She chased a dream job in radio and actually got it, then addiction quietly turned that dream into a free fall. Megan Holliday joins us to tell the parts most people hide: the first drink at 13, the obsession that followed, the way drugs escalated from “weekend fun” into daily survival, and how her career at stations like Live 105 kept moving even as her life started to collapse.
We talk about what rock bottom really looks like when it’s not a metaphor, getting fired, losing stability, cycling through relapse, and the grief of losing someone to overdose. Megan explains what finally worked: structure, sober living, a 12-step program, and one of the bravest moves you can make in early sobriety, rigorous honesty. That honesty becomes the bridge to a second chance at KROQ, and it reshapes how she uses her platform.
Then the conversation widens into the fentanyl crisis and harm reduction. Megan co-founded Life of the Party, a nonprofit distributing Narcan and fentanyl testing strips at music festivals and community events, because “experimenting” is now more dangerous than most people realize. If you care about addiction recovery, sobriety, opioid overdose prevention, or how to talk to kids about drugs and alcohol, this one stays with you.
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Check out Life of the Party at https://www.lifeoftheparty.org/
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