Life Recovered

We can't believe it's taken us this long to write an original Life Recovered song, but better late than never. After singing our first hit song and making your ears bleed (maybe not in a good way), we talk about gratitude! There's no shortage of reasons to be grateful this year. No 2020 joke here... we're actually being serious.

We reflect on Christmas, talk about and talk a lot about Santa Claus and the Reindeer.

We go into pop culture and have a great discussion on the Bachelorette.

We talk about Dogs, Daughters, and coffee, you know, no big whoop (also talk about emotional intelligence)

"On the 12th day of Life Recovered, my true love gave to me…"

12: 12 Steps of AA

11: Doses of Naltrexone

10: Sparkling Waters

9: Meditations

8: Trips to Starbucks

7: Bags of Candy

6: on the ACE Score

5: Cups of Ayahuasca

4: New Age Gurus

3-New Coping Tools

2-People Who Trigger Me

And a Podcast Bell for Tamara and Me!!

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We talk about the Dodgers winning the World Series, mountain cabins, gratitude counter being reset for 2020. Garrett talks about his trifecta of anxiety that he navigated thru and realized a good lesson on the other side of it. Garrett muses about the good ole days before covid with his job related travel.

We talk about NXIVM again and point out how we will never stop talking about cults and maybe organizations that are on the "cult spectrum"

Tamara goes into her new job, and finds a nice work life balance.

We talk about shows we are watching in our pop culture segment:

• The Queen's Gambit on Netflix
• The Undoing on HBO
• Seduced on Starz
• The Bachelorette
• A Teacher on Hulu
• Tehran-apple
• Schitts creek nflx
• On the rocks (movie on apple)
• The Mandolorian-Disney + (nerd alert!!!)

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We unleash our real thoughts on the covid-schmovid nonsense that bugs us, and we go off on social media and the tech industry at-large while they're at it. The New York Times describes this episode as 'recklessly indulgent' and we're honestly concerned you're still listening to us at this point.

Disclaimer: This is NOT a political podcast. We think it's a little ridiculous that things we have opinions about want to talk about are so politicized that we can't touch them without assumptions being made about a whole slew of other things. So we ask that our listeners suspend reality for a minute and pretend that statements like "our rights are being invaded" or "covid is dangerous" DON'T automatically put you on one far side of the political aisle.

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Garrett could not let this moment pass without documenting the fact that his partner Tamara now has one year of continuous sobriety!!

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Tamara and Garrett talk about babies and most notably baby Joelles development, Garrett can totally relate to sleep deprivation as he is woken up nightly by a senile Labrador Retriver..we talk about diet, exercise, veganism, we throw in a couple "outlander" references, we go over hummingbird feeders, some sports talk, a little update on ayahuasca and psychedelics (again), and we round it all out with a discussion of the HBO show "The Vow" featuring the NXIVM cult and its leader Keith Rainiere AKA Vanguard.

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Tamara breaks down her beautiful experience of bringing baby Joelle into the world, she dispels certain myths and backs up certain truths about motherhood. She talks about some cool baby things that she never knew existed.

Garrett is fascinated by the fact that Tamara has four sponsees and Garrett asks Chris Farley show like questions about what its like to be an AA sponsor.

Tamara loved our last episode, Garrett talks again about his fear of fish, and his love of coconut chocolate covered almonds. We talk about Garrett's irrational fear of being a sponsor, we somehow swerve into talking about Rocky and then Baby Joelle needed her Mom!

Show recommendations Garrett: Unwell (nflx) Homecoming (amazon) Upload (amazon) For all Mankind (Apple) Hannah (Amazon) --past shows Dexter, Six Feet Under, True Blood

Show recommendations Tamara: Big brother, Wheel of Fortune, Love on the Spectrum (NFLX)----past shows Breaking Bad, The Good Wife, Big Little Lies

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Interview with Scott starts at the 21:54 mark

For the first time in Life Recovered history we have someone on the podcast who is totally outside of the Recovery Elevator Universe! Garrett's friend and coworker Scott Stewart joins the show and we talk about everything from living in Idaho v living in SoCal to our weird similarities, and how our paths kept crossing in life. We recount what is what like working for a Pharma company as Pharma reps back in the mid 2000s , we talk about Scotts take on alcohol (he has never had a drop in his life and we figure out why) and he may or may not tell a story or two from when Garrett was drinking at sales meetings.

Ladies and gentlemen we are so pleased to announce beautiful baby girl Joelle Young born to Tamara and Jordan on July 15th. Tamara is beyond excited and both baby and mother are totally healthy and happy! you can find Tam and pictures of Joelle at @tlphill on instagram. Tamara will be back next episode! Please subscribe, rate and review our podcast and send us an email at [email protected]. and if you want to donate to the podcast to help with our hosting fees you can do so at paypal.me/aftertheelevator

Life Recovered takes a break from all things current events, and (for the most part) from all things serious. Instead, Gar and Tam interview each other, and listeners can come along with them as they get to know each other better - histories, bucket lists, hopes, dreams... Sometimes, you just need a healthy dose of fluffy, lighthearted, sunshine and rainbows!

If you're looking for an in-depth discussion of the deeper matters that impact our the world we live in, this is not that episode! Re-join Garrett and Tamara next time for a return to life's more serious issues.

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Chris Csar joins Garrett and they discuss how Chris has been able to process an unthinkable tragedy in his life, through using his tools and also getting into boxing.

We of course talk about Psychedelics and point out that Chris is directly responsible for introducing them to everybody and changing peoples lives.

We discuss whether there is a message in the whole Coronavirus nightmare, and thoughts on how to navigate it and stay sane.

I highly recommend Chris business http://saguaroscreenprinting.com

Chris also highly recommends a book on psychedelics called Entheogenic liberation by Martin Ball, check it out on amazon here

We discuss movies, then do some housekeeping and Garrett reveals the direction the podcast is taking.

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Tam is a married woman! She talks about her nuptials and the story of her relationship journey leading up to marriage. Talk about an evolution of life in recovery... that's what this podcast is all about!

Gar talks about his quite literal coming out... of his home in quarantine. He recounts his whirlwind trifecta of adventures - from San Diego, to a cattle drive, to the California Central Coast.

Tam is looking forward to her baby shower and watching her Titans in the (hopefully) upcoming NFL season. Gar is happy about letting his suppressed, quarantined geek out when he uses his Apple Watch Tip App. It's the little things...

From stories of gratitude, to hopes for the future - this episode is just good for the soul.

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