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
15 episodes
Sal Guarino | Community Engagement Manager, Evive
Most recovery conversations focus on stopping. Sal Guarino is more interested in what comes next. In this episode of Evive Live!, Adam and Christina sit down with Sal Guarino — co-founder of The Recovery Partners, Community Engagement Manager a...
Mike Scandria | Executive Director, Nebraska Council on Problem Gambling
Mike Sciandra placed his last bet on December 14th, 2020. He knows the exact date because he tracks it on the Evive app — 1,998 days bet free at the time of recording. What followed that date was treatment, peer support work, counselor training...
Adam & Christina | Support in Recovery
Adam and Christina sit down without a guest to dig into one of the most important parts of recovery — support. Not the surface level version, but what it actually looks like in practice. They talk through meetings, therapy, peer support, ...
Matt Zarb-Cousin | Co-Founder of Gamban
Matt Zarb-Cousin started gambling at 16, lost £20,000 by 20, and quit on his 20th birthday. What followed became one of the most impactful recovery journeys in the gambling harm space.In this episode of Evive Live, Adam and Christina sit...
Dr. Paulette O'Gilvie | Casino & Gambling Researcher
Dr. Paulette O'Gilvie is a casino and gambling researcher whose 2023 study examined the effect of casino proximity on poverty levels in New York City over five years. In this episode of Evive Live!, Adam and Christina sit down with Dr. O'Gilvie...
Melissa Macillus | Host, Making Bets in a Burning House
Melissa Macillus has been impacted by gambling addiction not once, but twice, and instead of walking away, she leaned in. As the host of Making Bets in a Burning House, she sits down with Adam and Christina to talk about what recovery looks lik...
Dr. Deborah Haskins | Chief Clinical Consultant, Evive Board Chair
Dr. Deborah Haskins has spent 30 years training clinicians, building treatment frameworks for underserved communities, and asking the question most of the field won't: what if the problem isn't the person with the addiction? In this episode she...
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 ...