Evive Live

Evive Gambling Support
  • 5.0 (5)
  • MENTAL HEALTH

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.

Episodes

  1. APR 21

    Scott Meyer | Recovery Coach, Peer Manager

    Adam and Christina sit down with Recovery Coach Scott Meyer, who shares a brutally honest look into his 13-year battle with gambling addiction—one that unfolded in complete silence while he maintained the image of a successful professional, husband, and father. Scott opens up about living a double life, manipulating those closest to him, and the moment everything came crashing down. From the early wins that fueled the addiction to the isolation, shame, and eventual legal consequences, this conversation pulls back the curtain on how destructive and deceptive gambling addiction can become—regardless of background, career, or intelligence.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 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.

    1h 3m

  2. APR 7

    Katrina Arroyo | Manager of Clinical Programs, PGNO

    Gambling harm is invisible — and that's exactly why so many clinicians are missing it. In this episode of Evive Live, Adam and Christina sit down with Katrina Arroyo, Manager of Clinical Programs at the Problem Gambling Network of Ohio, for one of the most candid and fired-up conversations we've had on the show. Katrina pulls no punches on why gambling is consistently under-screened in behavioral health settings, why the initial intake screen is actually the least effective time to ask about gambling, and what clinicians need to hear about the clients already sitting in their chairs. From seven-year-olds spending thousands on in-app purchases to the transfer of addiction behavior in co-occurring populations — the landscape has shifted, and the field needs to catch up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 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

  3. MAR 26

    Alyx Effron | Collectors MD Founder

    The hobby world has a gambling problem — and almost no one is talking about it. Alyx Effron, founder of Collectors MD, joins co-hosts Adam Lyons and Christina Cook to expose the gambling mechanics embedded inside the modern trading card industry — live-streamed breaks, sudden death auctions, influencer-manufactured wins, and casino-style marketing emails — all operating with zero regulation, zero age gates, and zero guardrails. Alyx shares his own story of gambling and collecting addiction feeding each other for years, and why traditional recovery spaces didn't have language for what he was experiencing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 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.

    58 min

  4. MAR 10

    Brian Hatch | Community Engagement Manager CCPG

    Before there were gambling recovery podcasts, there was Brian Hatch. A decade after launching All In: The Addicted Gambler Podcast — the first of its kind — Brian is now Community Engagement Manager at the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, running peer recovery groups inside a correctional facility and producing Connecticut's first gambling-specific recovery retreat. In this episode he walks through his return to sports card collecting after 10 years of casino recovery, makes the case that prediction markets and card breaks are gambling full stop, and shares the philosophy that keeps him going when the work gets heavy: focus on the person in front of you.   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 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.

    57 min

  5. FEB 24

    Dr. Tim Fong | UCLA Gambling Studies Program

    Adam and Christina sit down with Dr. Tim Fong — Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, Co-Director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program, and Evive advisory board member — for one of the most clinically substantive conversations the show has had yet.  Dr. Fong traces his path into addiction medicine, shares his own relationship with gambling, and unpacks the emerging treatments reshaping the field: psilocybin, GLP-1 receptor agonists, and TMS. He also addresses why shame around money makes gambling disorder uniquely hard to disclose, what providers are still getting wrong, and why recovery technology like Evive represents something genuinely different. Essential listening for anyone working at the intersection of behavioral health and gambling harm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 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.

    1 hr

  6. FEB 10

    Kim Freudenberg | Parents Standing Together

    Adam and Christina sit down with Kim Freudenberg, a high school physics teacher, mother, and founder of Parents Standing Together, a nonprofit peer support community for parents of young people experiencing gambling harm. Kim's son Kurt began gambling at age 11 — on video game skins, offshore casino sites, and everything in between — without his parents having any idea. What followed was more than a decade of escalation, two stints in residential treatment, an arrest, and ultimately, a hard-won recovery that Kim credits in part to the family doing their own work alongside him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 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.

    50 min

  7. JAN 27

    Jody Bechtold | The Better Institute

    Adam and Christina sit down with Jody Bechtold, CEO of The Better Institute and a leading voice in gambling disorder treatment and certification. Jody breaks down why gambling disorder is highly treatable, why so many clinicians miss it, and what effective treatment actually looks like in real life.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 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. JAN 9

    Sam DeMello | Evive Founder

    Sam DeMello, Founder and CEO of Evive, joins hosts Adam Lyons and Christina Cook for the debut episode of Evive Live, opening up about his journey as a founder, the origins of Evive, and his personal path through recovery from gambling addiction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 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.

    1h 1m
  • 8 Episodes

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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
    8
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Evive Live
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