The Workit Health Podcast

Max, Senior Community Manager, Workit Health
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The Workit Health Podcast is a place for honest conversations about addiction, recovery, and the lives we build along the way. Each episode brings together real stories from people with lived experience, conversations with experts and voices in the recovery community, and thoughtful discussions about addiction treatment, harm reduction, recovery culture, and everything in between. There’s no single way to recover. Here, we make room for the complicated parts, the hopeful parts, and the conversations that don’t always fit neatly into a box. Real people. Real stories. Real conversations about addiction and recovery.

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    It's Good to Be Alive - with Amy Dresner, My Fair Junkie

    Amy Dresner has been sober for 13 and a half years, but her new episode isn't about pink clouds and gratitude lists– it's about what actually sustains recovery once the honeymoon phase is long over. The author of My Fair Junkie talks with Max about the shame that can resurface even a decade-plus into sobriety and the slow, unglamorous work of learning to be self-sufficient after years of being taken care of by other people. But this conversation is also genuinely about joy: Amy's rescue cat Bucky, her accidental succulent garden, an iced peppermint tea habit, and a spontaneous midnight trip to the beach with a friend who needed her there. She talks about pushing through her own agoraphobia to reconnect with people, why she's stopped chasing happiness and started chasing purpose instead, and the second book she's working on — about grief, chronic illness, and what it really looks like to keep going. Amy Dresner Website Instagram Facebook Workit Health Presents: A Dopey Interview of Amy Dresner Amy Dresner: Radical Resilience Content Warning: This episode includes a candid discussion of suicidal ideation in the context of long-term sobriety, as well as references to grief, chronic illness, and past substance use. Listener discretion is advised. If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, Workit Health offers compassionate, evidence-based treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorder, all from the privacy of home. Learn more at workithealth.com.

  2. Aug 25

    I Feel More Like Myself Than I Ever Have - with Tracey, Workit Health Member

    Tracy spent decades fighting addiction, cycling through six treatment centers that never stuck. Chronic pain pulled her into the opioid crisis, and after a frightening hospital stay last January, she was getting by on borrowed Suboxone until her doctor pointed her toward Workit Health. In this member testimony, Tracy talks about what it means to recover without performing it for someone else — no judgment, no mandatory meetings, no pressure to spill her secrets to strangers. Fifteen months in, she says she feels more like herself than she ever has. "A better version of Tracy," as she puts it. If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, Workit Health offers compassionate, evidence-based treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorder, all from the privacy of home. Learn more at workithealth.com.

  3. Aug 24

    Do Good, Be Good - with Marc Lee Shannon, Sober Chronicles

    Marc Lee Shannon spent 25 years touring with the Michael Stanley Band while climbing the corporate ladder in sales — all while hiding a drinking problem that eventually landed him in the ICU three times. In this episode, Marc talks about growing up in a working-class Akron family full of secrets, and the difference between being high-functioning and just being good at hiding it. He shares the moment that changed everything: his son telling him, "I don't worry about you anymore." For Marc, recovery eventually distilled down to a simple philosophy — do good, be good — a lesson he now carries into his work as a recovery coach. He's also a musician and author of Sober Chronicles. Marc Lee Shannon: Website Substack Instagram Facebook Marc Lee Shannon: Live in Concert with Workit Health If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, Workit Health offers compassionate, evidence-based treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorder, all from the privacy of home. Learn more at workithealth.com.

  4. Aug 18

    You Don’t Have to Believe to Start - with Jeannine Coulter, Chasing Heroine

    Jeannine Coulter once sat in jail facing $100,000 bail and the possibility of prison, and realized she'd become the person she always thought she could never become. Jeannine, creator and host of Chasing Heroine, sits down with Max for a candid, funny, and deeply personal conversation about addiction, homelessness, shame, and relapse. She shares the long arc of her addiction — from heavy drinking and cocaine while still holding her life together on the outside, to homelessness, heroin, meth, and arrests — and how her relationship with that past has changed. The shame she once carried began to fade as she realized addiction had forced her out of what she calls a "half life" and toward a fuller version of herself. Along the way, Max and Jeannine talk about why attempts at recovery are never wasted, finding gratitude for the experiences that brought them to their knees, and how telling the truth — with plenty of humor — can become its own form of connection. It's a conversation about going all the way down, finding your way back, and discovering that the parts of your story you once wanted to hide might eventually become the parts that help someone else. Jeannine Coulter: Chasing Heroine Podcast Instagram Facebook If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, Workit Health offers compassionate, evidence-based treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorder, all from the privacy of home. Learn more at workithealth.com.

  5. Aug 14

    Logging In Feels Like Coming Home - with Randy, Workit Health Member

    Randy's mother was incarcerated at his birth. He was raised by his great-grandparents in a small town where drugs were part of daily life. In 2005, he lost both parents and two brothers to overdose within weeks of each other. In this member testimony, Randy speaks candidly about decades of chaotic use — weed, pills, crack, heroin — including a rock-bottom moment interrupted, almost absurdly, by a bank's opening hours, and the circumstantial relapses that followed. Two years ago, he found Work It Health. Suboxone treatment and consistent, judgment-free support gave him the foundation to finally stay off opioids, even through two surgeries. Today Randy lives in sober living, is mending relationships, is training to become a certified peer support specialist, and just marked six months of consistent sobriety. He credits telehealth recovery's privacy, accessibility, and a team that's always a phone call away. His message for anyone still struggling: log on, make the connection, give it a try. If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, Workit Health offers compassionate, evidence-based treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorder, all from the privacy of home. Learn more at workithealth.com.

  6. Aug 14

    Your Recovery Isn't My Business - with Dave Manheim, Dopey Podcast

    Dave Manheim once judged people for using methadone or Suboxone to get sober. Ten years into his own recovery, he's rethinking almost everything he used to believe — including AA, harm reduction, kratom and 7-OH, and the judgment that can show up inside recovery communities themselves. Dave is the creator and host of the Dopey Podcast. In this episode, he talks with Max about the winding path that led him to abstinence, why someone else's recovery isn't his business, and what happens when we make a little more room for each other — and for the many different ways people find their way forward. Dave Manheim: Dopey Podcast Instagram Facebook If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, Workit Health offers compassionate, evidence-based treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorder, all from the privacy of home. Learn more at workithealth.com.

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The Workit Health Podcast is a place for honest conversations about addiction, recovery, and the lives we build along the way. Each episode brings together real stories from people with lived experience, conversations with experts and voices in the recovery community, and thoughtful discussions about addiction treatment, harm reduction, recovery culture, and everything in between. There’s no single way to recover. Here, we make room for the complicated parts, the hopeful parts, and the conversations that don’t always fit neatly into a box. Real people. Real stories. Real conversations about addiction and recovery.

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  • Creator
    Max, Senior Community Manager, Workit Health
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Workit Health Podcast
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