Straight outta Dallas, Texas, Jen Sugermeyer pivoted her life when she found recovery!  Her WHY ME became her WHY, her MESS became her MESSAGE.  Recovery gave Jen freedom to tap into the potential she knew she had, the impact she knew she was capable of, and have the experiences she knew existed in life!  Now, she helps others do the same!  

Jen's a Motivational Speaker, Best-Selling Author, Transformation Coach, Podcast Host, and has a show on YouTube, Mindset in the Morning, where she goes live 5-days a week to talk about powerful mindset topics that we deal with in our everyday lives!  

Jen uses her recovery journey to support, help and strengthen others in their walk with sobriety. She is on a mission to impact the lives of these individuals by telling her story and promoting recovery. She lives life out loud and uses her past as a light of hope. Remember, "You are the sum total of your choices."

Check out her books on Amazon, including her third book, Confidence is Queen.  To work with Jen, take advantage of her free resources, or learn more about her, go to:  www.jensugermeyer.com AND Instagram.com/jensugermeyer

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Farah Foster-Manning, Best Selling International Co-Author, Elite Triathlete, Actress, Speaker & Belief Mentor. Born in Windsor ON, Canada, now residing an hour from Toronto makes it possible for her to be apart of the “Hollywood of Canada” for films and TV.  Farah has been on several current TV shows and movies, some being a principle actor.  Coming from a pharmaceutical background before this, tired and exhausted of the long hours on the road between cities & missing the family continuously, she took the leap to focus on herself for them.

At age 38, she put on my one-piece Speedo and jumped into her fear, making it all about herself again.  She then jumped onto a bike.  Becoming a triathlete, surpassing what many try to accomplish in years.  Completing in over 15 races that year, she was hooked. Since then racing in several international races, along with local, placing overall and age group in many.

Farrah continued to push herself to show other Women, Mothers, Professionals, that it's all possible once the focus comes back to "US”.  She doesn't believe in fear anymore.  One soon realizes that fear is made up, it is draining and things shift. "Greatness always comes from fear."

She just completed the biggest race of 2021, the RAAM 2021. The Race Across America!

Farah is out Chasing Her Vase!

To learn more, check out her passion at: www.theonemileproject.com.

To learn more about recovery and the battle to overcome addiction, check out www.fightlikedavid.com/jumpstart. 

Have you ever wondered how you would get sober? Really sober? My next guest opens up about her recovery and how her lifestyle led to a life of drinking and using. My guest, Lane Kennedy, opens up about how "Mutual Aide saved her life!" Lane was blessed with a lifestyle that would cause most of us to have envy. On the outside, her career looked promising. She lived in a beautiful home in California. She had nice cars, 6 closets, 500 pair of shoes and a pedigree dog. But on the inside, she knew she needed help. Lane indicated that, "Her lifestyle said it was ok" to drink and to show up to work and sell homes.

Lane needed to stop drinking but found it difficult. Her friends and clients drank and she knew that drinking was socially accepted. She believed drinking was a normal everyday activity but "what wasn't normal was the way I felt afterwards". Her friends held it together while she remained at home after a night of drinking throwing up, curled up in a ball hiding in her closet. She needed help and needed it now. 

Tune into the podcast to learn how Lane recovered from her addiction and is living her amends daily. Check out her podcast at: Recover Like A mother. 

Check out the www.fightlikedavid/jumpstart for more tools to help in your recovery. 

In this week's episode, Brock  is joined by Travis Whittaker (Vice President Of Clinical Outreach at True Recovery) to talk about how playing sports filled a void in his childhood, why an injury introduced him to opioids, and how opioids almost took his life.

Travis opens up about the self-destructive ways that he was sabotaging himself, some of the worst times in his addiction, and what his rock-bottom looked like.

Travis also shares the process he went through in order to achieve his twelve years of recovery, how his relationship with his wife and his son has evolved thanks to his sobriety, as well as his work as an interventionist.

To learn more about Travis and his work as an interventionist you can visit the Living Recovery website here: https://livingrecoveryinterventions.com/about/

Also check out, www.fightlikedavid/jumpstart to learn more about sobriety and the road to recovery.

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Arrowyn Ambrose is an Advanced Certified Facilitator of The Resilience Toolkit, Certified Teaching Artist, and Certified Race Equity and Healing Justice Facilitator. She has studied Viola Spolin’s long-form organic improvisation, creative writing, addiction, and group dynamics. With a background in the creative and performing arts, Arrowyn believes in the healing power of story and is passionate about ethical storytelling along with trauma-informed and resilience-oriented recovery, parenting, and social justice.

