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Best friends Josh Durham and Ashley Pace worked for a rookie league baseball team in Burlington, North Carolina in the summer of 1990. Josh had just graduated high school, and Ashley was a rising senior. They were some of the greatest jobs the two have ever had, but for the last thirty years they've been haunted by this question: Did Ashley, the team's batboy, cost one player his professional baseball career by getting food for him before a game? In this podcast, the two best friends take a ...
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A club no one wants to be in because the initiation is too big of a sacrifice: the loss of a child. Unthinkable. Unimaginable. Warrior Moms is local group in north Atlanta filled with strong, courageous, funny, and fiercely loving women who are surviving and thriving amidst horrific grief. This podcast features Amy Durham and Michele Davis, two of the Warrior Moms, who will guide listeners through their grief journey. Every fourth or fifth episode will showcase another Warrior Mom, the traum ...
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A podcast about Trudging the Road to Happy Freaking Destiny! Interviews and random soliloquies where we laugh, cry, complain, explore, and learn. All are welcome, No exceptions. Including those who are not in recovery but perhaps know or love someone with addiction issues or just want to learn more. Along with experts and practitioners who help people work through addictions and behaviors they want to change. These conversations will span limitless topics and though will be through the lens ...
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Can you truly find joy after profound loss? Join us as we explore this compelling question with Dr. Natasha Trujillo, a psychologist who has dedicated her career to helping individuals nav…
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Happy day to our loyal listener community and thanks as always for joining! Our guest today is John Durham and he's known for his intellect, positivity, love and respect for everyone and a wild enthusiasm for recovery, nature and lifting others up. We've known each other via text thread with our close and mutual friend, Mel. On this episode we get …
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Happy day sober family and our entire listener community and thanks as always for joining! Our guest for this episode is someone I have gotten to see from Day 1 in the rooms. I love her for so many reasons. I met her at an Austin Women’s Group back in the day and watched her walk through some gnarly life stuff as if getting sober isn’t hard enough …
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Happy day sober family and our entire listener community and thanks as always for joining! Our guest for this episode is someone I met in Austin meetings years ago. I respect and appreciate her for so many reasons. Her intelligence and free-thinking approach to life intrigued me and every time she shares, I learn something very cool. I’ve always wa…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Planning a summer vacation should be joyful, right? But what happens when the simple thought of packing your bags brings on a wave of anxiety and sadness? Join us as we unravel our own emo…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy What a beautiful interview we had with Anna Howard, lovingly referred to as "Annie" in her early years. Her wisdom is beyond her twenty-three years and shares important advice for other si…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy To say we are honored to witness such joy and bravery is an understatement. Emily McHenry, you amaze us. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and joy. When Emily McHenry speaks about her brot…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy In our latest episode, we're joined by Melissa Crouch, my cherished youngest sister, who bravely shares her journey through the valleys of grief following the murder of my son, her nephew …
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy The echo of loss resonates beyond what we can see, touching those who stand beside us in the shadows – our siblings. As we embark on our Sibling Series here at Warrior Moms, Amy and I hold…
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Hey sober family and our entire listener community. Today’s guest is someone I don’t know personally which always makes for a different kind of interview. Anyone who hangs out in the rooms inevitably hears people’s stories because we have speaker meetings often. They remind us of what it was like, what happened and what it’s like now. I love explor…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy When Christine McHenry, one of the founders of Warrior Moms of North Georgia, shares her journey through grief after the loss of her son Jamie at the young age of 13, it's impossible not t…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Emily Simmons, just three months from retiring from the military, got a call no mother ever wants---her beloved son Darren had died in a car accident. Emily shares about her well-loved son…
