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Recovery Unfiltered

Taking recovery discussion to a different level. Bringing comedy and the lighter side of sober living along with educating non-alcoholics and alcoholics. Hear real stories unfiltered.

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89:01

The Wives are back !!!

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/10/08

Send us a text A wedding speech that kept getting soaked with tears. A 911 call that saved a friend who doesn’t remember it. A sponsor who hits a wall because “please in the morning, thank you at night” turned into “I’ll get to it later.” This one is unfiltered and full-hearted. We invited our wives back to talk about what balance really costs in recovery, marriage, and work—and how gratitude becomes more than a feeling when God moves to the center of the room. We trace the arc from rehab to...

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57:03

Finding Sobriety Through Amends

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/10/01

Send us a text The path to genuine freedom in sobriety often runs through our most difficult relationships. In this raw and moving conversation, we explore the transformative power of making amends—not just as a step in recovery, but as a profound act of healing that ripples beyond ourselves. Our guests share deeply personal stories of reconnecting with ex-spouses after years of separation. One describes flying across the country for a five-minute conversation that changed everything, while ...

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102:57

Sober Out Loud: Finding Freedom Through Faith and...

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/09/24

Send us a text What happens when faith meets addiction recovery? Kat's story is a powerful testament to finding freedom through both spiritual awakening and the 12-step program. With raw honesty, she shares her journey from teenage drinking to maintaining a decade of sobriety—revealing the complex dance between faith, fellowship, and personal accountability. Kat takes us through her early years when alcohol first made her feel comfortable in her own skin, through her development of a "double...

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50:13

Learning to Live Life on Life's Terms

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/09/17

Send us a text What happens when life goes sideways in recovery? When carefully laid plans crumble and unexpected tragedy strikes? Jason returns to Recovery Unfiltered to share a raw, emotional story that tests the limits of "living life on life's terms." The journey begins with Jason's excitement about attending the International AA Convention in Vancouver—his first since getting sober. But as his departure approaches, warning signs appear: canceled accommodations, vanishing flights, and tr...

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32:13

Isolation and the Road to Recovery

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/09/10

Send us a text Finding peace amid the chaos of your own mind might be recovery's greatest challenge. In this eye-opening episode, Stefani shares her remarkable journey from addiction to awakening, revealing how the 12 Steps silenced the cruel voices that had dominated her thoughts for years. "The steps removed so many voices in my head that I didn't know existed until they were gone," Stefani reflects, describing the vicious internal dialogue that kept her trapped in patterns of self-hatred ...

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125:54

Escaping the Shadows: A Survivor's Journey from...

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/09/03

Send us a text What begins as an ordinary story of teenage experimentation spirals into a harrowing journey through addiction's darkest corners. Stefani—raised in a loving, stable home with law enforcement connections—never imagined she'd become trapped in a cycle of heroin dependency and sex trafficking. Yet one casual drug experience in high school set her on a path that would ultimately cost her everything. With remarkable candor, Stefani reveals how her "bar kept lowering" after each bou...

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52:34

Breaking the Cycle of Relapse: Faith Over Fear

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/08/27

Send us a text Ever wonder what truly protects us from relapse? It's not white-knuckling through triggers or avoiding life's challenges – it's something far more powerful. The conversation dives deep into the nature of fear in recovery, specifically the fear of relapse that haunts many on the sobriety journey. Through candid personal stories and powerful insights from both recovery literature and lived experience, we explore how faith serves as the antidote to fear. As one participant powerf...

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104:14

From Chief to Rock Bottom: A Firefighter's Battle...

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/08/20

Send us a text What happens when the weight of trauma becomes too heavy to bear? In this raw and deeply moving episode, we sit down with Jim, a retired Assistant Fire Chief with 33 years of service, who takes us through his harrowing journey with alcoholism, PTSD, and ultimately, a suicide attempt that changed everything. Jim's story begins in a large Irish Catholic family where drinking was normalized from an early age. By 13, he was already developing a relationship with alcohol that would...

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157:49

The Tiger Sleeps But Never Dies

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/08/13

Send us a text Shawn shares his journey from growing up in a household where drinking was normalized to finding sobriety and reconciliation with his oldest daughter after years of addiction and separation. • First introduced to alcohol at age five when his mother gave him Schlitz malt liquor for a head injury • Military career cut short after testing positive for cocaine, returned home to continue cycle of addiction • Made the devastating choice to step away from his daughter's life when she...

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81:56

Breaking Through: Mental Health Insights from Both...

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/08/06

Send us a text What happens when our emotional development gets frozen by addiction? How do we learn to process feelings we've been numbing for decades? This powerful episode brings together voices of lived experience and professional expertise to explore the profound connection between mental health and recovery. The conversation begins with a fascinating examination of perspective in sobriety. Rob shares his belief that he's never had "bad days" in recovery, only "hard days" – a cognitive ...

