Welcome Back Power of Recovery...

Matty and Damon return to the After Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome in everybody. It is the After Show podcast.
I'm justin no Winnie today. Whinnie is out with shingles again.
You know, I was gonna check in with her, but
she's not feeling that well. Yeah, I don't know she
We had her on the show this morning and she's
a little bit sick. So we're gonna wait and see
when she's gonna come back. But you know what, the
after show continues, and I got my boys, Maddie and

(00:22):
Damon Power of Recovery in the studio.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello. But it feels a little weird without her next
to me.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
It does. Well, you missed the Maddie and Winnie flirting, yeah,
you know.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
In the middle of it, so it's even more uncomfortable.
But I actually feel, if you can believe.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
It, more uncomfortable that I'm not in the middle of
the flirting going on.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
When we missed the swag though too, she did.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, I didn't give dude, you have so much swag.
So I did this event with you last week at
Boston City Hall Plaza and I really got to see
like boots on the ground and what you guys do.
And you know, you have a ton of swag. And
a ton of what would you call that like?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
And yeah, March, I think he said it easiest this morning,
merch marsh.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, and you got the whole tent, the whole setup,
like boots on the ground.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, we don't mess around. Yes, we do what we say.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
It was really cool.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Did you notice me shoulder in the workload? You noticed it?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
I did notice that. I was.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
I was.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I was kind of like nervous that it was me
distracting your team from talking to people. But you know,
I was having some good conversations. But people would walk
by the tent at Boston City Hall Plaza and they
see the tent, they stop by, they take some stuff,
and that's when you know, you talk to them, and
your people were doing other things.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Right, who was standing god in the tent?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
It was you?

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Thank you? Well, I appreciate that. No, it feels good.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
If you got there earlier, you would have seen him
set the whole thing up. And he thinks it's because
I'm lazy, but it's really just because of his inability
to let go of control right that I just allow him.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's got to be set up.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
The key chains have to be facing this way at
this angle. Exactly four and a half inches of pot.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Who broke the tent down.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Good tell him, I mean good, tell him, no, no, good,
tell him, don't lie to him. Don't fill this studio up.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
No, I mean, we were all there.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
You were there, We were all there, you were there.
I don't want to pat myself on the back yet again.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
He broke the tent down.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
I would just like.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
To note that that's the first time that actually, leading
up to that, no other human had carried that tent,
not one single of the human to carry that, emphasized me.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I just want you guys to know. I just want
to if we're talking.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Truth, he thinks, once he carries it from the car,
the day is over, that's it. That's okay. But it's okay.
It's who you are.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
But he typically does a lot of the talking.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
He typically does share the lion's share.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, you know, I would assume that right now, what
damn what do you do?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
That's you know what Maddie's been asking that for the
last few years.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I know what you do? You put out his fires?

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Right, I don't know?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
You know what I also do.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
There's two other things I do for him. I help
remember names. He'll be like like, oh, that's your cousin Linda,
like and I think, almost as importantly to help him spell.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Oh you're not a good speller. Yeah, how about reading?
Huh reading? You're pretty good reading?

