In this episode of Unashamed, Unafraid, Mason and Sam welcome Mike Farr, a rock photographer, Spartan racer, husband to Jenny, and father to Wesley. Mike shares how his father leaving early, conflict with a stepfather, and feeling unlovable fueled a “character” that chased acceptance through music, drugs, escalating sexual behavior, and crime. He describes immersion in the late ’60s–’80s music scene, cocaine dealing, and eventual heroin addiction, repeated arrests, rehab attempts, and a Salvation Army program that helped him rebuild sobriety and career. After a six-year relapse, an overdose coma, and another arrest, he surrendered, returned to meetings, and found sustained recovery and service, including coaching sobriety on the Vans Warped Tour, framing God as his Father and a source of healing.

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00:43 Recovery Check In
02:34 Introducing Mike Farr
04:03 How We Met
05:23 Childhood Wounds
07:49 Music And Drugs
12:08 Sex Addiction Escalates
15:54 God And Fatherhood
19:40 Tahoe Marriage Fallout
20:19 Stevie Ray Vaughan Wakeup
21:52 Wicked Wanda
22:34 Heroin Hooked and Sick
24:07 Intervention and Jail
26:00 Rehab Fail and Rick
28:02 Tank Talk and Release Mistake
30:33 Salvation Army Turnaround
32:35 Relapse
33:45 Overdose and Two Week Coma
37:23 Surrender
39:30 God's Tender Mercy
43:06 Service Life and Father God
45:14 Closing Song