Evive Live

Evive Gambling Support
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Evive Live is a conversation series at the intersection of gambling harm and behavioral health. Hosted by Adam Lyons (The Modern Meeting) and Christina Cook (The Broke Girl Society), each episode features clinicians, researchers, treatment providers, peer specialists, and people in recovery having the honest conversations the field needs — about what gambling disorder really looks like, what treatment actually works, and what it takes to build a recovery that lasts.

  1. 18h ago

    Brian Ward | IGRS, BARA - NCPG Board Member

    Brian Ward turned himself in to the police in 2017. What followed was weeks of waiting, panic attacks, houselessness, and the end of his engagement. What came after that was nine years of peer support work, SMART Recovery facilitation, a seat on the NCPG board, and one of the most articulate voices in the gambling harm space. In this episode of Evive Live, Adam and Christina sit down with Brian to talk about how he got there — and what he actually believes about recovery, the industry, and what it means to show up for people who are struggling.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS 🟢 Evive — Digital support for gambling behavior change 🌐 https://www.getevive.com/ 📱 Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evive-gambling-support/id6450926060 🟣 The Broke Girl Society with Christina Cook — Community and recovery support for women 🌐 https://thebrokegirlsociety.com/  🎙️Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broke-girl-society-podcast/id1575593868 🎙️Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/74DP23EzfR6WPpPMLYq45x 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thebrokegirlsociety 🎧 The Modern Meeting Podcast with Adam Lyons — Gambling recovery, real talk 🌐 https://themodernmeeting.com/  🎙️ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-meeting/id1779060982 🎙️ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1jMSSKkadnvzbvZl33dzZc 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ModernMeeting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to Evive Live for new episodes featuring the clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people in recovery who are changing how we think about gambling harm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Evive Live is produced by Evive, a digital health platform dedicated to gambling behavior change. Views expressed by guests are their own.

    54 min

  2. Jun 16

    Sal Guarino | Community Engagement Manager, Evive

    Most recovery conversations focus on stopping. Sal Guarino is more interested in what comes next. In this episode of Evive Live!, Adam and Christina sit down with Sal Guarino — co-founder of The Recovery Partners, Community Engagement Manager at Evive, life coach, writer, and someone who has been in and around GA since he was 18 years old. Sal grew up in Brooklyn in a family where poker and sports betting were social rituals, watched his father's gambling cross a line he couldn't fully name until years later, and spent decades navigating his own path in and out of recovery before finding something that actually stuck. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS 🟢 Evive — Digital support for gambling behavior change 🌐 https://www.getevive.com/ 📱 Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evive-gambling-support/id6450926060 🟣 The Broke Girl Society with Christina Cook — Community and recovery support for women 🌐 https://thebrokegirlsociety.com/  🎙️Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broke-girl-society-podcast/id1575593868 🎙️Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/74DP23EzfR6WPpPMLYq45x 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thebrokegirlsociety 🎧 The Modern Meeting Podcast with Adam Lyons — Gambling recovery, real talk 🌐 https://themodernmeeting.com/  🎙️ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-meeting/id1779060982 🎙️ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1jMSSKkadnvzbvZl33dzZc 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ModernMeeting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to Evive Live for new episodes featuring the clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people in recovery who are changing how we think about gambling harm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Evive Live is produced by Evive, a digital health platform dedicated to gambling behavior change. Views expressed by guests are their own.

    52 min

  3. Jun 11

    Mike Scandria | Executive Director, Nebraska Council on Problem Gambling

    Mike Sciandra placed his last bet on December 14th, 2020. He knows the exact date because he tracks it on the Evive app — 1,998 days bet free at the time of recording. What followed that date was treatment, peer support work, counselor training, and eventually becoming the Executive Director of the Nebraska Council on Problem Gambling. In this episode of Evive Live, Christina and Sam (filling in for Adam) sit down with Mike to talk about what gambling support infrastructure actually looks like at the state level, why Nebraska's skill touch machines are driving a 40% increase in treatment admissions, and what it means to advocate for people in recovery in a state capitol where most lawmakers have never spoken to someone with lived gambling experience. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS 🟢 Evive — Digital support for gambling behavior change 🌐 https://www.getevive.com/ 📱 Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evive-gambling-support/id6450926060 🟣 The Broke Girl Society with Christina Cook — Community and recovery support for women 🌐 https://thebrokegirlsociety.com/  🎙️Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broke-girl-society-podcast/id1575593868 🎙️Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/74DP23EzfR6WPpPMLYq45x 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thebrokegirlsociety 🎧 The Modern Meeting Podcast with Adam Lyons — Gambling recovery, real talk 🌐 https://themodernmeeting.com/  🎙️ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-meeting/id1779060982 🎙️ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1jMSSKkadnvzbvZl33dzZc 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ModernMeeting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to Evive Live for new episodes featuring the clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people in recovery who are changing how we think about gambling harm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Evive Live is produced by Evive, a digital health platform dedicated to gambling behavior change. Views expressed by guests are their own.

