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Presenters: Julie L and Peter D
Episode length: Approximately 1 hour 48 minutes
Release date: Friday, October 23, 2026
At 23, Cade M. talks with Julie L and Peter D about getting sober at 19, finding people his own age in the rooms, and learning to follow the suggestions he once ignored. He share...
Recovery, Service, and Second Chances
Presenters: Julie L and Peter D
Episode length: 1 hour 20 minutes (confirmed by Peter)
Release date: Friday, October 16, 2026
Brad O. wanted to play college baseball. Drinking and drug use took that goal away, and four ...
In Part 1, Walter B. told us about the Rose Bowls, the years after the cheering stopped, and the day his friend Matt came to the trap house. In Part 2, he and Matt have a trip to Kona planned. Walter explains why the...
Walter B. grew up in Northeast Portland running before he could walk. Sports carried him from the Albina Roadrunners to Benson High School and the University of Washington, where he went to three Rose Bowls....
Julie and Peter bring the Real Recovery Podcast to the third annual Go the Distance 5K at Fernhill Park in Portland. Runners, walkers, volunteers, recovery organizations, families, and friends come together to show what it looks l...
Presenters: Julie P. Lewis and Peter B. Dowell
Episode length: 01:12:04
Release date: Friday, September 18, 2026
Originally recorded: August 23, 2024, as Episode 26
This revisited original conversation takes listeners back to the beginning of Elton F.'s recovery story. Before her current-day update, before famil...
Elton F. returns to Real Recovery Podcast nearly eight years into recovery, with a growing family, a baby girl on the way, and a new fundraising and development role at 4D Recovery. She talks...
Matt B. joins Julie and Peter for an honest conversation about a childhood shaped by silence, years spent hiding both alcohol and identity, and the recovery life he found when dri...
Sonny M. grew up around recovery. His parents met in NA, and for years he knew the rooms without believing they would ever be his. After his father returned to drinking, Sonny found h...
Anthony Good spent years in prison, lived through relapse, and had to learn how to build a life he had never really known. In this honest conversation, he talks about four and a half years clean, fath...
Ben M. is back. Two years after recording one of our most popular episodes, he returns with over six years of sobriety and a story about what changed. The chronic relapser who once bought wine after his first...
We're revisiting one of the most popular episodes in Real Recovery Podcast history. Ben M. first joined us in April 2024 as episode 7. Next week, Ben returns for an update — over six years ...
“I found a sister. I d...
Devlin F.'s addiction began at six years old when his father gave him a sip of beer while he was choking. What followed was decades of trauma, meth use, street survival in San Francis...
RRP 120 — Luciano, Ebony & Jack / Hope Dealers: Peer Services — We’re Here to Love You Until You Can Love Yourself
Presenter: Peter B. and Julie L. | Length: 1:18:00 | Release Date: June 26, 2026
Recorded live at True Colors Recovery in Portland, three returning guests — Luciano Nicolas (Atlas Treatment Center), Ebony Brawley (4D Recovery), and Jack Taylor (True Colors Recovery) &mdas...
In Part 2 of this mother–daughter conversation, Cassandra P. picks up where she left off — walking through the doors of An...
Cassandra P. grew up in the best possible version of a recovery household. Her mom, co-host Julie, got sober cold turkey while pregnant and never looked back. Cassandra attended ...
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