Latest Drug policy Podcast Episodes
A Long Way To Go For Self Acceptance with Brian Cuban
Choose Your Struggle - September 24, 2021 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 73 A Long Way To Go For Self Acceptance with Brian Cuban 125 episodes! Where has the time gone? This week, Jay chats with Lawyer, Author, and Advocate Brian Cuban. The younger brother of Mark (Dallas Mavericks Owner, Entrepreneur, etc.), Brian tells a story of child...
Special Episode! Monday Motivation: Choose Your Struggle Presents Rock Bottom Storytellers III
Choose Your Struggle - September 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 72 Special Episode! Monday Motivation: Choose Your Struggle Presents Rock Bottom Storytellers III This week's Monday Motivation is a special, audio only replay of Choose Your Struggle Presents Rock Bottom Storytellers III! This incredible event has been watched over ...
Creating a Safe and Inclusive Space in Psychedelics with Ifetayo Harvey
Choose Your Struggle - September 10, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 71 Creating a Safe and Inclusive Space in Psychedelics with Ifetayo Harvey This week, Jay chats with Ifetayo Harvey, the founder of the People of Color Psychedelic Collective. After a psychedelic experience in college changed her life, Ifetayo worked for both the Dru...
Monday Motivation: The Real Ayoka!
Choose Your Struggle - September 06, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 70 Monday Motivation: The Real Ayoka! This week's Monday Motivation is Jay chatting with the soulful singing goddess Ayoka on her upbringing, how spirituality factors into her music, her influences, recording process and a mutual love of Kanye! Check her out on IG at...
Finding Yourself Through Finding Recovery with Shay Houser
Choose Your Struggle - September 03, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 69 Finding Yourself Through Finding Recovery On today's episode, Jay chats with Shay Houser. Shay is one of the co-founders of youturn (you heard from another co-founder last season in Elizabeth McKissick), an organization based in South Carolina that seeks to help e...
Monday Motivation: Michael Pollan's New Book and The True Meaning of Media Hype
Choose Your Struggle - August 30, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 68 Monday Motivation: Michael Pollan's New Book and The True Meaning of Media Hype This week's Monday Motivation is Jay chatting about Michael Pollan's new book, This Is Your Mind On Plants. It's not a bad book. In fact, as one listener put it, parts of it were compe...
Silenced By Stigma Over Comprehensive Sex Education with Justine Ang Fonte
Choose Your Struggle - August 27, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 67 Silenced By Stigma Over Comprehensive Sex Education with Justine Ang Fonte This week, Jay chats with Justine Ang Fonte. You may have heard of her. As she jokes early in the interview, she's been target #1 by right-wing trolls since becoming internet famous over......
Monday Motivation: Choose Your Struggle Presents: A Day in the Life Featuring Swiyah Whittington of Stamp Love
Choose Your Struggle - August 23, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 66 This week's Monday Motivation is the audio replay of a Choose Your Struggle Presents: A Day in the Life featuring Swiyah Whittington of Stamp Love first recorded in July. *** this episode contains some tough topics *** (Editor's note: we ran out of time to fully...
623-473-7433 with Joshua White
Choose Your Struggle - August 20, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 65 623-473-7433 with Joshua White This week, Jay chats with Joshua White, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Fireside Project. The Fireside Project seeks to help people minimize the risks and fulfill the potential of their psychedelic experiences in ways in...
Monday Motivation: Recorded Live at Podcast Movement with Jenn Trepeck, Imran Ahmed, and Cory Zechmann
Choose Your Struggle - August 16, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 64 This week's Monday Motivation was recorded in a booth at Podcast Movement! Joining me were my home base, the core 4, the rocks: past guests on this show Jenn Trepeck of Salad with a Side of Fries and Imran Ahmed of Great Pods, and new friend Cory Zechmann of HarkAu...
Special Episode: Choose Your Struggle Presents: A Day in the Life featuring Jay Shifman
Choose Your Struggle - August 13, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 63 Special Episode: Jay's A Day in the Life Performence This week, we're taking a week off from putting out interviews to release something very special to us. On July 7th, Choose Your Struggle founder and host of this podcast Jay Shifman told a story for our series ...
Monday Motivation: A Honest Look At The Nonprofit Industry with Serena Hope Sun of Breaking Taboo
Choose Your Struggle - August 09, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 62 Monday Motivation: A Honest Look At The Nonprofit Industry with Serena Hope Sun of Breaking Taboo On this special Monday Motivation episode of the Choose Your Struggle podcast, Serena Hope Sun of Breaking Taboo returns to chat with Jay about the good and the bad of ...
Race, The Media, and The War on People with Michael Rosino
Choose Your Struggle - August 06, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 61! Race, The Media, and The War on People with Michael Roisino This week, Jay chats with Michael Rosino. Michael is an educator at Molloy College and the author of the book Debating The Drug War. Michael spent years researching the drug war through the lens of how it'...
Monday Motivation: Hotter Than Health with Eliza Gellman
Choose Your Struggle - August 02, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 60 Monday Motivation: Hotter Than Health with Eliza Gellman On today's extra special Monday Motivation episode of the Choose Your Struggle podcast, Jay chats with his sister in law, Eliza Gellman, the host of the Hotter Than Health podcast! Learn more about Eliza at: ...
Closing The Care Gap With Tim Desmond
Choose Your Struggle - July 30, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 59! Closing The Care Gap with Tim Desmond! This week, Jay chats with Tim Desmond. A trained therapist and author of multiple books, Tim surveyed the current landscape of the helping profession and didn't like what he saw. So he founded Peer Collective as an alternative...
