They say that well-behaved women rarely make history. How can women shake the stereotype that being assertive makes them difficult?
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr256.mp3
- Doctors Karen Karbo, Award-Winning Author
- Featured Speaker Karen Karbo, Award-Winning Author
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Guest Bio
Karen Karbo is the author of multiple award-winning novels, memoirs, and works of nonfiction. Her “Kick-Ass Women” series includes Julia Child Rules (2013), How Georgia Became O’Keeffe (2011), and the international bestseller The Gospel According to Coco Chanel (2009).
Her work has appeared in Elle, Vogue, Esquire, Outside, the New York Times, Salon, and other magazines. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she continues to kick ass being the Difficult Woman she is. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 17:51
What happens if you decide to get sober and your partner still drinks? Even if your partner doesn't have an addiction problem, this dynamic can be challenging.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr208.mp3
- Doctors Lee Davy, Addiction Specialist
- Featured Speaker Lee Davy, Addiction Specialist
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In 2009, Lee Davy gave up alcohol to save his marriage. It didn’t work. His wife divorced him, and in a blink of an eye he had lost everything he had known and loved for the past 20 years.
Undeterred he flung himself into sobriety and changed every facet of his life. Today, Lee has overcome addictions to nicotine, alcohol, gambling, sugar, and pornography, as well as becoming vegan, and learning to fall in love all over again.
He gives back to the world by inspiring and coaching others to do the same through The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast, The Needy Helper, The Needy Helper Hub, and The Needy Helper Community Forum. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:22
What are we teaching our children if we don’t know how to disagree?
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr230.mp3
- Doctors Michael Wetter, PsyD
- Featured Speaker Michael Wetter, PsyD
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Guest Bio
Dr. Michael Wetter is a Diplomate and Fellow of the American Psychotherapy Association, and has served as an Oral Examination Commissioner and Subject Matter Expert for the California State Licensing Board of Psychology.
He is an active member of the American Psychological Association, American Academy of Psychologists, the National Alliance of Psychology Providers, and the California Psychological Association. Dr. Wetter is a nationally recognized expert in the field of Psychology, published author, and an invited speaker and guest lecturer, training other psychologists and mental health professionals.
Dr. Wetter has served as an expert consultant on numerous television programs, as well as to publications such as the Washington Post, Boston Globe, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Men's Healthy Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Prevention Magazine, and Redbook Magazine. His research in the field of anxiety has been accepted in the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and his theories on the subject of "anxiety transmission" have been published extensively.
In addition to his private practice, Dr. Wetter is on the clinical staff of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he has served as the Associate Director of Psychology at the Center for Weight Loss, as well as manager for General surgery, Plastic/Reconstructive surgery, and Bariatric surgery. He is a Clinical Instructor of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, one of the only psychologists to receive such distinction.
Dr. Wetter formerly served as the Chief of Adult Psychiatry Service for over 9 years at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hayward, California. He has worked as an adjunct professor on the undergraduate and graduate faculties of the Dominican University of California in San Rafael, Harold Washington College in Chicago, California State University at Hayward, and Las Positas College in the Livermore Valley. - Length Mins 26:38
What if we could all work together to create empowered communities?
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr237.mp3
- Doctors Cheree Ashley, RAS,CADC-CAS
- Featured Speaker Cheree Ashley, RAS,CADC-CAS
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Guest Bio
Cheree Ashley is the owner of Bright Future Recovery, which is a residential detox facility located in Hollister, CA.
In recovery herself, Cheree has a passion to help and guide others as well as their families through the process of addiction recovery.
The program is designed and structured to get the addicted individual through the withdrawal process as smoothly and comfortably as possible. Doctors provide a strict medically assisted protocol to safely and comfortably detox clients.
Bright Future Recovery provides outdoor activities when patients are feeling up to it and also provides individual and group counseling sessions.
Cheree also travels nationwide to do interventions that help addicts and families and place them in the best suitable program for the individual. - Length Mins 25:45
Becoming a doctor takes years of dedication and focus. But, what happens when a doctor finds herself in the patient’s chair?
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr215.mp3
- Doctors Vanessa Grubbs, MD
- Featured Speaker Vanessa Grubbs, MD
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Vanessa Grubbs, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine and a nephrologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where she maintains a practice and clinical research program.
She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University and teaches writing for patient advocacy to medical students and practicing physicians.
She lives with her husband and teenage son in Oakland, CA. Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers is her first book. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:18
For some athletes, using painkillers is the norm, but it can get out of control... and quickly.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr249.mp3
- Doctors Randy Grimes, Former NFL Player
- Featured Speaker Randy Grimes, Former NFL Player
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A former professional football player whose career spanned 10 years with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Randy Grimes had spent 20+ years battling an addiction to painkillers that he had developed while trying to treat career-related injuries. He now uses his inspiring story of recovery to help victims of drug and alcohol abuse through his work as a Board Certified Interventionist and as the Business Development Director at Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches (BHOPB). In 2011, out of a desire to help other struggling athletes that he played with and against, Randy launched “Athletes in Recovery” a program which is designed to help athletes of all levels find treatment for addiction, while offering continued support for those already in recovery.
