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  • "Was that me there?" with Tim Calpin

    In this episode (Season 3, Episode 58), Joe Van Wie sits down with Tim Calpin, a gifted writer and entrepreneur whose story reads like a Hollywood script telling the tale of addiction, loss and finding a way back.

    Tim's talent took him a long way. He graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University with a B.A. in Communications before landing a job as assistant to the executive producer at Comedy Central's "South Park,". From there he built a successful career as a freelance writer and screenwriter, penning feature scripts for major studios including Warner Brothers, Paramount, Lionsgate, and YFG. His first feature film, "Assassination of a High School President," starred Bruce Willis, and he went on to develop television pilots for FOX and Comedy Central, among them the animated series "COPS: Uncuffed."

    But alongside that success, Tim was living with a growing struggle with addiction. Over time, it pulled him away from the career and the life he'd built, eventually leading him to some of his lowest points, including time spent on the streets and in Kensington. In this conversation, he speaks candidly about how addiction can quietly take hold and reshape a person's entire path. He also discusses what it's like to come back from a place where so much has been lost and how he reinvented himself in an entirely different career.

    What makes this episode resonate is Tim's perspective on that return. He and Joe explore themes of awareness, resilience, and the hard-won ability to accept life as it is rather than as it "should" be. It's a candid, thoughtful conversation about talent, struggle and the possibility of recovery. This is an honest look at how people lose their way and how they begin to find it again.


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    1 hr 15 min
  • "A Primary Source" with Chris Kelly

    Chris is a columnist, blogger, editor, writing coach and old-school muckraker for The Times-Tribune. He received a degree in journalism and creative writing from Keystone College in LaPlume in 1997 and began his career with the Times-Tribune the same year. He has been a clerk, regional correspondent, police reporter, feature writer, general assignment reporter, columnist and editor.

    Chris has won numerous awards, including eight first-place awards for columns from the Associated Press Managing Editors, the Keystone Press and the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2014, he won first place for Distinguished Writing and first place for best columns in the Keystone Press Awards.

    His coverage of local soldiers as an embedded journalist in Iraq won several reporting awards, and his five-page “Pilgrimage” special section about visits to the sites of the 9/11 terrorist attacks won second place for distinguished writing in all circulation categories in the 2004 Keystone Press Awards.

    While covering Scranton neighborhoods in 1999, he was part of a team that won a Society of Professional Journalists’ Spotlight Award for investigative reporting for a series of stories examining drug activity at Village Park, a low-income housing development. The months of reporting revealed a grim scene of brazen drug trafficking, sporadic violence and terror against neighbors in and around the apartment complex.

    Chris is from Beaver, a suburb of Pittsburgh. He lives in Dalton with his wife, Chrisann, senior technical editor for Times-Shamrock’s new media department, and their cats, Typo, Shadow, Smudge, Puck, Timmy, Silvio and Paulie Walnuts.

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    (570) 348-9100

    Read his award-winning blog at timestribuneblogs.com/kelly


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    1 hr 19 min
  • "Love More Now" with GiGi Langer Ph.D.

    Author Spotlight

    Thirty years ago, I used alcohol, romance, and professional accomplishments to soothe my frayed nerves. After I quit drinking, I found I had a serious thinking problem! Over time, I discovered effective tools from therapy, recovery pro­grams, scientific research, and a variety of philosophical and spiritual teachings to find peace, wisdom, and hope–no matter what is going on in my life!

    Formerly crowned the “Queen of Worry,” I’ve resigned my post and now live happily with my wonderful husband, Peter, and my cat, Murphy. Although I haven’t had a drug or drink for over 30 years, I do occasionally overindulge in Ghirardelli chocolate and historical novels. 

    I hold a PhD in Psychological Studies in Education and an MA in Psychology, both from Stanford University. As a professor at Eastern Michigan University, I won several awards for teaching, and (as Georgea M. Langer) co-authored books and articles for educators.



    GiGi's personal story is captured in her latest book 50 Ways to Worry Less Now: Reject Negative Thinking to Find Peace, Clarity, and Connection & "Love More Now"

    This book began as a memoir chronicling my three short marriages, career as a professional horseback rider, and adventures hitchhiking across the north of Spain–all before I turned 38. My wise (4th!) husband suggested that instead, I write a self-help book with “all those helpful things you say when you counsel people on the phone.” At that point, Worry Less Now was born.

