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When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – Self-Acceptance over Self-Improvement, finding Freedom, and the Mission to help others, with Ryan Delaney

 A powerful conversation with Ryan about the struggles with discontent, depression, and how we can be at war with ourselves. How exploration, practices, trying, moving forward, sometimes backward, can make all the difference. Helping others with their journey can be a wonderful next step in the process. Allowing the conditioning to drop away, allowing good things to happen in our lives. Getting ourselves back as opposed to needing to become someone else. The Western vs. the Eastern view of how we go about our lives. Solid advice on what may be most important in starting the journey of slowing the fight.

Find Ryan at  Beyond Self Improvement | Ryan Delaney | Substack and Ryan Delaney (@RDelaney) / X (twitter.com)

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – The Train Wreck, 12 Steps, Trauma, Grief, Coughing up Those Hairballs, and Healing, with Dr. Bob Beare 

Dr. Bob and I peruse the importance of sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope in order to help others with their journey. The gift of the 12 Steps in our recovery and beginning the healing process. Grief and how we can allow that grief to move out of us by opening the drain with vulnerability. It’s not the big, catastrophic events in our lives that hold us back as much as it is the little things.  The best way to learn is from those who are currently doing and experiencing those things that you want to experience.

Find Dr. Bob at:  Dr Bob Beare and Deep Waters Recovery

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – Working through life’s Hurdles, Finding Purpose, our Support Systems, and the reward of continuing to improve ourselves, with my longtime friend, Norm Potter.

 Norm, a great friend of mine, dives into his story of how he found success, inside and outside himself; how he overcame the hurdles of his limiting thinking and started to see life and his journey differently. Becoming grateful for the solution centered way he lives, as well as how he teaches and coaches others to live in that way. It is so important to have our “why” and to move ourselves in the direction of that “why.”

Find Norm and his work at:  Home (normpotter.com) and Home (structuredcreativityconsulting.com)

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – The Joy of Recovery, Acceptance, Self-Awareness, and no more Hiding, with Nadine Mulvina, creator of “The Sober Butterfly” and host of  “The Sober Butterfly” podcast

 Nadine and I have a very honest and open conversation, starting with Nadine’s progression with alcohol, how the “badge of honor” carried itself through her drinking career, and how alcohol became a coping mechanism after a huge, unexpected loss in her life.

The social experiment of moderation didn’t work. Therapy was starting to take root. Becoming tired of the destructive life and coming to the point of not wanting the madness anymore. 

Moments of clarity that lead to a different, better, and more productive life.

Find Nadine at:  Thesoberbutterfly
The Sober Butterfly (Nadine Mulvina) (@the.soberbutterfly) • Instagram photos and videos

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – Recovery, Healing, Al-Anon, A.A., and Recovering our Souls, with Reverend Rachel Harrison 

 Where we start can be so different for each of us. The difficulty of fitting in, the discomfort that life can be at times, and how we allow ourselves to let loose. How it can be easy to point the finger outside ourselves, instead of looking inside ourselves. How we all need to focus on our own journey of healing, and how the focus on others does not work. The power of our recovery journey and how those little seeds begin to germinate in us. The addict can rear it’s head in other areas of our lives, and how we need to remain diligent with ourselves. The 12 Steps is a spiritual program, for which we are grateful.

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – Embracing Honesty, Accountability, and Family, with Jon Skillman, creator of the Sober Dad Podcast (SDP) 

What a great conversation with a sober, loving and attentive stay at home dad about the normalization of drinking in our culture, the progression of alcoholism, and trying to control the progression. The cleansing nature of honesty with ourselves and others can be one of the most difficult, but also the most wonderful turning points in our lives. The power of accountability in life, in parenting, and how it helps us craft our lives in a positive way. How do we achieve and maintain our peace and serenity as time sober moves on. Grateful for life getting better and better as we continue on. 

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – Overcoming Adversity, Embracing Sobriety and Recovery, Rigorous Honesty, Meditation, and Clarity with Nate Kelly, Creator and Host of The Sobriety Diaries Podcast, as well as a Podcast Coach 

In our very interesting and impactful conversation, Nate shares his midwestern upbringing and powerful story with us, how he utilizes Self-Care as the basis for how he approaches each day and how his ventures and adventures outside of sobriety, but because of sobriety, allow him to attend to and help others. Nate and I talk about his allies in life, his use of the proper resources, the importance of goals, his success in the podcast space, and how he helps other podcasters get their message out.

Episode 3 Featuring Special Guest - Creator of The Way Out Podcast, Charles LeVoir

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast - Live a life of Faith, Strength, and Family with Michael Jaquith, Catholic Life Coach for Men

More about Michael can be found at Catholic Life Coach for Men |

When I Stop Fighting The Podcast 

Episode 1 - Interview With Special Guest Author Kali J Banks