Due to the success of Athletes in Recovery, Randy and BHOPB have partnered with the NFL’s “Player Care Foundation” as well as the MLB, to bring further awareness and treatment services to professional athletes and their families. As a result of this partnership, 100's of former professional athletes have since been treated. Randy’s passion for helping others does not end with athletes and he is committed to helping numerous families find balance and peace of mind by getting their addicted loved ones the help they need for their drug and alcohol addiction. Randy has performed countless interventions all over the country and has brought hope and healing back to families when it seemed all hope was lost. His Never Give Up attitude translates from the gridiron to his work with families and his own recovery.
Randy has been an exemplary ambassador for Intervention Now, BHOPB and is a quality example of the power of professional treatment. Married for 36 years to his college sweetheart Lydia, who is also a Certified Family Addiction Coach, they have two children and three grandchildren. Randy can regularly be seen as a commentator on numerous national TV networks including NFL Network, Anderson Cooper, Father Albert, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Sports, SiriusXM Sports and he is often called on to provide professional insight and opinion for countless radio interviews and print media pieces. - Length Mins 27:17
Sexual trauma is one of the most difficult traumas to work through.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr212.mp3
- Doctors Joanne Mednick, LMFT, PsyD
- Featured Speaker Joanne Mednick, LMFT, PsyD
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Dr. Joanne Mednick is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in a unique blend of various methodologies to offer her clients the deepest possible healing.
Dr. Mednick received her PsyD, MFT from Ryokan College and has Master's degrees in both Applied Psychology as well as Counseling Psychology and her undergraduate work was at the University of Southern California. Her studies in Spiritual Psychology frame her point of view that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. This unique perspective permeates into Dr. Mednick's further studies.
She has also received an additional degree in the field of Consciousness Health and Healing. This concentration allows her a deep understanding of the most severe addictions and traumas, and to assist in finding ways to help trauma survivors and sex addicts heal on all five levels of consciousness: Mental, Physical, Energetic, Emotional and Spiritual.
Dr. Mednick has built her practice with clients worldwide. Through trauma, illness and addiction therapy, she transitions clients with the identification of living as "victims" or "survivors" all the way to that of living as "thrivers." She offers her clients complete healing to find deep meaning in past occurrences, and to take the "silver lining" in it all and view their issues as blessings in disguise.
She strives to bring her clients completion in the trauma/addiction/illness cycle, and to move them from pull into the trauma vortex (pain and chaos) towards easily and consciously choosing the healing vortex (calm and relaxed).
Dr. Mednick took ongoing training in advanced EMDR techniques such as the Strategic Developmental Model for EMDR, is certified in Brain Spotting, and trained in Sensory Motor Psychotherapy and Somatic Therapy. This assisted her most extremely traumatized clients and addicts process their issues much more easily, and without undue distress.
She believes in the importance of the Inner Journey and how best to support her clients in reconnecting with that which is inside. Dr. Mednick had also undertaken twelve further years of study with world-renowned Energy Medicine specialist Christine Schenk. She was a member of the first US graduating Master's class. Dr. Mednick is one of the few people in America trained in the CHRIS®-Technique, and as a part of the services she offers, Dr. Mednick blends these techniques into her work at Serenity Trauma Healing Center. The addition of the CHRIS®-Technique to all the psychotherapeutic education has helped her to assist her clients in reaching higher levels of inner peace, connectedness in their body, and achieving a sense of wellness in their lives.
Through her many years as a therapist and her deep commitment to cutting-edge education, she has learned to pinpoint even the most resistant clients' deepest issues and help them to change their destructive patterns.
Dr. Mednick believes it is her life's purpose to help others move along their own path towards full and complete healing. - Hosts Erica Spiegelman
- Length Mins 26:13
Recovery journeys are just beginning once you leave an in-patient treatment center. To fully achieve recovery, most of us need a holistic aftercare plan.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr221.mp3
- Doctors Ken Seeley, Interventionist, CCMI-M, CTP-4, RAS, CATC, CIP
- Featured Speaker Ken Seeley, Interventionist, CCMI-M, CTP-4, RAS, CATC, CIP
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Guest Bio
Ken Seeley has remained involved professionally and personally in recovery since 1989. He applies his experience and boundless enthusiasm to help transform the lives of those who suffer from the disease of addiction. Ken has changed the lives of thousands of people through his work performing interventions and working with families and has had the honor and privilege to educate millions of people through the television show Intervention on A&E.
