The Addictionary Podcast

Part III of our Happy Birthday Farewell Tribute to Chris from @dopeypodcast with Maegan, Bobby, and special guest, Dave from Dopey! Dave hosted @dopeypodcast with Chris and shares his thoughts on Chris’s passing as well as next steps for Dopey.

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We are walking in Chris’s honor for the Shatterproof Rise Up Against Addiction 5K race so donate to our team or register here and walk with us on Sept. 23rd in Boston: https://www.shatterproof5k.org/boston/theaddictionarypodcast.

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Part II of our Happy Birthday Farewell Tribute to Chris from @dopeypodcast with special guest Annie, Chris’s girlfriend, and Chris’s fellow Clinical Psychology Doctoral peers from William James College, Leora Citrin, M.A., Heather Corazzini, M.A., and Tania Jimenez, M.A. to talk about Chris traumatic passing and how Annie is processing it all as both a loved one and Addiction Psychiatrist in training.

Stay tuned for parts III and IV of today’s tribute with Dave from @dopeypodcast and some listeners of Dopey and The Addictionary podcasts.

We are walking in Chris’s honor for the Shatterproof Rise Up Against Addiction 5K race so donate to our team or register here and walk with us on Sept. 23rd in Boston: https://www.shatterproof5k.org/boston/theaddictionarypodcast.

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Part I of our Happy Birthday Farewell Tribute to Chris from @dopeypodcast with special guests Bob Forrest and Chris’s fellow Clinical Psychology Doctoral peers from William James College. Bob Forrest, CADC II, is known for his role on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1, podcasts like Don’t Die and This Life #YOULIVE alongside Dr. Drew, and his music career. Maegan sits down with fellow budding psychologists Leora Citrin, M.A., Heather Corazzini, M.A., and Tania Jimenez, M.A. to talk about our friend Chris and his tragic passing, plus addiction, mental health treatment, and self-care on a broader level. Bob Forrest lends his invaluable voice and advice to our discussion as an addiction expert and Chris’s former counselor. If you want an honest, refreshing, and inspiring take on addiction, suicide, and the like, you must listen to Bob Forrest on his Don’t Die podcast as well as This Life #YOULIVE. Follow Bob on social media @bobforrestsdontdiepodcast!

Stay tuned for the rest of the day as we release 3 other segments of our tribute to our dear friend, Chris. We love you buddy and will carry the torch at William James College and beyond!

We are walking in Chris’s honor for the Shatterproof Rise Up Against Addiction 5K race so donate to our team or register here and walk with us on Sept. 23rd in Boston: https://www.shatterproof5k.org/boston/theaddictionarypodcast.

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Maegan, Bobby, and guest Kristin Casey! Kristen is the author of Rock Monster: My Life With Joe Walsh in which she documents a tumultuous and drug-fueled six-year relationship with rock legend and Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh. We talk about their breakup, her ensuing suicidal spiral, codependency, domestic violence, drug addiction, sexuality, BDSM and S&M, plus her current work as an intimacy coach and surrogate partner, which you can learn more about at www.kcaseyconsulting.com. Buy Kristin’s book and find out more about her story at www.kristincaseyauthor.com and follow her on social media @intimacy_coach_atx.

Maegan & Bobby open the show by reading listener’s questions!

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Episode 54: Maegan Bobby are joined by Sober Faust, Founder of @soberweekly (a recovery Instagram page), recovery warrior and advocate, sexual abuse survivor, jump rope master, and person in recovery. Sober Faust gets open and honest and tells us about his tumultuous history of addiction and sexual trauma, how he found sobriety, and his motivation for helping people struggling with addiction and mental health through his recovery social media pages. Plus, Sober Faust talks about his mother’s current battle with cancer. Follow @sober_faust and @soberweekly on Instagram and donate to his mom’s Go Fund Me at https://www.gofundme.com/ajn5e-cancer-again.

