Recover Outloud is a space for honest conversations about recovery, healing, and rebuilding life without labels or performative positivity. Hosted by Sean Young, the channel explores sobriety, addiction, trauma, mental health, and personal accountability through real stories and lived experience. No preaching. No gurus. Just unfiltered dialogue, practical insight, and growth, said out loud.
Latest episodes
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52 min
Recover Outloud: Ep 127: Rewiring the Mind in Recovery
Alex shares his journey from early substance use in the Midwest to heavy drinking, cocaine, heroin, and meth addiction that eventually led to homelessness, legal trouble, and years…
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57 min
Recover Outloud: Ep 126: Recovery, Consciousness & The System
This episode explores the role of higher power, personal responsibility, and collective consciousness in recovery, while also diving into uncomfortable but necessary conversations…
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54 min
Recover Outloud: Ep 125: Metal, Mayhem & Sobriety
Rich opens up about growing up in instability, chasing validation, and how alcohol and drugs became both an escape and a way to feel in control. What started as social use quickly…
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47 min
Recover Outloud: Ep124: From Rock Bottom to Comeback
Jeremy shares his journey from early drinking in Alaska to a devastating back injury that introduced him to prescription opioids fueling a decade-long spiral of alcohol, pills, iso…
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41 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 123: Healing After Traumatic Brain Injury
In this episode, Sean sits down with Daniel Gospodarek, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in men’s mental health and trauma, to explore both his professional work a…
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52 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 122: Sitting in the Hallway
Joshua continues his journey by unpacking the unraveling of his identity after losing his music scholarship, the descent into full-blown meth addiction, and what it was like growin…
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53 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 121: Laughing Through the Healing
In this deeply honest conversation, Sean sits down with Sam Ghanem, entrepreneur, comedian, mindset coach, and person in recovery to unpack a life shaped by early trauma, relentles…
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1 h 21
Recover Outloud: Episode 120: From Survival to Self
In this episode, Sean is joined by Jayme Ethridge, whose journey through addiction is inseparable from years of trauma, domestic violence, homelessness, and the quiet erosion of se…
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1 h 25
Recover Outloud: Episode 119: Wrestling With Survival, Purpose, and PTSD
In this deeply raw and honest episode of Recover Outloud, Sean sits down with John Devine, an Army veteran and professional wrestler, to unpack the long, complicated road from comb…
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1 h 20
Recover Outloud: Episode 118: It Was Never About the Alcohol
In this powerful episode of Recover Outloud, Sean sits down with Dr. Robb Kelly, a neuroscientist, behavioral specialist, and recovered alcoholic, to dismantle one of the biggest m…
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53 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 117: Loving the Ridiculous Parts of Yourself
In this episode of Recover Outloud, Sean sits down with Julie May, founder and host of The Ridiculously You Podcast, for a deeply human conversation about addiction, mental health,…
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40 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 116: Recovery Without Labels
In this episode of Recover Outloud, Sean sits down with Jasmine Bootle, host of Everybody’s Addicted, for a raw, unfiltered conversation about addiction, recovery, and the damage c…
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44 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 115: Brotherhood, Accountability, and Rebirth
In this heartfelt and powerful episode, Sean sits down with Hollis Versyp, a Marine veteran and close friend whose recovery path mirrors his own. Hollis shares his journey from a d…
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46 min
🎄 Recover Outloud: A Christmas Conversation Across the World 🎄
This special Christmas episode of Recover Outloud is a little different, and a lot more meaningful.Sean is joined by his daughter, Emma, coming to you live from Germany, where she…
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46 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 114: From Chaos to Calling
In this gripping and inspirational episode, Sean sits down with Joe Gallagher, a former musician turned sauce entrepreneur, whose story captures the raw truth of addiction, surviva…
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49 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 113: Radical Honesty, Real Recovery
In this powerful and refreshingly blunt episode, Sean sits down with Martha Burich, a longtime educator, AA volunteer, jail mentor, and woman in long-term recovery who brings truth…
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52 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 112: The Courage to Choose Yourself
In this deeply moving episode, Sean sits down with Abby Anderson, a survivor, creator, and fierce advocate for recovery, community, and compassion. Abby opens up about her journey…
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44 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 111: Building Radical Recovery
Pull up your chair and listen in as host Sean Young sits down with Steve Feldman, founder of Radical Recovery and a person thriving in long-term recovery.In this episode, Steve sha…
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35 min
Recover Outloud: Episode 110: Finding Sobriety in Isolation
Join host Sean Young as he sits down with Abby Moreira, a sister in recovery with a story that shines light on resilience, faith, and community.In this episode, Abby opens up about…
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1 h 04
Recover Outloud: Episode 109: Strength Beyond the Struggle
Get comfortable outside with a blanket and a warm beverage as host Sean Young sits down with Jonathon Scott — former Division I athlete, mental health survivor, and recovery speake…