Rebuilding Life After Addiction

Shenandoah Valley Adult Teen Challenge
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Rebuilding Life After Addiction is the podcast for people who got clean and realized that was just the beginning. Hosted by Justin Franich and Robert Grant out of the Teen Challenge network, this is where faith meets the real work of recovery. Not clichés. Not surface-level fixes. Honest, Christ-centered conversations about what it actually takes to rebuild after addiction, stay free, and follow Jesus through the messy middle. Justin is a Teen Challenge graduate with 20 years in the network and Executive Director of Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge. Robert brings lived experience, wisdom, and the kind of honesty that keeps conversations grounded and practical.  Together they sit down with Teen Challenge graduates, families, pastors, and people who are walking proof that God isn’t done yet. What you’ll hear on this podcast: Real addiction recovery testimonies from Teen Challenge graduates, families, and Christ-centered recovery programs across the country. Conversations about identity, purpose, and why sobriety alone isn’t enough. Practical help for families navigating addiction: boundaries, enabling, interventions, and choosing the right program. Bible-based encouragement for depression, grief, anxiety, anger, and the seasons nobody talks about. Teaching on discipleship, forgiveness, relationships, and what it looks like to actually follow Jesus after rehab. Behind-the-scenes updates from Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge and the Rebuilding Life ministry. If you’re sober but still stuck, this podcast is for you. If you’re a mom or spouse trying to hold your family together, this podcast is for you. If you’re searching for a faith-based program and don’t know where to start, this podcast is for you. If you love Jesus but the Christian life feels harder than anyone told you it would be, this podcast is for you. New episodes weekly on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

  1. 13h ago

    Clean and Sober. Now How Do You Get a Job? | Shayne Weister

    You did the hardest thing already. You got clean. But then you're standing there thinking, all I've known is drugs. How do I even get a job? That's the conversation here. Shayne Weiser knows the work of rebuilding from the ground up. As a young man, legal trouble and a string of bad choices stopped his life cold, and he climbed back from ten dollars an hour into a successful business and a life of purpose. We get practical. Why your first job doesn't have to be your forever job. Why fourteen dollars an hour beats zero. How to find a mentor and what to actually look for in one. Vocational training, entry-level work, and why companies with real accountability are worth starting at. And the mindset shift underneath all of it, that failure isn't terminal, and the right people in proximity can pull you up to a level you can't reach alone. We also get into his own story, from losing his license in 1997 to building Glory Ridge Farm out of a thousand dollars and three beehives, and the moment he stopped seeing himself as a failure. If you're fresh out of a program wondering what comes next, or you love someone who is, this one's for you. Shayne's work: https://gloryridgefarm.com If you or someone you love needs help, start here: https://svtc.info/get-help Rebuilding Life After Addiction is a production of Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge. 🎙️ Host: Justin Franich | Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge 🌐 Full episodes + resources: https://svtc.info/podcast 📖 Faith-based recovery guides: https://svtc.info 🙏 Support this ministry: https://svtc.info/donate 📞 Need help? Call us: 540-213-0571

    40 min

  2. Jul 5

    How to Rebuild Your Finances After Addiction | Jacob Dobscha

    You did the hardest thing already. You got clean. Then comes the part that rarely gets talked about: the debt, the wrecked credit, the bills you can't look at. I sat down with my friend Jacob Dobscha, a business insurance agent with LD&B Insurance in Harrisonburg, Virginia, to lay out exactly how you dig out. Not theory. A plan you can start the week you get home. We cover the whole thing. Where to begin when everything feels like it's on fire. The first $1,000. The debt snowball and why you go after the smallest balance first, ignoring interest rates. What to do when you can't even make your minimums. The emergency fund, retirement, and the long game of owning a paid-off house. And why the same drive you used in active addiction can build something real now that it's pointed in the right direction. Then Jacob tells a story I won't forget. His mom, a single mother of three, put her whole paycheck in the offering plate the week rent was due. What the church did next is the reason he's spent his life passionate about money. Not to get rich. To be the one who gives. If you're clean but buried, this is the conversation. Connect with Jacob Dobscha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobdobscha If you or someone you love needs help, start here: https://svtc.info/get-help Rebuilding Life After Addiction is a production of Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge. 🎙️ Host: Justin Franich | Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge 🌐 Full episodes + resources: https://svtc.info/podcast 📖 Faith-based recovery guides: https://svtc.info 🙏 Support this ministry: https://svtc.info/donate 📞 Need help? Call us: 540-213-0571

