One Last Hit | A Sobriety and Addiction Recovery Podcast

Austin Rampt

Most people in recovery never tell the full story. This show does. I'm Austin Rampt the author of One Last Hit: The Remarkable True Story of an Addict's Journey to Find Himself. I grew up in Tampa, spent a decade chasing drugs through eight different rehabs, and eventually fled the country. I ended up in Mexico surrounded by members of the Sinaloa Cartel, hit the kind of bottom most people don't walk away from, and somehow made it back. On the One Last Hit Podcast I sit down with people who have been through it , addicts in recovery, people who've done prison time, survivors of overdoses, family members who watched someone disappear and then come back. No polished stories. No watered-down redemption arcs. Just real people talking about what it actually took to get sober and stay that way. If you are fighting your own battle, loving someone in the middle of theirs, or you just need proof that people really do get better then this show is for you. New episodes every week. Grab the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJV2N32T Audiobook: https://www.audible.com/pd/One-Last-Hit-Audiobook/B0GD8WCDHY Website: https://www.onelasthitbook.com Instagram & Facebook: @onelasthitbook

  1. 23h ago

    An 8 Day Bender, a Wrecked Car, Then 10 Years Sober | Kevin Gardner | One Last Hit #21

    Kevin Gardner had a middle class upbringing and no tragic childhood, yet one humiliating day in fifth grade planted two fears that drove his drinking for years: the fear of being alone and the fear of not fitting in. Alcohol became his fix in middle school, and it cost him a suspension and an expulsion from college. Years later his fiancee left him, and an eight day bender ended with a crashed car and a trip to the emergency room. Now more than ten years sober, Kevin shares the ninety minute phone call from an old high school friend that pointed him toward the rooms, why his fellowship is his power greater than himself, and the daily gratitude texts he trades with fourteen men every morning. He and Austin talk about the meeting between Bill W. and Dr. Bob in Akron, the mantra behind his books Change Your Thinking, Ignite Your Life, Staying Lit and Stigma, and his message for anyone who is sober curious. ⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Meet Kevin Gardner4:17 The Fellowship Is His Higher Power9:39 The Fifth Grade Humiliation13:05 Heartbreak, a Crash, 8 Days Drunk18:19 From the ER to Detox20:45 The Call That Saved Him25:35 When Bill W. Met Dr. Bob28:15 14 Gratitude Texts Every Morning31:38 Three Books and a Mantra35:52 Advice for the Sober Curious40:41 Where to Find Kevin Find Kevin Gardner:Website: https://www.ChangeYourThinkingIgniteYourLife.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChangeYourThinkingIgniteYourLifeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-gardner-5690345/LinkedIn (company): https://www.linkedin.com/company/change-your-thinking-ignite-your-lifeBooks on Amazon (Kevin J. Gardner): https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0BLH3YGSK/allbooks One Last Hit Podcast: real stories of addiction, survival, and coming back from the edge. 📖 Get the Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJV2N32T 🎧 Get the Audiobook: https://shop.onelasthitbook.com/product/one-last-hit-audiobook/ 📚 Get the Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9699599987 📗 Get the Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKDFZCNM 🎙️ Podcast home: https://onelasthitbook.com/podcast

  2. Oct 13

    Taken Away at 12, Then 27 Years of Heroin | Billy McKay | One Last Hit #20

    Billy McKay traces twenty seven years of heroin addiction back to a childhood marked by fear, shame, and being sent to a boys home at twelve. He explains how gangs first gave him belonging, how heroin became his identity, and why he sees addiction as the egoic mind's scream for pain. After prison, psychiatric wards, and the death of his mother, Billy reached the grief driven rock bottom that finally changed his direction. Now more than twenty one years sober, he shares the small voice that told him to stay, the spiritual principles that helped him rebuild, and the mission behind his book, Who Turned the Light On? ⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Meet Billy McKay4:56 Brother's Abuse and Shame9:37 Sent to a Boys Home15:54 Glue, Drink, and Gangs22:53 Heroin Addiction Begins28:24 The Hidden Slavery30:47 His Mother's Death35:28 Two Voices at the River39:18 Twenty One Years Sober47:59 His Book and Mission Find Billy McKay:Website and free recovery resources: https://billymckay.net/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/who_turned_the_light_on_/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@whoturnedthightonFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/19CAZxf3pA/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/who-turned-the-light-on-40baa2152/Who Turned the Light On on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0bKUz4cY One Last Hit Podcast: real stories of addiction, survival, and coming back from the edge. 📖 Get the Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJV2N32T 🎧 Get the Audiobook: https://shop.onelasthitbook.com/product/one-last-hit-audiobook/ 📚 Get the Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9699599987 📗 Get the Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKDFZCNM 🎙️ Podcast home: https://onelasthitbook.com/podcast

