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Recovery as a Startup - Reinventing Your Life Interview with Gregg Champion

In this inspiring episode, Greg Champion shares his transformative journey from addiction to recovery, highlighting innovative approaches like Startup Recovery that combine entrepreneurship and sobriety. Discover practical tools, mental models, and stories of hope that can guide anyone on their path to lasting sobriety and purpose. Keywords: recovery, sobriety, addiction, entrepreneurship, mental health, startup recovery, personal growth, hope, mental models, community Key Topics: Modern recovery culture and innovation The role of purpose and community in sobriety Tools and mental models for lasting recovery Highlights: Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Recovery and Purpose 01:44 Greg's Early Life and Coping Mechanisms 06:39 Consequences of Addiction and Arrests 10:54 The Turning Point: Jail and Confession 22:45 Finding a Path to Recovery 29:38 The Evolution of Recovery Tools and Startup Recovery 33:08 The Journey to Recovery and Entrepreneurship 37:11 Understanding the New Generation's Recovery Needs 41:15 The Importance of Early Life Skills 45:32 The Role of Entrepreneurship in Sobriety 48:36 Maintaining Sobriety and Family Life 52:06 Success Stories from Startup Recovery 56:09 Taking the First Step Towards Sobriety Resources https://www.startuprecovery.com/ https://www.palisadestribe.com/ https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong https://www.instagram.com/greggchampion/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/greggchampion/ Connect with Kaitlin: Website [https://www.kaitlinhenry.com] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kaitlin.henry/] LinkedIn [https://linkedin.com/in/kaitlinhenry] YOUTUBE CHANNEL [https://www.youtube.com/@StepZeroPodcast] TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@stepzerokaitlin?_t=ZT-90ozCFDA3WY&_r=1]

Gratitude Before Abundance - When Your Kid Becomes Your Spiritual Teacher

This episode explores the subtle but powerful shift from scarcity to gratitude, especially when you’re in that uncomfortable in-between space of “I’m okay… but not fully secure.” Kaitlin unpacks how nervous system regulation, belief, and service all influence money and opportunity and how sobriety creates the space to hear divine guidance in everyday conversations. This episode is for anyone who: • Feels financially stretched but not in crisis • Finds themselves fixating on “what’s missing” • Wants to align abundance with grounded spiritual practice • Is learning how sobriety expands clarity and intuition • Needs a reminder that growth doesn’t require rock bottom Key themes: Gratitude before abundance Scarcity vs nervous system safety Money as energy and value exchange Surrender and aligned action Sobriety as spiritual spaciousness Highlights 00:00 Introduction to Abundance and Mindset 00:59 Lessons from a Conversation with My Son 04:38 The Power of Gratitude in Financial Mindset 08:29 Shifting Perspectives on Abundance 11:17 The Role of Sobriety in Clarity and Abundance Connect with Kaitlin: Website [https://www.kaitlinhenry.com] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kaitlin.henry/] LinkedIn [https://linkedin.com/in/kaitlinhenry] YOUTUBE CHANNEL [https://www.youtube.com/@StepZeroPodcast] TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@stepzerokaitlin?_t=ZT-90ozCFDA3WY&_r=1]

The Life You Build After You Stop Drinking - Interview with Ian Fee

In this episode, I’m joined by Ian Fee, author and entrepreneur, who has been sober since 2017. Ian didn’t wake up in a jail cell or lose everything overnight. Instead, sobriety became a slow, honest reckoning with the damage alcohol was quietly creating in his marriages, his parenting, and his sense of self. We talk about high functioning drinking, emotional sobriety, intense rehab, generational patterns, and what it really means to become present. Ian shares how willingness, not catastrophe, changed his life, and how stacking small daily habits like gratitude, journaling, and accountability transformed him into the father, partner, and leader he always wanted to be. Highlights: (01:51) The first drink at 17 and the early normalization of alcohol (07:31) When high functioning success masked deeper problems (12:40) The third day in rehab that changed everything (15:10) Getting served divorce papers and choosing sobriety anyway (16:13) Sitting in the emotions instead of numbing them (29:55) Daily gratitude and baby habits that rebuild a life Find out more about Ian: https://ianfee.com/ [https://ianfee.com/] Connect with Kaitlin: Website [https://www.kaitlinhenry.com] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kaitlin.henry/] LinkedIn [https://linkedin.com/in/kaitlinhenry] YOUTUBE CHANNEL [https://www.youtube.com/@StepZeroPodcast] TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@stepzerokaitlin?_t=ZT-90ozCFDA3WY&_r=1]

A Season of Waiting Without Numbing

Today’s episode feels intimate and unfiltered. I’m sharing a journal entry from two days after my seven year sobriety anniversary, sitting in my meditation corner, red light on, kids home for ski week, reflecting on what it really means to be a divorced mom choosing presence over escape. This is about the in between season. The waiting. The Wednesdays that are chaotic and beautiful and ordinary all at once. It’s about releasing single mom guilt, letting go of comparison, and realizing that the greatest gift sobriety has given me is the ability to stay. I don’t need wine to get through dinner. I get to be fully there for my kids and for myself. Highlights: (01:05) A season of waiting and what that really means (02:10) Life as a divorced mom of three (03:40) Letting go of single mom guilt (05:10) The gift of never checking out (06:20) Teaching my kids emotional regulation (07:30) Why I never regret not drinking Connect with Kaitlin: Website [https://www.kaitlinhenry.com] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kaitlin.henry/] LinkedIn [https://linkedin.com/in/kaitlinhenry] YOUTUBE CHANNEL [https://www.youtube.com/@StepZeroPodcast] TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@stepzerokaitlin?_t=ZT-90ozCFDA3WY&_r=1]

Unbottling What’s Already Within - A Conversation with Amanda Kuda

In this episode, I’m joined by Amanda Kuda for a grounded, honest conversation about sober curiosity and what it really means to choose clarity before life falls apart. Amanda shares how she walked away from alcohol without hitting rock bottom, and why so many high functioning, successful women still feel quietly disconnected, restless, or stuck. We talk about emotional sobriety, self trust, spirituality without dogma, and how alcohol can subtly dull your intuition and sense of purpose. This episode is for anyone who feels like alcohol isn’t ruining their life, but it might be keeping them from the life they’re meant to live. Highlights: (02:45) When drinking looks normal but still feels off (07:55) Why success doesn’t protect you from feeling disconnected (12:30) The moment Amanda realized alcohol was in the way (17:10) Emotional sobriety and learning to self regulate (24:50) How alcohol clouds intuition and self trust (32:40) What unbottled potential really means Connect with Amanda: Website: https://amandakuda.com/ [https://amandakuda.com/] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amandakuda/ [https://www.instagram.com/amandakuda/] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@amanda.kuda [https://www.tiktok.com/@amanda.kuda] Book - Unbottled Potential: https://amzn.to/3MTmW2S [https://amzn.to/3MTmW2S] Podcast - Unbottled Potential: https://www.amandakuda.com/podcast [https://www.amandakuda.com/podcast] Connect with Kaitlin: Website [https://www.kaitlinhenry.com] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kaitlin.henry/] LinkedIn [https://linkedin.com/in/kaitlinhenry] YOUTUBE CHANNEL [https://www.youtube.com/@StepZeroPodcast] TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@stepzerokaitlin?_t=ZT-90ozCFDA3WY&_r=1]