Hard Knox Talks: Your Addiction Podcast

By Daniel Unmanageable

Inspiring sobriety stories and real talk about all things substance use. Stay up to date on upcoming streams, get on our email list, shop our store, and more at www.hardknoxtalks.com

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August 15, 2025 Sean Hemeon was a drug kingpin turned informant by federal agents . Meth, and the shame of being queer nearly killed him. This is his recovery story.
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Sean was interrogated by federal agents. They were asking him to turn informant. And he did. That moment — terrifying, surreal — was the culmination of years spent running from trauma, shame, and addiction. Raised Mormon and queer, Sean lived in silence and meth helped him feel connected and accepted. But it almost killed him. From suicide attempts rising to the top of Washington DC's drug trade to spiritual healing, Sean’s story is one of collapse and slow, intentional rebirth.

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Key Learning Points
👉 How religious shame and identity repression fueled addiction
👉 Meth psychosis, dust-off, and physical collapse
👉 Drug-induced amnesia, overdose, and still returning to use
👉 The manipulative survival tactics addiction teaches
👉 How connection, surrender, and time finally sparked change

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1h 24min
August 08, 2025 Hailey was dope sick, vomiting blood, and running with gangsters. Today, she’s clean and giving back through haircuts and hope.
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By age 13, Hailey was self-harming. At 16, she was living in a trap house, using meth and heroin, and hiding across the street from her mother’s school. Her addiction escalated to fentanyl, psychosis, and multiple stints in treatment. She once traded a 65-inch TV for a single pill. But when her body started rejecting the drugs, she knew she had to change — or die. Today, Hailey is a stylist, advocate, and founder of Haircuts for Hope. This is the story of how she made it out.
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Key Learning Points
👉 Childhood trauma and emotional isolation
👉 Meth, heroin, fentanyl, and psychosis
👉 The terrifying cycle of dope sickness
👉 Getting clean after relapse and juvenile detention
👉 How hairdressing and gardening became healing tools
👉 Grieving lost friends while staying clean
👉 Honoring ancestors and community through action