  3. Sep 30

    The AuDHD Diagnosis That Finally Explained Her Cocaine Addiction | Ellie C. | One Last Hit #19

    Ellie C. spent years believing she was simply different. An adult autism and ADHD diagnosis finally explained the pattern recognition, hyperfocus, social isolation, and constant masking that shaped her life. Before she had that answer, cocaine felt like the missing piece. It made a shy outsider feel social, confident, and accepted. Then the drug that made Ellie feel normal turned into daily use, crushing paranoia, lost memories, debt, and guilt over what her children experienced. Ellie tells Austin why she still refuses to pretend she is safe around cocaine, how she protects her recovery by avoiding vulnerable situations, and why she built an AuDHD community to help others recognize the connection between neurodivergence, trauma, and addiction. ⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Meet Ellie C.5:40 Cocaine Felt Like Belonging11:05 Trauma and Neurodivergence18:20 Cocaine Knocks at 2421:40 Masking the Addiction25:20 The Guilt Her Kids Carry31:25 Staying Safe by Avoidance36:10 Finally Understanding Herself FIND ELLIEEllie's Links: https://linktr.ee/EllieaudhdWebsite: https://www.audhdandthensome.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Ls1EfoRam/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audhd_and_then_someTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@flourish.with.audLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellie-audhd-capstick-b8a971415YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Ellieaudhd One Last Hit Podcast: real stories of addiction, survival, and coming back from the edge. 📖 Get the Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJV2N32T 🎧 Get the Audiobook: https://shop.onelasthitbook.com/product/one-last-hit-audiobook/ 📚 Get the Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9699599987 📗 Get the Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKDFZCNM 🎙️ Podcast home: https://onelasthitbook.com/podcast

  4. Sep 29

    Five DUIs, Homelessness and a White Light | Paul Booth | One Last Hit #18

    Paul Booth grew up caring for an alcoholic mother, was forced to choose between his parents in court, and started drinking as a child after stealing Scotch from his father's liquor store. What followed was a punk-street-gang life in Hollywood, speed and alcohol, motorcycle crashes, five DUIs, a failed first attempt at sobriety, and months of homelessness. Paul shares the church service where a white-light experience cracked something open, the miles he walked in worn-out shoes to reach an AA meeting, and the backpack purchase he remembers as surrender. A bed in a low-bottom recovery house changed the direction of his life. Now 42 years sober, Paul is a licensed psychotherapist, master addiction counselor, and author of Ethos, Pathos and Alcohol. He and Austin talk about the fatal reality of addiction, building a counseling career from the ground up, and the truth, debts, and commitments that recovery demands. ⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Meet Paul Booth1:53 Growing Up With Alcoholism2:46 Forced to Choose a Parent4:28 Drinking as a Child5:35 Five DUIs and Motorcycle Crashes9:52 His First Attempt at AA12:33 Homeless and Still Using16:18 The White Light Experience18:11 42 Years Sober18:20 Walking Miles to AA21:42 The Backpack That Meant Surrender22:18 Finding a Recovery House24:38 When Recovery Becomes Fatal25:50 From Psych Tech to Counselor31:52 Building a Career in Treatment41:30 Where to Find Paul Find Paul: https://paulboothstories.comBook: Ethos, Pathos and Alcohol One Last Hit Podcast: real stories of addiction, survival, and coming back from the edge. 📖 Get the Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJV2N32T 📚 Get the Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9699599987 📗 Get the Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKDFZCNM 🎙️ Podcast home: https://onelasthitbook.com/podcast Sobriety Talk Podcast Directory: https://sobrietytalk.com