    The book shares what I’ve learned from my training in psychology and over 30 years applying tools from recovery programs, cognitive therapy, energy work, and a variety of spiritual and scientific teachings.


    Published 50 Ways to Worry Less Now
    Stanford University, Stanford, California. PhD, Psychological Studies in Education; EdS, Evaluation; MA, Psychology
    Graduate Faculty Teaching Award, Eastern Michigan University (EMU)
    Distinguished Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, EMU Alumni Association
    Distinguished Faculty Member, Michigan Association of Governing Boards
    Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Eastern Michigan University
    Writing Award, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE)
    Co-Authored 5 books and hundreds of articles for teachers and teacher educators
    Taught middle-school Spanish and French in Jefferson County, Colorado

    GiGi's New Book:
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999122053?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_7MXWBVWJHM6EB34WDV7W

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    57 min
  • "Life Saving Medicine" with Kate Favata
    Warrior Spotlight: Meet Kate Favata, Community Relations Liaison


    I grew up in a middle-class family about 10 minutes from CleanSlate’s Wilkes-Barre center. Growing up, my neighborhood seemed like the perfect suburban community. My parents didn’t lock their doors and loved their country and neighbors. The only reference to drug education we had was Nancy Reagan’s, “Just Say No” campaign and most people in my community thought that if people did just that, the drug problem would cease.

    My parents and my friend’s parents only knew about heroin from the news reports they’d seen in the sixties, saying that their rock idols had died from overdoses. Little did they think there could be a heroin problem in their own community. My home of Northeast Pennsylvania, once known as “a valley with a heart,“ had in just a few years become nicknamed “a valley with a habit“ by local media. I don’t think anyone at the time could imagine how true that statement would become.

    By the time the local government and medical community admitted that heroin was a problem, years had passed and resources were scarce. I was in college when I started using. It was the nineties, so I listened to bands like Nirvana, Jane’s Addiction and Alice in Chains, watched movies like “Trainspotting” and “The Basketball Diaries,” and in an attempt to be well-read, frequented books by Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. I thought of myself as a free thinker who did not conform to societal norms. Heroin to me was fascinating and taboo and, at the time, I incorrectly equated it with being artistic and creative.

    I was around 18 years old when I started using heroin. At the time, I had no idea how drug use would affect my future. After more than 30 treatment episodes, including stays in halfway and recovery houses, countless 12-step meetings, multiple recovery books, trying medications and detox – you name it, I tried it – I ended up homeless in Philadelphia with track marks up both sides of my neck. My living quarters consisted of an abandoned building with no plumbing where rats and roaches were my roommates.

    Along the way I had episodes of endocarditis, countless blood infections, frostbite, abscesses and even got stabbed, shot at and robbed. I would not say I was suicidal, but I had thought to myself that if I happened to die, that was fine with me. I figured it came with the territory and the lifestyle I had chosen. After reading countless obituaries of friends and acquaintances who had overdosed, how could I think that I was immune? At my lowest point, I remember taking a Sharpie and writing my mom’s name and phone number inside my winter coat in the hopes that if I died, the coroner would call her to claim my body.

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    1 hr 11 min
  • "from Junkie to Judge" with Federal Judge Mary Beth O'Connor

    For Mary Beth, childhood abuse and other traumas led to substance use disorder (addiction). 

    Beginning with alcohol at age 12, she spent several years abusing various drugs. She found methamphetamine at 16 and started shooting up at 17. Mary Beth struggled with meth until she was 32 years old.

    By incorporating ideas from multiple sources to build a secular (not 12-step or faith-based) recovery plan that works for her, Mary Beth has been sober since 1994. She used similar techniques to address the trauma and related anxiety as well.

    Mary Beth is a board member for LifeRing Secular Recovery and She Recovers Foundation.  She speaks on behalf of these organizations, about multiple paths to recovery, and about all topics related to substance use disorder and recovery. She also speaks about sexual abuse and rape, child abuse, domestic violence, ptsd, anxiety, and recovering from these as well.

