Today I sit down with Adam Vibe Gunton - bestselling author, founder of the nonprofit Recovered on Purpose, and owner of a 68-bed treatment center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Adam went from being given cocaine at age 12 and starring as the defensive captain of Columbine High School's state championship football team, to a homeless heroin addict who overdosed in 2015 - and has the police body cam footage to prove it. He's the only person I know of who showed their own dead body during a TED Talk.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Why a decade of 12-step meetings still left Adam unable to stay sober, and what the critical missing piece was
The "wrong" sponsor who turned out to be exactly right - and why everything you've been told about finding a sponsor might be backwards
The spiritual experience at an IHOP that marked the last day Adam ever used
Why people like Adam literally die without the 12 steps being done quickly and rigorously
How November 6th keeps showing up as the most important date of his life
How his nonprofit is making sure nobody has to spend Christmas on a trap house floor calling treatment centers who won't pick up
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