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Episode 046 - Being The Project Manager of Your Own Life: Kerry Hoffman on Proactive Sobriety and A Creative Life
Kerry Hoffman stopped drinking without hitting bottom. Here's how a proactive choice—not a crisis—unlocked her creativity, mornings, and writing life.
Mar 28
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Josh Woll
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Kerry Hoffman
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38:16
Episode 044 - When the Body Breaks the Pattern: Phil Powis on Health, Clarity, and Building What You Can’t Hide From
A golf ball-sized tumor. A 50/50 cancer diagnosis. Phil Powis rebuilt everything — including a conscious, intentional relationship with alcohol.
Mar 11
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Josh Woll
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Phil Powis ❤️⚡️
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43:34
Episode 043 - You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup. Becoming You Starts With Filling It.
A nurse, a caregiver, a stroke survivor — Florence Acosta spent decades pouring from an empty cup. This conversation is about what finally changed.
Mar 6
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Josh Woll
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Florence Acosta
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4
36:45
Episode 042 - From the Stage to the Page: Mary Peeples on Sobriety, Self-Reclamation, and the Courage to Create Again
Episode 042 of Clear Conversations with Mary Peeples from Little Edits Atelier
Feb 28
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Josh Woll
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Little Edits Atelier
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2
37:30
Episode 040 - From Survival to Surrender: How a Landscape Painter Found Creative Freedom Through Healing
Justin Donaldson, a landscape painter who survived a cult, finds creative freedom through healing — and learns that clarity, not substances, unlocks his…
Feb 13
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Josh Woll
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Justin Donaldson
10
3
36:34
Episode 039 - Spiritual Awakening in the Shower: Elif Ahmad’s Non-Traditional Recovery Journey
Elif Ahmad quit cocaine without rehab after a prayer in the shower. Within 24 hours, three years of addiction ended through spiritual intervention and…
Feb 5
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Josh Woll
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Temple of Harmony and Light®️
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6
3
39:01
Episode 038 - Living Above a Bar: A Dutch Medicine Woman’s Journey to Visibility and Sobriety
Medicine woman Inge Van De Graaf navigates sobriety while living above a bar, transforms fear of visibility into authentic work, and rediscovers…
Feb 3
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Josh Woll
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Inge van de Graaf
15
35:58
Episode 037 - Mistaking the Absence of Pain for Joy (And How to Find the Real Thing)
"We mistake the absence of pain for the closest to joy we can reach." A conversation about food, alcohol, and finding real comfort instead of numbing…
Jan 30
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Josh Woll
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Georgia Kohlhoff
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3
42:00
Episode 036 - Peeling the Trauma Onion: Paul Overton on 30 Years of Sobriety and What Comes After
30 years sober, Paul Overton knows the hole you're filling has layers. Behaviors hide unmet needs. Unmet needs hide wounds. Through his work with The…
Jan 23
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Josh Woll
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Paul Overton
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35:17
Episode 035 - The Space Between: Sam Illingworth on Becoming Fearless with 18 Years of Clear-Minded Living
Professor Sam Illingworth on how 18 years of sobriety unlocked fearlessness, moved him from functioning to living, and built a career in the spaces…
Jan 15
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Josh Woll
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Dr Sam Illingworth
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8
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36:32
Episode 034 - When Your Identity Falls Apart: Jake Summers on Relapse, Recovery, and Building a Creative Life
Jake Summers on relapsing while building a mango farm in Cambodia after 4 years sober, the guilt-fear-shame cycle and building a creative life where…
Jan 8
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Josh Woll
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Jake Summers
5
2
2
41:05
Episode 032 - When Sobriety Cleared the Fog: How One Writer Went from Paralyzed to 3,000 Words a Day
Anna Gibson went from creative paralysis to 3,000 words daily by getting sober. We explore clarity, AI as thinking partner, and closing the taste-skill…
Dec 26, 2025
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Josh Woll
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Anna Gibson
8
5
31:41
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