360 - Advanced Recovery pt. 2: Identity and Performance w/ Dick Ryan
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Matt Dobschuetz
4.8 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Author Dick Ryan, joins us for part 2 of a 3-part series on advanced recovery.
In this episode Dick, a musician by trade, shares from his experience mentoring performing artists. He addresses an issue all too common among artists: the problem of defining your identity by your performance. This concept is not just for artists. Transforming how we define our identity is at the core of recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Porn Free Radio, episode 360. |
| 0:19.8 | Hey, this is Matt, and it's fall of 2025, and it's not too early to start thinking about sending yourself up for success in 2026. |
| 0:29.8 | If you've been working on quitting porn but are stuck, it's not for lack of trying. |
| 0:35.3 | For most guys, one thing is missing. |
| 0:39.8 | Accountability. We often say the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it's connection. And that's why I created Rev Group |
| 0:45.7 | Coaching. Rev Group Coaching is weekly, confidential group coaching that delivers high accountability. |
| 0:51.8 | We meet via Zoom each week, but guys connect and message daily. |
| 0:55.6 | You don't have to do this alone. |
| 0:57.8 | You'll join like-minded men to define your motivation, build a custom recovery plan, |
| 1:03.7 | and get the specific feedback you've been lacking. |
| 1:07.1 | To join Rev, visit recoveredman.com slash re-ev to submit your confidential application. |
| 1:13.4 | That's recoveredman.com slash reveev. Well, this is part two of three special episodes on advanced recovery. |
| 1:37.3 | And on today's show, I'm joined by my friend Dick Ryan, who wrote a book called |
| 1:42.6 | Artists Set Free. |
| 1:45.0 | Dick spent over 30 years as an orchestral conductor and music theater producer, |
| 1:50.3 | and then transitioned into a role of mentoring people in the arts. |
| 1:55.8 | And he worked specifically with students across the country who were in the performing arts. So artists like, you know, |
| 2:03.3 | painters, actors, musicians, directors, dancers, you know, all of those people have been mentored by |
| 2:12.3 | Dick. And just about everyone I know in the arts has some relationship with Dick. He's a great guy. |
| 2:20.4 | And I actually hadn't had a lot of connection with them. And we met for coffee probably last year |
| 2:26.5 | and realized we had a lot in common, a lot of things in common. And the way we saw things and the way |
| 2:31.7 | we helped people and mentored people. |
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