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August 01, 2025 Coralee is a nurse, a mom, and an addict in recovery. After an overdose and a fall, everything changed. This is the story of her recovery.
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Coralee is a Métis mother, registered nurse, and a person in long-term recovery. She lived years as a high-functioning addict—passing meds at work while hiding her own substance use. One night, after taking a handful of pills and drinking, she collapsed, fell down the stairs, and nearly died. In that moment, everything changed. In this powerful episode, Coralee shares how ketamine therapy, NA, motherhood, and cultural connection helped her come back to life and stay clean.
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Key Learning Points
👉 The invisible side of high-functioning addiction
👉 Trauma, abuse, and how it shaped her drinking
👉 Overdose, stairs, and the turning point
👉 How ketamine therapy and NA saved her life
👉 The power of setting boundaries in recovery
👉 Balancing nursing, motherhood, and healing
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58min
July 25, 2025 Melissa relapsed the day after treatment and drove home to end her life. But in the basement, she saw something, and found her purpose.
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Melissa Gissy is a mother of four, a survivor of human trafficking, addiction, and trauma, and a woman in long-term recovery. After a string of DUIs, a Xanax dependency, and postpartum depression, Melissa relapsed the day after treatment—and drove home to end her life. In the basement, she saw a figure. Heard a voice. And everything changed. Today, she’s a published author and advocate for recovery without shame, using her voice to remind others: you have a purpose.
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Key Learning Points
👉 The hidden danger of mommy wine culture and postpartum depression
👉 How trauma and trafficking shaped her addiction
👉 When 30 days in treatment isn’t enough
👉 Spiritual awakening during a suicide attempt
👉 Writing, recovery, and the power of purpose
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51min
July 18, 2025 Jimmy shares his story of meth psychosis, meat showers, 10 charges, and how jail and the gym helped him reclaim his mind and life.
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Jimmy was deep in meth psychosis, paranoid and hallucinating parasites in his body. At his worst, he showered with raw meat to “cleanse” himself—leaving blood and tissue all over the bathroom floor. With 10 criminal charges, family restraining orders, and psychosis from years of meth, jail time finally forced a reset. What started as counting to 10 in county jail became the beginning of 12 years of real recovery. Jimmy’s story is unforgettable, raw, and proof that healing is possible.
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Key Learning Points
👉 Meth psychosis, trauma, and delusional behavior
👉 Overcoming 10 charges and family estrangement
👉 Jail as a turning point for recovery
👉 Self-reprogramming addiction thinking
👉 Why the gym saved his sobriety
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1h
July 11, 2025 Marc was a VP at 24, homeless at 28. Cocaine, shame, and ego brought him down—but recovery, fatherhood, and faith helped him rise again.
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Marc became a vice president by 24 and homeless by 28. Behind the success was a cocaine-fueled climb toward total emotional collapse. In this deeply honest conversation, Marc shares how addiction, childhood wounds, infidelity, and untreated trauma brought him to the brink. Now sober since 2008, he opens up about inner child work, spiritual awakening, fatherhood, and what it truly takes to rebuild a life that’s worth staying sober for.
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Key Learning Points
👉 How success masked deep trauma and addiction
👉 Infidelity, shame, and the identity crisis in sobriety
👉 Why most interventions fail without structure
👉 The danger of untreated emotional wounds
👉 Reclaiming fatherhood and learning emotional safety
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1h 14min
July 04, 2025 Louis shares how he went from overdosing on house arrest to becoming leadership at the jail that once held him.
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Louis is a man in long-term recovery after years of addiction, homelessness, incarceration, and overdoses. Once shooting heroin with his own mother and arrested with four felony charges, Lewis later worked his way into a leadership position at the very correctional facility where he was once locked up. His story is one of pain, privilege, prison, and powerful transformation through accountability, mentorship, and community action.
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Key Learning Points
👉 Trauma bonding, family addiction, and overdosing in public
👉 How privilege, ego, and crime fed addiction
👉 The painful truth of felonies, loss, and consequences
👉 Building real recovery through work, service, and honesty
👉 Re-entering the very system that once locked him up
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1h 4min
June 27, 2025 Joey shares how meth, crime, and a suicide attempt nearly took his life—and how recovery, faith, and family brought him back.
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Joey is a man in recovery after years of addiction, incarceration, home invasions, and violent crime. Once on Prince Albert’s Most Wanted list, he nearly took his own life in his grandfather’s basement with a sawed-off shotgun. What stopped him—and what came next—is a story of transformation through justice, forgiveness, prayer, and community. Now a mentor, speaker, and CrossFit coach, Joey is reclaiming his story and giving others hope.

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Key Learning Points
👉 How childhood trauma and early sports shaped identity
👉 The role of meth, crime, and hopelessness in relapse
👉 Suicide prevention, shame, and spiritual awakening
👉 Rebuilding family trust through behavior change
👉 The power of purpose and public speaking in recovery
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48min
June 20, 2025 Nolan shares how he survived addiction, trauma, and liver failure—and how finding faith helped him learn to love again.
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Nolan is a father, survivor, and man in recovery. After enduring trauma, addiction, street violence, and the death of multiple loved ones, Nolan found himself in a coma after his liver and kidneys failed. From drinking hand sanitizer to preaching the Word, Nolan’s story is a raw journey through loss, addiction, spiritual awakening, and the power of second chances.

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Key Learning Points
👉 How grief and trauma shaped substance use
👉 Surviving liver failure, coma, and overdose
👉 The spiritual turning point that changed everything
👉 Violence, family loss, and reclaiming identity
👉 Recovery through faith and traditional values
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June 13, 2025 Gio opens up about addiction, relapse, identity loss, and spiritual growth after fentanyl nearly ended his life.
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Gio is a former semi-pro hockey player, father of two, and person in recovery. In this episode, he shares his long battle with addiction—from partying in locker rooms to opioid dependency, family loss, and fentanyl relapse. After three treatment attempts, legal struggles, and near-fatal overdoses, Gio finally found lasting recovery by surrendering not just drugs and alcohol—but his entire will. This is a story of identity, ego, humility, and real spiritual change.

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