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Hey sober family and our entire listener community! I am so excited for this conversation. Do you ever just ask the Universe for something, and it says “yes” without even challenging you to a duel or anything? Well that’s how this played out. I’ve been pushing myself to open my mind and my heart to what my spiritual life looks like beyond recovery.…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Whether it's race car or unicorn themed, our children's birthdays are such joy for parents! Celebrating the life, love, and happiness of another year---(sigh)---(deep breath)---having your…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy The sudden loss of a friend can send shockwaves through the heart, leaving us to grapple with a grief that's as complex as it is profound. Our latest conversation takes you on a journey th…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Christi Howard, one of the Atlanta founding Warrior Moms, gave such a moving interview! From wisdom about how to give grace and seek help in early grief years, particularly on dark days to…
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Oooooh ladies and gents buckle up we’ve got a fun one! Our guest today is Liz Svatek. She has been leading groups and teams of Warrior Women for over 10 years. Her online community of over 100K women support each other in their healing, growth, and expansion. Liz believes women aren’t born Warriors, they become them, through radical shifts in persp…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy What an unbelievable gift---to have a student want to know about your child, but to have that student write a gorgeous song that anyone who has lost someone can relate to. "Traces of You" …
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy One of the most amazing gifts I've ever been given is from a junior student of mine, Slater Nalley. He wrote a song called "Traces of You" in memory of Carter Davis and Natalie Henderson. …
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy We are so honored to have Courtney join us this week. She shares about her precious 2-year-old, book-loving, dinosaur-playing little boy, Miller. A medical emergency, a nightmare choice---…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy "It's only things" could not be further from the truth. The blanket, the stuffed animal, the sports helmet, and yes, even the favorite sweatshirt rarely washed---these things are the only …
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Amy Durham shares about her 24-year old son Alec who went missing for 10 days and after a large police grid-search, he was found. She talks about his struggles with addiction and how this …
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Happy New Year, y'all! Amy and I are excited to start 2024, but also we have sadness, thinking about adding one more between when we last had moments with our child. Yet, we put one foot i…
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Hey sober family and our entire listener community. I’ve picked a really fun one to round out the end of our first year and second season! Ruth Lawson has a crazy good story around her struggles with booze, the law, health stuff, etc. Meeting her in the rooms was and remains one of the very best gifts the Universe has ever sent me. Get your popcorn…
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Hey sober/sober curious/sober-ish/sober-adjacent family and our entire listener community! I’m starting to feel like Steve Harvey on Celebrity Family Feud because I always say this, but man have we got a good one for you today! Dr. Robb Kelly has an incredible story regarding his struggles with alcohol and a wealth of knowledge and education as wel…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Join us and two of our Warrior Moms, Christine McHenry and Robyn Renfroe-Noe, as we talk about how we survived and how we find joy during the holidays while grieving our children. This is …
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Hey sober family and our entire listener community! I’m over the moon about this episode’s guest. She’s a great friend, fellow woman in recovery and just an all-around badass. She recently got engaged to her person and is experiencing all the gifts, and challenges, of the program. She’s also a successful customer experience guru in her work life an…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy What a tribute to walking with faith! Cathy Semeria speaks about changing pain into ministry. To be witness to such love for her daughter and for God speaks of the ongoing love Tini provid…
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Hey sober family and our entire listener community! Today we’re talking to Tony Thomas who owns Kilter Fitness and does a lot of other brainy things regarding fitness and how it touches all areas of life. Tony is sober adjacent, and we always love getting perspectives outside of our little siloes. We met on a plane heading back from Amsterdam to Au…
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Hey sober family and our entire listener community! We have another great conversation about sobriety or in this case sobriety-ish! Like I said from the start, the flavor of this show is curiosity, open-mindedness, learning and sharing stories in hopes we can help ourselves and others. On that note, I’d like to introduce you to Holly Krivo. She's a…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Rae Ann Gruver shares her love for her son Max, the tragedy of losing Max to fraternity hazing, and the strides she has made in educating colleges and parents about the deadly dangers of h…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Do you wonder what's going on with your friend who has lost a child? Do you make them sad when you ask about their child? How long should their grief last? Do you wonder what is normal wit…
