Latest Re-invention Podcast Episodes
Episode #28: TODAY I am 35 years old, 35 Years Drug-Free TODAY. Recovery Rocks!
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - April 04, 2024 11:00 - 12 minutesThis topic here feels way too big to even address, dang, it’s huge. Earlier this week I planned a half-hearted attempt to do something about it, but then stopped. With the subject looming overhead, I tried to just move on with my daily activities, you know, staying busy and trying not to think a...
Episode #27: Depression, Breaking the Chains of this Dark Daemon
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - March 25, 2024 13:00 - 1 hourHow do we even begin to define depression? Well, from where I sit it appears to be an unsettled emotional state that crosses over into a physical ailment, brought on by a belief of being held down or pushed aside. Under mild conditions we are perhaps agitated, self-loathing, and unhopeful. Adv...
Episode #26: Co-host Shequila Hoye...growing up without a mother, stopping the cycle of generational substance abuse, accidental overdose, the stages of personal change, depression, love queries aftermath, and being better off as a foster child.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - February 11, 2024 14:00 - 2 hoursThere is so much adhesive hardship in life, aka trauma. Within this vibrant episode, my dear gal pal Shequila and I discuss substance abuse, poor mental health, and more. Shequila knows the all-consuming grip of addiction too-too well, having witnessed her mother's struggle with abusing heroin a...
Episode #25: Free CHAPTER TWO audio reading from the ADDICT book
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - November 26, 2023 19:00 - 1 hourThe complete CHAPTER TWO audio recording, read by Roger. CHAPTER ONE can be found in the previous pod episode #23. Chapter Two excerpt: (a poem) Mirror-Mirror Why Do You Hate Me So? Yes I see, yes Mirror I see the glass is clear yes I see… Yet Mirror, why always same-same the seeing? Sto...
Episode #24: LIVE event. Madison communal symposium on substance abuse. Nov 15, 2023 Madison Wisconsin
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - November 21, 2023 18:00 - 1 hourOver 100 friends packed the room, and in excess of 250 joined the FB livestream. Without discussion, we sit amidst an opioid and fentanyl epidemic. National suicide rates have reached true crisis levels. Alas, addiction and poor mental health casts their anguish upon us all. Eager to transce...
Episode #24: A Manual for Survival, Finding the Path to Recovery: mental health, depression, addiction, rehab, IOP, alcoholism, fentanyl deaths, overdose, jail, and suicide…the quality live audio recording of Departing Darkness, a communal exposition of s
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - November 21, 2023 18:00 - 1 hourOver 100 friends packed the room, and in excess of 250 joined the FB livestream. Without discussion, we sit amidst an opioid and fentanyl epidemic. National suicide rates have reached true crisis levels. Alas, addiction and poor mental health casts their anguish upon us all. Eager to transce...
Episode #23: FREE Audiobook, chapter one and back cover (35minutes) ~ Daddy, Why Were You A Drug Addict?
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - October 08, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutesA read-aloud of chapter one from the new book. Partial text: My scars represent my best lessons…my stumbles hurt me, while teach me. Growing into the learned weathering of up’s and downs, aka residing in the middle, this my greatest challenge awhile my greatest opportunity. I try, I really tr...
Episode #23: Free CHAPTER ONE audio reading from the ADDICT book
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - October 08, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutesA read-aloud of chapter one from the new book. Partial text: My scars represent my best lessons…my stumbles hurt me, while teach me. Growing into the learned weathering of up’s and downs, aka residing in the middle, this my greatest challenge awhile my greatest opportunity. I try, I really tr...
Episode #22: Leaving the shitty life behind, all of it...the self-doubt, the depression, the drugs, and instead...the hope, the faith, the dreams, and the sunshine. PLUS, a book reading.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - September 30, 2023 16:00 - 30 minutesAttempting to begin my life anew, I recognized the biggest challenge is overcoming the worst parts of myself. Beginning to claw my way up and out of that shitty hell, I found the need to silence the defeating voice in my head and go, just go. Dissecting the value of friends in my life, I also ...
