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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 coach. His change came after he received a cancer diagnosis that, originally, was thought to be fatal. But Kevin worked hard: mentally, physically, and emotionally, and beat his diagnosis. But that experience helped him realize what was important in life and he changed his life mission to helping others.
You can learn more at https://kevinroth.org/ and hear his music at https://kevinrothmusic.com/.
CHOOSE YOUR STRUGGLE IS A FINALIST FOR THE HARM REDUCTION COALITION'S YEARLY AWARDS! The Harm Reduction Coalition is THE org. in Harm Reduction work and to be a finalist for their Changing The Narrative award is truly moving. Just so incredible to us. You can vote to help us at a chance to win the whole fucking thing, to quote Major League, at https://bit.ly/GalaAwardVote. We'd really appreciate it. And please vote for our friends Savage Sisters who are a finalist in the Resilience Award category.
We're doing an end of season giveaway! At Thanksgiving, Jay will put all the names of everyone who has left a review into a generator and three people will receive a prize pack. One is Choose Your Struggle merch, one is a gift pack from my partners Road Runner and Bookshop, and one is a Youdgee muscle massager. If you haven't left a review yet, scroll down in these show notes and find the review link or, if you listen on i-Tunes, review it there! https://ReviewThisPodcast.com/Choose-Your-Struggle
Today's Good Egg: Leave a review and be entered into the end of season giveaway drawing and PLEASE vote for Choose Your Struggle and Savage Sisters for the Harm Reduction Coalition's awards (see above for links to both.
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].
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 end of season giveaway! At Thanksgiving, Jay will put all the names of everyone who has left a review into a generator and three people will receive a prize pack. One is Choose Your Struggle merch, one is a gift pack from my partners Road Runner and Bookshop, and one is a Youdgee muscle massager. If you haven't left a review yet, scroll down in these show notes and find the review link or, if you listen on i-Tunes, review it there!
If something in this episode upsets you, or makes you feel a certain way, take a moment and do some mindfulness. When you have the words, the thought thrashed out, send it to me! Share the podcast, tell the world your thoughts. That's how we make change.
No Good Egg or Card on Monday episodes.
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].
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 book, You're Not Crazy: Living with Anxiety, Obsessions and Fetishes and is the founder of a nonprofit.
To learn more about Laurie, check out her website https://lauriesingerbehavioral.com/ and find her book at Bookshop!
We're doing an end of season giveaway! At Thanksgiving, Jay will put all the names of everyone who has left a review into a generator and three people will receive a prize pack. One is Choose Your Struggle merch, one is a gift pack from my partners Road Runner and Bookshop, and one is a Youdgee muscle massager. If you haven't left a review yet, scroll down in these show notes and find the review link or, if you listen on i-Tunes, review it there!
Today's Good Egg: Leave a review and be entered into the end of season giveaway drawing!
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].
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 hear how far we've come in the last almost two years. I recorded this in a closet in Charleston, South Carolina while we were in the early, EARLY days of the Covid lockdown.
Holy shit the original theme! My first give away! Awful sound quality! Thinking an episode dropping a week later is a long wait AMAZING!
The title of this episode is a wink at a famous episode of a TV show. Know what it is? The first person to reach out and tell me the right answer will get a Choose Your Struggle tank top sent to them for being just so dang smart.
As a special bonus, anyone who leaves The Choose Your Struggle Podcast a review on the site of their choice and show us proof will get 25% off a tank top or, if you already own one, a care package of other Choose Your Struggle items on the house! Just take a screen shot or a pic with your phone and send it to [email protected] with your address and your choice.
What do you think? Everyone who responds, either by social media or my website, will get a sticker mailed to them. The first person to respond each week will get a magnet! So reach out or post something on your personal social media and tag me (and maybe share the show in the process?)!
If something in this episode upsets you, or makes you feel a certain way, take a moment and do some mindfulness. When you have the words, the thought thrashed out, send it to me! Share the podcast, tell the world your thoughts. That's how we make change.
No Good Egg or Card on Monday episodes.
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].
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 she was a child and how she fights for those in the community now.
You can learn more about Ayanna at her IG: https://www.instagram.com/phenomenallyautistic/?hl=en and her FB https://www.facebook.com/Phenomenally-Autistic-110085974722339/.
Today's Good Egg: Give Someone A Hug!
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].
