| Steppin' Out Radio

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Listen to real people with gripping, true stories of real life. Not only is this an amazingly compelling show, It’s socially responsible, entertaining and resonates with people of all ages, lifestyles and backgrounds.

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| Steppin' Out Radio episodes:

07.27.2020
Terrie Williams
Black Pain identifies emotional pain — which uniquely and profoundly affects the Black experience — as the root of lashing out through desperate acts of crime, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, workaholism, and addiction to shopping, gambling, and...
02.13.2020
Leigh Steinberg
Leigh Steinberg (@leighsteinberg) Sports Agent to the Stars, wrote a best-selling book, Winning with Integrity, providing insight on how to improve life through non-confrontational negotiation. Furthermore, Leigh’s most recent book, The Agent: My 40-Year Career of Making Deals and Changing...
02.08.2020
Danny Trejo
Actor, Producer and Restaurateur Danny Trejo (@officialDannyT) loves “playing the bad guy in movies, because the bad guy always dies. That’s the real world. If someone asked me to play a bad guy that always gets away with it, I’d...
01.15.2020
Maureen Cavanagh
Discovering her daughter’s addiction to opioids forced Maureen Cavanagh into the dark work of caring for a child with addiction. Now, she is the founder of Magnolia New Beginnings, a nonprofit peer-support group for those living with or affected by...
01.14.2020
One Hundred Aspirins
Born in Europe, Reva’s childhood was an unhappy one, and depression set in so badly she tried taking her own life at age 13 by swallowing 100 aspirins. She survived her suicide attempt, but upon waking from a deep sleep...
01.13.2020
Severe Drunk
Kim grew up in a “beautiful suburb” as an only child of a “severe” alcoholic father. She says he was drunk daily. She remembers as a child telling her father that their lives would be okay if he didn’t keep...
01.12.2020
Hospital Corners
Raymond is an alcoholic and an addict. Growing up in with an alcoholic mother in Brooklyn, he now knows it was booze which killed his mom. As a child, he would sneak drinks but his true drinking began at age...
01.11.2020
New York
Tommy was raised in New York’s Staten Island. He was eleven years old when his father gave him his first drink, declaring Tommy to “be a man, now.” But his regular drinking started age 13 with friends. His mother beat...
01.10.2020
Nickels
Sophie’s problematic compulsive gambling started later in life, when she was 60-years old. She had achieved sobriety from other addictions much earlier but started gambling as an activity and it quickly progressed into a problem. While making beach walks near...
01.09.2020
Not About Winning Or Losing
Paul’s life revolved around gambling from the time he was young. He played poker and flipped baseball cards. Paul always wanted to be a winner and pursued winning aggressively. He worked in a bowling alley at 12 years old and...
01.08.2020
Family Game
David’s first time gambling was at age six. His father taught him to play poker, making penny bets, and it soon became a family activity. Later in life, David can see that other kids would enjoy a range of activities...
01.07.2020
To Be The Bookmaker
Sean grew up in a neighborhood in which if you didn’t gamble, you didn’t belong. Bets began at a young age with friends, as they would play baseball with each other. In his early teens, a friend introduced him to...
01.06.2020
Confronting Marbles And Ponies
Compulsive Gambler Joel’s first bet was, as it often is, during childhood. Joel was a fantastic marble player; and not only one the games among the kids, he would up winning all the marbles and taking them home. But as...
01.05.2020
She Never Knew He Gambled
Andy is a compulsive gambler. His game of choice was poker, but he would gamble on anything he could. And all he would do is lose money. He barely if ever won. Andy’s legitimate creditors – namely the bank –...
01.04.2020
Family Bar
Michelle’s first drink alone was at age 11. Her family home was complete with a bar that was never locked. She came home from school one day and found an open bottle of wine in the kitchen fridge, and so...
01.03.2020
Teenage Sneaky Drinker
Jenn returns to re-tell her story of teenage alcoholism. She had her first drink in her first week of her freshman year in high school, but she had wanted to drink for a long time leading up to it. Jenn...
01.03.2020
Alcoholic Shrug
Brian comes from a culture where drinking and other bad behavior tends to be congratulated. He was a child when he convinced an alcoholic adult to buy him booze by paying him for it. Brian can remember getting drunk that...