    30 min

  3. Jun 27

    The Warning Signs of Relapse Most People Miss | Nathaniel Gray

    Relapse almost never starts with the drug. It starts long before that, in the warning signs most people miss. I've known Nathaniel Gray since 2008. Back then he was coming out of an active heroin addiction with a stack of charges, and he couldn't read. A man in his cell wrote his letter into the program for him. A pastor he'd never met stood up in court and said God sent him there for a stranger. That was the start. Twenty years later, Nathaniel is a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist and a mobile crisis responder, and he came on to talk about the part of recovery nobody films. Not the rock bottom. The staying free. We got into the warning signs that show up long before someone picks back up. The reservation you start making in your head. The herd you drift away from when you get strong enough to think you don't need it. Nathaniel walks through the herd picture, the buffalo and the predators on the edge, and why early recovery means standing in the middle. We talked about why "once an addict, always an addict" is bad recovery advice when you believe you're a new creation in Christ, and the one thing he checks in himself every morning before his feet hit the floor. Nathaniel is the founder of Exquisite Care Companies. Learn more at https://www.exquisitecarecompanies.com. If you or someone you love needs help, start here: https://svtc.info/get-help Rebuilding Life After Addiction is a production of Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge. 🎙️ Host: Justin Franich | Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge 🌐 Full episodes + resources: https://svtc.info/podcast 📖 Faith-based recovery guides: https://svtc.info 🙏 Support this ministry: https://svtc.info/donate 📞 Need help? Call us: 540-213-0571

    37 min

  4. Jun 21

    What If the Crushing Is the Blessing? | Jason Stuhlmiller

    We set up to sell furniture and ended up recording one of the most honest conversations we've had in a while. No studio, no stage, just three of us on the floor of an empty garage at The Table 61 in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It started with one question. What if the crushing is the blessing? From there we got into the olive press, the wine that has to age, and why Jesus wasn't in a hurry to be seen. I was honest about the last six months, coming back to something expecting it to take off and running into a wall that wouldn't break. We talked about the trap of chasing the destination while missing the process that's actually forming you. Jason Stuhlmiller of The Table 61 brought the teaching on the debtor's ethic, the debt we put on ourselves that God never handed us, and how we've gotten better at earning than receiving. We landed on love, influence, and the new command in John 13. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. If you've been doing everything right and still feel stuck in the pressure, this one's for you. Find The Table 61 on Facebook (facebook.com/profile.php?id=100079579317864) and YouTube (youtube.com/@TheTable61), or stop by 430 North Mason Street in Harrisonburg. Need help, or know someone who does? Start here: https://svtc.info/get-help Learn more at https://svtc.info 🎙️ Host: Justin Franich | Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge 🌐 Full episodes + resources: https://svtc.info/podcast 📖 Faith-based recovery guides: https://svtc.info 🙏 Support this ministry: https://svtc.info/donate 📞 Need help? Call us: 540-213-0571

    30 min

  5. Jun 9

    Why People Relapse (It's Not the Drug) | Clip

    Three and a half years sober. Gone in 30 days. Everybody assumes relapse starts with the drug. A trigger. A craving. A bad day you couldn't beat. It didn't. In this clip, Rocco says it straight. He stopped staying plugged in. The church family, the brothers, the community God built around him. He let it drift. Work got busy. Bible study got skipped. The relapse was already happening months before he ever picked up. That's the part nobody warns you about. The fall doesn't start where you think it does. It starts quiet. This is a clip from our full conversation with Rocco on the Rebuilding Life After Addiction podcast. Get help: https://svtc.info/get-help What is Teen Challenge: https://svtc.info/what-is-teen-challenge Find a program: https://svtc.info/teen-challenge-locations Programs in Virginia: https://svtc.info/teen-challenge-virginia 🎙️ Host: Justin Franich | Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge 🌐 Full episodes + resources: https://svtc.info/podcast 📖 Faith-based recovery guides: https://svtc.info 🙏 Support this ministry: https://svtc.info/donate 📞 Need help? Call us: 540-213-0571

    6 min

  6. May 1

    The Calling Stayed, But the Plan Changed

    Ashley and I sat down during a rainy work day at the center to talk honestly about where things stand with the ministry, the building, and this next season.  Support the 6043 Broad project: https://svtc.info/6043-broad  For the first time in ministry, I don't have a clean five-year plan. We thought we were coming back to restart the residential program. That didn't happen the way we expected. Then we listed the building for sale. It didn't sell. Then a gift came in that changed the direction again. So now we're painting rooms, planning monthly worship nights, working toward groups, finishing the studio, and trying to take the next step in front of us.  The calling is still clear.  The model is not.  This conversation is about faith, uncertainty, obedience, ministry, sustainability, and what it looks like to keep saying yes when you don't fully know what the outcome will be. Thanks for following along as we rebuild this in real time. 🎙️ Host: Justin Franich | Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge 🌐 Full episodes + resources: https://svtc.info/podcast 📖 Faith-based recovery guides: https://svtc.info 🙏 Support this ministry: https://svtc.info/donate 📞 Need help? Call us: 540-213-0571

