Latest Substance misuse Podcast Episodes
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...
Saving Lives Through The Sinclair Method With Claudia Christian
Choose Your Struggle - June 04, 2021 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 43! Saving Lives Through The Sinclair Method With Claudia Christian This week Jay chats with actress Claudia Christian. You'd probably recognize her as Commander Susan Ivanova on Babylon 5 or currently as Captain Elaine Maynard on 9-1-1. Claudia struggled with alcohol ...
Special Episode: Choose Your Struggle Presents A Day in the Life II featuring Comedian Spark Tabor of the Cookies For Breakfast Podcast
Choose Your Struggle - May 31, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 42 Special Episode: Choose Your Struggle Presents A Day in the Life II featuring Comedian Spark Tabor of the Cookies For Breakfast Podcast What you're hearing today is the audio version of the May 12th virtual storytelling event Choose Your Struggle Presents A Day in t...
Empowering Through Empathy and Perseverance with Brandee Izquierdo
Choose Your Struggle - May 28, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 41! Empowering Through Empathy and Perseverance with Brandee Izquierdo (My bad on the echo-y quality of the intro and outro to those of you who care a lot about sound quality it's not amazing this week) On this week's episode of the Choose Your Struggle podcast, Jay c...
Monday Motivation: A Conversation Around Cannabis Policy and Thinking With Kyle Blanks Pt. 2
Choose Your Struggle - May 24, 2021 11:55 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 40 Monday Motivation: A Conversation Around Cannabis Policy and Thinking With Kyle Blanks Pt. 2 What you're hearing today is the second half of I conversation I recorded with Road Runner CBD (and the Corner of the Clubhouse Podcast on the Shameless Podcast Network)'s o...
Breaking The Taboo of Talking About Suicide with Serena Hope Sun
Choose Your Struggle - May 21, 2021 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 39! Breaking The Taboo Of Talking About Suicide With Serena Hope Sun On this week's episode of the Choose Your Struggle podcast, Jay chats with Serena Hope Sun! Besides being an actress, Serena is the founder of Breaking Taboo, an organization seeking to change the way...
Monday Motivation: A Conversation Around Cannabis Policy and Thinking With Kyle Blanks Pt. 1
Choose Your Struggle - May 17, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 38 Monday Motivation: A Conversation Around Cannabis Policy and Thinking With Kyle Blanks Pt. 1 What you're hearing today is the first half of I conversation I recorded with Road Runner CBD (and the Corner of the Clubhouse Podcast on the Shameless Podcast Network)'s ow...
Spreading Love After Unimaginable Tragedy with Chris Singleton
Choose Your Struggle - May 14, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 37! Spreading Love After Unimaginable Tragedy with Chris Singleton On this week's episode of the Choose Your Struggle podcast, Jay chats with speaker and author Chris Singleton! After losing his mother in the racist shooting at Mother Emanuel Church, an event Chris des...
Monday Motivation: A Major Ill in the Cannabis Industry
Choose Your Struggle - May 10, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 36 Monday Motivation: This week we're talking about racial disparities in the cannabis market. This one is tough because overall a strong cannabis market is a positive thing of course. But the direction it's heading in, mirroring the disparity in our capitalistic socie...
Trauma, Suicide, and Stigma with Claire Russell
Choose Your Struggle - May 07, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 35! Trauma, Suicide, and Stigma with Claire Russell On this week's episode of the Choose Your Struggle podcast, Jay chats with speaker and stigma-buster Claire Russell! The founder of Mental Health in Business (MHIB), Claire speaks, consults, and advocates around the i...
Special Episode: A Day in the Life featuring Shawn Braley!
Choose Your Struggle - May 03, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 34! A Day in the Life featuring Shawn Braley! Welcome to this special episode! What you're hearing today is the audio replay of the debut of a new storytelling event I'll be hosting virtually on my Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (see my campsite below for links). If yo...
Our Lives Are Not Past Tense with Andrew Ecker
Choose Your Struggle - April 30, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 33! Our Lives Are Not Past Tense On this week's episode of the Choose Your Struggle podcast, Jay chats with drummer and activist Andrew Ecker about his struggles growing up in a Indigenous family that dealt with unhealthy drug use and had to rely on shoplifting to surv...
Monday Motivation: Good People (And Countries) Know They Can Always Improve
Choose Your Struggle - April 26, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 32 Monday Motivation: Good People (And Countries) Know They Can Always Improve On this week's Monday Motivation, I discuss how simple data about our country (averaging over one mass shooting a day and over three murders by police a day) exposes incredible failures in t...
Taking Action For Men's Mental Health with Rahaf Kobeissi
Choose Your Struggle - April 23, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 31! Taking Action for Men's Mental Health Today's guest is Rahaf 'Ray' Kobeissi! You know her as the host of the Don't Be A Man About It Podcast (which Jay was on and was released as a special episode #20 this season), but she's also an incredible coach, consultant, sp...
Special Episode: A Conversation with Nikhil Paul
Choose Your Struggle - April 19, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 30 Special Episode: A Conversation with Nikhil Paul On this week's Special Episode, I chat with the founder of We are Human, Nikhil Paul. This conversation originally went out to Nikhil's followers and on his social media platform but I enjoyed chatting with Nikhil and...