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159:11

Finding Redemption in Recovery

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/08/06

Send us a text Shawn shares his powerful journey from childhood exposure to alcohol through addiction, military service, and ultimate redemption through sobriety and family reconciliation. • Grew up with normalized drinking in his household from age five • Joined the Army at 23 partly to escape his destructive lifestyle • Faced consequences for drug use during military service but continued pattern after discharge • Lost relationship with his oldest daughter during active addiction years • E...

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125:54

Breaking Free: One Woman's Journey Through Addiction...

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/08/06

Send us a text When Stefani stepped onto the softball field at Sacramento State on scholarship, no one could have predicted the dark journey ahead. Her story shatters the myth that sex trafficking only happens to certain types of people from certain backgrounds. Raised in a loving home with a law enforcement family, Stefani's path to addiction began subtly through a high school relationship. What started as experimental pill use spiraled after a sexual assault left her traumatized and withdr...

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37:01

What Does Love Look Like When Someone Won't Stop...

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/07/30

Send us a text The mountains speak to us in recovery. That special place where rivers merge becomes a profound metaphor for the spiritual transformation we undergo in sobriety—where God enables us to "match calamity with serenity." One host shares how returning to this sacred spot after gaining sobriety brought tears of gratitude rather than just momentary escape. What does love truly mean in recovery? Before sobriety, many of us believed we understood love, but as one host powerfully states...

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36:51

True recovery begins when you stop lying to yourself.

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/07/23

Send us a text What do you do when you can't directly make amends to someone you've hurt long ago? How do you release the guilt of harmful words spoken decades in the past? These questions haunt many in recovery, and in this episode, we unpack the transformative power of "living amends." The conversation begins with Larry sharing highlights from an AA convention in Canada, where a speaker's powerful message resonated deeply: "Higher powers will happen with or without me. Alcoholics Anonymous...

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61:55

From Street Drunk to Hospital Executive

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/07/16

Send us a text What happens when a homeless alcoholic who had resigned himself to "drinking and drugging to death" finds recovery and transforms his life completely? Paul story answers this question with raw honesty and profound hope. Paul takes us through his journey from a childhood of constant relocations to his early drinking at age 13, through failed suicide attempts, living in his car, and abandoning his family—to eventually finding recovery in 1988. With unflinching candor, he d...

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58:44

The Journey So Far: One Year of Recovery Unfiltered

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/07/09

Send us a text Fifty-two episodes. One year of sobriety stories. Countless lives touched. This special anniversary episode takes you behind the scenes of Recovery Unfiltered's remarkable first year. Larry and Rob, joined by their wives Katie and Bonnie, reflect on how a vision born from tragedy—a son lost to fentanyl—transformed into a beacon of hope for those battling addiction. The journey hasn't been without challenges. From setting up the studio (and carrying a surprisingly heavy ...

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139:44

Through Her Eyes: What It's Like to Love an Alcoholic

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/07/02

Send us a text What happens when the spotlight turns to those who've weathered addiction's fiercest storms—not as alcoholics themselves, but as the wives who stayed? In this powerful episode, hosts Larry and Rob invite their wives, Katie and Bonnie, to share their side of the recovery story. Katie reveals how family vacations became sources of resentment rather than joy as everything centered around Larry's next drink. "I had just become independent... doing my own thing," she explains, deta...

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129:11

The Valley We Had to Walk Through Together Changed...

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/06/25

Send us a text Larry and his daughter Maranda explore her perspective on his alcoholism and recovery journey, creating a powerful conversation about family healing, forgiveness, and moving forward together. • Maranda shares childhood memories of her father as a church deacon with an "open door" home for those in need • Larry's first drink came after gastric bypass surgery in 2007, setting the stage for his later addiction • The family noticed Larry's drinking worsening around 2014-2015 when ...

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76:25

Sobriety's Impact: A Father's Journey Through His...

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/06/18

Send us a text In this milestone 50th episode, we pull back the curtain on addiction and recovery through the eyes of a daughter as Larry's youngest, McKenna, joins the conversation to share her perspective on her father's journey through alcoholism and sobriety. McKenna recounts growing up with her dad "Larber," from their adventures showing livestock to the gradual shift as social drinking progressed into something more concerning. With remarkable candor, she pinpoints the moment reality b...

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98:42

Motherhood, Addiction, and the Courage to Choose...

Recovery Unfiltered ·

2025/06/11

Send us a text At just fourteen years old, Christy found herself pushing suitcases out of her window, running away with a boyfriend to Texas, and soon after, discovering she was pregnant. This moment would be the first of many life-altering decisions that shaped her journey through addiction, motherhood, and eventually, recovery. Christy's raw account of growing up too fast pulls no punches as she details her early introduction to methamphetamine, the painful choice to place her daughter in ...

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