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Now reading? Who has time for that?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
If he's got a light, if he's got light like yesterday.
The numbers, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
I'm not as good with numbers as damon. But you
can't get a number by me, if that makes any sense. Okay, okay, because.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
I think you just slipped in a Jewish joke there.
Because my last name is Weinberg.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
I did not Happy Russia, Shana and hold on? Can
we just stop the presses? Because I didn't open social
media yesterday? Michelle told me this morning happy birthday. Whoa
oh to me? Yeah much?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
It was yesterday.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Oh jesus, what a mistake that was. I'm usually good
with that. I remember the Soba date. I got all,
I got the handle of things down.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Happy birthday, ye Nina?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
You know Nina. We love Nina? Yes Nina? Yeah? Yeah.
She messaged me and she goes, how is your birthday
not in the post that they put up?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Shame?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Wow, It's ok.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
It's Okay, does put the post.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm pretty sure she's the responsible for our social media.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I think so.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
I think Nina.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
So she just put it on us.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
It's like Brian really when he copped the plea, he was,
you know, trying to tell us about about the time
and of the commercials was on us, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Right, Oh yeah, you should see the dynamic between Maddie
and Damon and everyone.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
That's another thing I do. I shoulder the blame for everything.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah, is he like.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
What he likes to term it as just so, but
he knows he falls on the sword. Yeah, he's good
for that.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
But you are really good at business stuff, right, I
mean think about it, right, you got clean and sober, yep,
you got your life together, got your affairs in order.
And then I don't know you do. I know you
have had a plumbing company.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah we still got it.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, we still got that. But then you opened house
recovery houses. Several of those so yeah, and and those are.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
In where Chelsea, Lynn, East Boston and Maldon.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
At a boy hey.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Honestly, justin that's really where he had no choice. We
opened up the first house in Lynn on Strawberry back
in twenty eleven, and it was, uh, it's him and
two of his brothers at the time, it was it
was just him and his older brother that you know,
had started it.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
As soon as his idea.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Listen, no, sooner the paint wasn't dry on the wall
than his older brother handed him half a check book
with seven dollars in a bank account and said, hey,
go ahead, kid, good luck, and.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
I go, dude. It was the greatest thing he ever
did for me.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
I never wrote a bill. I never wrote a check.
I didn't know what a cable bill was nothing. And
I used to go to him, I go, dude, he goes,
you're a smart kid, you'll figure it out.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
And you did.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
I had to.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
You had to had Yeah, so you open all the
houses and then that turned into Power of Recovery, which
is the treatment center you have now. Okay, So for
people that don't know right that are listening to this
for the first time, what does Power of Recovery offer?

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Bingo, that's where I jump in, jumps in.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Well, I'll butcher it up. I'm not PC, I won't
use the right words.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
No, I'm actually probably we have so many services now
I'm probably gonna drop the ball, which it's easy for
him to clean up my mess than it is for
me to.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Okay, hold on, damon, let me stop you there. Okay,
I'm somebody and my son or myself are struggling alcohol, drugs,
maybe both right, don't know what to do, don't know
where to turn. You see you hear me talk about
Power of Recovery. You go to the website or you
call the phone number whatever it is, and you say
I need help, And then what do you say?

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Perfect? So we just go right into it.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
The first thing I want to do is assure the
person calling that they have somebody that's going to be
by this side from the very beginning, first step of
the process until the very end if you can consider
anything being an end, but we'll just consider the end
the treatment portion of the process for us at Power
of Recovery, we are at that location in outpatient facility,
which means you basically come there for groups, one on

(06:59):
one therapy in different levels of kid to do that,
but we also assist from anybody that also needs in
patient care. A lot of times when someone's first separating
from alcoholic drugs, they need to be medically.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Separated into substances. Yes, you got a big guy.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
And so we'll begin that first step with them and
get them into one of our sister facilities and I'm
able to walk with them, or if it's Maddie, another
person and our company will walk with them from the
moment they go in, and we can still remain in
contact with the family so that there's a contact.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
With the outie world.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
When you go into detos, a lot of people don't
know you, don't you contact to the outside world is
very limited, right, and so the family's like hoping you're
still in there and you're not really sure if everything's
okay when when you're the one in treatment. So we're
also that line of communication that remains open for the family.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
And then justin remember going away to treatment, you'd go
one place, another place, another place, another place. You could
never stay put for too long because they keep shuffling
you around. You couldn't get comfortable, you couldn't open up,
you couldn't talk to anybody. The way we're doing it
now is just stuck with us for the long time.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, that's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
From day one to day five hundred, you could still
talk to us. You're still in our Kia. You still
have our cell phone numbers. You're dealing with one of
our clinicians or caseworkers or recovery coaches.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
In the Soba House, one of the house managers him.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Or I just saw you come from the street. We
watch you go through detox, watch you get into programming
into Soba House all the way to your own place. Mary,
we can. You got to see how many people we
run into now, five, six, ten years and good, their
own family and this and that, and it's crazy. They're
only with us for a blink of an eye, even

