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Escaping Rock Bottom
Hi! My name is Brandon Lee - a 5x Emmy Award winning news anchor and recovering addict. I celebrated 10 years of sobriety on 2-22-2020. This podcast is all about people who have suffered addiction & share their experience, strength, and hope. I talk about child sex abuse, drug addiction, sex addiction, and trauma. It's my belief that untreated trauma is the gateway to addiction. We don't hold back. We all speak our truth. Raw & unfiltered! This podcast is designed to give hope to those who are hurting.
Episodes
81 episodes
Mountain Park Health Centers Changing The Way Healthcare Is Delivered
Mountain Park Health Center has nearly a dozen health centers in Arizona and they deliver quality healthcare to underserved communities. They are at the forefront of creating a true one-stop-shop when it comes to helping families stay healthy. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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14:16
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From US Army, Addicted, To Helping Others Get Help In Recovery
Will Christ represented our country in the US Army for more than a decade, but alcohol began to consume his life, his marriage, and his family. At the time of the recording of this podcast episode, Will has 19 months clean and is now a clinical...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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30:31
Developmental Disabilities and Severe Mental Illness: Programs That Work
Copa Health is a premiere behavioral health clinic and housing option for those who have developmental disabilities and severe mental illness. While many organizations shy away from helping these groups, Copa Health proudly steps up to the plat...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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24:11
New Healthcare Clinic Provides Comprehensive Care To Everyone In Arizona
N.O.A.H. (Neighborhood Outreach Access to Health) just opened a state of the art healthcare clinic that provides everything from primary care, to lab work, to dentistry, behavioral health, prenatal care and community resource programs! They acc...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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24:06
ABC's The Bachelor Opens Up About His Mental Health and Childhood Trauma
Clayton Echard was the star on Season 26 of ABC's "The Bachelor". He opens up about his experience on the show and how it's now put him on the path to becoming a mental health advocate. Clayton also talks about his childhood trauma that has imp...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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31:31
How Childhood Trauma Leads To Helping Others
Richard works at Calvary Healing Center in Phoenix, Arizona where he works daily with people who suffer from alcoholism and addiction. He talks about being an atheist in recovery while also talking about the strength he finds in his spiritualit...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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40:33
From Drug Addiction To The Slammer, A Story About Recovery
Megan Racer never felt comfortable in her own skin even as a small child. She experimented with drugs as a teen. It made her feel good. But, as you're about to see, her life spun out of control. She got hooked up with a Mexican cartel. She got ...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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1:06:11
Becoming An Alcoholic At 40, Why It's Never Too Late To Start Over
Most people will experience trauma by the age of 10. Childhood trauma impacts the way our brains are formed. Sometimes, we don't even realize as adults that early childhood trauma is impacting our poor life decisions. Our wiring is off because ...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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36:05
From Surviving Childhood Trauma To Creating A Healing Center
Tim Westbrook is the founder, owner, and CEO of Camelback Recovery in Phoenix, AZ. He talks about childhood trauma which led him to a life of booze and drugs. From multiple blackouts, losing jobs and relationships, Tim was able to rebuild his l...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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48:23
From A Life In Prison To Helping Others Get Sober
This is an incredibly powerful podcast about a guy who experienced severe childhood trauma that led him down a dark path of self destruction with drugs. Steven Ayers speaks about his childhood trauma publicly for the first *ever. He was moleste...
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26:42
How Childhood Trauma Leads To Addiction
In this episode you will meet Ian Day. Ian gives an incredible testimony about how recovery has not only saved his life, but it's allowed him to create a life he truly never thought was possible. He talks about childhood bullying and chil...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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47:16
The Power Of Psychedelics In Healing Trauma
This might be the most "controversial" podcast episode I have ever done and I have never been more excited to talk about the science of psychedelics and the important studies being done right now to help people heal from trauma. We are talking ...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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30:56
Meth At Age 11: Overcoming Childhood Trauma Leads To Helping Others
Patrick Legenzoff is known as the "Sober Investor". His story is one of the most powerful I have ever heard. He grew up in a broken home. His mother was a drug addict and also the neighborhood drug dealer. He tried marijuana at age 10. He took ...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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39:02
Mrs. American Uses Her Platform To Talk About Sobriety
Hannah Kirkpatrick will tell you that she's never experienced trauma and had what she describes as the "perfect childhood". She somehow ended up abusing alcohol - she says she became a food addict & depressed. She battled perfectionism, try...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:00:35
MDMA, Psychedelics Being Used To Help Trauma Survivors Heal
This episode covers a lot of current events happening around recovery/healing. We sit down with the founder of Pinnacle Peak Recovery to talk about news making headlines: Kathy Griffin becomes an addict at age 59 - she wonders how can anyone be...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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35:13
Child Sex Abuse Survivor Becomes Primary Therapist To Help Others
Kim B has a powerful story about survival. She was sexually abused by a family member when she was a child. But no one believed her which caused her even more trauma. She turned to drugs to escape. The numb felt better than her reality. Now, Ki...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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34:07
From violence and mayhem to giving hope, a remarkable story of recovery
JT has an incredible story of recovery. He lost his father at a very young age. That was a traumatic event. That trauma went unhealed and he began hanging with gangs and getting into brawls. That was his way of coping. It eventually led JT down...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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34:53
How I Almost Relapsed, And What Stopped Me
This is a really raw conversation about romanticizing relapse and the shame we feel about even having those thoughts. They say in recovery "just tell someone before you relapse." Well, truth be told, it's not that easy. What if we normalized th...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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40:39
Addiction Left Him Paralyzed, Now He Gives People Hope
Josh Anderson has one helluva story to tell. He says he didn't have a traumatic childhood. The thing he says likely sent him down the wrong path: he was left home alone. A lot. His experimentation with marijuana led him to booze. He got into a ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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32:55
From Drug Addiction To CEO: We Do Recover
This is a really powerful story of a man who witnessed a lot of chaos as a child including domestic violence. The trauma that Bobby suffered eventually led him down a dark path of drugs. But, this story is proof that not only do WE recover, but...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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28:06
Major Fentanyl Bust & Harm Reduction: The Impact
In this episode of Escaping Rock Bottom, we sit down with the owner of Pinnacle Peak Recovery to talk about one of the largest fentanyl busts in history. It happened in one of the wealthiest zip codes: Scottsdale, Arizona. We talk about the imp...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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29:55
How To Pick The Right Treatment Center
In this episode of Escaping Rock Bottom we talk with Bryan from Calvary Healing Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Bryan is not only a recovering addict, but Bryan got sober at Calvary Healing Center and now he works there. He says the program saved h...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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37:17
From Stealing Cash To Saving Lives: A Powerful Story Of Recovery
Tyler Tisdale is the owner & founder of Pinnacle Peak Recovery in Arizona. He knows what it's like to suffer trauma. He witnessed addiction in his own family. He swore he'd never get caught up in drugs. But, he eventually became everything ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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34:42
Sober Is Cool: How Young People Can Thrive In Recovery
Dylan is THE example that being sober is not only cool, but it's a life worth living. He was a fentanyl addict. Dope Sick. He was so desperate he stole from his daughters piggy bank just to get a fix. Now, Dylan is not only sober, but his life ...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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54:47
Pain Pills to Heroin: Finding A Way To Recover
We need to understand that abusing prescription pain pills is the reason why we have the heroin epidemic in this country. If you ask any heroin addict how did it all begin, they will almost certainly tell you it started with a prescription to p...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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44:30