Ronnie Wahkinney | Associate Director, OAPGG

Ronnie Wahkinney will be the first to tell you he's been a man of many faces over the course of his life. Growing up half Comanche in rural Oklahoma, addiction found him early and took him places most people don't come back from. Sitting down with Adam and Christina, Ronnie shares everything. The drugs, the arrests, the prison time, the son he missed growing up, and the twenty years of recovery that eventually led him to become the Associate Director of the Oklahoma Association for Problem Gambling and Gaming. He also talks about what makes gambling addiction different from every other addiction he has experienced — and why the hope of the next bet makes it uniquely hard to walk away from. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS🟢 Evive — Digital support for gambling behavior change🌐 https://www.getevive.com/📱 Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evive-gambling-support/id6450926060🟣 The Broke Girl Society with Christina Cook — Community and recovery support for women🌐 https://thebrokegirlsociety.com/ 🎙️Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broke-girl-society-podcast/id1575593868🎙️Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/74DP23EzfR6WPpPMLYq45x📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thebrokegirlsociety🎧 The Modern Meeting Podcast with Adam Lyons — Gambling recovery, real talk🌐 https://themodernmeeting.com/ 🎙️ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-meeting/id1779060982🎙️ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1jMSSKkadnvzbvZl33dzZc📺 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ModernMeeting━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔔 Subscribe to Evive Live for new episodes featuring the clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people in recovery who are changing how we think about gambling harm.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Evive Live is produced by Evive, a digital health platform dedicated to gambling behavior change. Views expressed by guests are their own.