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Pondoff’s Anonymous is the unfiltered recovery podcast that says the quiet part out loud. Hosted by Chris Pondoff, Jeff Allen, and Zoë Mendenall, it’s real talk about addiction, recovery, and everything between.
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Pondoff's Anonymous S3 E32: "When I Wanted A Vacation From Being Homeless I Went To Jail" (opens the original)
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Donnie Millas has lived enough lives for several episodes of Pondoff’s Anonymous. A lifelong friend of Eric’s and someone Chris has known since he was a kid, Donnie sits down to tell a story that goes from being a three-sport athlete and walking onto a semi-pro basketball team in Alaska to addiction, devastating loss, homelessness, jail and eventually finding his way into recovery. Donnie talks openly about the years he spent living on the streets, why jail sometimes felt like a “vacation” from
Pondoff's Anonymous Season 3 Episode 31: "The System Isn't Built To Make Recovery Easy" with Dawn Stanley (opens the original)
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For nearly 30 years, Dawn Stanley worked inside Missouri’s probation and parole system, helping people navigate addiction, mental health struggles, incarceration and re-entry. Eventually, she thought she was ready to walk away from helping people altogether. Turns out, that wasn’t really the problem. On this episode of Pondoff’s Anonymous, Dawn joins Chris, Kurt, and Zoë to talk about a career spent trying to help people inside systems that don’t always make helping people easy and how that expe
Pondoff's Anonymous Season 3 Episode 30: "My Drug Dealer Couldn't Believe I Quit" with Michelle Charbonnier (opens the original)
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Michelle Charbonnier knows addiction from both sides of the conversation. Today, she's a clinician, recovery advocate, executive director of a recovery community center, and someone who helps individuals and families navigate treatment. But long before she was helping people find their way into recovery, Michelle was trying to find her own way out. Michelle joins Chris, Zoë and KG to tell the story of growing up in Granite City, experimenting with drugs before she even entered high school, smoki
Pondoff's Anonymous Season 3 Episode 29: "Forever Day" with Tiffany Foster (opens the original)
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Tiffany Foster returns to Pondoff’s Anonymous for a conversation about grief, memory, advocacy, and learning how to keep moving when life changes again.Tiffany joins Chris, Zoë and KG on what would have been her son Zack’s 18th birthday, just days before the five-year anniversary of his passing. She talks about the ways she still celebrates him, why she prefers to call the anniversary of his death his “Forever Day,” and why talking openly about Zack has become such an important part of both her
Pondoff's Anonymous Season 3 Episode 28: "Khaki Panted Hypocrites" with Kenny Dyson (opens the original)
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This week on Pondoff’s Anonymous , Chris, Zoë and Kurt sit down with Kenny Dyson , a beloved member of the Underground recovery community, to hear the story that brought him there. Kenny’s journey started with drinking at a young age and eventually grew into years of alcohol, cocaine, pills and other drugs. Along the way came loss, a struggling marriage, a career he now realizes addiction may have held back, and plenty of moments that could have ended much differently. But after years of running
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