This is probably my favorite podcast guest spot ever. I’ve greatly enjoyed every single podcast, recovery website, or recovery-related Facebook group on which I’ve been featured. However, this one was particularly fun, and tied in …
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My Guest Spot on the SHAIR Podcast
Here it is, my episode of the SHAIR Podcast. This is my whole story of addiction and recovery: the good, the bad, and the ugly. I hope that hearing this helps someone who might presently …
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Teaching ASIST, Saving Lives
Two days/14 hours later, another amazing ASIST workshop is in the books, and 22 more local individuals are ready, willing, and able to perform suicide interventions and save lives. This was the fifth workshop I’ve …
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Glad I Could Help
I just had a dad of two 18-year-old twin sons leave my office telling me, “Speaking with you was far more productive than any of the prior conversations I’ve had with anyone while trying to …
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How Not to Get an “A” in a College Speech Course
Yes, that’s really me. The backstory: In 1994 I was taking “Fundamentals of Speech” at GCU during my freshman year of college. One of the speeches we were required to do was a demonstration speech, …
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ASIST Workshop #4: Don’t Call It a Comeback
After a nearly 1.5-year hiatus, I facilitated my fourth ASIST suicide intervention workshop yesterday and today in Gilbert. I am happy to say that two dozen more people are now equipped with the potentially …
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Do I Really Look Like That?
I demonstrated my semi-derp face for ABC 15 while simultaneously explaining that, sadly, it doesn’t surprise me that Arizona was ranked the most dangerous state for kids online (in a recent report). After that, I …
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A Change of Plans
This morning I was scheduled to do a pair of 30-minute breakout sessions as part of a multi-faceted community event hosted by the City of Phoenix at a local school. The material I was going …
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The Spectrum of Speaking Engagement Feedback
I’m going through the stack of student feedback forms from Monday’s presentations at Saguaro High School. When asked “What was something you liked about the presentation,” one 16-year-old student wrote, “The logos, ethos, and pathos …
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42 Years Old, Chill & Lit AF
17 hours, seven presentations (six student, one adult), and 1,350 audience members later, my day comes to an end. And if you take this Chandler High School student’s word for it, it was lit AF.
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