Recovery Your Way - with CEO Jordan Hansen of YourPathRecovery Your Way - with CEO Jordan Hansen of YourPath
Airing Addiction
Hosts Lisa Blanchard and Jesse Chaison talk with YourPath CEO Jordan Hansen about person‑centred recovery, broken treatment systems and tech‑driven solutions. The conversation blends Jordan’s lived experience, system‑level critique and hope for more accessible, community‑rooted care.
50:45•18 Jun 2026
Recovery Your Way: Jordan Hansen on Fixing a Broken Treatment System
Episode Overview
- Recovery works best when people can shape their own path, supported by evidence‑based options rather than one rigid model.
- Access to care is often blocked by administrative hurdles, outdated technology and short‑term financial thinking.
- Medications for opioid use disorder are highly effective, yet stigma and misinformation still stop many people from using them.
- True recovery happens in communities and peer spaces, while treatment services act as a foundation and launchpad.
- Honest conversations about loss, system failures and priorities are essential if services are going to change for the better.
“How do we make it as easy to find person‑centred recovery supports as it is to find drugs?”
Curious about how others manage their sobriety journey while wrestling with a broken treatment system? This conversation on *Airing Addiction* brings together hosts Lisa Blanchard and Jesse Chaison with guest Jordan Hansen, CEO and co‑founder of YourPath, to talk frankly about doing "recovery your way". Jordan shares his own long‑term recovery story, starting with substance use in early teens and finding a strong young people’s recovery community in St. Paul.
That personal history feeds into his work today, where he’s trying to fix what he calls a maze of barriers: “How do we make it as easy to find person‑centred recovery supports as it is to find drugs?” You’ll hear how YourPath started in a friend’s barn with Wi‑Fi, offering telehealth medications for opioid use disorder and comprehensive assessments during Covid, then grew into a tech platform designed for patients rather than administrators.
Jordan is blunt about clunky systems – faxes, impossible portals, and rules that get thousands of providers kicked off Medicaid for paperwork errors – and he doesn’t shy away from naming hard truths, like corrections being the largest provider of behavioural health care. The episode also looks at bigger questions around value‑based care, short‑term return on investment, and why care coordination and long‑term support are so often the first things cut.
Lisa and Jesse bring in their Spectrum Health Systems perspective, talking about walk‑in medication services, peer recovery centres and the belief that “this is where recovery happens” – in communities, not just clinics. Jordan’s story of losing his closest friend Tom to overdose adds a raw, human layer that many people in recovery will recognise. It all circles back to a simple, urgent idea: people deserve care that fits their lives, not the other way round.
If you’ve ever felt like getting help was harder than getting high, this one might leave you asking what *your* path in recovery could look like.
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