The 1% in Recovery Successful Gamblers & Alcoholics Stopping Addiction
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259 episodes
Psychologist Michael Zhang Talks Prediction Markets vs Sports Betting, Adolescent Brain
Prediction markets are having a moment, and they’re being pitched as smarter than gambling. The problem is that the brain doesn’t always care what you call it. When the interface looks like trading and the language sounds like forecasting, it c...
Gambling Is Gambling - Forget What Prediction Markets or Sports Apps Call It
Gambling keeps evolving its wardrobe, but it never changes its goal: separate you from your money. We talk straight about prediction markets, sports betting apps, and the question people dodge the most: what is gambling when platforms call it “...
Slots and Parlays: The Two Bets Designed To Beat You
The gambling industry has two products that print money for the house, and we’re naming them plainly: slots and parlays. If you’ve ever felt that pull of “just one more spin” or the rush of turning $20 into $1,000, this conversation puts the ps...
Three Tips To Stop Gambling
You can feel totally alone in gambling addiction, even when you are surrounded by people. We get blunt about a truth that snaps the fantasy: most gamblers lose, and the house is not your friend. That is not meant to shame you. It is meant to wa...
Three Tips to Staying Stopped with Gambling, Addiction
Staying stopped is the elusive question, and we go straight at it: lots of people can quit for a stretch, but lasting recovery takes a foundation that doesn’t crack the moment life gets stressful. We talk about why “white-knuckling it” fades, w...
Live from Holy Name Retreat Center: Why Recovery Retreats Work
We’re recording live from Holy Name retreat center in Houston, Texas, surrounded by people doing the work at a 12-step retreat for compulsive gamblers. There’s something powerful about stepping out of your normal routine for a focused Friday-to...
Gambling Englishman Daniel living in Australia Talks Pokies And Purpose
Pokies in a “VIP room,” betting screens on every wall, and a machine that lets you place fixed-odds bets without leaving the bar. Australia’s gambling environment can feel like the casino came to you, and that’s where our conversation with Dani...
Voices To Victory Author Tara Talks Crack, Sexual Abuse, Journaling and Recovery
Crack addiction doesn’t just wreck your body, it rewires your relationships until the only “friend” left is the next hit. We’re back on the East Coast and talking with Tara from Charlotte, North Carolina about the realities of crack cocaine rec...
Episode Number 250: Recovery Is Beautiful, You Too, Can Recover!!! Let's Do It
250 episodes is a long time to keep one promise: make recovery clearer, more human, and more doable. We start by celebrating the milestone, but we quickly get practical about what actually changes people, especially early on when motivation is ...
Fans are Expected to Spend Money and More Money and Gamble. From Youth Leagues, AAU, NIL and Betting.
“What is a fan?” sounds like a simple question until you look at what modern sports asks of us: more money, more attention, more data, and now more betting. We start from the place that made us love sports in the first place, competition, pract...
National Council on Problem Gambling and Kalshi, The Money, Resonsible Gambling Doesn't Work
A $2 million check lands on the table and suddenly a question gets impossible to ignore: can a problem gambling organization stay credible while taking money tied to the gambling ecosystem? We talk through the National Council on Problem Gambli...
The $266 Million LeBron Bet, Free Agency Betting
$266 million wagered on one question: where will LeBron James play next? That number stopped us cold, because it’s not just sports talk anymore, it’s the financialization of fandom through prediction markets. We unpack how platforms like Kalshi...
Football Season, Locker Room Camaraderie & Vegas Making the Lines Harder so You Can't Win
Football season is back, and so is the loudest lie in sports: that you can beat the book if you just “know ball.” We love the start of a new season, the routines, the locker room mindset, the hope. But we also see how quickly that excitement ge...
Online Gambling, Online Meetings, Gambler Francie Talks About Buffalo Stampede, Getting Involved and Recovery
A casino in your pocket changes everything. When gambling moves from a building to a screen, the triggers follow you into bed, into grief, into quiet moments you used to survive without a bet. Francie joins us from Amarillo to share how online ...
Draftkings, September 2nd, The Sports Betting Trap
The loudest ads on your screen aren’t selling “fun” they’re selling a habit. We dig into what happens when sportsbooks like DraftKings and FanDuel blanket the country with promos right as football season kicks off, and why that timing matters f...
TEDx Talk - The Dark World Of Gambling
A gambling ad offering “Free Money” sounds harmless until you ask the real question: what’s it training your brain to do next? We go behind the scenes of our TEDx Talk, "The Dark World of Gambling", and unpack why the sports betting boom isn’t ...
New Yorker Gambler Mike, 43 Years, Going from the A Train to PhD
A single phone call kept Mike from walking into the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11, and nearly 25 years later the memory still lands with force. That moment of shock and clarity sets the tone for a New York City conversation about pe...
Don't Mess With Texas!!! Influencers are Modern Day Drug Dealers
Your phone is not “just showing you ads” anymore. It’s training your brain to chase a dopamine hit, and sports betting companies are paying celebrities and influencers to make that chase look normal.We get real about the explosion of ga...
Fog Lifted: Life After Gambling And Drugs, Listen as Al Talks about The Steps and Recovery
What if quitting your first addiction doesn’t free you—but quitting your last escape does? We sit down with Al, a dual-addict in long-term recovery to trace the surprising path from drugs to gambling to genuine peace. His story reveals a ...
The Essence of Recovery Step Nine - Listening
What if Step Nine isn’t about delivering the perfect apology, but about finally hearing the truth you’ve been dodging? We take a fresh look at amends and uncover why listening, not speechmaking, is the hinge that turns shame into repair and dis...
Kalshi, Draftkings, Gambling Industry Update and the Greed to get Every Dollar
If money rides on an uncertain outcome, it’s gambling—no matter what the branding brochure says. We pull back the curtain on a fast-converging ecosystem where sportsbooks, prediction markets, and media platforms fuse into one attention machine....
The Essence of Recovery Step Ten - Scheduling
What if your recovery accelerated the moment you opened your calendar? We explore Step 10 through a fresh lens: not a nightly tally of mistakes, but a living practice of scheduling the next 24 hours with intention, gratitude, and service. That ...
The Essence of Recovery Step Eleven - Silence
Quiet isn’t empty space; it’s the room where your next right move becomes clear. We dig into Step 11 with a practical lens—how prayer and meditation actually work when you strip away the noise, schedule real silence, and let your nervous system...