    14 min

  7. Apr 27

    She Fed 50,000 Meals After the Flood Took Her Own Home

    In February 2025, historic flooding tore through McDowell County, West Virginia. Sandy's basement filled with five feet of water. Her daughter lost everything. The food pantry she had been running for nearly a decade was destroyed. And while her own home was still under water, Sandy helped coordinate over 50,000 hot meals for her neighbors. That sentence alone tells you most of what you need to know about this conversation. Sandy came to Jesus on her own couch in Statesville, North Carolina, after a pastor named J.B. Parker Jr. knocked on her door every Saturday until she finally let him in. She grew up in a home where the family Bible was decoration. None of that disqualified her from the work God put in front of her. It built her for it. In this episode, Sandy talks about what she calls real church versus play church. She tells the story of a man who walked into a service with a beer can in his shirt pocket and the woman who scooted over to make room for him. She talks about why stateside ministry gets passed over when there's still a harvest field in our own Jerusalem. And she names something most ministry leaders feel but rarely say out loud: the people you keep showing up for will not always meet you in the middle. You feed them anyway. You plant the seeds. You let God give the increase. If you serve in ministry, lead a church, or you've been quietly wondering if your work matters, this one's worth your time. Full Show Notes: https://svtc.info/podcast/she-fed-50-000-meals-after-the-flood-took-her-own-home 🎙️ Host: Justin Franich | Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge 🌐 Full episodes + resources: https://svtc.info/podcast 📖 Faith-based recovery guides: https://svtc.info 🙏 Support this ministry: https://svtc.info/donate 📞 Need help? Call us: 540-213-0571

    42 min

  8. Apr 19

    What Happens When Pain Meets Easy Escape

    He watched God work what felt like miracle after miracle in the NICU. And then, the moment he crossed back home, everything unraveled. Jeremy puts words to a moment many people recognize but rarely admit: the split second where faith feels distant and the old escape routes feel close again. We talk with Jeremy about the grief of losing his infant daughter, the slow drift from trying to cope into prescription drug addiction, and how clonazepam left him numb and chasing relief. From there, his story moves into meth addiction, the strain it put on his marriage and parenting, and how relapse tends to come back worse. He also speaks honestly about NICU trauma during COVID, financial pressure, isolation, and the role community played through prayer, texts, and practical help. Then we get into consequences and rebuilding. Jeremy shares what happened after his arrest, why prison became more than a temporary wake-up call, and what it looks like to live recovered while staying aware he's still one bad choice away. We also talk about daily sobriety practices, Christian recovery, staying spiritually rooted, and how he now uses his addiction recovery leadership training to help others through 5:17 Ministries. If you or someone you love is battling addiction, grief, or relapse, this conversation offers clarity and hope. Subscribe for more stories like Jeremy's, and share this with someone who needs it. 🎙️ Host: Justin Franich | Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge 🌐 Full episodes + resources: https://svtc.info/podcast 📖 Faith-based recovery guides: https://svtc.info 🙏 Support this ministry: https://svtc.info/donate 📞 Need help? Call us: 540-213-0571

    38 min
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Rebuilding Life After Addiction is the podcast for people who got clean and realized that was just the beginning. Hosted by Justin Franich and Robert Grant out of the Teen Challenge network, this is where faith meets the real work of recovery. Not clichés. Not surface-level fixes. Honest, Christ-centered conversations about what it actually takes to rebuild after addiction, stay free, and follow Jesus through the messy middle. Justin is a Teen Challenge graduate with 20 years in the network and Executive Director of Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge. Robert brings lived experience, wisdom, and the kind of honesty that keeps conversations grounded and practical.  Together they sit down with Teen Challenge graduates, families, pastors, and people who are walking proof that God isn’t done yet. What you’ll hear on this podcast: Real addiction recovery testimonies from Teen Challenge graduates, families, and Christ-centered recovery programs across the country. Conversations about identity, purpose, and why sobriety alone isn’t enough. Practical help for families navigating addiction: boundaries, enabling, interventions, and choosing the right program. Bible-based encouragement for depression, grief, anxiety, anger, and the seasons nobody talks about. Teaching on discipleship, forgiveness, relationships, and what it looks like to actually follow Jesus after rehab. Behind-the-scenes updates from Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge and the Rebuilding Life ministry. If you’re sober but still stuck, this podcast is for you. If you’re a mom or spouse trying to hold your family together, this podcast is for you. If you’re searching for a faith-based program and don’t know where to start, this podcast is for you. If you love Jesus but the Christian life feels harder than anyone told you it would be, this podcast is for you. New episodes weekly on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Information

  • Creator
    Shenandoah Valley Adult Teen Challenge
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    99
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Justin Franich
  • Show Website
    Rebuilding Life After Addiction