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Special Feed Swap: Jay on the 2 Lives Podcast with Laurel Morales

Choose Your Struggle - October 26, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
For more info on this episode, and to check out 2 Lives, visit their website! https://www.2lives.org/listen/jayshifman As always, you can find everything you need, including our social media links, at our Campsite page: https://jay.campsite.bio Reach out and let us know who you are an...

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Hiatus: So Long And Thanks For All The Fish

Choose Your Struggle - July 15, 2022 10:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3, Episode 10 Hiatus: So Long And Thanks For All The Fish This is the last episode of this show for a while. Jay is burnt out from making Made It and three seasons of this show in three years and is going to take some time work on other projects for a while. But stay subscribed...

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By Any Other Name With The Reverend Robert W. Lee

Choose Your Struggle - July 01, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3, Episode 9 By Any Other Name With The Reverend Robert W. Lee The Reverend Robert Wright Lee, IV (Rob) is an author, activist, commentator, and preacher. His work has appeared on and in MTV, the View, The New Yorker, CNN, the New York Times, NPR, and countless other sources. A...

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A Life of Advocacy with Larry D. Mass

Choose Your Struggle - June 24, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3, Episode 8 A Life of Advocacy with Larry D. Mass Larry D. Mass has been an advocate for the gay community for his entire adult life. From working with Larry Kramer at Act Up to writing an article that's now recognized as the first report on what would eventually become the AI...

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A Week Off Note From Your Host

Choose Your Struggle - June 17, 2022 10:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3, Bonus Episode A Week Off Note From Your Host As always, you can find everything you need, including our social media links, at our Campsite page: https://jay.campsite.bio Leave us a message for a chance to be played on the show and win a CYS schwag pack: https://podinbox.co...

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You've Got That (Desi) Spark In You! with Nehal Tenany and Annika Sharma

Choose Your Struggle - June 10, 2022 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3, Episode 7 You've Got That (Desi) Spark In You! with Nehal Tenany and Annika Sharma Leave us a message for a chance to be played on the show and win a CYS schwag pack (and the first person this week will win a copy of YES! Magazine with Jay's article on drug use and pleasure:...

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From Prison to Policy Changemaker with Morgan Godvin

Choose Your Struggle - June 03, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3, Episode 6: From Prison to Policy Changemaker with Morgan Godvin Morgan Godvin is a student at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health in Portland, where she was born and raised. She is a person in long-term recovery. As a harm reductionist, she performs syringe exchange, naloxo...

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Advocacy In Action With Garth Mullins

Choose Your Struggle - May 27, 2022 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3, Episode 5: Advocacy In Action With Garth Mullins Today's episode is a conversation with Garth Mullins! Garth is the Host and executive producer of the Crackdown Podcast. www.crackdownpod.com and an amazing drug use and user advocate. He's also a guy Jay really looks up to and...

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Rethinking Manliness Through Vulnerability with JT Frank

Choose Your Struggle - May 20, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3, Episode 4: Rethinking Manliness Through Vulnerability with JT Frank JT Frank is a proud veteran and first responder. He started his career in the United States Air Force and has spent the last 23 years protecting and serving his country as a civilian federal employee. Through...

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The Medical Side of Cannabis with Dr. Peter Grinspoon

Choose Your Struggle - May 13, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3, Episode 3: The Medical Side of Cannabis with Dr. Peter Grinspoon Dr. Peter Grinspoon saw from an early age that the way our country handled cannabis wasn't build on science or fact. Through watching his brother die of cancer, go through med school and struggle with his own is...

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Special Feed Drop: Abortion, With Love and Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Social Justice and How We Get Free: Talking Bringing Abortion Stories Out of the Shadows and More with Renee Bracey Sherman

Choose Your Struggle - May 06, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
On this special feed drop episode of the Choose Your Struggle Podcast, Jay plays a story from the podcast Abortion, With Love Titled To My Strength followed by a conversation between Omkari Williams and Renee Bracey Sherman on Ms. Williams' podcast Stepping Intro Truth. Ms. Williams is ...

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Special Episode: S1E1 of Choose Your Struggle Presents: Made It, Season 1: Stay Savage: An Introduction: Welcome To Our World

Choose Your Struggle - April 29, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Check out the rest of Season 1 of Choose Your Struggle Presents: Made It at https://kite.link/CYS-Stay-Savage. Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstrugg...

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Living By The Book with Kristen Meinzer

Choose Your Struggle - April 22, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3, Episode 2: Living By The Book with Kristen Meinzer Kristen got into podcasting early, over a decade ago, as a film critic for WNYC, a passion she still lives through her show Movie Therapy with Rafer & Kristen. But it was when she launched By The Book Pod in 2017 with Jolenta...

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The Evolution of Modern Drug Policy with Ethan Nadelmann

Choose Your Struggle - April 15, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3 is here! Season 3, Episode 1: The Evolution of Modern Drug Policy with Ethan Nadelmann. Ethan Nadelmann is the founder of Drug Policy Alliance! He tells Jay about his introduction to drug use and drug policy decades ago and his move, in the 90s, to bring multiple organizati...

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Season 3, Episode 0.5: A Kick Off "Special" and Admitting My Failures

Choose Your Struggle - April 08, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3 is here! This is kind of a season kick off, more final trailer than full episode. So we'll call it Season 3, Episode .5. We'll officially kick off Season 3 next week, Friday the 15th, with a conversation with Ethan Nadlemann. Sorry for the echoey sound. Still finishing the r...

