-a-gut funny (do they call it that or did I make that up?). She's also, as they say, blue. So if you're prone to blushing, you may want to skip this one. If, on the other hand, you don't shock easily and also enjoy laughing, you'll love this one. Jodi has performed on The Tonight Show and America's Got Talent. She's also written on a Cinemax series and been a recurring guest commentator on Showbiz Tonight. In this episode, she tells a night ...
Launching the Global Recovery Movement with Greg Williams
December 19, 2017 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32 MBFilmmaker and Facing Addiction co-founder Greg Williams puts most recovery advocates to shame. And he’s one of the most humble people you’ll ever meet. Here’s how the story goes: Williams got sober and was doing just a basic sober job when he started meeting people in the recovery advocacy movement. He was earning a grad degree at NYU that involved studying both advocacy and filmmaking and so he did the next logical thing: make a movie about these impressive folks he was meeting. ...
How to Get Arrested and Destroy Your Fraternity with Travis Jones
December 13, 2017 08:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBTravis Jones is a video editor by day and a storyteller by night. He has performed at The Moth and various other shows around LA. In this episode, he tells arguably the funniest story I've ever heard about getting arrested (and I've heard a lot). Suffice it to say that there are some fraternity brothers who surely regretted every setting eyes on him. He told the story at my live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly...
From Gutter Punk Rocker to Recovery Hero with Wes Geer
December 12, 2017 08:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBWes Geer may have once looked like an unlikely recovery hero. The founding member of the band Hed PE, Geer went down the path familiar to many young, wild and crazy dudes in bands...all of which culminated in a trip to rehab in 2004. After finding sobriety in 2007, Geer was asked to join the legendary band Korn and he played with them for years. But just being a rock star wasn't enough for Geer and so, in 2013, he formed Rock to Recovery. Rock to Recovery's mission sounds almost...
The Shame Behind Male Eating Disorders with Brian Cuban
December 05, 2017 08:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBBrian Cuban is the ideal recovery advocate. Sober since 2007, the attorney and best-selling author of two books about his recovery is willing to talk about something very few men are: struggling with bulimia and anorexia. And not only is he willing to talk about it—he's willing to delve into how he developed his eating disorder (he writes touchingly about being teased as a kid in this compelling easy for CNN). The brother of Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban,...
Anna David on What Drinking Gave Her (and Then Took Away)
November 30, 2017 17:44 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBToday's episode features a very special guest: me. Since I'm releasing episodes that contain stories from my live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, and I perform in this show, sometimes these episodes are going to feature—well, me. (By the by, the show, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series.) The story I tell here is about how, the first time I got drunk, I confessed my love to the big man on ...
Coming Out About Your Addiction with Lawyer Lisa Smith
November 28, 2017 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBIt’s one thing to be open about your addiction when you’re a writer in LA—aka a person most people assume WOULD be an addict. It’s quite another when you’re a high-powered attorney. But Lisa F. Smith is a trail blazer. The author of the hit book Girl Walks Out of a Bar is also probably my favorite person I’ve never met. (Side note: I’ve slept in her bed despite not having met her; it’s not as sexy as it sounds but that’s something we get into in the interview.) What’s fascinat...
Coming Out About Your Addiction with Lawyer Lisa Smith
November 28, 2017 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBIt’s one thing to be open about your addiction when you’re a writer in LA—aka a person most people assume WOULD be an addict. It’s quite another when you’re a high-powered attorney. But Lisa F. Smith is a trail blazer. The author of the hit book Girl Walks Out of a Bar is also probably my favorite person I’ve never met. (Side note: I’ve slept in her bed despite not having met her; it’s not as sexy as it sounds but that’s something we get into in the interview.) What’s fascinating about...
Just How Uncomfortable is Being Sober? As Greg Behrendt Explains, Very
November 24, 2017 08:00 - 16 minutes - 15 MBToday's episode features an absolute doll of a human being: Greg Behrendt. In it, Greg tells a story from my live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series. His story captures, perhaps better than anyone ever has before, exactly why being sober is so uncomfortable. When he's not making Hammer(ed) Time audiences nearly pee their pants with laughter, Greg is per...
