The Elevate Experience: with hosts Tommy, Seth, and KianThe Elevate Experience: with hosts Tommy, Seth, and Kian
The Elevate Experience
Tommy, Seth and Kian introduce themselves as the new hosts, sharing their addiction histories, recovery routines and roles at Elevate Addiction Services. The conversation focuses on fitness, mindfulness, honesty and community as practical tools for building a sober, meaningful life.
50:36•26 Jul 2022
Meet the New Voices of The Elevate Experience: Recovery, Real Talk and CrossFit
Episode Overview
- Recovery can be built around fitness, mindfulness, honest conversations and practical responsibility rather than relying on a single model.
- You don’t have to abandon your identity to get sober; the focus is on changing harmful habits, not your basic personality or interests.
- Asking for structured help in treatment is often the hardest step, but once you’re there, support and community make change possible.
- Self-compassion and staying present are key tools for handling painful memories and avoiding being dragged back into old patterns.
- Giving back to recovery by helping others can strengthen your own sobriety and sense of purpose.
“My worst day sober was a hundred times better than my best day using.”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol and drugs, and what keeps them on that path years later? This episode of The Elevate Experience hands the mic to its three new hosts – Tommy, Seth, and Kian – and lets their recovery stories do the heavy lifting.
You’ll hear how Seth, now supervisor of programme support at Elevate Addiction Services, went from years of meth, heroin and homelessness to being, as Kian jokes, “the Elevate debt collector” – the one who tracks down struggling clients and talks them back into their recovery. He shares how hiking alone and practising self-compassion help him handle the memories of his past while staying clean: “I’m going to show myself love today.
I’m going to be kind to myself.” Kian, once over 400 pounds and using opioids and benzodiazepines daily, talks honestly about denial, multiple overdoses, and doing Elevate’s programme twice. He’s now a group facilitator, lifting weights instead of pills and owning his story – tattoos, music, attitude and all – while reminding people that treatment doesn’t mean changing who you are, just changing destructive habits.
Tommy rounds things out with nearly a decade in recovery and nine years on staff, now heading Elevate’s intensive outpatient programme. He speaks about prescription pill addiction, adding meth and alcohol on top, and the moment everything had to change. These days his focus is simple but powerful: exercise, good nutrition, honesty, and anything that helps him stay truly present for his family and his clients.
Together, the three hosts set the tone for where the podcast is headed: real recovery chat, CrossFit and mindfulness, dark humour, and a strong message that rehab is nothing to be ashamed of. If you or someone you care about is on the fence about getting help, could this be the conversation that nudges things forward?
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