(08:45):
if it's two years.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, it's crazy to say that because think about, like
any of the places that I was in, especially towards
the end of my addiction, I don't talk to anybody,
you know what I mean? No, ready for this. The
one person that I remember the most from my last past,
my house, it's Maddie's wife WHOA. She was in the
same house as me. I can say that, right, I
believe so okay, I hope so okay, she's okay with it.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
I'll know about it in an hour.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Okay, okay, Yeah, we were in the same halfway house together.
So I love that. I love that and it must
be like fulfilling too for you guys, right.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
I think her after being so but twenty years, she's
pretty much over that.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, you know, I just remember her running
that house like a sergeant.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Well, come to my house. The same thing. I can't
imagine it's the same thing she had.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
I just remember like everyone was like not afraid of her,
but they stayed in line.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
See this stuff right here on the count. Yeah, try
and leave that on my count. Yeah, phone to vapes
and keys, yep, nop, yep. Yeah, she would track you
down in the house.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, I'm afraid of her in her house now oh
really yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Not afraid of her, but like you know, I walk in,
the shoes come off, and yeah, I clean up after myself.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
You can perform surgery in my home literally really today
right now, I'm called just yet.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
No house cleaners.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Once every two weeks they come to do the blinds,
behind the toilet, the show that stuff. But no, we're
pretty self sufficient in that. And that's why it was
easy for me to tell the guys in the Soba houses,
make your bed when you wake up, don't leave a
dirty dish in the sink, take the trash out. I'm
not asking you to do nothing. I'm not doing myself.

(10:22):
Everybody answers to somebody.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yep, you know.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
So I before I go to bed, I don't leave
a dish in the sink. I take the trash out. Well,
my son does it now he's thirteen, So I'm done
taking the trash out. Making the beds. She was always
out earlier than me, so when the kids were small,
I'd make three beds every morning, like you know.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
And then you know, though, I do the same stuff, man,
I do the same stuff.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
So it's easy when you walk into a house and
some guys beds unmade and there's dishes in the sink,
and you're like, guys, what are you doing? Yep, this
ain't how we live.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
And I think that one of the key things that
we need to remember about that is like a lot
of us. I don't know about you, guys, but when
I came around and I was, you know, starting to
go into these programs and sober houses and getting sober
and clean and all that stuff, I didn't really have
any healthy habits like that. I wasn't really good at
those behaviors. Like someone had to teach me and show
me that had been doing it before. What we you know,

(11:15):
affectionately call out predecessors, right.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
I had to have.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
People that like us now, like the three of us
have been around for a while, like to be able
to take some time out of their lives and say, hey,
this is what you need to do. This is you know, healthy,
this is a good habits of practice. Like no matter
what kind of day you have, at the end of
the day, you go home and your room's clean and
your bed's made, it's a little bit easier to kind
of settle in and just start to let the rest
of the day fall off of your shoulders.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
You know, in addiction they talk about, you know, being
reduced to an animalistic level, and I think for a
lot of us, that's what happens, you know, And so
you know, we have to start from scratch when we
get clean and sober, you know. I remember we're coming
up on the holidays now, the Triple Crown, right. Yeah.
I remember like even one Thanksgiving where I had a
restraining order on my house. I wasn't allowed there it

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was getting cold out and my grandfather so I lived
on the first floor my dad, and then upstairs his
parents lived my grandparents, and so my dad had kicked
me out at her straining order, and you know, I
would call my grandfather and I beg him to let
me in, so then he would leave the back basement
door open for me so I could sleep, right, So
then I slept there. Thanksgiving one the next day, my

(12:20):
whole family was upstairs, but I wasn't allowed up there.
They didn't know I was there except my grandfather. And
so after they ate, he would make a plate and
he would come down and he would open the door
to the basement. He would leave it on the top
of the steps and he would just walk away, and
then I would come up like an animal and get
the food. You know. So I had to learn all
that stuff too. Dishes, laundry, making your bed, like these

(12:40):
are all basic things.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
And back then you were pissed at them for that. Yeah,
can you blame them?