  5. Sep 22

    One Last Hit #17 With Life Coach Leann Herron | You Cannot Fix an Addict, So She Chose Herself

    Leann Herron grew up inside her father's alcoholism. The swaying through the house, the rehabs he went in and out of, and the brown paper bag under the seat of his truck that she knew her whole childhood. She spent years believing she could fix him, and later repeated the pattern with a diabetic first husband who ignored his insulin and a second husband who got hooked on opiates through pain management. Today Leann is a certified holistic life and health coach, founder of Finding Resilience with Leann and host of the Happiness on Tap podcast, and she and Austin recently swapped guest spots on each other's shows. Leann tells the story of the day she snapped, chased her father into a corner with his own bottle and walked out with her daughter for good. She and Austin get into why forgiveness was for her and not for them, how generational trauma explains the people who hurt us without excusing them, and the boundary she still holds with the house she grew up in. Then she breaks down how a case at her law firm job cracked open trauma she did not know was trapped in her body, why she refused the antidepressant her doctor handed her, and the modalities that did in a year what she believes talk therapy would have taken a decade to do: meditation, Reiki, somatic work and one hypnotherapy session that erased twenty years. They close on Joe Dispenza, The Frequency screening that changed her skeptical husband, and where to find Leann's work. ⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Meet Leann Herron2:04 Growing Up With an Alcoholic Father4:22 The Brown Paper Bag7:47 Repeating the Pattern in Marriage11:48 Boundaries and Forgiveness16:02 Not Enough Holy Water18:41 Trauma Trapped in the Body21:53 One Hour of Hypnotherapy27:14 Everything Is Frequency28:35 The Screening That Changed Her Husband31:00 Where to Find Leann Find Leann: https://findingresiliencewithleann.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leannherron/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@findingresiliencewithleannPodcast: Happiness on Tap One Last Hit Podcast: real stories of addiction, survival, and coming back from the edge. 📖 Get the book: https://shop.onelasthitbook.com/product/one-last-hit-paperback/ 🎙️ Podcast home: https://onelasthitbook.com/podcast Sobriety Talk Podcast Directory: https://sobrietytalk.com

  6. Sep 11

    One Last Hit #16 With Attorney Mark Astor | The Florida Law That Saves the Lives of Addicts

    Attorney Mark Astor started his law firm in February 2016 out of a public library, flat broke, and went 14 months before the phone rang. Today he runs a 15 person firm in South Florida that does one thing: it uses the Marchman Act and guardianship to help families get a loved one with a substance use or mental health disorder into court ordered treatment, and keep them there. Austin was Marchman acted himself in early 2014, so this one is personal. Mark breaks down what the Marchman Act actually does (assessment and treatment for up to 90 days, with jail as the consequence for walking out), who can file, why it only works when families enforce it, and the story of a client who called an Uber from a treatment center in the sugar cane fields and fled to Mexico. Austin shares what relapse felt like after nine years sober ("like someone's holding my head underwater"), the two of them get into why addiction is a family disease, why some families are secretly afraid of what recovery will change, and the heartbreak of the families who walk away. They close on the lingering effects of a Marchman Act, including losing your gun rights, and where to get Mark's free book, Breaking the Cycle. ⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Meet Attorney Mark Astor1:18 Starting a Law Firm From the Library3:51 Guardianship for Behavioral Health6:23 The Marchman Act, on the Books Since 19937:53 Who Can File and What It Requires9:55 South Florida's Wild West Years13:59 She Fled to Mexico16:29 Does Forced Treatment Work?18:30 Austin's Relapse, Held Underwater21:33 Addiction Is a Family Disease25:06 Why Families Fear Recovery28:08 Austin's Stepbrother30:11 Gun Rights After a Marchman Act33:13 Where to Find Mark Find Mark: https://MentalHealthAddictionLawFirm.com One Last Hit Podcast — real stories of addiction, survival, and coming back from the edge. 📖 Get the Ebook on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJV2N32T 📚 Get the Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9699599987 📗 Get the Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKDFZCNM 🎙️ Podcast home: https://onelasthitbook.com/podcast Sobriety Talk Podcast Directory: https://sobrietytalk.com

