Choose Your Struggle Presents: Made It, a documentary, serial-style podcast telling the story of a person who has made it back from the depths of trauma and created something extraordinary with their second chance. Season 1 is titled Stay Savage and focuses on Sarah Laurel and the harm reduction and recovery housing organization Savage Sisters.
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Discussing issues of Mental Health, Substance Misuse and Recovery, and Drug Use & Policy with host Jay Shifman, Speaker, Storyteller, and Advocate. Each week Jay chats with interesting guests as they seek to destroy stigma and advocate for honest, educational conversations that motivate positive change. You can learn more at https://jay.campsite.bio/. Choose Your Struggle has been streamed in over thirty-five countries and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you get yo ...
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For more info on this episode, and to check out 2 Lives, visit their website! https://www.2lives.org/listen/jayshifman As always, you can find everything you need, including our social media links, at our Campsite page: https://jay.campsite.bio Reach out and let us know who you are and that you're listening at JayShifman.com or ChooseYourStruggle.c…
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For more info on this episode, and to check out 2 Lives, visit their website! https://www.2lives.org/listen/jayshifman Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/. Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, incl…
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Season 3, Episode 10 Hiatus: So Long And Thanks For All The Fish This is the last episode of this show for a while. Jay is burnt out from making Made It and three seasons of this show in three years and is going to take some time work on other projects for a while. But stay subscribed because Season 4 will be back... at some point! And Made It: Sea…
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Season 3, Episode 9 By Any Other Name With The Reverend Robert W. Lee The Reverend Robert Wright Lee, IV (Rob) is an author, activist, commentator, and preacher. His work has appeared on and in MTV, the View, The New Yorker, CNN, the New York Times, NPR, and countless other sources. As his name suggests, Rob is a descendant of Confederate General R…
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Season 3, Episode 8 A Life of Advocacy with Larry D. Mass Larry D. Mass has been an advocate for the gay community for his entire adult life. From working with Larry Kramer at Act Up to writing an article that's now recognized as the first report on what would eventually become the AIDS crises, Larry is a hero to the advocate community. He's also w…
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Season 3, Bonus Episode A Week Off Note From Your Host As always, you can find everything you need, including our social media links, at our Campsite page: https://jay.campsite.bio Leave us a message for a chance to be played on the show and win a CYS schwag pack: https://podinbox.com/CYS Reach out and let us know who you are and that you're listen…
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Season 3, Episode 7 You've Got That (Desi) Spark In You! with Nehal Tenany and Annika Sharma Leave us a message for a chance to be played on the show and win a CYS schwag pack (and the first person this week will win a copy of YES! Magazine with Jay's article on drug use and pleasure: https://podinbox.com/CYS Annika Sharma is a co-founder and co-ho…
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Season 3, Episode 6: From Prison to Policy Changemaker with Morgan Godvin Morgan Godvin is a student at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health in Portland, where she was born and raised. She is a person in long-term recovery. As a harm reductionist, she performs syringe exchange, naloxone distribution, overdose prevention outreach, and infectious dis…
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Season 3, Episode 5: Advocacy In Action With Garth Mullins Today's episode is a conversation with Garth Mullins! Garth is the Host and executive producer of the Crackdown Podcast. www.crackdownpod.com and an amazing drug use and user advocate. He's also a guy Jay really looks up to and an awesome musician. For more on Garth: Crackdown Podcast Episo…
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Season 3, Episode 4: Rethinking Manliness Through Vulnerability with JT Frank JT Frank is a proud veteran and first responder. He started his career in the United States Air Force and has spent the last 23 years protecting and serving his country as a civilian federal employee. Through his extensive time in the military and as a first responder, he…
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The Medical Side of Cannabis with Dr. Peter Grinspoon
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Season 3, Episode 3: The Medical Side of Cannabis with Dr. Peter Grinspoon Dr. Peter Grinspoon saw from an early age that the way our country handled cannabis wasn't build on science or fact. Through watching his brother die of cancer, go through med school and struggle with his own issue of Addiction, Dr. Grinspoon never lost his desire to see can…
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Special Feed Drop: Abortion, With Love and Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Social Justice and How We Get Free: Talking Bringing Abortion Stories Out of the Shadows and More with Renee Bracey Sherman ...