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh no, not at all, not at all. Actually, can
I share something with you guys? Do So I've been
clean for seventeen years. I just celebrated, right, and I
mentioned my dad. So my dad really took the brunt
of my addiction. You know, my parents got divorced when
I was like thirteen or fourteen a lot due to
my addiction. I was wowing out getting arrested. So my mom,
who was an addict and was using as well, ended

(13:06):
up leaving going to detox. Never came back right, So
I stayed with my dad, and my dad kind of
like did his best with me. I robbed him, stole
from him, all that stuff, but he stuck by me.
He didn't press charges on me. I remember one time
I got arrested after dranting his bank account, not for that,
for something else. I took all his money, dude, right
right before Christmas. He couldn't even buy Christmas gifts my

(13:28):
little brother. My little brother, and I ended up ended
up in jail, and he came to visit me after Christmas,
and I just remember, like I'm on the fucking in
the yard or whatever. They called me for a visit,
and I'm like, who's visiting me? And so I'm like
laughing with the guys. Maybe it's a girl. Oh you
got a chick down there. I'm like, yeah, you know,
tough guy. And I walked down into the visiting room

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and there he is with my brother, and I just
remember I started crying, man, like I just didn't. It
all came out of me. So anyway, my father's been
there every step of the way. When I got clean,
it got so bad at the end, I ended up
get and clean. And I've been cleaned this whole seventeen
years and he's been there. He comes to my house
every weekend to see my kids.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Right.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
But my dad's kind of old school, and he never
was able to tell me that he's proud of me,
and it always bothered me. I understood, but like everything
everything that I've done in my life, he never could
say to me, I love you, son, and I'm proud
of you, right, and it kind of bothered me. Well,
my birthday was yesterday, so Sunday we had family over
and he came to my house. He walked up to

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me and he goes, here's a Christmas gift, a happy birthday.
And he goes, son, I'm so proud of you. He goes, you,
you're a better man than I ever could be. He goes,
You're you're an amazing father, a son, husband. He's like,
you just just I'm so so proud of you and
I love you. I was like, I almost fell over
to it, so I said, I shared the story on
the air because I'm like seventeen years buddy, that it
took seventeen years, but it finally happened, happened, you know

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what I meanbelievable. It was a great birthday gift. Great
birthday gift. Okay, So power recovery. Right. So the treatment
center of the day treatment center, you can it's it's unique, right,
Like I've been there.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
It's not normal. Private treatment centers do not do what
we do. We have many different programs all the way
from php iop op. We have the twenty four D
drive out program we're rolling out next month. These are
all in yet we have family group what else damon.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
The family groups on Monday night thing where it's a
free thing. You don't even have to have somebody that's
in our program to come to that. It doesn't cost
the families anything. It's just a support group we're in
by one of our clinicians that we provide and it's
a hybrid version of of in person and zoom. So
that's a fantastic thing. We do the evaluations. Like a

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lot of times people coming out of out of jail
or sometimes in trouble with the registry, they need a
recidivism evaluation or an R and V evaluation or mental
health evaluation. We do all that stuff over at Power
Recovery with the clinicians where we have SAP certified, so
you know, if you know, you know, but it's part
of Department of Transportation DOT regulations. If you get in trouble,

(16:08):
as as someone who's got a DOOT license, then you
know you need an evaluation done. We can do that
at Power as well. It's it's it's just a laundry
list of things that we do. Like like Matty said,
that's just so different than any of the treatment his abilities.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Here's the kicker, No insurance gets denied.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, that's huge.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
Nobody else can say that.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, I've almost forgot to one of our one of
our things where we're one of the most proud of
is is our UH peer recovery services. We have a
recovery coach program that's really it's top notch. You know,
we have an amazing team of recovery coaches and and
basically you know what that means is people who have
lived experience with with you know, alcohol, UH and and