01.02.2020
Filling Voids
Barbara is addicted to sex and love, and she shares her story in hopes others can begin to understand the difference between normal sex, love and romance, and those who use them as a “drug of no choice.” Barbara...
01.01.2020
Control
Dave is a sex and love addict. He spent most of his life wondering how he became this way. He still isn’t sure. Dave grew up in a upper-middle class home in a family of high achievers....
12.31.2019
Toasted
Bob’s major use of drugs and alcohol stared after high school, following a bad breakup. Bob incidentally was taken to a twelve-step meeting which brought him into two years of sobriety, though it ended when he toasted his brother at...
12.30.2019
Drug Dealing Dad
Fred thinks he used drugs in order to deal with pain, and today in his sobriety, he knows to deal with pain without using. His first time trying a drug, alcohol, happened at age ten at a party his parents...
12.29.2019
Celebrating And Dealing
Paul grew up in what he says should be a normal childhood. He attended a very good school, was a good student and athlete. But he always had a feeling of being different and inadequate. At age 12 or 13,...
12.28.2019
Black And White
Robert felt like he had a difficult childhood, dealing with an alcoholic father. For some reason, his father’s harshness was directed towards him as opposed to his siblings. And while he doesn’t know why, Robert was compelled to sample his...
12.27.2019
Stealing Pills
Aaron was always rebellious, even as a young child. At 13 he started smoking marijuana and drinking at 14. He quickly discovered how easy it was to steal pills from friends’ bathroom cabinets. Aaron says he was addicted to Oxycontin...
12.26.2019
Pill Kid
Catya’s first use of prescription pain medication came at ten years old; she had strenuous physical ailments even at that age. But she soon learned the pills could “treat” more than physical pain. By fourteen, she was drinking booze and...
12.25.2019
Broke The Rule
Cory started smoking pot at twelve and drinking by thirteen. But even at the young age of thirteen, Cory had a rule for himself: he would continue to drink and smoke, but that he would never user hard drugs. It...
12.24.2019
Jeffrey Veatch
Jeffrey Veatch, a news writer at ABC News Radio for 40 plus years, won a national Writers Guild award in 2007 for ABC’s World News This Week. In September 2008, Veatch’s life took a drastic turn when his 17-year-old son,...
12.23.2019
Richie Supa
Richie Supa is a New York singer/songwriter with over 300 songs recorded and four solo albums to his name. Richie’s career was launched via the legendary Long Island Band “The Rich Kids” who were signed by Clive Davis to Columbia...
12.22.2019
Cutting
Jenny started cutting herself at the age of eleven; drinking with boys and smoking their mom’s marijuana at twelve. When she got into high school, her friends started dying because of alcohol and drugs – this scared Jenny. When she...
12.21.2019
Father Roger
Priest, Retreat Master, Author, Actor, Playwright and Sinner! Father Roger tells us his intriguing story of addiction and recovery. Roger says, “By the age of 3 years old I needed to go on the wagon. If they had Kiddie AA...
12.20.2019
Shyness
Mike’s first time getting high was at 14 years old. He had already been drinking with friends when he (and they) tried marijuana, thinking it would lead them to having more fun; he never intended to embark a disastrous path...
12.19.2019
Thirteen
Brianna started drinking with her cousins and friends at the age 13; getting alcohol from the Head of Police’s liquor cabinet. She always hung out with older people and dated older guys. Brianna says drugs sped up her bottom, which...
12.18.2019
Teenage Husband
Daniel says he led a sheltered childhood in a Midwestern town and raised an evangelical Christian. At the age of 15 he “escaped” to another town, leading to his first drinking experience in addition to his first driving experience! When...
12.17.2019
Heroin And Dad
Nicole’s father was a heroin addict and her mother left him when she was only 3 years old. For the first 10 years of her life, Nicole watched her father struggle to get clean and sober. At 15, Nicole started...
12.16.2019
Keep For Reference
Roberto thinks that his proclivity to clutter started as a child, where he could organize his possessions and had no help from parents or siblings. Often his grade school textbooks would be scattered about his home as he would do...
12.15.2019
Hard To Get Rid Of