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On this special feed drop episode of the Choose Your Struggle Podcast, Jay plays a story from the podcast Abortion, With Love Titled To My Strength followed by a conversation between Omkari Williams and Renee Bracey Sherman on Ms. Williams' podcast Stepping Intro Truth. Ms. Williams is a storyteller who teaches women how to use their stories to mak…
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Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/. Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, including how to support, at https://savagesisters.org/. For more on Made It host Jay Shifman, see https://jay.campsite.bio…
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Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/. Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, including how to support, at https://savagesisters.org/. For more on Made It host Jay Shifman, see https://jay.campsite.bio…
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Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/. Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, including how to support, at https://savagesisters.org/. For more on Made It host Jay Shifman, see https://jay.campsite.bio…
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Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/. Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, including how to support, at https://savagesisters.org/. For more on Made It host Jay Shifman, see https://jay.campsite.bio…
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Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/. Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, including how to support, at https://savagesisters.org/. For more on Made It host Jay Shifman, see https://jay.campsite.bio…
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Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/. Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, including how to support, at https://savagesisters.org/. For more on Made It host Jay Shifman, see https://jay.campsite.bio…
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Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/. Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, including how to support, at https://savagesisters.org/. For more on Made It host Jay Shifman, see https://jay.campsite.bio…
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For more info on other ideas around addiction, listen to these episodes of the Choose Your Struggle podcast: https://kite.link/DrNzingaHarrison, https://kite.link/DavidPoses, https://kite.link/IGNTD. Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at htt…
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For more info on the MOVE bombing, see: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/13/406243272/im-from-philly-30-years-later-im-still-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-move-bombing, https://www.inquirer.com/move-bombing/, and https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/8/20747198/philadelphia-bombing-1985-move. Made It is a member of the Shameless Pod…
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Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/. Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, including how to support, at https://savagesisters.org/. For more on Made It host Jay Shifman, see https://jay.campsite.bio…
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Special Episode: S1E1 of Choose Your Struggle Presents: Made It, Season 1: Stay Savage: An Introduction: Welcome To Our World
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Living By The Book with Kristen Meinzer
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Season 3, Episode 2: Living By The Book with Kristen Meinzer Kristen got into podcasting early, over a decade ago, as a film critic for WNYC, a passion she still lives through her show Movie Therapy with Rafer & Kristen. But it was when she launched By The Book Pod in 2017 with Jolenta Greenberg, that she became a household name. Over the last five…
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The Evolution of Modern Drug Policy with Ethan Nadelmann
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Season 3 is here! Season 3, Episode 1: The Evolution of Modern Drug Policy with Ethan Nadelmann. Ethan Nadelmann is the founder of Drug Policy Alliance! He tells Jay about his introduction to drug use and drug policy decades ago and his move, in the 90s, to bring multiple organizations under one roof which gave birth to the legendary DPA. After ret…
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Season 3 is here! This is kind of a season kick off, more final trailer than full episode. So we'll call it Season 3, Episode .5. We'll officially kick off Season 3 next week, Friday the 15th, with a conversation with Ethan Nadlemann. Sorry for the echoey sound. Still finishing the recording booth but I said screw it I want to use it. Follow the Co…
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This is the LAST preview for our new show, Choose Your Struggle Presents: Made It, Season 1: Stay Savage. Adam will announce at the end of our conversation when the season will drop! If you're hearing this on the Made It stream, check out our other podcast, Choose Your Struggle at https://kite.link/CYSSeason3! Made It is a member of the Shameless P…
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In this last preview to Season 3 of the Choose Your Struggle podcast, Jay chats with Adam al-Asad of Savage Sisters. Consider subscribing to Choose Your Struggle Presents: Made It, Season 1: Stay Savage https://kite.link/choose-your-struggle-presents-made-it to make sure you don't miss a single moment of our new show when it drops in a few weeks! L…
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Originally released as Season 2, Episode 75 Dispelling Myths and Destroying Stigma with David Poses This week, Jay chats with an incredible guest, the author and advocate David Poses. David is in recovery and advocates for better treatment of drug users and those struggling with substance misuse. David is a guy Jay really looks up to and admires fo…
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Season 3 Update and Preview, an official audio introduction to Choose Your Struggle's producer Ryan Holzhauer, and the Made It Trailer. Subscribe to Choose Your Struggle Presents Made It! https://kite.link/choose-your-struggle-presents-made-it Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking …
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Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/. Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, including how to support, at https://savagesisters.org/. For more on Made It host Jay Shifman, see https://jay.campsite.bio…
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Leading With Empathy In Addiction Treatment With Dr. Nzinga Harrison (The Season Finale!)
