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This is Your Kickass Life podcast episode number R3 with guest Laura McCowan.

All links and resources you hear on this podcast can be found by going to Your KickassLife.com

forward slash R3.

This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen, a no BS guide to self-help and bad assery.

Because ladies, let's face it, life's too short for it to not kick ass.

And here's your host, the girl who served it up straight with a side of crazy. Andrea Owen.

Hey there, ass kickers. Welcome to another episode of the special edition. I'm rolling out on recovery. I hope you have enjoyed the last few episodes. Well, actually, it's only been a couple. The last couple of episodes, I should say, as much as I have enjoyed sending them out to you. This has been a labor of love. And I just am ecstatic to be able to talk about something that's so very important to me that I don't really talk about a whole lot on my regularly scheduled podcast.

And just a couple of things about it.

First, if you have any questions that you specifically would like me to ask the guests or that you would like me to address,

simply shoot us an email at support at your kickasslife.com and let us know. I am rolling out

10 of these total. This is the third one. And I will be doing another 10 in 2017, probably around

the summer. So if I don't get to your question by the end

of the series, please send it anyway because I will be rolling out a whole other series where I would

love to be able to specifically answer your questions. Also, these episodes are a little bit

longer than my regular episodes. And the reason for that is that I wanted my guests to be able to tell their stories because I wanted you to specifically hear the progression of alcoholism in these stories. I didn't want it to be just the ending of what happened and tell people like,

you only have five minutes to tell your story because we need to get on to other things. I wanted

you to hear the whole thing because the progression is what's important. We don't just wake up one day

at our own rock bottom and decide, okay, it's done. It's definitely a progression. If you don't want to

miss any of these episodes, these particular episodes come out on Tuesdays, but if you don't want to

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