Bob can look back in his childhood and see he had a problem with collecting clutter. His room was a mess, his toys and other childhood possessions were often scattered and piled. His parents never enforced a ‘clean room rule’...
12.14.2019
Debtors’ Roundtable
Guests Wendy & Roy, both who are active members of Debtors Anonymous and who spend large amounts of time in their lives in crushing debt, addicted to spending or earning not enough, share some more tips and wisdom from their...
12.13.2019
Accounts Unpayable
Roy is a compulsive debtor and under-earner. His first debts were incurred during his childhood, as he would borrow a couple of dollars from his parents who never required him to repay these “loans” to their child. And Roy now...
12.13.2019
Cameron Douglas
“I was a hard case, and it seems like I needed to learn my lesson the hard way,” writes Cameron Douglas, son of actor Michael Douglas, in his affecting memoir of crime and punishment. The author grew up between...
12.12.2019
Entitled To Spend
Wendy woke up one day to find herself in more than $19,000 in debt, months behind in rent, and reliable on her parents’ generosity to pay for her most basic needs. She began her adulthood in New York, surrounded by...
12.11.2019
Big Break
Dan is a member of Debtors Anonymous. His path to fiscal sobriety came after many years of spending more money than he had, and earning less than he needed on which to live. As an actor, Dan had trouble earning...
12.10.2019
Gift of Desperation
From an early age Kate thought being an alcoholic and junkie were cool. Her first drink was at a Saint Patrick’s Day family gathering at the age of 13 or 14. By 16, Kate started snorting and smoking heroin and...
12.09.2019
Buying For Mom
Adam’s mother was an alcoholic. At 13 he started manipulating her to buy alcohol for him. When Adam was 19 he had to make the most difficult decision of his life after his mother had an accident and went into...
12.08.2019
Suicidal Sixteen
Sarah believes she was born an alcoholic because alcoholism runs in her family. The second time she drank she blacked out. Sarah says she was suicidal since she started drinking at the age of 16. Within 4 years of drinking,...
12.07.2019
Nancy Vericker
Nancy McCann Vericker is the co-author with her son, JP, of their book, Unchained: Our Family’s Addiction Mess Is Our Message, the true story of JP’s descent into opioid and alcohol addiction, homelessness, violence and now long-term recovery as a...
12.06.2019
Psych Ward
Justin’s drinking and drug use started increasing during college where he established himself as “the party guy”. A week-long binge on LSD led him to his first psych ward and treatment center. Eventually Justin was arrested and kicked out of...
12.05.2019
Young People’s Roundtable
In this very special Roundtable Discussion, we hear from young people in recovery who have already spoken on Steppin’ Out Radio, but now discussing such topics as what to expect when you first enter a 12-step meeting, getting a sponsor,...
12.04.2019
Feather Boa
Complete with feather boa, Nickoleta grew up idolizing glamorous actresses in older movies. Nickoleta’s drinking didn’t start until college, but looking back she can see how her characteristics led up to her becoming an alcoholic even before she started drinking....
12.03.2019
Addicted And Bankrupt
Ahmed grew up in the streets of Washington, D.C., where he sometimes had to fight for his life. He started drinking “Cisco” at the age of 13 or 14 to escape both himself and his environment. Having blown his money...
12.02.2019
Chugging Away
Bethany started taking sips, or more, from her father’s Gin & Tonic drinks when she was a little girl. Her parents divorced when she was 10 and her father committed suicide when she was 17. At the age of 19...

What's | Steppin' Out Radio about?

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| Steppin' Out Radio episodes:

Terrie Williams

Leigh Steinberg

Danny Trejo

Maureen Cavanagh

One Hundred Aspirins

Severe Drunk

Hospital Corners

New York

Nickels

Not About Winning Or Losing

Family Game

To Be The Bookmaker

Confronting Marbles And Ponies

She Never Knew He Gambled

Family Bar

Teenage Sneaky Drinker

Alcoholic Shrug

Filling Voids

Control

Toasted

Drug Dealing Dad

Celebrating And Dealing

Black And White

Stealing Pills

Pill Kid

Broke The Rule

Jeffrey Veatch

Richie Supa

Cutting

Father Roger

Shyness

Thirteen

Teenage Husband

Heroin And Dad

Keep For Reference

Hard To Get Rid Of

Debtors’ Roundtable

Accounts Unpayable

Cameron Douglas

Entitled To Spend

Big Break

Gift of Desperation

Buying For Mom

Suicidal Sixteen

Nancy Vericker

Psych Ward

Young People’s Roundtable

Feather Boa

Addicted And Bankrupt

Chugging Away