    55 min

  4. Jun 2

    Adam & Christina | Support in Recovery

    Adam and Christina sit down without a guest to dig into one of the most important parts of recovery — support. Not the surface level version, but what it actually looks like in practice.  They talk through meetings, therapy, peer support, online communities, sponsors, and blocking software. They share what worked, what didn't, and why the first meeting you try might not be the right one. They also get into the harder conversations: why people pull away from support when they need it most, how to share your story safely, what unhealthy support looks like, and why setting the wrong goals can do more damage than having none at all.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS 🟢 Evive — Digital support for gambling behavior change 🌐 https://www.getevive.com/ 📱 Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evive-gambling-support/id6450926060 🟣 The Broke Girl Society with Christina Cook — Community and recovery support for women 🌐 https://thebrokegirlsociety.com/  🎙️Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broke-girl-society-podcast/id1575593868 🎙️Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/74DP23EzfR6WPpPMLYq45x 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thebrokegirlsociety 🎧 The Modern Meeting Podcast with Adam Lyons — Gambling recovery, real talk 🌐 https://themodernmeeting.com/  🎙️ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-meeting/id1779060982 🎙️ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1jMSSKkadnvzbvZl33dzZc 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ModernMeeting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to Evive Live for new episodes featuring the clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people in recovery who are changing how we think about gambling harm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Evive Live is produced by Evive, a digital health platform dedicated to gambling behavior change. Views expressed by guests are their own.

    52 min

  5. May 26

    Matt Zarb-Cousin | Co-Founder of Gamban

    Matt Zarb-Cousin started gambling at 16, lost £20,000 by 20, and quit on his 20th birthday. What followed became one of the most impactful recovery journeys in the gambling harm space. In this episode of Evive Live, Adam and Christina sit down with Matt to talk about how Gamban works, why it's nearly impossible to remove on iPhones, and why blocking software is one layer of a recovery ecosystem rather than a standalone solution. Matt also shares a sharp-eyed view of what happened when US states legalized sports betting and British operators crossed the Atlantic, why prediction markets and leveraged trading are gambling by another name, and what it will take for American policy to catch up with where the UK eventually got to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS 🟢 Evive — Digital support for gambling behavior change 🌐 https://www.getevive.com/ 📱 Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evive-gambling-support/id6450926060 🟣 The Broke Girl Society with Christina Cook — Community and recovery support for women 🌐 https://thebrokegirlsociety.com/  🎙️Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broke-girl-society-podcast/id1575593868 🎙️Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/74DP23EzfR6WPpPMLYq45x 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thebrokegirlsociety 🎧 The Modern Meeting Podcast with Adam Lyons — Gambling recovery, real talk 🌐 https://themodernmeeting.com/  🎙️ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-meeting/id1779060982 🎙️ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1jMSSKkadnvzbvZl33dzZc 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ModernMeeting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to Evive Live for new episodes featuring the clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people in recovery who are changing how we think about gambling harm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Evive Live is produced by Evive, a digital health platform dedicated to gambling behavior change. Views expressed by guests are their own.

