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Hosted by Evive Gambling Support · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 19 episodes
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Evive Live is a conversation series at the intersection of gambling harm and behavioral health. Hosted by Adam Lyons (The Modern Meeting) and Christina Cook (The Broke Girl Society), each episode features clinicians, researchers, treatment providers, peer specialists, and people in recovery having the honest conversations the field needs — about what gambling disorder really looks like, what treatment actually works, and what it takes to build a recovery that lasts.
Evive Gambling Support hosts Evive Live, a health show with 19 episodes published.
Kitty Martz, Executive Director of Voices of Problem Gambling Recovery in Oregon, joins Adam and Christina on this episode of Evive Live to talk about what she calls "ideological biodiversity" — the idea that no single r
Adam and Christina are joined by Kriston Vanhorn, Program Coordinator for the Problem Gambling Help Network of West Virginia. Kriston shares what problem gambling looks like in West Virginia, why calls to the state's hel
Adam and Christina sit down without a guest this week to get into something that doesn't get talked about enough: the gap between what people expect recovery to look like and what it actually is. They cover the fear of l
Ronnie Wahkinney will be the first to tell you he's been a man of many faces over the course of his life. Growing up half Comanche in rural Oklahoma, addiction found him early and took him places most people don't come b
Brian Ward turned himself in to the police in 2017. What followed was weeks of waiting, panic attacks, houselessness, and the end of his engagement. What came after that was nine years of peer support work, SMART Recover
Most recovery conversations focus on stopping. Sal Guarino is more interested in what comes next. In this episode of Evive Live!, Adam and Christina sit down with Sal Guarino — co-founder of The Recovery Partners, Commun
Adam and Christina sit down without a guest to dig into one of the most important parts of recovery — support. Not the surface level version, but what it actually looks like in practice. They talk through meetings, thera
Matt Zarb-Cousin started gambling at 16, lost £20,000 by 20, and quit on his 20th birthday. What followed became one of the most impactful recovery journeys in the gambling harm space. In this episode of Evive Live, Adam
Dr. Paulette O'Gilvie is a casino and gambling researcher whose 2023 study examined the effect of casino proximity on poverty levels in New York City over five years. In this episode of Evive Live!, Adam and Christina si
Melissa Macillus has been impacted by gambling addiction not once, but twice, and instead of walking away, she leaned in. As the host of Making Bets in a Burning House, she sits down with Adam and Christina to talk about
Dr. Deborah Haskins has spent 30 years training clinicians, building treatment frameworks for underserved communities, and asking the question most of the field won't: what if the problem isn't the person with the addict
Adam and Christina sit down with Recovery Coach Scott Meyer, who shares a brutally honest look into his 13-year battle with gambling addiction—one that unfolded in complete silence while he maintained the image of a succ
Gambling harm is invisible — and that's exactly why so many clinicians are missing it. In this episode of Evive Live, Adam and Christina sit down with Katrina Arroyo, Manager of Clinical Programs at the Problem Gambling
The hobby world has a gambling problem — and almost no one is talking about it. Alyx Effron, founder of Collectors MD, joins co-hosts Adam Lyons and Christina Cook to expose the gambling mechanics embedded inside the mod
Before there were gambling recovery podcasts, there was Brian Hatch. A decade after launching All In: The Addicted Gambler Podcast — the first of its kind — Brian is now Community Engagement Manager at the Connecticut Co
Adam and Christina sit down with Dr. Tim Fong — Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, Co-Director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program, and Evive advisory board member — for one of the most clinically substantive con
Adam and Christina sit down with Kim Freudenberg, a high school physics teacher, mother, and founder of Parents Standing Together, a nonprofit peer support community for parents of young people experiencing gambling harm
Adam and Christina sit down with Jody Bechtold, CEO of The Better Institute and a leading voice in gambling disorder treatment and certification. Jody breaks down why gambling disorder is highly treatable, why so many cl
Sam DeMello, Founder and CEO of Evive, joins hosts Adam Lyons and Christina Cook for the debut episode of Evive Live, opening up about his journey as a founder, the origins of Evive, and his personal path through recover
Matt Zarb-Cousin
Co-Founder · Gamban
1 appearance on this show
Scott Meyer
Recovery Coach
1 appearance on this show
Jody Bechtold
LCSW, ICGC, IGDC, PC · International Problem Gambling and Gaming Certification Organization
1 appearance on this show
Kriston Vanhorn
Problem Gambling Help Network of West Virginia
1 appearance on this show
Mike Scandria
Nebraska Council on Problem Gambling
1 appearance on this show
Katrina Arroyo
Problem Gambling Network of Ohio
1 appearance on this show
Alyx Effron
Collectors MD
1 appearance on this show
Brian Hatch
Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling
1 appearance on this show
Sam DeMello
Evive
1 appearance on this show
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