Monday Motivation: Drug Use In The Open
Choose Your Struggle - July 26, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 58 Monday Motivation: Drug Use In The Open Inspired by a question from a friend and listener of the show, Jay talks about why you may be seeing more use in the open and why you should think about how to support drug users. As a special bonus, anyone who leaves The Cho...
NORML and the Parent Movement, Weed's Long, Strange Trip to Just Say No with Emily Dufton
Choose Your Struggle - July 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 57! NORML and the Parent Movement, Weed's Long, Strange Trip to Just Say No This week's guest is Emily Dufton! Emily is an incredible researcher who is probably best known for her book Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America. Jay reads a lot of ...
Monday Motivation: Finding Your Next Podcast, A Conversation On Podcasting With The Captain, Imran Ahmed, of Great Pods
Choose Your Struggle - July 19, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 56 Monday Motivation: Finding Your Next Podcast, A Conversation On Podcasting With The Captain, Imran Ahmed, of Great Pods Jay goes deep into the nitty gritty and evolution of podcasting with The Captain, Imran Ahmed, the founder of Great Pods! But first, Imran talks a...
Finding My Identity with Zach Rhoads
Choose Your Struggle - July 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 55! This week's guest is Zach Rhoads. Jay first found Zach's work on Filter (yes, another Filter connection!) but he's also written a book with Stanton Peele called Outgrowing Addiction: With Common Sense Instead of “Disease” Therapy. Together with Peele, Zach works at...
Special Episode! Choose Your Struggle Presents: A Day in the Life featuring Heather Wylde Smith
Choose Your Struggle - July 12, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSpecial Episode! Choose Your Struggle Presents: A Day in the Life featuring Heather Wylde Smith Season 2, Episode 54 Special Episode! This week's Monday Motivation is a special, unedited, audio only replay of A Day in the Life featuring Heather Wylde Smith. This show was originally bro...
You Can't "Just Eat", Anorexia and Hospitalization with Hayley Grainger
Choose Your Struggle - July 09, 2021 13:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 53! It's Hayley Grainger Day! ***There was a glitch with the feed this morning and last week's episode went out again instead of this one. It's been updated but if you downloaded the show before 9am (and thank you!) you'll need to redownload. Sorry for the confusion!**...
Monday Motivation: An Introduction To Psilocybin and Psychedelics Microdosing
Choose Your Struggle - July 05, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 52 An Introduction To Psilocybin and Psychedelic Microdosing This week's episode is dedicated to Jay's dog Nell! This episode was recorded on her 3rd birthday. Today's episode is an introductory guide to psilocybin and psychedelic microdosing. Think of this as psilocy...
Sex Work On My Own Terms with Heather Wylde Smith
Choose Your Struggle - July 02, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 51! Sex Work On My Own Terms with Heather Wylde Smith! This week's episode features A STAR from A Day in the Life (https://fb.watch/6sqJr3nX2v/) Heather Wylde Smith! Heather is a transformative coach helping people, but especially entrepreneurs, take that all important...
Special Episode! Choose Your Struggle Presents: A Day in the Life featuring Steven Elonich
Choose Your Struggle - June 28, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSpecial Episode! Choose Your Struggle Presents: A Day in the Life featuring Steven Elonich Season 2, Episode 50 Special Episode! This week's Monday Motivation is a special, unedited, audio only replay of This show was originally broadcast on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. To make sure...
Challenging Narratives and Promoting Progress with Tim Harrington
Choose Your Struggle - June 25, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 49! Thank you all for the love around the 100th episode! This week's episode features Tim Harrington. Tim has been advocating for better treatment methods and ending the stigma around substance misuse for longer than Jay's been in recovery! Besides his advocacy and coa...
Monday Motivation: The Choose Your Struggle 100th Episode Spectacular!
Choose Your Struggle - June 21, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 48 Monday Motivation: The Choose Your Struggle 100th Episode Spectacular! 100 episodes! ONE HUNDRED EPISODES! Thank you. Sincerely, thank you. To all of you who have listened, to all the guests, to all the partners, thank you. I don't take any of this for granted. You...
From A Life Sentence To A Life Of Service With Quan Huynh
Choose Your Struggle - June 18, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 47! From A Life Sentence To A Life Of Service With Quan Huynh The 99th episode of the Choose Your Struggle podcast! Sentenced to life in prison for murder, Quan Huynh underwent a rebirth, what he calls his Sparrow in the Razor Wire moment and dedicated himself to livin...
Special Episode! Choose Your Struggle Presents: Rock Bottom Storytellers II!
Choose Your Struggle - June 14, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSpecial Episode! Choose Your Struggle Presents: Rock Bottom Storytellers II! Season 2, Episode 46 Special Episode! This week's Monday Motivation is a special, unedited, audio only replay of Rock Bottom Storytellers II! Originally aired on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube back in April, t...
Fuck Shame, Start A Movement with Dr. Adi Jaffe
Choose Your Struggle - June 11, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 45! Fuck Shame, Start A Movement with Dr. Adi Jaffe Big, BIG episode of the podcast. We got REAL. Today's guest is the one, the only, Dr. Adi Jaffe! We talk about our shared love of saying fuck you to stigma and our shared experience of being in recovery without being ...
Monday Motivation: Jay's TEDx Talk "To End Addiction, Treat Drug Users With Empathy"
Choose Your Struggle - June 07, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 44 Monday Motivation: Jay's TEDx Talk "To End Addiction, Treat Drug Users With Empathy" Hey y'all! Last week I gave my second TED Talk and first TEDx. Unfortunately, the audio wasn't great (my mic wasn't working) and I'm not confident that I'll be able to reply it here...
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