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other substances. They've been clean, usually for at least two years,
and uh, they go through the recovery Coach academy and
it sets them up to be in a position to
just be a peer like basically like a free.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Friend on the phone, right, like a sounding board.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
It's yeah, that's a fairly new thing, right, the recovery coach.
That wasn't around when I got.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
No or any of us.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Dude, yeah, not at all.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Sit down, shut up your mouth. That's what we.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Got, so, Maddie, like when you started, when you open
your first sober house and houses, do you ever think
that it would take you here?

Speaker 4 (17:28):
No, Me and Damon didn't know what the hell we
would do, and.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
We just wasn't he working for free for you? Damon?

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Oh? I told him we got I got a little
busy and I asked him, I said, dude, I need
help with this house. I can't pay you because I
have no money, but will you help me? So it
used to cost him money to come to work. Wow,
but he sucked it up because he believed in it.
We did, and it was different. We would newly sober

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or clean or whatever you want to call it. We
were within a year year and a half. Also, so
like the guys that were coming in, we were in
the meeting, they were in our home group. We were
playing cards with them still, which I don't advise. We've
learned a lot since twenty eleven. We learned the hard way.

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We've made mistakes. We still make them. We just make
right on them. The houses, their regards and they're unbelievable,
like and then it keeps now us honest, were the
head of the snake. How can I how can we
go out now? Right now? Between power of recovery in

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the houses there's about five hundred people in our kid, Wow,
how do we go out? How do I not make
my bed tomorrow morning and not tell this kid to
make his bed.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's also great for us both to you know, run
in the companies and I mean we've got a giant team.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Of course that that really is the magic for it all.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
But you know, between happy and married with kids, when
when someone in the house or in treatment says, oh,
I don't have time to do this, and me and
him just looking at and the look at the person
like what, dude, I don't We're still going. We're still
doing our own personal recovery on our journey on top
of what so like you know, it's it's tough for
someone to look us in the eye and tell us

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they don't got time to do the work to stay clean.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
So here's what I'm going to say. If you want
to see a success story, just go on to Chelsea's
house Facebook page. Mari posts when there's an anniversary, it's
about every other day, somebody celebrating, and it's.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Somebody who lives there, somebody who went through something.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
Both both both in like a Power of Recovery has Instagram, Facebook.
You can go on that and you you it's all real.
It's all real time. It's real people. Like I said before,
everybody is either in recovery or has been touched by
addiction in one way, shape or form that works with us.

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What we also offer is we have a whole different
division just dedicated for mental health.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, that's important, sot dude.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
You know we we can't even miss one of the
most important things. You got to give them the announcement,
big guy.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
We gotta tell them, Oh, we have a special announcement.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
You gotta talent music.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
I have a drum roll.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
It has nothing to do with SUD substance. Next month,
we are opening an adolescent mental health facility in Danvers.
We teamed up with great partners. They love children, they
know how to work with them, they know what they're doing.
We had a vision. We backed it. It's called Power

(20:37):
of Hope and it should be opened by the end
of October in Danvers. The place is absolutely Oh my god, I.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Saw the pictures of this. Actually, yeah, you sent me
the pictures. So this is not substance abuse or both,
just mental for the kids.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
It's just mental health.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
And it's funny because I was just, uh, you know, obviously,
you know, all three of us got kids.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
You know, I got a I got a fourteen year old,
and you know, among a couple others.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
He forgot the rest of their Yeah, no, no, no, I
know that. It's eight five and three and the three
is going to be forced soon. Don't give me a
hot time about that. What I'm saying is the focus
is on the fourteen year old. He got in a
little bit of trouble the other day to go pick
him up. Maybe there might have been a couple uh
police involved, and nothing serious, nothing malicious.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Nonetheless, I was talking with my wife and I was
just you know, her and I were just trying to
figure some things out and you know, like parents do.
And I said to her, I go, hey, listen, man,
the times that we grew up and we have no
idea about what the kids are living through now, the
social media and and all the constructs that that are,
you know, pushing for likes and and you know what
I mean, like that, the stress and anxiety and depression

