Check Fraud, Gaming the Probation System, Turning a Boyfriend into an Unknowing Trafficking Partner and a Family Legal Intervention that Saves Her Life with Cheree Ashley of Osier WellnessCheck Fraud, Gaming the Probation System, Turning a Boyfriend into an Unknowing Trafficking Partner and a Family Legal Intervention that Saves Her Life with Cheree Ashley of Osier Wellness
Chasing Heroine: Addiction Recovery Podcast
Jeannine speaks with Cheree Ashley about her journey from heroin use, fraud charges and probation scams to running treatment centres and a wellness-focused skincare brand. They talk through interventions, long-term treatment and how the same drive used in addiction can fuel success in recovery.
1:28:04•20 Aug 2026
From Check Fraud to Skincare CEO: Cheree Ashley’s High-Stakes Hustle in Recovery
Episode Overview
- The same hustle that fuels active addiction can be redirected into building businesses, careers and meaningful routines in recovery.
- Family involvement, including legal interventions and honest communication with authorities, can create life-saving pressure for change.
- Longer-term treatment stays and structured training programmes can give people enough time to stabilise, learn skills and move into helping roles.
- Different intervention styles are used depending on the person’s situation, from classic surprise meetings to invitational and street-based approaches.
- Clear time management, self-care routines and equal attention to work, family and personal wellbeing help sustain long-term sobriety.
“If you use that mindset in a positive way, you'll be one really successful person.”
Get ready to be moved by real-life accounts of how a so-called “addict hustle” can turn into something life-changing when it’s pointed in the right direction. This episode of Chasing Heroine follows Cheree Ashley, CEO of Osier Wellness, as she talks with host Jeannine Coulter about going from check fraud and heroin to owning treatment centres and launching a Korean skincare line with a recovery mission.
You’ll hear Cheree break down the gritty details: smoking and injecting heroin while holding down jobs, gaming probation drug tests using hidden urine bottles, and the arrest where a police officer told her, “Today everything's going to change.” A family-driven legal intervention and court-ordered treatment become the turning point, with Cheree completing a seven-month non‑12‑step programme and then staying on to train and work as a counsellor. The conversation also pulls back the curtain on interventions themselves.
Cheree explains different models – from the classic surprise “living room” confrontation to invitational and adolescent-focused approaches – and why she sometimes meets people directly on the street, saying, in effect, *your family sent me; let’s talk*. Her success rate is remarkable, often getting people into treatment the same day.
For anyone who’s ever thought their hustling days were wasted, Cheree offers a refreshingly blunt reframe: “If you use that mindset in a positive way, you'll be one really successful person.” She shows how that same energy built detox and mental health facilities in California and then Osier, a unisex skincare brand where a portion of proceeds is aimed at helping people who can’t afford treatment.
This one’s especially useful if you’re in early recovery, supporting someone who is, or dreaming of starting a business after addiction. Could it be time to put your own “addict hustle” to work for something bigger?
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