238: Chris Herren | The Truth About Addiction // INTERVIEW

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A former Celtics NBA player, Chris Herren speaks honestly and openly about his addictions and his path to recovery. Whether dealing with addiction, or the day to day problems of life, Herren advocates doing things the hard way. He believes kids need to learn to deal head-on with the real and difficult emotions life can bring, this will reduce the temptation to mask and avoid them with drugs and alcohol. Just like physical and mental resilience - emotional resilience is a key building block for success. Overcoming addiction has been his greatest obstacle. His sobriety, his greatest accomplishment. His dedication to helping others led him to found the Herren Project: to Support. Recover. Overcome. Sometimes the hard thing is asking for help. This episode reminds us to reach out for help when we need it, because extraordinary resources are available.

LESSONS
Ask why, rather than who or how, when it comes to substance use and abuse.
Celebrate the kids who are doing it right, their voices should be heard.
Learn emotional resilience.
Recovery is a lifestyle, it’s a culture and way to live .

LINKS
https://herrenproject.org
https://herrentalks.com/

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TIME STAMPS
0:00 Colonel Nye, Dr. Johnny & Dr. L introduce this weeks interview
1:40 Interview begins
3:45 how addiction starts
6:00 how can we prevent addiction?
8:30 giving kids a platform to express how they feel
8:40 31 Habits: Swapping Grains for Greens
10:45 Powerful Foods Break
12:45 Interview continues - playing basketball with an addiction
15:45 the greatest accomplishment of his life
19:00 Col. Nye, Dr. Johnny & Dr. L discuss how you can integrate lessons learned from Christopher’s journey in recovery to your everyday life

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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena, Johnny Waite,Colonel Nye & guest host Dr. L (Sefra Alexandra was on expedition in the South Pacific)

Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spartan up everybody.
0:01.7	Colonel Nye here and once again we are filming at Fenway Park, historic Fenway Park,
0:07.1	home of the 2018 world champion Boston Red Sox.
0:11.3	And I'm here today with two of my my fellows and we've got Dr
0:15.2	Laura Pence the mind doctor and then Dr Johnny Waite the doctor is in air
0:20.6	air quotes around that but we are missing a couple of our panel
0:24.4	members and that's obviously our founder and leader Joe DeSenna who's out running
0:30.0	the raise I mean running it and also kind of running it if you understand what I'm saying and we've got
0:34.5	Sefra who's out somewhere around the world planning seeds and generally probably making everybody
0:39.0	better wherever she's at.
0:40.8	So today we're going to be talking about Chris Heron.
0:43.6	Yeah. This guy was an NBA player, which is hard enough to reach those goals, right?
0:48.0	And of the, you know, professional level of anything.
0:50.5	But he got there while also battling a drug and alcohol addiction.
0:54.7	Yeah. So that's, you got to really, to hear his story about how he overcame that, you know,
1:00.1	we'll get through that. A lot of people tell us what they did right. He tells us what he did wrong.
1:03.4	I thought was pretty cool.
1:04.4	One of the things we do right is we find great people week after week.
1:07.1	But let's get back to Chris Heron.
1:08.6	We're going to be here at the end of the interview to talk about what we took from it.
1:11.1	And you're going to take lots yourself.
1:13.0	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by powerful foods.
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