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Season 2, Episode 85 Leading With Empathy In Addiction Treatment With Dr. Nzinga Harrison The season finale of the 2nd season of the Choose Your Struggle podcast is here! It's been an amazing season but all good things come to an end. The Season Finale features Jay chatting with Dr. Nzinga Harrison, the host of one of his favorite podcasts In Recov…
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Season 2, Episode 84 Monday Motivation: Season 2 Wrap Pt. 2, To Infinity and Beyond! Today's Monday Motivation is the completion of the season wrap up that we started with last week's Monday Motivation. Friday, November 5th is the final episode. We're looking forward to everything else that's coming down the line for Choose Your Struggle! CHOOSE YO…
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Season 2, Episode 83 A Life Reborn in Service to Others with Kevin Roth This week Jay chats with Kevin Roth. You may know Kevin from his musical career, performing on the Thomas the Tank Engine show and with acts like Peter Paul and Mary. But as his second act in life, Kevin is a life coach. His change came after he received a cancer diagnosis that…
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Season 2, Episode 82 Monday Motivation: Season 2 Wrap Pt. 1, A Look Back Today's Monday Motivation is the beginning of the season wrap up. Friday, November 5th is the final episode. So you have one more Monday Motivation (the second half of this episode) next week. We're doing an end of season giveaway! At Thanksgiving, Jay will put all the names o…
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Season 2, Episode 81 From Heartbreak to Helping Others With Laurie Singer This week, Jay chats with California-based therapist Laurie Singer. After overcoming a traumatic childhood and losing a child to cancer, Laurie dedicated her life to helping others. She's written a fantastic book, You're Not Crazy: Living with Anxiety, Obsessions and Fetishes…
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Season 2, Episode 80 Monday Motivation: So It's Come To This, A Choose Your Struggle Flashback Show Today's Monday Motivation is a flashback to the 5th episode of this podcast, the first with a guest, featuring Kristen Zavo. One, because I love Kristen, and two because I want y'all to hear how far we've come in the last almost two years. I recorded…
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Season 2, Episode 79 Phenomenal And Phenomenally Autistic With Ayanna Davis On this week's episode of the Choose Your Struggle Podcast, Jay chats with autistic advocate Ayanna Davis. Ayanna was diagnosed later in life and talks to Jay about how she was always labeled as different when she was a child and how she fights for those in the community no…
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Season 2, Episode 76 Monday Motivation: Spiderbite Jay Today's Monday Motivation is the audio-only replay of Jay telling a story on his social media platforms to test out a new streaming software and to entertain you all! This story is about how Jay followed the band Erin Zindle and The Ragbirds around the summer of 2009 and at a nudist festival in…
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Giving Voice To An Ignored Community with Christophe Zajac-Denek
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Season 2, Episode 77 Giving Voice To An Ignored Community with Christophe Zajac-Denek This week Jay chats with actor, musician, podcaster, surfer, stunt man etc. etc. etc Christophe Zajac Denek! Jay met Christophe at the Podcast Movement conference back in August when he talked about his show, I'm Kind of A Big Deal, which focuses on his life livin…
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Season 2, Episode 76 Monday Motivation: Chopping It Up With Anna DeShawn This week's Monday Motivation is Jay chatting with the entrepreneur Anna DeShawn. Anna is the founder of E3 Radio and, more recently, the Qube podcast app. E3 radio describes itself as "Queer Radio Done Right". The Qube is a podcast app specifically for shows "created by BIPOC…
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Dispelling Myths and Destroying Stigma with David Poses
