Walking the Road to Recovery with Kurt Platte—Addiction Survivor and Mentor

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Kurt Platte seemed to be thriving, but he was living with a dark secret: addiction. For 29 years, it dictated the day-to-day of his life, threatening to destroy everything he loved. Kurt’s walked the long road to recovery and now helps others do the same. He shares his unbelievable story, including personal insights for anyone whose life is touched by addiction.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:08.6	Here in the aggressive life, you want to cover a wide range of tops.
0:11.7	You never know exactly what we're going to talk about.
0:13.8	The through line, though, is going after something.
0:17.4	Not waiting for something to take care of itself, not just explaining away my
0:21.4	problems or my issues, but actually aggressively going at what it is. It might be going after
0:27.4	my career, it might be going after my physical fitness, it might be going after relationships,
0:32.6	it might be going after a chink in the armor like addiction.
0:39.6	Just what we all want to talk about in the aggressive life.
0:41.8	Addiction.
0:42.3	Oh, so excited to talk about addiction.
0:44.7	All the addicts right now are going, head for the hills.
0:47.4	I don't want to talk about this, at least the ones that are in denial.
0:50.7	Others are going to get a nice dose of fresh water.
0:54.6	Others of us who may have somebody in our life that's struggling with addiction, hopefully
0:59.9	is going to get some help.
1:02.6	We have a substance abuse problem inside of our country.
1:08.2	Some even describe it as an epidemic.
1:10.4	But my guest today, he prefers the term
1:13.3	epic battle. Why? Because it's personal for him. He's been in the fight for over a decade,
1:21.2	and he's winning, and he's helping others do the same. Today you get to, you get a front road seat
1:26.2	for an unbelievable story of addiction,
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