Ken has been clean and sober since July 14, 1989, working full time in the recovery field since 2000. Today, Ken derives great personal satisfaction from the hundreds of interventions that he has conducted, organized, or facilitated through his company Intervention 911. Seeley’s best trait is his unique ability to work with the addicted individual and family to uncover what will motivate a person to choose recovery over the addiction. Supporting families in this process is his passion. By playing to the family strengths, he works with them to better understand how to enable long lasting recovery.
Understanding the family system’s role in recovery, Ken is often sought out to speak about addiction. Ken has been honored to speak before British Parliament about the importance of Intervention and “The 5 year Plan” for lasting recovery.
As a Certified Case Manager Interventionist, Ken conducts trainings for substance abuse workers to become certified intervention case management professionals. These dynamic programs train people who work in treatment centers, detox facilities and sober livings to perform interventions and work with the support system surrounding an addict or alcoholic. He has trained over 450 professionals in the US and Europe on intervention strategies and techniques for building lasting recovery. Working closely with The Joint Commission, Ken developed a national standard for case management and interventions, meeting the organization’s commitment to meet certain performance standards. His company Intervention911 became the first company in the country to become accredited for case management and intervention services. This opens the door for the ethical performance and standardization needed for insurance reimbursement of both the addict and the practitioner for these services.
Today one of the more exciting things Ken has been able to achieve is working with the auditing house PricewaterhouseCoopers to create an ethical business audit for treatment centers. Working with Independent Coalition of Treatment Providers audits are possible to show the public which treatment centers are up to ethical industry standards. - Length Mins 27
Many people’s recovery journeys begin at an in-patient treatment center. But, what happens after you leave that controlled environment?
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr219.mp3
- Doctors Marsha Stone, JD, LCDC
- Featured Speaker Marsha Stone, JD, LCDC
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Marsha Stone is an International speaker, visionary, and respected leader in the field of addiction recovery. Marsha is the Chief Executive Officer of BRC Recovery and is the founder and Chief Executive Officer for Spearhead Lodge, an extended-care treatment facility for young adults.
Marsha holds a Juris Doctorate with the distinction of Academic Excellence from North Carolina Central University, a Bachelor of Arts in English from Elizabeth City State University, and is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor in Texas. She regularly speaks at top industry conferences, including UK/European Symposium on Addictive Disorders, Innovations in Recovery, Recovery Results, West Coast Symposium on Addictive Disorders, and Clinical Overview of the Recovery Experience.
In addition to frequent guest appearances on A&E's Intervention, Marsha has appeared on Dr. Phil and The Doctor’s. She humbly integrates her own battle with and triumph over addiction into providing the most effective and quality rehabilitative process possible to those struggling with addictive disorders. - Length Mins 26:37
An intervention is a powerful tool that can save the life of someone battling an addiction. However, interventions can also be emotionally draining and taxing for the people involved.
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- Audio File rewired_radio/rr222.mp3
- Doctors Ken Seeley, Interventionist, CCMI-M, CTP-4, RAS, CATC, CIP
- Featured Speaker Ken Seeley, Interventionist, CCMI-M, CTP-4, RAS, CATC, CIP
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Guest Bio
Ken Seeley has remained involved professionally and personally in recovery since 1989. He applies his experience and boundless enthusiasm to help transform the lives of those who suffer from the disease of addiction. Ken has changed the lives of thousands of people through his work performing interventions and working with families and has had the honor and privilege to educate millions of people through the television show Intervention on A&E.
Ken has been clean and sober since July 14, 1989, working full time in the recovery field since 2000. Today, Ken derives great personal satisfaction from the hundreds of interventions that he has conducted, organized, or facilitated through his company Intervention 911. Seeley’s best trait is his unique ability to work with the addicted individual and family to uncover what will motivate a person to choose recovery over the addiction. Supporting families in this process is his passion. By playing to the family strengths, he works with them to better understand how to enable long lasting recovery.
Understanding the family system’s role in recovery, Ken is often sought out to speak about addiction. Ken has been honored to speak before British Parliament about the importance of Intervention and “The 5 year Plan” for lasting recovery.
As a Certified Case Manager Interventionist, Ken conducts trainings for substance abuse workers to become certified intervention case management professionals. These dynamic programs train people who work in treatment centers, detox facilities and sober livings to perform interventions and work with the support system surrounding an addict or alcoholic. He has trained over 450 professionals in the US and Europe on intervention strategies and techniques for building lasting recovery. Working closely with The Joint Commission, Ken developed a national standard for case management and interventions, meeting the organization’s commitment to meet certain performance standards. His company Intervention911 became the first company in the country to become accredited for case management and intervention services. This opens the door for the ethical performance and standardization needed for insurance reimbursement of both the addict and the practitioner for these services.
Today one of the more exciting things Ken has been able to achieve is working with the auditing house PricewaterhouseCoopers to create an ethical business audit for treatment centers. Working with Independent Coalition of Treatment Providers audits are possible to show the public which treatment centers are up to ethical industry standards. - Length Mins 27
