• Recovery & The Sober Truth

  • By: JT Hawker
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Recovery & The Sober Truth

By: JT Hawker
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  • Summary

  • Stories and interviews that inspire hope and determination in us all. Host JT takes his audiences on an emotional adventure of our modern times with stories of pain, struggle, joy, grief, triumph and laughter with a wide variety of subjects from people who have overcome all odds for survival, how they did it and what gifts, knowledge and wisdom they received from it. Although this is a recovery inspired podcast, it dives deeper into the human experience with both tragedy and triumph. JT gets real and raw with his own stories from his dark past and shows how vulnerability can benefit others who are still suffering. He asks the uncomfortable questions to his guests to draw the sober truth of reality to light. Recovering Alcoholics and addicts to motivational speakers, family members of addicts, experts in the field of substance abuse and mental health issues and a wide variety of everything in between. This podcast is an ever evolving experiment of people from ALL walks of life finding ways to lift the human spirit and and how to bring people together for a common purpose of unity.
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Episodes
  • Sober Truth Season One Finale

    Sober Truth Season One Finale
    Sep 16 2021
    Follow me on my new website! https://www.podpage.com/recovery-the-sober-truth/ In season one finale I open up about where I was a year ago and the struggles I went through before finally deciding to work a twelve step program and how much this podcast means to me. It is honest, up front and from the heart. I reveal the demons that almost took my life and how the gift of desperation saved me from complete destruction. I talks briefly about the upcoming season in early November and asks my listeners that want to help others and share their stories to email me at jtthesobertruth@gmail.com or leave me a message on the website. Thank you everyone for your support of this podcast, it has meant the world to me. I know it was rocky in the beginning and I am still hitting bumps but I am learning and hope to continue to get better at this in hopes of helping at least one person out there! At the end of this episode is a special clip from episode three. See you all in early November! We will get through the holidays sober together!!!
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    48 mins
  • MILES Away

    MILES Away
    Sep 7 2021
    JT gets the honor of interviewing the man who changed the trajectory of his life forever with a simple gesture of friendship that would turn into a human connection and bond that he never thought possible. Thomas Miles, or simply known as Miles, introduces us to his story of pain, suffering, joy and triumph by painting a picture of a complicated childhood filled with struggle, confusion, loneliness and a desperate need to fit into the world surrounding him. Resenting his angry alcoholic father, Miles searches for ways to save his mother and sisters from his constant chaos and abuse. Very early in childhood, Miles developed a severe nervous disposition and protective nature as he helplessly watched his Dad abuse his mother day after day. He recalls his first encounter with alcohol at fourteen when him and his group of friends were given a green light by a reckless parent to drink and party. Miles soon discovered that he would rather focus on academics than alcohol but still struggled to find a way to fit in as the only black student in his high school. A theme that would end up following him into adulthood. After divorce, Miles family is moved to the inner city with his new father in law that treated him as his own and was a proper role model. Miles found himself desperate to fit in with the inner city kids and began a young career of robbery, alcohol and drug abuse and gang activity. He tells how smoking a little pot and giving his friends prescription xanax he could be accepted by a group of friends that looked like he did. He forgets his academic dream and focused only on impressing the group and gaining street ‘cred’ with his progressive ability to rob and one up each criminal offense. Miles walks us through his early adulthood as he continued his crime and drugs as the only way he knew to live. Early fatherhood found him not wanting to do drugs in front of his children and alcohol became his new way of coping with life. Putting his kids mother and his daughters through the same wrath his father put him through Miles fell into the abyss of alcohol abuse and addictive denial for years. After his girl left him and took his daughters he became unchecked and out of control becoming a man with a family and a job to a homeless drunk junkie smoking meth everyday in his stolen vehicle. Desperate, Miles went to the first of many rehabs and was introduced to the rooms of AA. Miles lets down his guard as he takes us through the horrifying struggle of chronic recovery and relapse. Describing his all time low of hearing his baby crying for daddy as he was unable to stop smoking meth in the closet he had locked himself in for days. In a final attempt to help, Miles baby mama and his mother forced him out of their lives after he became completely lost in the grips of chaos and insanity living in a fantasy world based on his own reality. He tells us while living in a sober living house he was able to build unbelievable bonds and started a foundation of alcoholics anonymous twelve step program. While observing the people and friends around him having progressive lives that were getting better, Miles knew that his own life was stagnant as he purposely didn’t work the steps or learn from classes. He observes his own self destructive tendencies as he recalls his final relapse after leaving Sober Living in a hotel room where in four short days he destroyed every single positive thing he built in a year. After knowing his friends would never give up on him, Miles reaches out for help and returns to rehab for a final attempt at a life of sobriety. Eight months after his relapse he discusses with us his new belief in a God, his first honest attempt at the twelve steps and a world of happiness that he has never felt in his entire life. He explains the how the gift of desperation has given him the ability to be open to the possibility that living in a world of sobriety through AA can be...
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Cowboy Up With Daniel

    Cowboy Up With Daniel
    Sep 2 2021
    Cowboy Up: Daniels Story, JT interviews Daniel F. to hear the story of how Daniel went from being a fun loving boy to a wanted criminal that spent time in federal prison. Daniel recalls starting to drink alcohol at age eleven and by the time he was a senior in high school he had a couple of overdoses and two children. He shares about the stress that was put on him and how once he had a criminal mind and addiction he didn't know any other way to live. Daniel goes on to talk about how he ended up 23 years old on the doorstep of his third rehab with nothing but his shorts, shirt and a walmart bag with a toothbrush. This was his final gift of desperation, he knew it was either change or die. Daniel talks about his experience in rehab and why he decided to go to California for an IOP program and sober living. He is now celebrated 13 months of sobriety, been recently married and working full time. Here how Daniel did it! You can too!
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    55 mins
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