SheRecovers Co-Founder Taryn Strong on Coming Out as an Addict
November 22, 2017 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBTaryn Strong was sitting atop the largest resource for women in recovery and keeping a secret: namely that in between hosting retreats in places like Bali, where she and her mom Dawn Nickel were getting women to open up about their recovery, she was doing coke. She'd been honest about her past up until then—about self-harm, about co-dependency, about a drug phase when she was younger—but coming clean about the fact that she was also an addict required a new level of bravery. In th...
Getting Sober as a Teen with Lindsay Adams
November 17, 2017 08:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBLindsay Adams is no joke. Yes, she tells jokes but the seriously funny comic also got sober when she was a teenager after surviving—well, some pretty horrific shit. And she bakes! She has a baking show on something I'm too old to understand called Twitch. In this episode, Lindsay tells a story at my live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series. When she's no...
Finding the Funny in Binging and Purging with Angela Gulner
November 15, 2017 08:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBAngela Gulner is not your typical actress. For one, the Harvard grad is a multi-talent, having created and starred in the binge-worthy series Binge. Secondly, Binge is about something most people don't talk about—that is, binging and purging. And then there's the fact that Gulner is incredibly open about the fact that this series is based on her life. While I'm not normally a plot summary gal, the plot of the Binge pilot is too hilarious not to spell out. It opens with Gulner wa...
Jessica Sele on How to Get Wasted and Shame Everyone in the Vicinity
November 10, 2017 08:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBToday's episode features the very funny Jessica Sele from one of my live storytelling shows, Hammer(ed) Time. In her own words, Jessica Sele is a "deeply weird human being and stand-up comedian." She's performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and SF Sketchfest and was described by Bitch Magazine as a “hilarious and talented queer woman.” The story she tells is a basic how-to if you want to know how to get wasted and shame everyone in the vicinity.
Therapist Kelley Kitley on Sharing Your Trauma With Your Clients
November 08, 2017 08:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBTherapist Kelley Kitley could have kept quiet about her own past. She had a thriving practice—first in Santa Monica, then in Chicago—and didn't need her clients knowing about her own experiences. Instead she decided to spill all...in her memoir, My Self: A Story of Survival, a memoir which details her experiences being sexually abused, developing an eating disorder and then struggling with addiction (she's now sober four-and-a-half years). In this episode, she talks about how ...
Anna David on Smoking Two Packs of Cigarettes a Day
November 03, 2017 07:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBToday's episode features a very special guest: me. Since I'm releasing episodes that contain stories from my live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, and I perform in this show, sometimes these episodes are going to feature—well, me. (By the by, the show, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series.) The story I tell here is about how I went from chain-smoking derelict to sanctimonious ex-smoker who o...
Making the Decision to Open Up About Recovery With Garrett Hade
November 01, 2017 07:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBGarrett Hade is a guy who usually sits behind the scenes. As the right (and left) hand(s) of prominent recovery advocate Ryan Hampton, Garrett is the one by Ryan's side as they travel across the country interviewing people in recovery, visiting jails and in short doing everything they possibly can to change the way addiction is perceived and treated. Though Garrett and I have become closer over the past year, getting him in front of a camera and mic was a serious treat. In this ep...
Reminiscing About Your First Intervention with Bucky Sinister
October 27, 2017 15:26 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBToday’s episode features a truly unique soul: author Bucky Sinister. In it, Bucky tells a story from my live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series. His story is about an event not everyone has the opportunity to reminisce about: the 30th anniversary of his first intervention. (Spoiler alert: don't take acid beforehand.) Bucky is the author of not only the ...
Mary Patterson Broome on People Who Ask Her If She Really Needed to Quit Drinking
October 25, 2017 07:00 - 12 minutes - 11 MBToday's episode features one of my very favorite people I know: comedian and writer Mary Patterson Broome. In it, MP tells a story from our live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series. Her story is about something most people in recovery are all too familiar with: those friends from the drinking days who question whether or not she really needs to be sober. ...
Defying Impossible Odds with John Clint Mabry
October 20, 2017 07:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBWhat John Clint Mabry has endured would have destroyed most people. John Clint Mabry is not most people. During a tragic car accident when he was 18, he lost both a friend and his leg. The former class clown then got addicted to opiates and thought he was living a terribly exciting life—appearing in movies like Superbad and partying at the Playboy Mansion. Then he lost his brother to addiction and spiraled down that road himself...until he couldn't any longer. Now a sober cou...