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 The Ragbirds around the summer of 2009 and at a nudist festival in the woods of Ohio he was bit by a brown recluse spider, ending up in the hospital and missing one of the bands performances. When someone else from the festival told the band about this, they dedicated a song at their next show, Tarantella (conveniently about dancing out a spider's venom) to 'Spiderbite Jay'!
Learn more about Erin Zindle and The Ragbirds at their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theragbirds, check them out wherever you listen to music, and consider supporting them on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/theragbirds.
As a special bonus, anyone who leaves The Choose Your Struggle Podcast a review on the site of their choice and show us proof will get 25% off a tank top or, if you already own one, a care package of other Choose Your Struggle items on the house! Just take a screen shot or a pic with your phone and send it to [email protected] with your address and your choice.
What do you think? Everyone who responds, either by social media or my website, will get a sticker mailed to them. The first person to respond each week will get a magnet! So reach out or post something on your personal social media and tag me (and maybe share the show in the process?)!
If something in this episode upsets you, or makes you feel a certain way, take a moment and do some mindfulness. When you have the words, the thought thrashed out, send it to me! Share the podcast, tell the world your thoughts. That's how we make change.
No Good Egg or Card on Monday episodes.
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].
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 his show, I'm Kind of A Big Deal, which focuses on his life living with Dwarfism.
Christophe is, in a word, a badass. And he and Jay had a truly fantastic conversation.
Learn more about Christophe at his IG https://www.instagram.com/bigdealpod/ (and listen to his podcast!) and check out his recent project Ability In Progress at https://abilityinprogress.org/.
Today's Good Egg: Declutter/Reorganize Something In Your Life!
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].
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". The Qube is a podcast app specifically for shows "created by BIPOC and QTPOC" people. Jay and Anna talk about the necessity of intentionality and why it's so important to preserve stories of those who came before us.
Anna specifically asked that anyone of color or part of the LGBTQ community who has a shown reach out to pitch their show for The Qube!
Check out The Qube at https://theqube.app/ and E3 Radio at https://e3radio.fm/ and follow Anna at her FB https://www.facebook.com/annadeshawn83, her LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/annadeshawn/, her IG https://www.instagram.com/annadeshawn/, and her Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@annadeshawn?.
As a special bonus, anyone who leaves The Choose Your Struggle Podcast a review on the site of their choice and show us proof will get 25% off a tank top or, if you already own one, a care package of other Choose Your Struggle items on the house! Just take a screen shot or a pic with your phone and send it to [email protected] with your address and your choice.
What do you think? Everyone who responds, either by social media or my website, will get a sticker mailed to them. The first person to respond each week will get a magnet! So reach out or post something on your personal social media and tag me (and maybe share the show in the process?)!
If something in this episode upsets you, or makes you feel a certain way, take a moment and do some mindfulness. When you have the words, the thought thrashed out, send it to me! Share the podcast, tell the world your thoughts. That's how we make change.
No Good Egg or Card on Monday episodes.
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].
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 guy Jay really looks up to and admires for his advocacy and his beautiful writing ability.
Check out David's book, The Weight of Air, wherever you buy books (or at Choose Your Struggle's Bookshop!) and follow him on social media (here's his twitter: https://twitter.com/davidthekick) and check out his website: https://davidposes.com/home!
Today's Good Egg: Enjoy the nice weather wherever you are!
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].
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' Jones for their show, I'm The Villain. Isabel and Doendre' are two millennials who are tired of being told "just don't eat so much avocado toast!" So on their show, they interview experts on ways previous generations fucked us over. On this episode, they talk with Jay, who shares with them many of the intentional and unintentional lies and and misdirections we were given growing up on drugs, and how racism shaped the drug war.
Listen to the original broadcast and subscribe to their show at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/im-the-villain/id1466012587 or wherever you get your podcasts.
As a special bonus, anyone who leaves The Choose Your Struggle Podcast a review on the site of their choice and show us proof will get 25% off a tank top or, if you already own one, a care package of other Choose Your Struggle items on the house! Just take a screen shot or a pic with your phone and send it to [email protected] with your address and your choice.
What do you think? Everyone who responds, either by social media or my website, will get a sticker mailed to them. The first person to respond each week will get a magnet! So reach out or post something on your personal social media and tag me (and maybe share the show in the process?)!
If something in this episode upsets you, or makes you feel a certain way, take a moment and do some mindfulness. When you have the words, the thought thrashed out, send it to me! Share the podcast, tell the world your thoughts. That's how we make change.
No Good Egg or Card on Monday episodes.
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].
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