  7. Aug 27

    One Last Hit #15 w/ Dave S | Dead on Arrival at 15, Clean 17 Years, Then He Blew It All Up

    Dave S. was pronounced dead on arrival at 15. By 16 he was in a 1980 "attack therapy" rehab — diapers on heads, break-them-down tactics — and sitting in his first 12-step meeting next to his dad. He stayed clean for 17 years. Then came the wife, the kids, the business… and the idea that he was cured. One "social" smoke later, the disease that had been doing pushups for 17 years took the next 9 years of his life: benzos, opiates, a decade on subs, legal trouble, and losing his house, his marriage, and nearly himself. Twelve and a half years ago, Dave walked into a meeting high, planning to borrow money — and his old friends trapped him into detox instead. Since then: 144 pounds lost, a bipolar diagnosis that finally explained the self-medicating, peace made with the mother he'd hated his whole life (he was with her the day she passed), a weekly prison meeting commitment in PA, and Sober Transport — driving people to treatment with his rescue dog Henry riding shotgun. Today he builds AI answering and text-message re-engagement tools that help treatment centers reach the people everyone else gave up on. ⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Meet Dave S6:26 Dead on Arrival at 1510:43 Seventeen Years Clean, Then Relapse15:59 Benzos, Subs, Rock Bottom22:55 Sober Transport and Henry28:37 Bipolar and Self-Medicating31:51 Weekly Prison Meeting Service37:25 AI for Treatment Center Admissions One Last Hit Podcast — real stories of addiction, survival, and coming back from the edge. 📖 Get the Ebook on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJV2N32T 📚 Get the Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9699599987 📗 Get the Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKDFZCNM 🎙️ Podcast home: https://onelasthitbook.com/podcast Sobriety Talk Podcast Directory: https://sobrietytalk.com

  8. Aug 21

    One Last Hit #14 w/ Barb Nangle | Codependence, Food Addiction and Boundaries

    Barb Nangle spent 37 years in therapy and never once heard the word that explained her whole life: codependence. She'd been numbing since she was a baby — thumb, cigarettes at thirteen, weed at fourteen, alcohol at sixteen — and when she "just stopped" the substances, food took over. Her bottom came in a Dunkin' Donuts parking lot: buying six donuts so the cashier wouldn't know they were all for her, crying while she ate them, then hiding the box in her own garbage — in a house where she lived alone. On April 20, 2016 she woke up feeling electrocuted by sugar, texted a friend "just for today, I'm not having sugar" — and hasn't touched it since. Now a boundaries coach, speaker and host of Fragmented to Whole (top 1% of podcasts worldwide), Barb tells Austin how a manipulative houseguest sent her to Google at fifty-two, how ACA's "what happened to me" version of step four unlocked decades of intergenerational trauma, and how she shed over a hundred pounds by treating hunger as an emotion. They dig into boundaries as the antidote to codependence, internal safety — not abandoning yourself when things get uncomfortable — caring more what you think of you than what others do, and why she's "full awesome: awesome AND flawed." This is the One Last Hit Podcast.  📖 Get the Ebook on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJV2N32T 🎙️ Podcast home: https://onelasthitbook.com/podcast

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Most people in recovery never tell the full story. This show does. I'm Austin Rampt the author of One Last Hit: The Remarkable True Story of an Addict's Journey to Find Himself. I grew up in Tampa, spent a decade chasing drugs through eight different rehabs, and eventually fled the country. I ended up in Mexico surrounded by members of the Sinaloa Cartel, hit the kind of bottom most people don't walk away from, and somehow made it back. On the One Last Hit Podcast I sit down with people who have been through it , addicts in recovery, people who've done prison time, survivors of overdoses, family members who watched someone disappear and then come back. No polished stories. No watered-down redemption arcs. Just real people talking about what it actually took to get sober and stay that way. If you are fighting your own battle, loving someone in the middle of theirs, or you just need proof that people really do get better then this show is for you. New episodes every week. Grab the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJV2N32T Audiobook: https://www.audible.com/pd/One-Last-Hit-Audiobook/B0GD8WCDHY Website: https://www.onelasthitbook.com Instagram & Facebook: @onelasthitbook

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