Episode #21: Writing a book with Sarah Young...losing weeks of writing...starting over...staring down life's trauma...printing...binding...hybrid publishing.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - July 31, 2022 04:00 - 1 hourCoach Sarah and I discuss the might of the written word…and what about the value of our stories shared anyway? Both regarding the writer awhile the reader, we consider the realities of publishing our life’s experiences…personal and professional. How to do it…self-publish, hybrid publishing, or...
Episode #20: WTF is going on? Stuck...depressed...needing change...wanting a new life...well then, how? Here I get real...hyper-real, and bare all. I hold back nothing.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - July 26, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutesStuck? Needing change? Wanting a new life. Well then, how? Here I get real. Hyper-F'ing real and bare all. I hold back nothing. Is it possible to get something else out of life...is it possible...is it really? Could I try something different? Could I even f*cking try to try? The book: Daddy,...
Episode #19: Co-host Charles. Keeping his sanity as a black man in America experiencing homelessness...mental health...Jim Crow...and mass incarceration.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - December 30, 2021 19:00 - 1 hourCharles won conference three times as a wrestler in high school and went on to wrestle in college. He graduated with a management degree from University of Wisconsin and achieved success in corporate America before getting divorced and experiencing homelessness. Charles, aka Pops, is an amazing...
Episode #19: Charles, keeping his sanity as a black man in America experiencing homelessness, mental health, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - December 30, 2021 19:00 - 1 hourCharles won conference three times as a wrestler in high school and went on to wrestle in college. He graduated with a management degree from University of Wisconsin and achieved success in corporate America before getting divorced and experiencing homelessness. Charles, aka Pops, is an amazing...
Episode #18: Co-host TJ. Self-reinvention...OxyContin...Heroin addiction...recovery & overdose...Len Bias Law prison time...finding our way.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - October 28, 2021 02:00 - 2 hoursThis one goes deep and fast: addiction, recovery, overdose, and self-reinvention. TJ and I are both addicts and share some of our experiences. Comparing ourselves to ourselves, not others. Find our purpose, our personal truths, some blabber about striving, competing, and the balance between ...
Episode #18: TJ, Self-reinvention, addiction, recovery, overdose, and finding our way.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - October 28, 2021 02:00 - 2 hoursThis one goes deep and fast: addiction, recovery, overdose, and self-reinvention. TJ and I are both addicts and share some of our experiences. Comparing ourselves to ourselves, not others. Find our purpose, our personal truths, some blabber about striving, competing, and the balance between ...
Episode #17: Hard times...depression...darkness...suicide. Possibilities...sunshine...hope...getting up. All that is the Rollercoaster Puzzle Game, aka life.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - September 26, 2021 01:00 - 21 minutesI am engaged in a battle to make my own life. We all are. I attempt to live more like I desire, and less like I do not. We all do. Our frightening memories haunt us, we bleed quarts from past pains. The chain of yesterday is incarcerating, dragging the weight of days gone by with us wher...
Episode #17: Hard Times, Hope, and the Rollercoaster Puzzle Game
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - September 26, 2021 01:00 - 21 minutesI am engaged in a battle to make my own life. We all are. I attempt to live more like I desire, and less like I do not. We all do. Our frightening memories haunt us, we bleed quarts from past pains. The chain of yesterday is incarcerating, dragging the weight of days gone by with us wher...
Episode #16: Co-host Matt Halpern. Rockstar drummer for PERIPHERY...deep thinker...avoiding a drug addiction...parental problems...master of intentional living.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - June 24, 2021 01:00 - 1 hourMatt Halpern, an incredibly savvy and accomplished businessman at the well-versed age of 38, ridiculously focused and disciplined since four years old, and hyper-talented with almost every one of his varied pursuits. As legit rockstar drummer with his progressive metal mates in their band Peri...
Episode #16: Co-host Matt Halpern. Rockstar drummer, deep thinker, and master of intentional living.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - June 24, 2021 01:00 - 1 hourMatt Halpern, an incredibly savvy and accomplished businessman at the well-versed age of 38, ridiculously focused and disciplined since four years old, and hyper-talented with almost every one of his varied pursuits. As legit rockstar drummer with his progressive metal mates in their band Peri...
