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Sober Friends

E30: Mark Gantt - Writer/Director/Producer/Alcoholic

Sober Friends

Matt J

12 Steps, Spirituality, Personal Journals, Mental Health, Sober, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, Alcohol Free, Sober Curious, Alcoholics Anonymous, Dry January, Society & Culture, Sobriety

4.3722 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail Mark Gantt is the husband of our previous guest, Brianne Davis. Mark is best known for co-creating, writing, producing, and starring in Crackle’s groundbreaking, Streamy award-winning series, The Bannen Way. He's also an alcoholic in recovery for the last 32 years. In this episode, we discuss a short but storied drinking career that ended at the age of 19. The help he received from those closet and how Mark's Higher Power intervened in unbelievable way...

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0:00.0

Welcome to You Are Not Alone, a recovery podcast.

0:07.0

My name is Matt Jay, and on this show, we're here to share our experience, strength,

0:11.6

and hope recovering from addiction.

0:13.5

And you can find out a lot more from the show, social media, all that type of stuff.

0:18.5

You can listen to the show, find places on the pod catcher of your choice at our website,

0:23.6

not alone recovery.com, lots of recovery links, which are important as we're wrapping up,

0:28.9

hopefully, COVID.

0:29.9

Now, we don't speak for any 12-step group.

0:31.8

We do try to remain anonymous.

0:35.2

So my guest this week is Hollywood director, writer, producer, and recovering alcoholic,

0:42.1

Mark Gant.

0:43.2

Mark, welcome to the show.

0:45.5

You sound, make me sound so impressive with this whole Hollywood director thing.

0:49.9

I love it.

0:51.3

I love how much my wife could just walk around just refer to me that. How you're

0:55.7

director, Mark? Yeah, that's how I hear things about that of, you know, when people at work

1:01.3

tell me, you know, you're so wonderful. I'm like, you should tell that to my wife.

1:04.9

Yeah. Hey, it's about, like in wrestling talk, it's about putting you over. Yeah, exactly.

1:11.6

But that might be something worth talking about, that it sounds like you and your wife are,

1:15.9

lack of a better term, white collar, Hollywood people,

1:20.3

working actors, working writers, working directors.

1:23.1

I would imagine that.

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