Evive Live
Evive Live is a conversation series at the intersection of gambling harm and behavioral health. Hosted by Adam Lyons (The Modern Meeting) and Christina Cook (The Broke Girl Society), each episode features clinicians, researchers, treatment providers, peer specialists, and people in recovery having the honest conversations the field needs — about what gambling disorder really looks like, what treatment actually works, and what it takes to build a recovery that lasts.
Episodes
8 episodes
Scott Meyer | Recovery Coach, Peer Manager
Adam and Christina sit down with Recovery Coach Scott Meyer, who shares a brutally honest look into his 13-year battle with gambling addiction—one that unfolded in complete silence while he maintained the image of a successful professional, hus...
Katrina Arroyo | Manager of Clinical Programs, PGNO
Gambling harm is invisible — and that's exactly why so many clinicians are missing it. In this episode of Evive Live, Adam and Christina sit down with Katrina Arroyo, Manager of Clinical Programs at the Problem Gambling Network of Ohio, for one...
Alyx Effron | Collectors MD Founder
The hobby world has a gambling problem — and almost no one is talking about it.Alyx Effron, founder of Collectors MD, joins co-hosts Adam Lyons and Christina Cook to expose the gambling mechanics embedded inside the modern trading card indu...
Brian Hatch | Community Engagement Manager CCPG
Before there were gambling recovery podcasts, there was Brian Hatch. A decade after launching All In: The Addicted Gambler Podcast — the first of its kind — Brian is now Community Engagement Manager at the Connecticut Council on Problem Gamblin...
Dr. Tim Fong | UCLA Gambling Studies Program
Adam and Christina sit down with Dr. Tim Fong — Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, Co-Director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program, and Evive advisory board member — for one of the most clinically substantive conversations the show has ...
Kim Freudenberg | Parents Standing Together
Adam and Christina sit down with Kim Freudenberg, a high school physics teacher, mother, and founder of Parents Standing Together, a nonprofit peer support community for parents of young people experiencing gambling harm.Kim's son Kurt ...