Hey friends, welcome to the Raising Boys and Girls Podcast.

I'm Sissy Gough.

And I'm David Thomas.

And I'm Melissa Trevathan.

And we're so glad you joined us for this conversation.

Let's dive in. David McGee is the best-selling author of the award-winning book, Dear William, A Father's Memoir of Addiction Recovery, Love and Loss,

and a dozen other books.

He has been featured on CBS Morningings and is a sought-after speaker in schools, universities, and companies nationwide.

He helped inspire and create the William McGee Institute for Student Well Being at the University

of Mississippi, as well as the William McGee Center for Wellness

Education.

David has been a daily newspaper publisher, a media company present, an award-winning columnist

for newspapers and Newsweek, a small business owner, a regular

guest on CNBC, and once hosted a national cable TV and radio program, the David McGee Show.

David and his wife Kent live in Oxford, Mississippi.

We are honored he would join us in Nashville

for a thoughtful conversation around an incredibly important topic.

We'd encourage you to share this conversation

as we believe it could offer a lot of help and hope.

David, it is so much fun to be sitting in the room with you. We spoke at an event in Oxford, Mississippi,

and the host of that event gave us a gift basket that had a signed copy of your book and I had already heard from two different sources how amazing that book was

Had it in my head like I've got to get a copy of that book and there it was and I've told you this before it's so fun to say

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