The Dumpster Fire Recovery Podcast

Hosts Rick Albers and Guy Lynch sit down with licensed clinician Devon Frontczak to explore how Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the 12-step model can be combined to support lasting recovery. Devon shares her lived experience, professional work delivering DBT skills, and practical ways those skills (distress tolerance, emotion regulation, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness) compliment step-based recovery. The episode includes real-life examples, discussion of implementing DBT in treatment and peer settings, and a Clinician's Corner summary on using DBT as a shared language across services to create safety, build skills, and sustain recovery.

Guest Marilyn tells her candid story of addiction and recovery: a teenage accident, an eating disorder, amphetamine and alcohol dependence, stints in a Scientology-affiliated rehab, legal trouble and jail, and repeated relapses. She shares how court mandates, treatment failures, and a turning point at Sacred Heart led to surrender, faith, marriage, sobriety, baptism, and a new family life — an unflinching look at relapse, resilience, and hope.

In this episode Rick and Guy sit down with Jason Frontczak — former addict, ex-prisoner, and now peer recovery coach and CEO — to trace his journey from homelessness and incarceration to founding a recovery coaching business. They discuss harm reduction, medically assisted treatment, boundaries between coaching and counseling, and the spiritual turning point that sparked lasting change. Jason shares practical outreach work, perspectives on lapse versus relapse, and how coaches bridge gaps for people in crisis, offering hope and real resources for recovery.

Hosts Guy Lynch and Angela Valdivia talk about Crossroads Recovery's new Soulback Sober Bar, the growing partnership with Port Huron Odyssey, and local recovery services including housing and intensive outpatient programs. They discuss harm reduction, the MORT team's overdose-reduction work, Narcan distribution, coping skills and boundaries, and invite the community to get involved and support recovery efforts.

On this episode of the Dumpster Fire Recovery Podcast, host Rick and co-hosts Guy and Angela sit down with Blake Harvey to explore his path from early sobriety through relapse to sustained recovery. Blake shares honest stories about sober living, parenting, financial change, and finding his identity as a queer man in recovery. They discuss the difference between emotional and physical bottoms, the importance of accountability and calling someone when tempted, and how recovery opened the door to school, relationships, and a new life—offering hope and practical insight for listeners navigating their own journeys. Dumpster Fire Recovery Podcast

In this episode of the Dumpster Fire Recovery Podcast, hosts Rick, Guy, and Angela speak with Kyle Latham, a peer recovery coach who shares his raw journey from homelessness and violent lows to long-term recovery and meaningful work in the field. Kyle describes his turning point, time at Sacred Heart, and the people and programs that helped him rebuild his life. The conversation explores themes of codependency, expectations of self and others, multiple pathways to recovery, the role of peer support and clinical services, and the power of letting go—as inspired by Mel Robbins' "Let Them Theory." The hosts also discuss local recovery housing and collaboration between agencies to support people transitioning from treatment or incarceration.

In this episode of Dumpster Fire Recovery, hosts Guy Lynch and Rick Albers welcome Ken Jones of Odyssey House to discuss harm reduction, the Mobile Outreach Response Team (formerly the Mobile Overdose Response Team), and how community collaboration is saving lives. They cover Narcan distribution, jail outreach, residential and outpatient services, and the real stories of people rebuilding their lives. Listeners will hear about practical recovery tools, the importance of staying alive to find long-term recovery, and how local programs and settlement-funded grants are expanding support across the community.