Finding Strength Podcast

Will Mejia and the Finding Strength hosts teach listeners how to love without judgment. Will grew up in Los Angeles, joining a gang as a boy. Experiencing trauma from a young age Will felt his path was to join the U.S. Army. He was deployed over seas in the Iraq War, experiencing more trauma. And now, he finds meaning in his art as a famously successful tattoo artist. His story will blow your mind!

Will has had to learn how to overcome all odds, and in the process gained immense wisdom. He helps us to understand that the judgments of others don't have to affect us. He talks about his struggles with PTSD, depression, anxiety, and so much more. His strength and love for others shines bright as he opens up about his story in another incredible episode of Finding Strength.

Author, TV Host, Fitness Guru, the Fit2Fat2Fit guy, Drew Manning has many titles. He is an amazing father and a champion of fitness. To Drew being fit means balancing Physical Health, Spiritual Health, and Mental Health. In this unprecedented episode, Drew opens up to the Finding Strength Hosts about his past, his struggles with addiction, infidelity, and shame. He teaches us how he found the strength to get through his pain and overcome shame.

Drew is a visionary, hoping to change the fitness world to include a greater emphasis on the importance of mental health when trying to lose weight. Getting fit is not just about losing the weight. Drew shows us how he works with his clients, he helps them understand that who they are is more important than how they look. This ultimately helps people look, feel, and act different, resulting in true transformation. His passion for fitness and health are changing the way the fitness world sees weight loss.

Speaking up for the first time about her battle with depression and an eating disorder, Alisha Nuttall shares her strength with Matt and Bethany. A reality TV star, winning Season 7 of Cupcake Wars, Alicia is an immensely successful entrepreneur who has struggled with her mental health since childhood. In this episode, Alisha gets vulnerable. She tells her story and gives us all new, more effective ways to manage our own struggles.

A seasoned paramedic and firefighter, Chris Verkerk, has had to experience horrific accidents, gruesome deaths, and daily trauma due to requirements of his job. The effects of this turned into PTSD. Severe anxiety, unfounded anger, and the depths of isolation plagued the Verkerk family for years. Being thrust into traumatic life or death situations every day, Chris found it difficult to manage the fallout; yet he found a way. He and his wife Julie share their unbelievable story with the Finding Strength hosts and their listeners. Filled with incredible tools, stories of strength and hope, this episode is a must listen!

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population every year. This extremely common problem seems to be difficult to treat, yet it's remarkably treatable. Kevin has struggled with anxiety his whole life and has found the strength to cope with it. In this episode we talk about managing anxiety and grief. Kevin tells his story of how he has overcome both and is stronger today because of his struggles. In addition, new tools are taught to help each of us deal with our anxieties and fears. Enjoy another moving and incredibly informative episode of The Finding Strength Podcast!

Troy Long was a superstar college athlete, ex-professional football player who had everything going for him until addiction took his life down a very different road than he had planned. From superstar, to homeless, and now CEO and owner of Deer Hollow Recovery, Troy's story will blow your mind.

In this episode Matt and Bethany get emotional talking about addiction and how the greatest health crisis in history, is taking the lives of our loved ones. Troy and the hosts of Finding Strength also aim to give hope to any who are willing to listen. Enjoy another powerful and moving episode of the Finding Strength Podcast!

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In the tenth episode Matt and Bethany go live! They answer dozens of listener questions and dig into never before addressed topics. From addiction to religion and spirituality, podcast hosts go it alone and open up about their beliefs, views, and experiences sending lots of hope and love your way.

As well, new tools are given to help you find new ways to cope. One tool Matt teaches is a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) tool, S.T.O.P., to help us better manage anxiety, impulse control, panic, etc.

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T.ake a step back

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P.roceed Mindfully

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This episode, Bethany and Matt meet Rip Chadwick of Addicted We Stand. Rip enlightens us with new ways to view spirituality, understand addiction, and how to find strength when it matters most. Rip is a prominent voice in the addiction community. If you are struggling with addiction or in recovery, follow Addicted We Stand on Facebook. It's an amazing and large community of recovering people who are bettering their lives through vulnerability and connection.

Amazing husband, father to three boys, entrepreneur, public speaker, thought leader, and man in long term recovery, Robbie Law shares his wisdom with Matt and Bethany as they tackle the subject of addiction and how to find meaning. In this in depth episode the Finding Strength team dives deep into one man's triumph over injury, loss, and addiction. This episode is full of the wisdom and power that the Finding Strength Podcast is known for. It will definitely leave you wanting the next episode right away. Subscribe to get a new episode every week.

Matt and Bethany sit down with Gina Crotts. As a public speaker and birth mother, Gina has engaged audiences at adoption conferences and birthmother retreats statewide. After placing her baby for adoption in the fall of 2000, she founded Birth Mother Baskets. A non-profit organization focused on providing emotional support, to birth mothers post placement.

Gina later stepped away to pursue a career as a Creative Arts Manager. A severe concussion in 2016 led Gina back to rediscover her real passion for writing and Adoption. She has been working on her Adoption memoir since that time.

Gina opens up, in this episode, about what it's like to endure the ridicule and shame that accompany the judgment of others. She finds her strength in owning her story and finds her purpose as a birth mom as she helps others do the same.