Episode #16: Co-host Matt Halpern. Rockstar drummer for PERIPHERY...deep thinker...avoiding a drug addiction...parental problems...master of intentional living.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - June 24, 2021 01:00 - 1 hourMatt Halpern, an incredibly savvy and accomplished businessman at the well-versed age of 38, ridiculously focused and disciplined since four years old, and hyper-talented with almost every one of his varied pursuits. As legit rockstar drummer with his progressive metal mates in their band Peri...
Episode #15: Co-host JT Frank from Consequence of Habit podcast. Alcoholism...is there more to my existence than I'm living right now?
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - May 11, 2021 02:00 - 1 hourEpisode 15 features JT Frank, on loan from his podcast show “Consequence of Habit”. JT challenges us all with his statements, “Is there more to my existence than I’m living right now?” and that we are “Harming ourselves by making ourselves feel good in the short-term”. The conversation runs...
Episode #15: JT Frank, Is there more to my existence than I'm living right now?
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - May 11, 2021 02:00 - 1 hourEpisode 15 features JT Frank, on loan from his podcast show “Consequence of Habit”. JT challenges us all with his statements, “Is there more to my existence than I’m living right now?” and that we are “Harming ourselves by making ourselves feel good in the short-term”. The conversation runs...
Episode #14: SOULCRAFT w/ Brian Ehrlich, living with intention and truth
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - April 30, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutesLiving with truth and intention. Brian Ehrlich and I discuss a multitude of deep life topics during this recent chat on his SOULCRAFT podcast. We may miss the opportunity to stay balanced in the middle of our life's struggles, either in conflict against what we think is wrong, or running from ...
Episode #14: Co-host Brian Ehrlich from SOULCRAFT podcast. Living with intention and truth.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - April 30, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutesLiving with truth and intention. Brian Ehrlich and I discuss a multitude of deep life topics during this recent chat on his SOULCRAFT podcast. We may miss the opportunity to stay balanced in the middle of our life's struggles, either in conflict against what we think is wrong, or running from ...
Episode #13: In between the hardship is goodness
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - January 28, 2021 05:00 - 23 minutesThis episode is dedicated to my buddy Tyler and my friend JP. Two amazing young men, with endless possibilities but currently struggling to find their way… My heart goes out to you guys and all the guys and girls like you… It’s hard, it’s always going to be hard. But in between the hardship,...
Episode #13: In between the hardship is goodness...behind the clouds is the sun.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - January 28, 2021 05:00 - 23 minutesThis episode is dedicated to my buddy Tyler and my friend JP. Two amazing young men, with endless possibilities but currently struggling to find their way… My heart goes out to you guys and all the guys and girls like you… It’s hard, it’s always going to be hard. But in between the hardship,...
Episode #13: In between the hardship is goodness...behind the clouds is the sun.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - January 28, 2021 05:00 - 23 minutesThis episode is dedicated to my buddy Tyler and my friend JP. Two amazing young men, with endless possibilities but currently struggling to find their way… My heart goes out to you guys and all the guys and girls like you… It’s hard, it’s always going to be hard. But in between the hardship,...
Episode #12: Spencer Ploessl, The River of Life
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - January 25, 2021 06:00 - 2 hoursThe River of Life, Episode #12 with co-host Spencer Ploessl. If you have never listened to our podcast before, I will give a brief overview: my varying co-hosts flip a coin that decides who asks the first question. We then go back and forth and anything goes, the deeper the better. And when I s...
Episode #12: Co-host Spencer Ploessl. The River of Life...business branding, marketing, and social media...simplifying life...prioritizing life paths.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - January 25, 2021 06:00 - 2 hoursThe River of Life, Episode #12 with co-host Spencer Ploessl. If you have never listened to our podcast before, I will give a brief overview: my varying co-hosts flip a coin that decides who asks the first question. We then go back and forth and anything goes, the deeper the better. And when I s...
Episode #12: Co-host Spencer Ploessl. The River of Life...business branding, marketing, and social media...simplifying life...prioritizing life paths.
Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - January 25, 2021 06:00 - 2 hoursThe River of Life, Episode #12 with co-host Spencer Ploessl. If you have never listened to our podcast before, I will give a brief overview: my varying co-hosts flip a coin that decides who asks the first question. We then go back and forth and anything goes, the deeper the better. And when I s...
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