Eric Hahn is a stand up comedian who grew up in a steel town in Ohio where he started drinking at age 12. He narrowly escaped a career as a butcher before finding his way to Los Angeles via a lucrative career in the restaurant business which was upended when his employers saw his first stand up set on YouTube. I realized Eric was sober via his hilarious twitter feed, and he shared with me here some frank and very very funny stories about coming of age as a gay man in the mid-west.

Vincent Castellanos is an actor who appeared in Anaconda, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive. He was born in Cuba and immigrated to Miami when he was 9 years old where he found a sense of excitement and belonging in the Miami night club scene of the late 70s. He moved to New York to pursue a career in acting and dancing but ran afoul fo the hedonism of Manhattan in the 80s. Once he got sober he quickly found the career success that eluded him and has since discovered a sustaining daily spirituality.

Beth Lapides created the iconic LA comedy show, UnCabaret, which had a Comedy Central special and a series run on Amazon Prime and recently celebrated its 25th Anniversary. Beth got sober 8 years ago and shares some amazing insights here about peace, acceptance, creation and the winding path that took her thru georgraphics, yoga, eviction and angel healing before sobriety.

One of the joys of doing this podcast has been re-connecting with old friends. Jed and I went to college together and crossed paths from time to time in Hollywood. He's worked on SNL, been a talent manager, a music exec, and film and TV producer. He is - in my mind - Hollywood royalty (tho I know he would object to that!) - and it was great to hear what has really been going on all these years.

Andy Haynes is a very funny stand up comic and writer who was selected for the New Faces Showcase at Just For Laughs. He has also appeared on Jimmy Fallon and written for several television shows. I just saw him tape a set for Comedy Central and found his brand of mid-life bewilderment so funny and all too relatable. I was introduced to him by Fielding Edlow who has been such a great supporter of this podcast, and he shares some funny stories here and a great and classic understanding of his higher power.

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Lori Marie is a stand up comic and host of the podcast "Me and My More Successful Friends". In sobriety she had to find out if she could get up on stage and still be funny when she was not getting loaded first.

Storyteller, writer and stand up comic Matt Gallagher (A Stumble In The Woods / Amazon Prime) takes us on a wild and hilarious trip from Atlantic City to Engineering School to Hollywood in an unlikely journey toward stand up comedy, rehab and ultimately surrender.

Demetrius Griffin is a native Angeleno whose long search for his tribe took him in and out of the Navy before landing him in the film business 15 years ago. He wrestled mightily with addiction in a relentless cycle of incomprehensible demoralization before finally finding his real people in the recovery community of LA.

Lauren Morelli is a costume designer who grew up in South Florida experimenting in a range of addictive behavior from an early age. At 17 she found herself on lockdown in state run rehab and somehow found a spiritually and sobriety there strong enough she has stayed sober ever since.

Laura House is a comedian from Grand Prairie, TX who moved to Los Angeles in the 90s to develop and star in the MTV cult hit AUSTIN STORIES and has since written on many well-known TV shows including the Emmy Award winners SAMANTHA WHO and MOM. She has been sober for a little over 11 years, now-- and shares here the journey in recovery to reconnect with her birth mother and an entire second family