(21:42):
that it puts on the kids nowadays is we just
you know, we can't even begin to understand it. So,
you know, it was one of the driving forces behind like,
let's make sure we have something.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Available strictly and specifically for the kids and their mental health.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
It's believe both my kids have no phone right now currently.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Oh you pulled that. That's tough.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
You got a lot going on. Man, we do, we do.
It's insane, but it keeps us going. I'm like a
cat with a laser beam. Dude, I'm already thinking of
the next thing. Because of the team we have. The
team we have, I can keep my mind on growing
the business. And I know my people are being treated unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
All the houses are taken care of, powers taken care of.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
Yeah, well, my sponsor works the power of recovery.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, I know, your sponsor, a good friend of mine.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
He's the best. Now that's my treatment. So the people
that are coming in get the same treatment as the owner.
Name another place that that happens at.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
You get the same exact treatment as I get.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has a great line, one of
my favorite lines. If you, if you, if you show
up to a to a meeting and you eat too
many twinkies, welcome, Welcome.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
People have this twisted. They think it's about drugs. Drugs
is a symptom of odd.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Disease, tipity, iceberg.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
Baby, it's it's it's insane. I tell everybody I can
make broccoli unhealthy. Yeah, Like, it's amazing what my mind
will do to me still to this day if I
don't do maintenance on my insides.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah. Mine's the gym. I'm brilliant, just like obsessed about it.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Like Saturday.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
I work out on Saturday mornings, and my wife took
the kids away. So I got up at six am
Saturday morning, went to the gym, lifted for an hour
and a half. Then I had a scheduled spin class.
I drove to another gym, just spin class for an hour.
I went home ate a meal and then I'm just
sitting there. My wife's not there, my kids aren't there.
I'm like, I'll go back to the gym. Went back

(23:40):
to the gym for two hours and did legs and
it was too much, Like my body still hurts from
it too much. I thought to myself, this is my
fucking bullshit.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
It's your addiction, it's my addiction. It's your addiction. Of
course it is, you know, the saying if you're trying
to manage that, and if you're trying to control and
it's out of control.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
That's right, that's right. So all right, well, I think
we did okay without winning, right.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
I don't know we're gonna is whenn he gonna listen
to this?

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Maybe maybe not. I don't know. It spends how she feels.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
We better call her and make sure she listens.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
How should be she should be listening to this regandless.
I'm just saying she.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Actually probably will because she likes Maddie.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
And what else are you gonna do when you hit
shingles at home and the temonic monster when my buddy, yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
It sucks, yeah it sucks.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Damon could have brought her a sweatshirt anyway, and left
it here.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
I knew she was already he did, he did, but
I said, she's out.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
What we're gonna do is just, you know, make it
another visit.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
I did that for you because we're coming back next
month to Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
I like you guys, come in once a month. It's good.
It's fun, it's really it's really great.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
So I don't want to hear what the people have
to say about this.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Oh I have to check.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Oh my god, I didn't check. I'm always curious.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh should I have to log into it to see it.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
I'll hold them. I'll hold them.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
I'll hold them. Yeah, it's not a different because okay,
so talkbacks, right, they're left on the and the iheard
app right, So if you're listening to whatever show you're
listening to, you have to do it through there. So
to get on the after show ones, they're in a
different place that I have to lug into. And I
always forget to check because I always took the show ones.
I'll check them. I'll have them ready for next time.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah. It sounds like a little bit of mumbo jumbo,
but with the buttons, you know.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
If somebody's confused or they don't know or anything like that.
Just call yeah, we'll shoot you straight. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, he's looking at me for that one. Just wow.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
I have to read the back of my shirt calling
directly to A seven eight one six two nine four
six zero nine, or you could always visit us at
Powerofrecovery dot org.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Thanks guys, thank you.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Justin