Sara Benincasa on Having a Panic Attack in Italy
October 18, 2017 07:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MBToday's episode features a woman everyone loves: Sara Benincasa. Benincasa is a screenwriter, recovering stand-up comedian and the author of "Real Artists Have Day Jobs" (William Morrow 2016); "DC Trip" (Adaptive 2015); "Great" (HarperTeen 2014); and "Agorafabulous!: Dispatches From My Bedroom" (William Morrow 2012). She also wrote a very silly joke book called "Tim Kaine Is Your Nice Dad." In 2017, she adapted "DC Trip" as a screenplay with Bona Fide, Gunpowder & Sky, and Adapti...
How to Brew Miracles with Carly Benson
October 13, 2017 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBCarly Benson is a sober wundekind. The voice behind the mega popular website Miracles Are Brewing, Benson is a yoga instructor, coach, leader of a monthly group about intentional living, co-founder (with Kelly Fitzgerald) of the Bloom Club, co-host (also with Kelly) of the Regroup podcast, and all around spiritual badass. While she and I had never met before, we'd both admired one another from afar—and now, frankly, I want to do as much as I can with her. In this episode, we discuss...
Comedian Greg Behrendt on Hanging Out with Crazy People While Under the Influence
October 11, 2017 18:25 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBToday’s episode features an absolute doll of a human being: Greg Behrendt. In it, Greg tells a story from my live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series. His story veers from a night where he was wasted and suddenly realized he was hanging out with dudes who had submachine guns into the rage he feels over the way people order from Starbucks to a riff on puddi...
Wearing a Wire to Bust Drug Dealers with Jesse Heffernan
October 06, 2017 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBJesse Heffernan, the National Outreach and Empowerment Coordinator at Faces and Voices of Recovery, is a Certified Recovery Coach who's over 16 years sober. I was lucky enough to speak to him about finding a toxic community based on similar "woundedness," wearing a wire to bust drug dealers, whether or not he's clean cut and if the word "addict" is good or bad, among many other things. NOTE: This episode is from a Facebook Live interview that I did with Jesse, which means that t...
Laura House on the 4th of July Party That Lasted 3 Days
October 04, 2017 19:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MBToday's episode features the person Louis CK named as one of the funniest female comedians of our time: Laura House. In it, Laura tells a story from my live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series. Her story covers a 4th of July party she once attended that actually lasted three days and included lots of beer, nudity and an eventual police bust. Bonus: it also...
The Two Longtime Friends Behind InTheRooms.com
September 28, 2017 19:00 - 36 minutes - 32.9 MBKenny Pomerance and Ron Tannebaum, or Mr. Clean and RT, are the recovery titans behind the Facebook-for-recovery website InTheRooms. The two longtime friends—who first met when they were in college—launched their site in 2008, when they were both nearly three decades sober. Since then, the site has blossomed—with hundreds of thousands of members attending on-line meetings, watching lectures, using the ITR apps and bonding in ways they never could otherwise. I've been lucky enough ...
Bucky Sinister (and Urn) on What It Takes to Be a Good Sober Man
September 27, 2017 19:00 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBToday’s episode features a truly unique soul: author Bucky Sinister. In it, Bucky tells a story from my live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series. His story is about a friend of his who happened to be "the most batshit crazy person" he knew, the sort of person who'd ask, if you told him your mother had breast cancer, "how nice her tits were." He also explai...
From Workaholic to the Inspiring Woman Behind SheRecovers
September 21, 2017 19:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBDawn Nickel is a legend in the recovery world. The womab behind SheRecovers, Nickel was in recovery a long time and a self-proclaimed workaholic looking for a change when she realized, while sitting on the beach in Mexico, that what she really wanted to do: help people in recovery. And so she launched a Facebook page. Despite being something of a social media novice, the page took off—attracting hundreds of thousands of Likes as it established itself as the place for women in recove...
Mary Patterson Broome on Comedy Festival Shenanigans
September 20, 2017 19:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBoday's episode features one of my very favorite people I know: comedian and writer Mary Patterson Broome. In it, MP tells a story from our live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time, which takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series. Her story answers the question many among us may have craved an answer to: what kind of crazy activities go on at comedy festivals? Well, in this one, we learn about "mirror mom...
Recover Girl Talks Creativity: The Language of Recovery
September 08, 2017 19:00 - 6 minutes - 9.36 MBIn this episode, Anna David speaks about how discovering the fact that recovery had its own language inspired her to focus her own work on the topic.