Maegan & Bobby open the show talking about Maegan’s recent trip to Mt. Washington and current news about Fentanyl.

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Coss Marte, creator and owner of Conbody in New York City, calls into the show and shares his inspiration for opening up a fitness studio that employs ex-convicts as personal trainers who carry out the company’s “prison style workout.” Coss tells us how he started dealing drugs at a young age and why the DEA now uses his case as a case study. Once Coss went to prison, he started exercising, turned his health around, and laid the foundation for Conbody. He tells us about his meeting with Saks Fifth Avenue and who some of his famous clients are. Coss’ story has been covered by Forbes Magazine, CNBC, The Men’s Journal, ESPN, and The New York Times to name a few. Watch Coss and his team on episode 11 of The Real Housewives of NYC and Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (http://www.bravotv.com/watch-what-happens-live-with-andy-cohen/season-15/episode-97/videos/after-show-craig-dishes-on-the

clip 6). Find Coss’ book Conbody: The Revolutionary Bodyweight Prison Boot Camp, Born from an Extraordinary Story of Hope on Amazon and check out Conbody by visiting https://conbody.com.

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Jason “Frogman” from The Frogman Recovery Hour radio show in Merrimack Valley (MA & NH) calls into the show and tells us about his addiction to heroin, the unfortunate suicide of his sponsor’s teenage daughter and how his sponsor is a model of strength, 12-steps, being revived with Narcan, relapsing, having a son who is diagnosed with Autism, and attending radio broadcasting school. Listen to his show on 980WCAP.com on Monday nights 6-8 pm, on the Tune In app, or live on 980AM if you are in the Merrimack Valley! Maegan & Bobby open up the show talking about how Bobby first learned how to lie and why it became a reinforced behavior.

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Domenic Esposito (the 800- lb burnt “Spoon” artist) & Fernando Alvarez (gallery owner of Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery) are internationally known for their recent protest against Purdue Pharma and their lack of accountability for igniting the opioid pandemic. They both call into the show to tell us the inspiration for their activism. Domenic shares how opioid addiction has impacted his family and both men share an undying dedication to holding the people accountable for causing this devastation. Maegan & Bobby open up the show discussing the upcoming protest that Team Sharing is spearheading on the steps of Purdue Pharma’s corporate headquarters in Stamford, CT on August 17th at 9am. Find out more info at www.teamsharinginc.org or on twitter @theopioidspoon. Fernando’s gallery exhibit is called Opioid: Express Yourself and will be running until July. Domenic’s infamous steel spoon will be available for viewing until September. Find out more information by visiting http://www.alvarezgallery.com!

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Brandy Ledford, actress and former model, calls into the show and tells us about her acclaimed acting roles on Demolition Man, starring Sylvester Stallone, Baywatch Hawaii, Married...With Children, Modern Family, and Andromeda, as well as her modeling career, which included being “Pet of the Year” for Penthouse Magazine in 1990. Brandy recently celebrated 6 years of sobriety and tell us how she did it after suffering from addiction to pain pills, alcohol, and cocaine. She tells us about her “miracle baby” at age 44 and how she has been able to repair her family thanks to her recovery. Learn more about Brandy by visiting her website at www.brandyledford.com and following her on Instagram @brandyledford! Dad and I open up the show discussing Narcan and The Naltrexone Challenge as well as the differences between Suboxone vs. Subutex.

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Recovery Blogger, Alyssa from the @therecoverybabe Instagram blog, calls into the show and discusses her primary addiction to Adderall, which we call the “silent epidemic.” She just celebrated 1 year of sobriety and shares how having a mom in recovery was instrumental to her finding her path. Alyssa shares how establishing a structured daily routine was crucial and what she hopes people will gain from her recovery blog. We talk about self-compassion, 12-steps, Passages in Malibu, dating in recovery, and how drugs/alcohol affect our appearance. Dad and I open the show talking about how our addiction impacted our appearances and what that means to us.

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