    52 min

  6. May 19

    Dr. Paulette O'Gilvie | Casino & Gambling Researcher

    Dr. Paulette O'Gilvie is a casino and gambling researcher whose 2023 study examined the effect of casino proximity on poverty levels in New York City over five years. In this episode of Evive Live!, Adam and Christina sit down with Dr. O'Gilvie — Faculty Chair, prevention specialist, and member of the Evive Scientific Advisory Board — for a conversation that moves beyond the individual gambler and into the communities surrounding them. She walks through the "Three A's" framework of why urban casino gambling has exploded, what exposure and adaptation theory predicted would happen versus what her data actually showed, and why the sustainability of casino-driven economic development deserves far more scrutiny than it gets.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS 🟢 Evive — Digital support for gambling behavior change 🌐 https://www.getevive.com/ 📱 Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evive-gambling-support/id6450926060 🟣 The Broke Girl Society with Christina Cook — Community and recovery support for women 🌐 https://thebrokegirlsociety.com/  🎙️Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broke-girl-society-podcast/id1575593868 🎙️Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/74DP23EzfR6WPpPMLYq45x 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thebrokegirlsociety 🎧 The Modern Meeting Podcast with Adam Lyons — Gambling recovery, real talk 🌐 https://themodernmeeting.com/  🎙️ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-meeting/id1779060982 🎙️ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1jMSSKkadnvzbvZl33dzZc 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ModernMeeting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to Evive Live for new episodes featuring the clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people in recovery who are changing how we think about gambling harm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Evive Live is produced by Evive, a digital health platform dedicated to gambling behavior change. Views expressed by guests are their own.

    44 min

  7. May 12

    Melissa Macillus | Host, Making Bets in a Burning House

    Melissa Macillus has been impacted by gambling addiction not once, but twice, and instead of walking away, she leaned in. As the host of Making Bets in a Burning House, she sits down with Adam and Christina to talk about what recovery looks like from the other side, why trust is the first thing to leave and the last thing to come back, and what she wishes every spouse and loved one knew before they spent years figuring it out alone.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS 🟢 Evive — Digital support for gambling behavior change 🌐 https://www.getevive.com/ 📱 Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evive-gambling-support/id6450926060 🟣 The Broke Girl Society with Christina Cook — Community and recovery support for women 🌐 https://thebrokegirlsociety.com/  🎙️Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broke-girl-society-podcast/id1575593868 🎙️Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/74DP23EzfR6WPpPMLYq45x 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thebrokegirlsociety 🎧 The Modern Meeting Podcast with Adam Lyons — Gambling recovery, real talk 🌐 https://themodernmeeting.com/  🎙️ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-meeting/id1779060982 🎙️ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1jMSSKkadnvzbvZl33dzZc 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ModernMeeting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to Evive Live for new episodes featuring the clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people in recovery who are changing how we think about gambling harm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Evive Live is produced by Evive, a digital health platform dedicated to gambling behavior change. Views expressed by guests are their own.

    49 min

  8. May 5

    Dr. Deborah Haskins | Chief Clinical Consultant, Evive Board Chair

    Dr. Deborah Haskins has spent 30 years training clinicians, building treatment frameworks for underserved communities, and asking the question most of the field won't: what if the problem isn't the person with the addiction? In this episode she sits down with Adam and Christina to talk about the gaps in clinical training, the cultural barriers that keep entire communities away from traditional treatment, the complex relationship between spirituality and recovery — and shares something deeply personal about her own lived experience of trauma that reframes everything she's built her career around.   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS 🟢 Evive — Digital support for gambling behavior change 🌐 https://www.getevive.com/ 📱 Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evive-gambling-support/id6450926060 🟣 The Broke Girl Society with Christina Cook — Community and recovery support for women 🌐 https://thebrokegirlsociety.com/  🎙️Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broke-girl-society-podcast/id1575593868 🎙️Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/74DP23EzfR6WPpPMLYq45x 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thebrokegirlsociety 🎧 The Modern Meeting Podcast with Adam Lyons — Gambling recovery, real talk 🌐 https://themodernmeeting.com/  🎙️ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-meeting/id1779060982 🎙️ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1jMSSKkadnvzbvZl33dzZc 📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ModernMeeting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to Evive Live for new episodes featuring the clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people in recovery who are changing how we think about gambling harm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Evive Live is produced by Evive, a digital health platform dedicated to gambling behavior change. Views expressed by guests are their own.

    55 min
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Evive Live is a conversation series at the intersection of gambling harm and behavioral health. Hosted by Adam Lyons (The Modern Meeting) and Christina Cook (The Broke Girl Society), each episode features clinicians, researchers, treatment providers, peer specialists, and people in recovery having the honest conversations the field needs — about what gambling disorder really looks like, what treatment actually works, and what it takes to build a recovery that lasts.

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  • Creator
    Evive Gambling Support
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Evive Live
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