    Mary Beth's book-length memoir, From Junkie to Judge: One Woman's Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction, is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bamm, Indie Bound, and other sites, and at your local bookstore.  She also has placed essays in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and Recovery Today. 

    Professionally, 6 years into recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm in Silicon Valley, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014, Mary Beth was appointed a federal Administrative Law Judge, a position from which she retired in 2020.

    WEBSITE: https://junkietojudge.com/

    For more Info on LIFE RING:https://lifering.org/

    For more info on She Recovers: https://sherecovers.org/

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    1 hr 20 min
  • "Honorary Rummy" with Pennsylvania State Senator Marty Flynn

    Senator Marty Flynn was born and raised in Scranton, PA, and is a graduate of Scranton Preparatory School, class of 1994, where he excelled in baseball, football, and wrestling. He then attended Marywood University, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies. While at Marywood, he began boxing, and eventually embarked upon a decade-long professional career. Upon retiring from the sport, Flynn worked as the Inmate Education and Program Coordinator at Lackawanna County Prison, where he also served as Chairman of the Prison Misconduct Board.

    Flynn entered the world of government in 2013, when he was elected to serve the 113th District of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, a role he had for more than eight years. On June 9, 2021, he began a new chapter in his political career when he was sworn in as Senator of Pennsylvania’s 22nd Senatorial District.

    In the Senate, Flynn is a member of the Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure Committee, Labor & Industry Committee, Law & Justice Committee, and is the Democratic Chair of the Transportation Committee. Since being in this role, Senator Flynn has been the leader in holding the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission accountable for more than $150 million in uncollected Turnpike tolls.

    Today we discuss how an understanding of Addiction and Recovery evolves in a generation. 

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    59 min
  • "LGBTQIA & Recovery" with Dylan Fredricey

    Dylan was born in San Diego, CA, where he spent the majority of his first 30 years; moving to the NEPA region in 2018. A person in long-term recovery, and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Dylan understands the importance of social connectedness and community.

    Initially getting sober in 2011, Dylan had difficulty finding work and took a volunteer position at Being Alive San Diego where he helped those affected by HIV/AIDS gain access to life-sustaining medications and other community support services as a Peer Advocate.

    Through this experience, the fire to help others was ignited and Dylan was encouraged by his family and friends to go back to school. In 2013, Dylan obtained his GED; it took another 2 years for him to build up the courage to register for classes. In 2015 with the support of his peers in 12-step recovery programs, he started his journey in higher education at Grossmont and Cuyamaca Community Colleges in San Diego, where he eventually made the Dean’s List every semester before graduating in May of 2018 with two Associate’s Degree in Social Work and Social and Behavioral Sciences.

    Dylan applied to, and was accepted, to Penn State Wilkes-Barre, after following his now-husband back to his home in Pennsylvania. In 2020, Dylan graduated from Penn State with his Bachelor’s Degree in Rehabilitation and Human Services, while maintaining a 4.0 GPA and earning the Luzerne County Council on Adult Higher Education’s Outstanding Adult Learner of the Year Award. Dylan is currently a graduate student at Marywood University’s School of Social Work.

    Since arriving in Pennsylvania, Dylan has worked in a variety of positions in the drug and alcohol treatment industry, and for the last three-in-a-half years has been at Brookdale Premier Addiction Recovery in Scotrun, PA working as a Family Counselor. In addition to his work as a Family Counselor, Dylan serves as the Founder and Executive Director of NEPA Pride Coalition, a new non-profit dedicated to enhancing the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals and families in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and surrounding areas in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

    Dylan is lucky enough to use his passion for helping others by giving back to his community. He also understands that LGBTQIA+ individuals experience substance use and other mental health conditions at disproportionately higher rates than the general public and looks forward to the years of services ahead serving his community through education, awareness, and facilitating access to affirming and supportive services.

    Dylan lives in Larksville with his husband, Gerard.

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    1 hr 5 min
  • "The New England Fixer" with Kirk Larkin

    Meet Kirk Larkin,

       His mission is to help people suffering from substance use disorder. He is able to do this with a decade of experience working directly with families to help loved ones find the treatment centers that work best for them. 
    We discuss the many topics that are very concerning in the field of Drug and alcohol treatment, especially "Body Brokering". We also chat about having a service that examines the quality of treatment centers that isn't a marketing ploy and how this can be achieved.  Check out the insightful conversation topics below, 

    Intro to Kirk Larkin.