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Season 2, Episode 75 Dispelling Myths and Destroying Stigma with David Poses This week, Jay chats with an incredible guest, the author and advocate David Poses. David is in recovery and advocates for better treatment of drug users and those struggling with substance misuse. David is a guy Jay really looks up to and admires for his advocacy and his …
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Special Episode! Jay on the I'm The Villain Podcast
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Season 2, Episode 74 Special Episode! Jay on the I'm The Villain Podcast with Isabel Knight and Deondre' Jones This week's Monday Motivation is a special episode! We haven't put out one of these in a while. On today's episode, you'll hear Jay interviewed by Isabel Knight and Deondre' Jones for their show, I'm The Villain. Isabel and Doendre' are tw…
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Season 2, Episode 73 A Long Way To Go For Self Acceptance with Brian Cuban 125 episodes! Where has the time gone? This week, Jay chats with Lawyer, Author, and Advocate Brian Cuban. The younger brother of Mark (Dallas Mavericks Owner, Entrepreneur, etc.), Brian tells a story of childhood trauma that contributed to a struggle with self identity and …
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Special Episode! Monday Motivation: Choose Your Struggle Presents Rock Bottom Storytellers III
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Season 2, Episode 72 Special Episode! Monday Motivation: Choose Your Struggle Presents Rock Bottom Storytellers III This week's Monday Motivation is a special, audio only replay of Choose Your Struggle Presents Rock Bottom Storytellers III! This incredible event has been watched over 300 times because, duh! The amazing storytellers were Amanda Elis…
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Creating a Safe and Inclusive Space in Psychedelics with Ifetayo Harvey
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Season 2, Episode 71 Creating a Safe and Inclusive Space in Psychedelics with Ifetayo Harvey This week, Jay chats with Ifetayo Harvey, the founder of the People of Color Psychedelic Collective. After a psychedelic experience in college changed her life, Ifetayo worked for both the Drug Policy Alliance and MAPS before deciding to found the People of…
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Season 2, Episode 70 Monday Motivation: The Real Ayoka! This week's Monday Motivation is Jay chatting with the soulful singing goddess Ayoka on her upbringing, how spirituality factors into her music, her influences, recording process and a mutual love of Kanye! Check her out on IG at https://www.instagram.com/ayokamusic/ and search for Ayoka on Sp…
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Finding Yourself Through Finding Recovery with Shay Houser
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Season 2, Episode 69 Finding Yourself Through Finding Recovery On today's episode, Jay chats with Shay Houser. Shay is one of the co-founders of youturn (you heard from another co-founder last season in Elizabeth McKissick), an organization based in South Carolina that seeks to help educate around the issues of Mental Health and Substance Misuse wi…
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Season 2, Episode 68 Monday Motivation: Michael Pollan's New Book and The True Meaning of Media Hype This week's Monday Motivation is Jay chatting about Michael Pollan's new book, This Is Your Mind On Plants. It's not a bad book. In fact, as one listener put it, parts of it were compelling, other parts simply were not. Which is fine! Jay's feelings…
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Silenced By Stigma Over Comprehensive Sex Education with Justine Ang Fonte
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Season 2, Episode 67 Silenced By Stigma Over Comprehensive Sex Education with Justine Ang Fonte This week, Jay chats with Justine Ang Fonte. You may have heard of her. As she jokes early in the interview, she's been target #1 by right-wing trolls since becoming internet famous over... simply existing. Simply doing her job. Teaching children honest …
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