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Special Episode: A Conversation With Adam al-Asad (Of Savage Sisters)

Choose Your Struggle - April 04, 2022 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
In this last preview to Season 3 of the Choose Your Struggle podcast, Jay chats with Adam al-Asad of Savage Sisters. Consider subscribing to Choose Your Struggle Presents: Made It, Season 1: Stay Savage https://kite.link/choose-your-struggle-presents-made-it to make sure you don't miss...

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Rerelease: Dispelling Myths and Destroying Stigma with David Poses

Choose Your Struggle - February 17, 2022 14:43 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Originally released as Season 2, Episode 75 Dispelling Myths and Destroying Stigma with David Poses This week, Jay chats with an incredible guest, the author and advocate David Poses. David is in recovery and advocates for better treatment of drug users and those struggling with subst...

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Season 3 Update

Choose Your Struggle - January 28, 2022 13:23 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 3 Update and Preview, an official audio introduction to Choose Your Struggle's producer Ryan Holzhauer, and the Made It Trailer. Subscribe to Choose Your Struggle Presents Made It!  https://kite.link/choose-your-struggle-presents-made-it   Looking for someone to wow your audienc...

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Leading With Empathy In Addiction Treatment With Dr. Nzinga Harrison (The Season Finale!)

Choose Your Struggle - November 05, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 85 Leading With Empathy In Addiction Treatment With Dr. Nzinga Harrison The season finale of the 2nd season of the Choose Your Struggle podcast is here! It's been an amazing season but all good things come to an end. The Season Finale features Jay chatting with Dr. ...

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Monday Motivation: Season 2 Wrap Pt. 2, To Infinity and Beyond!

Choose Your Struggle - November 01, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 84 Monday Motivation: Season 2 Wrap Pt. 2, To Infinity and Beyond! Today's Monday Motivation is the completion of the season wrap up that we started with last week's Monday Motivation. Friday, November 5th is the final episode. We're looking forward to everything els...

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A Life Reborn in Service to Others with Kevin Roth

Choose Your Struggle - October 29, 2021 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 83 A Life Reborn in Service to Others with Kevin Roth This week Jay chats with Kevin Roth. You may know Kevin from his musical career, performing on the Thomas the Tank Engine show and with acts like Peter Paul and Mary. But as his second act in life, Kevin is a life...

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Monday Motivation: Season 2 Wrap Pt. 1, A Look Back

Choose Your Struggle - October 25, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 82 Monday Motivation: Season 2 Wrap Pt. 1, A Look Back Today's Monday Motivation is the beginning of the season wrap up. Friday, November 5th is the final episode. So you have one more Monday Motivation (the second half of this episode) next week. We're doing an en...

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From Heartbreak to Helping Others With Laurie Singer

Choose Your Struggle - October 22, 2021 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 81 From Heartbreak to Helping Others With Laurie Singer This week, Jay chats with California-based therapist Laurie Singer. After overcoming a traumatic childhood and losing a child to cancer, Laurie dedicated her life to helping others. She's written a fantastic boo...

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Monday Motivation: So It's Come To This, A Choose Your Struggle Flashback Show

Choose Your Struggle - October 18, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 80 Monday Motivation: So It's Come To This, A Choose Your Struggle Flashback Show Today's Monday Motivation is a flashback to the 5th episode of this podcast, the first with a guest, featuring Kristen Zavo. One, because I love Kristen, and two because I want y'all to...

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Phenomenal And Phenomenally Autistic With Ayanna Davis

Choose Your Struggle - October 15, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 79 Phenomenal And Phenomenally Autistic With Ayanna Davis On this week's episode of the Choose Your Struggle Podcast, Jay chats with autistic advocate Ayanna Davis. Ayanna was diagnosed later in life and talks to Jay about how she was always labeled as different when...

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Monday Motivation: Spiderbite Jay

Choose Your Struggle - October 11, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 76 Monday Motivation: Spiderbite Jay Today's Monday Motivation is the audio-only replay of Jay telling a story on his social media platforms to test out a new streaming software and to entertain you all! This story is about how Jay followed the band Erin Zindle and ...

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Giving Voice To An Ignored Community with Christophe Zajac-Denek

Choose Your Struggle - October 08, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 77 Giving Voice To An Ignored Community with Christophe Zajac-Denek This week Jay chats with actor, musician, podcaster, surfer, stunt man etc. etc. etc Christophe Zajac Denek! Jay met Christophe at the Podcast Movement conference back in August when he talked about ...

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Monday Motivation: Chopping It Up With Anna DeShawn

Choose Your Struggle - October 04, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 76 Monday Motivation: Chopping It Up With Anna DeShawn This week's Monday Motivation is Jay chatting with the entrepreneur Anna DeShawn. Anna is the founder of E3 Radio and, more recently, the Qube podcast app. E3 radio describes itself as "Queer Radio Done Right". T...

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Dispelling Myths and Destroying Stigma with David Poses

Choose Your Struggle - October 01, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 75 Dispelling Myths and Destroying Stigma with David Poses This week, Jay chats with an incredible guest, the author and advocate David Poses. David is in recovery and advocates for better treatment of drug users and those struggling with substance misuse. David is a...

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Special Episode! Jay on the I'm The Villain Podcast

Choose Your Struggle - September 27, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Season 2, Episode 74 Special Episode! Jay on the I'm The Villain Podcast with Isabel Knight and Deondre' Jones This week's Monday Motivation is a special episode! We haven't put out one of these in a while. On today's episode, you'll hear Jay interviewed by Isabel Knight and Deondre' ...

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