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In season 3, episode four Roman and Cecily interview Diana, aka Birdy. An ex gang member turned registered nurse. Who describes herself as “disaster, lucky and miracle”. She was able to get clean and get away from gang life so she could save lives and fight on the front lines of the COVID pandemic.


“A lot of times I say lucky because I do love a charmed life. The life I’m able to live now I’m very lucky to have. Because the life that I lived before.. I should be dead or in jail.”
-Birdy


“This life that I have been living has been so abnormal but it has felt normal for so long”
-Birdy


“So you went from being pretty much a threat to human life to working your ass off to try and save lives during the pandemic?” 
-Roman 


“Yea, it’s the right thing to do” 
-Birdy


Birdy is the editor and host of PNX News. She gets to travel the world and create videos with various punk bands. 


https://youtube.com/@KarlCBoyer?si=1GLifQ-KqHgjBTAp

In season 3 episode 3 Roman and Cecily sit down with Suzanne, a marriage and family therapist and sober alcoholic. She discusses how she has handled heartbreak in sobriety and the struggle of processing sexual assault.

“I didn’t know that you could navigate life just pretending like it never happened. Well this rocked my world, completely rocked my world… and life has been really hard, right now. It’s been a really big struggle for me. Hard because as a mental health professional, I logically know these things, but I don’t think I should be feeling these things. Fifty percent of me says what happened was wrong and the other fifty percent of me says you were drunk of course that happened to you.” -Suzanne
“Well, that’s a struggle that a lot of women in Alcoholics Anonymous go through.” -Cecily

Suzanne recommends the book The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. Buy it now in the links below:
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In season 3 episode 2 of the Transformations Recovery Podcast Roman and Cecily talk with Liz, aka Alex, about the West Virginia pill boom of the mid 2000’s, aliens, and being a young heroin addict and sex worker who made it out alive. 
"It went from like- everyone’s doing Oxys and Opanas to like, the market is just stripped. And there’s no Oxys and Opanas anymore and it’s like—what the fuck do you do?” - Liz/Alex
“Shoot heroin." -Roman and Cecily
“You shoot heroin, obviously. Ha ha. What else would you do? Nothing else fuckin’ mattered. So like, you know fast forward, a few years I’m a senior in high school, you know, and like, I’m shooting heroin. And like that progression was pretty crazy and super fast too.” -Liz/Alex

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Welcome to season 3 episode 1 of the Transformations Recovery Podcast! On the season premiere Roman and Cecily talk with Brianne Davis actor, writer, podcaster, and 11 year sober member of SLAA- Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. 
"Yes I drink, I am not an alcoholic. I am sober in sex and love addicts anonymous which is also a 12 step program... For the first time in my life I hold my own energy. And nobody's taking it from me."
Check out Brianne's book “Secret Life of a Hollywood Sex and Love Addict,” her podcast “Secret Life,” and the audio version of her book and more at secretlifenovel.com

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Roman and Cecily reminisce about everyone they interviewed in season two. There were some hilarious stories shared on the podcast and some heartbreaking ones too. A million thanks to everyone who let us record your story and to all our listeners around the world.

We are gearing up for Season Three, it's going to be great one.

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Individual Episode links from those interviewed in Season Two:

1. Sean Romin: www.discogs.com, lacounty.gov, latimes.com

2. Jack Grisham: Books, punkhostagepress.com, Movies, Music

3. Danielle: Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess
4. Zach

5. Scotty Schmidt: aka William S. Hayes "Burden of Concrete"

6. Russel: triumph-foundation.org, www.facebook.com/russel.burke.

7. Daniel: boartooth.com

8. Doug "Pineapple" Saladino: skateboardinghalloffame.org

9. Spencer: ShatteredFaithBand

10. Stephen Donnelly: "A Saint and a Sinner: The Rise and Fall of a Beloved Catholic Priest"

11. Kat

12. Mona: mauraandmona.com
 

Roman and Cecily chop it up with Mona, a clean and sober addict, former international drug smuggler, mother, artist, and classic coffee shop waitress.

"There was a lot of heroin, a lot of speed, a lot of booze, a lot of like, fuc*in' everything. And then my son and I reunited and it was like, fuc*ing unbelievable. It felt like it filled in all of these pieces that were really broken and I didn't even know how broken that they were. I had no clue that a lot of this was dealing with trauma of losing him. I didn't know."

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