You're listening to season six of the Recovery Happy Hour Podcast.

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Let's do this. Hi everyone. Welcome to Recovery Happy Hour where we talk about life beyond the bottle and what happens after we stop drinking. I'm your

host Tricia and my favorite flavor of Slurpy is red. I forgot to mention in

last week's introduction that this awesome Instagram takeover happened on the recovery

happy hour page last month and it's all connected to our interviewee today.

In late September I had Carlita Victoria take over my Instagram page for the day.

Carlita runs a nonprofit called Darkness Rising and I learned about her on the podcast Getting Your

Shit Together. Darkness Rising is a mental health nonprofit by Black Broadway performers and it offers free wellness workshops,

guest speakers, mental health educators, music and mental health video series,

free and sliding scale resources,

and more for the black community.

I'm such a big fan of what they're doing,

especially since I'm a giant musical theater nerd so Carlita took over

my Instagram for the whole day and blew it up with the most incredible recovery

resources with conversation topics and interviews.

I was completely speechless at how much work she put into it,

and you can go back and see that content saved on my feed

and on my story highlights, which is where the majority of it lives.

If you're on Instagram, please go check that out and share this project with someone who might

want to know about it, especially if they're in the New York area.

I think it's super, super bad-ass when people see a gap in the

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