A Vulnerable Conversation on Identity and Trauma with Cynthia Siadat
Choose Your Struggle - April 16, 2021 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 29! A Vulnerable Conversation on Identity and Trauma Today's guest is Cynthia Siadat! Cynthia is a therapist, a writer, an incredible up and coming speaker, and a consultant. Ya'll know her from the storytellers list from Rock Bottom one back in January. You can learn ...
Special Episode: A Conversation with Jae'-Mikkel Reid
Choose Your Struggle - April 12, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 28 Special Episode: A Conversation with Jae'-Mikkel Reid On this week's Special Monday Episode, I chat with an incredible Mental Health trendsetter, rock star, and badass Jae'- Mikkel Reid. Jae' founded X-Hale when he was a student at Western Michigan. X-Hale is an org...
Taking Care of Your Mental Health is the Longest Yard with Prince Daniels Jr.
Choose Your Struggle - April 09, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 27! Taking Care of Your Mental Health is the Longest Yard Today's guest is Prince Daniels Jr. (aka PJ Daniels) former standout running back at Georgia Tech and 4th round pick by the Baltimore Ravens. After his career, Prince reinvented himself as a body, mind, and spir...
Monday Motivation: Storytelling
Choose Your Struggle - April 05, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 26 Storytelling On this week's Monday Motivation, I talk about my upcoming events A Day in the Life and Rock Bottom Storytellers II, and ask for your feedback! Who is telling good stories I need to hear? Do you want to tell a story? I want to hear from you! What do you...
Money Talks, But Stigma Silences With Tiffany Grant
Choose Your Struggle - April 02, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 25 Money Talks, But Stigma Silences Today's guest is Tiffany Grant! Tiffany is a coach, consultant, and speaker, and the host of the incredible podcast Money Talks with Tiff. Tiffany and I talk about the incredible discrepancies in financial education, the absurdity of...
Monday Motivation: Not All Use is Misuse
Choose Your Struggle - March 29, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 24 Not All Use is Misuse On this week's Monday Motivation, I talk about how conflating all use with misuse leads to people thinking they have a problem when they don't. We see this around drugs a lot as (mostly) parents think any use is misuse or addiction. But we also...
Science, Progress, and People Over Politics with Alex Shifman
Choose Your Struggle - March 26, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 23! Science, Progress, and People Over Politics Today's guest is Alex Shifman. Alex is the 3rd of the 4 Shifman brothers (yours truly is the 1st). You've heard Alex a few times before. I shared my convo on his podcast At Least There's This... as a special episode last ...
Monday Motivation: It's On Us
Choose Your Struggle - March 22, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 22 It's On Us On this week's Monday Motivation, I talk about hate, bigotry, and discrimination and the role white people, especially white men, play in the creation of these horrible human actions. As a white man, I truly believe it's our on us. This is our problem. We...
Being Uniquely You with Amy Minh Hanh Corey
Choose Your Struggle - March 19, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 21! Being Uniquely You Today's guest is Amy Minh Hanh Corey. She's an awesome singer (Spotify), a public speaker, a Mental Health influencer, and a vulnerable warrior! We chat about her adoption, being an Asian woman in country music, and traveling around the world to ...
Special Episode: Jay on the Don't Be a Man About It Podcast
Choose Your Struggle - March 15, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 20! Special Episode! This week's special episode is Jay's conversation with Ray Kobeissi on her show, Don't Be a Man About It! You can learn more about Ray and her show at https://open.spotify.com/show/6JPi5Z550mrwxNtfIedObf. As a reminder, this season, I'll be more re...
The Birth of Cannabis Legalization with Mason Tvert
Choose Your Struggle - March 12, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2 Episode 19! The Birth of Cannabis Legalization On this week's episode, I chat with Mason Tvert! Mason was called the "Don Draper of Pot" by Politico for his work helping rebrand cannabis and building a groundswell of support for its legalization in Colorado. Mason has spent th...
Episode # 3: Intersectionality of Addiction and Incarceration (SOLO)
Community Serve Us - March 09, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutesThe relationship between substance use and violence is apparent among a wide range of various populations and types of criminal activity, especially as it relates to criminal recidivism. Issues related to addiction and incarceration have been largely misunderstood. The implications for effective...
Monday Motivation: The Business of Podcasting
Choose Your Struggle - March 08, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2, Episode 18! The Business of Podcasting On this week's Monday Motivation, I discuss my thoughts around the business side of podcasts. All Monday Motivations, but this one especially, I want your feedback. Do the podcasts you listen to err too much toward the business side? Or a...
The Guru Within with Sandy Vo
Choose Your Struggle - March 05, 2021 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSeason 2 Episode 17! The Guru With. On this week's episode, I chat with Sandy Vo! Sandy empowers leaders to explore their highest potential, to learn how to optimize their energy through grounded techniques that fit their lifestyle, relate to their most authentic self, embrace their sp...
Monday Motivation: Listener Request Edition! What Does Working With a Mental Health Coach Look Like?
Choose Your Struggle - March 01, 2021 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsListener Request Edition! What Does Working With a Mental Health Coach Look Like? Season 2 Episode 16! On this week's Monday Motivation, I respond to a request from listener Jeremy M who asked what working with a Mental Health Coach looks like. I take you through my work and share some ...
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