Brock and Arrowyn take a dive into trauma and recovery. It is difficult to heal if your holding onto your baggage. Arrowyn provides three tools that will help you heal emotionally and spiritually.

I enjoy providing you with up to date, real time tips that can and will help you in your own journey. If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction, I invite you to contact us at www.fightlikedaivd/jumpstart. There you will learn tangible tools that will help you overcome addiction and live a happy sober life. 

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93,331 died in 2020 from drug overdose. Other than reading about overdose on your phone, where else are you hearing about it? I would venture to say, no where! How is is that over 93,000 Americans died last year and no one is talking about it? Sure, you see an article here and there about a popular figure dying of an overdose. 

Did we get lost in the Covid pandemic? Maybe, it was the sweeping masks mandates or the push to be vaccinated. Either way, we are losing the battle. 255 American's are losing the battle of addiction. 

I read an article this week from the Insider Magazine titled, "The fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed LA comedian is showing up everywhere-here's why it's so deadly and how to avoid it."

The author shared her take on how to avoid overdose. Here is was:

1. Use test strips to test your drugs before you use them.

2. Keep Naloxone on hand in case you overdose. 

REALLY! This is your tips to avoid overdose. So what your telling me is you can't die from regular heroin or meth overdose? 

How about Sobriety and Recovery? Let's try that!

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Wounded Heroes was a three year passion project for award winning director/producer Michael Gier. The story of his journey to find alternative treatments and programs is inspiring and includes stories of the many Veterans and 1st Responders he interviewed that overcame what seemed to be impossible. His story is a message of Hope that anyone can live the life of their dreams no matter the obstacles or circumstances they're currently facing.

If you or a loved one is struggling with PTS, please reach out. There is hope and experts who have walked the path. You are not alone and you are important. 

If you or anyone you know is struggling with PTS and or addiction,  contact us at [email protected] and we will help find the right path to recovery. 

Please watch Michael's documentary at: www.WoundedHeroesDocumentary.com

The Green Berets, the U.S. Army’s Special Forces, are the military’s premier unconventional warriors.  Richard Flaherty was, perhaps, the most unconventional Green Beret warrior to ever serve. 

Flaherty served with the 101st Airborne during Vietnam. He was awarded a Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. After Vietnam, he did contract work for the CIA all over the world.

But he had to fight to even get into the Army and the Army’s Officer Candidate School (OCS), going so far as to get his congressman involved. The reason was that Richard Flaherty was just 4’9” tall.

Years after Vietnam, David Yuzuk, a career Miami Beach police officer, struck a friendship with a confident but unassuming homeless man. After 15 years the man told Yuzuk, “It’s time I tell you who I really am.” The homeless man was Richard Flaherty.

Yuzuk finally learned the man’s story and began a quest to discover all there was to know about this diminutive man who cast a giant shadow in combat.

Detective Yuzuk shares the true story of Richard Flaherty, The Giant Killer. Det. Yuzuk shares insights into Flaherty's life and death. At the end of his life, Flaherty was battling his own demons and addiction. Flaherty was killed just days after agreeing to talk about his life as a soldier and CIA contractor. Flaherty's life is one of valor, courage and the fight for ultimate freedom. 

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Thirty-six years ago, Scott Silverman found himself at an open, 44th-story window, on the brink of suicide. Just then, a colleague entered the room and asked him what he was doing. Silverman entered rehab the next day and has been sober ever since. Two decades of escalating substance abuse, blackouts and depression had brought him to this moment. Scott Silverman started Second Chance to help people in shelters, the homeless and inmates leaving prison.

Fast forward to 2008. Silverman has turned not only his own life around but also the lives of thousands of others. Rehab and volunteering brought him close to a community of others in need: people in shelters, those who were homeless, others who had come out of jail.  They all shared one problem, Silverman saw: They were unable to find and keep a job.

Scott created a program to help the addicted and the homeless find success and stability. 

On this podcast, we discuss life on the streets in Arizona. Trying to leverage assists her in Arizona has been more difficult than expected. We need a model in place to help those suffering from homelessness and addiction. We need to reduce the number of deaths by connected, providing resources and demonstrating human kindness. 

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