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Hey listeners! Our guest on this episode is a close friend and someone I've seen "grow up in public" as we often say in the rooms. Her transformation has been incredible to see and be a part of. She inspires me on many levels and is also just a funny, interesting and talented woman. Her name is Monica Fogelquist and a few cool things about her is t…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy To lose one child is unthinkable; Robyn Noe has lived through the loss of her two beautiful and vibrant children in a house fire on October 5th, 2019: son Shaun, age 12, and Morgan, age 9,…
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Hey listeners! I am excited to welcome and introduce our guest. Her name is Dr. Evelyn Higgins. Her work is absolutely fascinating to me! She’s the Founder and CEO of Wired For Addiction®, She’s a recognized international expert in the epidemiology of addiction and other mental health complexities. As a Certified Addictionologist, Diplomate of the …
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Grief...loss...sadness...words just do not seem to fit the depth of sorrow in losing a child. Yet, grief is a part of this life we all live, and life, it still goes on. Whether you are gri…
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Hey sober family and our entire listener community! We have a fantastic show, and I can’t wait to get into this one. Our guest is Kevin Griffin. Kevin is a Buddhist author, teacher, and leader in the mindful recovery movement. I read one of his books while traveling a few years ago and have read it several more times since then. I have notes in the…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Fiercely intentional about finding a way to make sure Sydney's death can help others, Jenny Stanley earns the Warrior Moms' title by speaking openly about her darling, vivacious daughter w…
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Hey listeners! I am excited to welcome and introduce our guest. His name is Paul Larsen – He’s the Author of "Find Your VOICE as a Leader" and Founder of the Find your VOICE Coaching Institute where he coaches professionals to break free from the limiting beliefs of Imposter Syndrome and shift from the mindset of a manager to a leader mindset. He h…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy It is well known Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' 5 Stages of Grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But a little less known are the physical pains one goes through in dealing…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy "School days, school days Dear old Golden Rule days Reading and writing and 'rithmetic' ...when we were a couple of kids" Music by Gus Edwards | Lyrics by Will D. Cobb (1907) Pictures of k…
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Hey sober family and our entire listener community! We have a fantastic show, and I can’t wait to get into this one. Our guest is Lee Adkins. We’ve known each other since grade school days. He’s a trusted friend, mentor and person living an alcohol-free lifestyle. As well as a dad, successful real estate professional and owner of Amplified Solution…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy A club no one wants to be in because the initiation is too big of a sacrifice: the loss of a child. Unthinkable. Unimaginable. Warrior Moms is a local group in north Atlanta filled with st…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy The unthinkable has occurred--child loss. The unnatural order of things that only happen to "others" is now our story. How do you tell about this horrific loss? How do you answer the dread…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy Carter's Story Carter James Davis, age 17, a student-athlete who lived his life "ALL IN" was murdered behind a Publix in Roswell, GA, on August 1st, 2016 along with his friend Natalie Hend…
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Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to hear from you---what you would love to hear, what you like, what helped, etc. With love, Warrior Moms Michele & Amy "Living in the AND" Losing a child is unthinkable, unimaginable. The weight of the sadness is exhausting, the journey of the grief is daunting, and finding others who understand without sa…
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Hey sober family and our entire listener community! We have a great show lined up and I’m SO excited to share it with you. Our guests are Will and Margarita. We run in similar secular recovery circles, and I’ve been so inspired by their recovery stories, the programs they work, the people they help and their love story. This one is a total feel-goo…
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Hey everyone! Thanks for joining us and we have a great show in store today. Our guest Tim Lodgen. He's a man in recovery as well as a former U.S. Marine, Jr. Olympic Boxer, MMA fighter, Dad, Husband, etc. He shares his lessons about moving from being an active alcoholic addict to motivational speaker and uses his platform to advocate for mental he…
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Hey sober family and our entire listener community! We have a great show in store today. Our guest Jason Fotter and we went to school together many moons ago! His tag line is "just a guy in recovery" because he's a humble guy. So, I will brag on him since he won't. He makes his living as a Creative but is also a great friend. A guy in recovery. A D…
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