    2:13     Kirk's background as an alcoholic.

    8:00    The importance of clear and concise statements

    16:41 Spirituality as a catch-all phrase.

    22:19 The power of the personal experience of recovery.

    29:27 Referral systems for treatment. (Google Game)

    36:08 What is body brokering?

    42:48 How do you comfort a family in the midst of addiction?

    49:50 Catering to the demands.

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    58 min
  • "Our Family Shrink" with Aileen Van Wie Psy.D.

    Aileen Van Wie is a  licensed psychologist in the state of Florida and is currently employed at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Aileen graduated with a doctorate in clinical psychology (PsyD) in May 2021 and, after completing a year-long postdoctoral residency, she also became licensed in August 2022. She has worked at a community mental health center, addiction recovery center (inpatient, IOP, and recovery house program), and multiple psychiatric hospitals during her training. 

    8/2016             PsyD, Clinical Psychology
    9/2021             Loyola University of Maryland: Baltimore, MD
    8/2016             MS, Clinical Psychology
    1/2018           Loyola University of Maryland: Baltimore, MD
    American Psychological Association accredited program

    RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

    9/2016 –          Loyola University of Maryland: Baltimore, MD

    4/2021            Principal Investigator, Doctoral Dissertation

    Dissertation Chair: Emalee Quickel, Ph.D.

    • Finalizing a quantitative study assessing the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction practices on adults receiving outpatient treatment for one or more substance use disorders. 
    • Successfully defended 9/11/2020

    9/2015 –          Temple University: Philadelphia, PA

    5/2016              Principal Investigator, Undergraduate Thesis

          Advisor: Phillip Kendall, Ph.D.

    • Researched the impact of family discord on treatment efficacy for anxious youth. 

    5/2015 –          Temple University: Philadelphia, PA

    5/2016              Research Assistant, Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic (CAADC)

    Clinic Director: Phillip Kendall, Ph.D.

    • Aided assessment, exposure therapy, data entry, transcriptions, and client care.

    PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

    American Psychological Association (APA) 

    American Psychological Association (APA) Div. 12: Assessment



    AWARDS AND HONORS


    Distinction in Oral/Written Comprehensive Examinations, Loyola University Maryland 2019

    Kolvenbach Research Grant Recipient, 2018

    Awarded Sigma Delta Pi Prize, Temple University, 2016

    Member of Dean’s List, The College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2013-2016

    Phi Beta Kappa, Temple University Chapter, 2015

    Awarded “Resident Assistant Program of the Year”, Temple University, 2015

    Psi Chi: National Honor Society in Psychology, Temple University Chapter, 2014

    Accepted into Psychology Honors Research Track, Temple University, 2014


    LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATIONS

    Licensure as Professional Psychologist, State of Florida, PY #11553, 2022


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    1 hr 4 min
  • "This ain't no Psych Op" with Joseph Reichmann, Psy.D.

    Joseph F. Reichmann, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist currently residing in Southeast Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate in psychology from Marywood University. He was commissioned into the Navy in 2014 in order to complete his predoctoral internship at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He completed his postdoctoral training and served an additional three years at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP). During his time at NMCP he worked in the outpatient behavioral health clinic and was a part-time embedded psychologist for Submarine Squadron 6, at Naval Station, Norfolk. Dr. Reichmann was eventually selected to be the assistant department head of the military’s largest substance abuse treatment facility and served in that position for two years. After completing his service contract, Dr. Reichmann went on to pursue a career with the Veterans Affairs. He currently works at one of the VA Medical Centers outside of Philadelphia where he manages a program designed to treatment veterans who are diagnosed with a severe mental illness. Dr. Reichmann also does part-time work conducting assessment and selection for the military. His clinical interests include: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders, Serious Mental Illness, and Insomnia. His personal interests include: spending time with family (wife, son, daughter & two doodles), weightlifting and cycling, snowboarding, Philadelphia (Eagles – go birds!), food, tattoos, and travel. 

    For more info on Veterans and Recovery please visit,
    https://www.va.gov/health-care/health-needs-conditions/substance-use-problems/

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    1 hr 35 min

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