213: Parenting as Prevention with Laurie Dhue
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Veronica is joined by former news anchor Laurie Dhue. After getting sober on the nightly news (although no one knew that at the time) Laurie is now a recovery advocate. She is the brand ambassador for recoverydecuation.com a much-needed online platform that supports and helps parents (and affected others) who have kids affected by addiction.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.2 | that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.4 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.6 | So today on the Soberful podcast, we are welcoming the very, very fabulous, Lori do. |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome, Lori. |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome, Veronica, and you're fabulous too. Thank you. |
| 0:39.1 | So you may have heard Lori, and you certainly may recognize her if you've been watching TV in the last 25 years. |
| 0:45.3 | Lori is an award-winning national news anchor, and she has hosted shows on all three major cable news networks, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. She has done reporting of lots |
| 0:57.6 | of different areas globally that's happened in the lot, all the stuff that's happened in the last 25 |
| 1:02.4 | years. How long have you been in recovery, Lori? I will have 16 years of continuous recovery in |
| 1:09.5 | March of 2023. |
| 1:17.3 | Wonderful. And congratulations. And has worked. And now a lot of your work is in that area. |
| 1:23.2 | Lori is the chief brand officer at recovery education.com, which is one of the things we're going to be talking about today. Because this interview, I've wanted to get Laurie on for a while just |
| 1:28.1 | because she's great and has a fabulous story, but particularly now she's involved with |
| 1:33.3 | recovery education because today's episode is going to be part of our series of interviews on |
| 1:39.5 | parenting as prevention. And we're going to find out more about that in a little while. But before, |
| 1:46.4 | I'd love for people to tell a little bit about your story. How on earth did you manage to have an |
| 1:53.0 | alcohol problem and be on your game reading the news? I can't even imagine. Yeah, it's quite a trick |
| 2:00.2 | when you think about it, really. I want to |
| 2:03.2 | start off by saying I was never drunk on the air, but I was deeply hung over many, many days and |
| 2:10.7 | months during my career as a news anchor. So, look, how did I manage it? Yeah, it's quite a feat. You know, you think about when you are living |
| 2:19.3 | an active addiction. You know what that's like. I certainly know what that's like. So do millions of |
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