1% Better with Kady O Connell

Involved in organized crime / Avoided 60 years in a US prison


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Our guest today grew up in an upper middle-class family with the greatest parents but ended up losing everything on the streets.   He was in organized crime and at one point was looking at 68 years in a US prison.  He’s highly educated, with 4 university degrees and practised as a doctor since.   He’s been in recovery for almost 20 years and has opened sober living homes in Winnipeg 31 beds and also opened Aurora recovery centre which is a 70 bed drug and alcohol treatment centre with a detox.  Let's welcome our guest Ian Rabb.

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Talking points
What age would you like to be again and why?
What was the ‘thing’ that took you from the upper middle class to losing everything?
Story of how you almost ended up in a US prison
Is there a person(s) who stick out to you from any part of your past, good or bad?
What was your drug of choice?
What was your low point?
What sparked your change”
Discuss your recovery process?
What can young people, especially men do to stay out of the drug/alcohol hampster wheel?
Should drugs be legalized?
Do you look back on any event with extreme guilt/remorse?

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1% Better with Kady O ConnellBy Kady O Connell