SP 260: The Communities Project with Michael King
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Michael King's life looked inspiring on paper. He was a democratic executive, working on projects he was passionate about. But he led a double life. On the other side, he was addicted to alcohol and gambling. His problem became so out of control that he began embezzling money from work, eventually leading to an embarrassing public arrest that landed him on the front page of the local paper.
Today, Michael King is the Director and Creator of The Communities Project. With his background in social justice, he felt it was his responsibility to help the people he met when he was incarcerated. Advocating for addiction is part of his long-term recovery.
In this episode, Michael talks about the power of a group with a common bond and how to step up in your community as a leader in the fight against addiction!
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| 0:00.0 | coming to an understanding that embracing my own greatness didn't have to mean that I wasn't |
| 0:07.9 | also doing my utmost to practice a sense of humility, that those two things are not contradictory, |
| 0:13.9 | they're not mutually exclusive, and that I could live both ways. |
| 0:17.9 | But I think that's something I really try to emphasize to folks in our trainings |
| 0:21.3 | because they'll come in and they'll say, I'm not really doing much and I'll say, well, tell me what you're doing. And they'll list off 10 things they're doing that are great. And say, well, we'll stop that. Stop doing that. How about just embracing the thing that happens to me 10 times a week on the phone I haven't been up to much just this this this this this this and that like well |
| 0:39.9 | that's a whole bunch of stuff that you're embracing the thing that happens to me 10 times a week on the phone. I haven't been up to much. Just this, this, this, this, this, this and that. |
| 0:39.6 | Like, well, that's a whole bunch of stuff that you're doing. So embrace your greatness, |
| 0:44.0 | everybody. You can do it. You are a leader. You don't need to be taught, right? Go embrace your |
| 0:49.4 | greatness and own your results. Own them. That was Michael King, and this is the Share podcast. |
| 1:01.6 | Getting sober is one thing. |
| 1:03.9 | Staying sober is another. |
| 1:05.9 | In recovery, the most important ingredient to long-term sobriety is community and connection. |
| 1:12.0 | Share is not only a recovery podcast, it is a global sobriety network. |
| 1:18.0 | Join me each week as we connect with people from all over the world who will share with you |
| 1:23.2 | their inspirational journey of recovery. |
| 1:25.8 | Welcome to the Share Podcast, Sobriety Network. |
| 1:37.3 | Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of the Share podcast. And today we have Michael King |
| 1:42.4 | joining us on the show. and Michael is the director and |
| 1:46.0 | creator of the Communities Project, a national initiative with the mission of saving a million |
| 1:51.8 | lives from substance use related deaths over the next two decades. |
| 1:57.7 | But Michael was not always living in his purpose. |
| 2:00.3 | For over a decade, he battled with |
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