Episodes

  • From Pro Hockey to Hopeless

    From Pro Hockey to Hopeless
    Jan 23 2017
    Tim Ryan, founder of A Man In Recovery Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Banyan Treatment Center shares his incredible journey from dope to hope! Two-time Stanley Cup champion Darryl Sydor joined the Chicago Wolves as an assistant coach on July 25, 2016. Sydor, 44, spent the previous five seasons as an assistant coach for the Minnesota Wild (NHL). The Wild posted a regular-season record of 188-143-45 (.560) during his tenure behind the bench and earned Stanley Cup Playoff berths each of the last four years. He entered the coaching profession with the Houston Aeros (AHL) in 2010-11. Prior to becoming a coach, the Edmonton, Alberta native enjoyed a 19-year NHL career that included All-Star Game appearances in 1998 and 1999. Selected by the Los Angeles Kings with the seventh overall selection in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, the 6-foot-1, 211-pound defenseman jumped from the Kamloops Blazers (WHL) to the Kings at the age of 19. Sydor stacked up 98 goals and 409 assists in 1,291 reg
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    55 mins
  • A Man in Recovery Radio: From Dope to Hope

    A Man in Recovery Radio: From Dope to Hope
    Jan 16 2017
    56 mins
  • The Educational Perspective of Substance Abuse

    The Educational Perspective of Substance Abuse
    Jan 9 2017
    Tim Ryan, founder of A Man In Recovery Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Banyan Treatment Center will be featuring guest Dr. Kathleen Burke. Kathleen is a dynamic professional with a proven record of leadership, strategic thinking, and educational excellence. An education expert in opioid addiction, Burke is committed to addressing high risk behavior like substance abuse and opioid addiction. Kathleen’s professional journey offers an interesting overlap of health care, public health, museum, and education expertise. Dr. Burke is the Community Engagement Manager at Banyan Treatment Center in Naperville. Marrying science and educational excellence and her ability to teach complex subjects to all people is the foundation of her groundbreaking work. It is through knowledge and understanding that she works to tear away the stigma and barriers to state of the art treatment and recovery.
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    56 mins
  • A Prosecutor's Journey Through Addiction

    A Prosecutor's Journey Through Addiction
    Dec 19 2016
    Tim Ryan, founder of A Man In Recovery Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Banyan Treatment Center will be featuring guest Chad Sabora. Chad was raised in Chicago by his father who spent most of his life as an executive at Gateway rehabilitation paving the future of treatment for people that suffer from the disease of addiction and his mother a housewife and a prosecuting attorney. Chad received his undergraduate education at The University of Illinois and his law degree at The John Marshall Law school and began his legal career as prosecutor for Cook County Illinois. Despite his upbringing and education Chad also suffers from the disease of addiction which took hold of him in 2006. He became addicted to prescription pain killers which led to heroin addiction that controlled his life until June 9th 2011. After getting clean he began working with heroin addicts to ensure they received all the help they could no matter what their financial circumstances were.
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    57 mins
  • Matt 'The Poet' Ganem

    Matt 'The Poet' Ganem
    Dec 12 2016
    Tim Ryan, founder of A Man In Recovery Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer at Banyan Treatment Center will be featuring guest Matt Ganem who is a poet and the author of “The Shadow of an Addict.” Matt also hosts Banyan Recovery Radio and speaks to different schools, recovery programs and community forums on addiction. He is a huge voice for recovery not only in his hometown of Massachusetts, but nationwide. Oxycontin which eventually led to heroin addiction brought him to rock bottom at 21. He was able to turn his life around and now tries to provide hope and strength to those still sick and struggling with substance abuse. Matt works relentlessly to help others escape the grasp of addiction by shining a positive light on recovery. He does this by speaking at schools and community events for prevention education. His work was recognized by Massachusetts Organization of Addiction and Recovery and Matt was selected to be Massachusetts Recovery Advocate of the Year in 2015.
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    57 mins
  • A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction

    A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction
    Dec 5 2016
    Tim Ryan, founder of A Man In Recovery Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Banyan Treatment Center will be featuring guest Sandy Swenson. Sandy is the mother of two sons—one of whom struggles with addiction. Author of ‘The Joey Song: A Mother’s Story of Her Son’s Addiction,’ Sandy chronicles her journey through the place where love and addiction meet. Sandy lives in suburban Austin, Texas, where she has just finished writing her second book, to be published by Hazelden in the fall of 2017. Sandy is a voice for parents--particularly mothers--of children suffering with the disease of addiction, putting their thoughts and feeling into words. When she isn't writing or speaking at venues across the US, Sandy volunteers at a local maternity home teaching the girls to cook healthy family meals. Sandy also loves to garden, read and travel.”
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    58 mins
  • Young and In Recovery; Can it Be a Reality?

    Young and In Recovery; Can it Be a Reality?
    Nov 28 2016
    Tim Ryan, founder of A Man In Recovery Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Banyan Treatment Center will be featuring guest Darek Horan, recovering addict. From a 3 sport varsity athlete with straight A’s to homeless drug addict, he has lived two lives for the past 7 years and nobody had a clue. His use of opiates started when he injured his knee in wrestling, which ultimately lead him to heroin. He has lived it all; homeless, broken both spiritually and emotionally, alone with nobody to help due to his own actions which ultimately lead February 10, 2016, where he sat on Lake Michigan with a gun in his mouth. Thankfully, the gun misfired and it was at that point that he realized he couldn't get better on his own. After going to treatment, he immediately started to plug in to recovery. He worked the twelve steps, got a job, paid rent, and did what was suggested. Today he is an Outreach Coordinator for Banyan Treatment Center and a volunteer at A Man In Recovery Foundation.
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    55 mins
  • Technology Solutions for the Drug Epidemic

    Technology Solutions for the Drug Epidemic
    Nov 21 2016
    Tim Ryan, founder of A Man In Recovery Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Banyan Treatment Center shares his incredible journey from dope to hope! This show features Detective Richard Wistocki. In his last 20 years as an Internet Crimes Investigator, he has forged partnerships with the community and other Law Enforcement Agencies. He is one of the founding members of the Illinois Attorney Generals High Tech Crimes Bureau (ICAC). Rich’s passion is concentrated in teaching parents how to parent their children while online. He is also the creator of the Illinois Sexting Law. Detective Wistocki has partnered with A Man In Recovery Foundation in a presentation entitled “The Cop, The Convict and The Kid.” This is a presentation with real solutions when parents have detected their child may be involved in drugs. This is an episode you do not want to miss!
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    53 mins