Guests

Karen Wolfe is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor with over 17 years of experience in behavioral health, currently serving as a Clinical Liaison at Texas Recovery Centers. After losing her brother to an overdose, she dedicated her career to helping individuals and families facing addiction and mental health challenges. Known for her compassionate, knowledgeable approach, Karen is a trusted advocate and resource in the recovery community.

KIMBERLEY BROOKE is an LCDC (Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor) and Program Manager at Altura Recovery in Houston, Texas, where she runs adult IOP groups and an adolescent SOP for 13- to 17-year-olds. She has worked in addiction treatment for nearly twelve years, including roles as a counselor intern inside a Texas men's prison, clinical director of a methadone-Suboxone clinic, and lead counselor at a women's luxury treatment center. She is 19 years clean from methamphetamine and is currently writing a memoir titled "Fight Bitch."

LORI BELL is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, and Certified Addiction-Informed Mental Health Professional with an MBA in finance and a twenty-year career in banking before she became a therapist. She founded Renaissance Mental Health in Houston, where she works with adolescents and adults healing from trauma, abuse, addiction, grief, and relational damage — including survivors of abusive relationships, veterans, and first responders. She uses an eclectic, evidence-based approach including EMDR, the Flash Technique, CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and parts and memory work, and serves clients in Texas and Kansas.

Nikki is a mother and recovery advocate whose own journey through addiction, motherhood, and healing inspired her to support others facing similar struggles. After overcoming substance use, navigating treatment, and rebuilding family relationships, she now dedicates herself to helping others create positive change and find hope in recovery.

OMAR CHAVARRIA-DURON is the director of Mastermind Recovery, drawing on his lived experience with addiction, homelessness, and the criminal justice system to help others rebuild their lives. He now focuses on faith-based 12‑step recovery, sober housing, and mentoring men in early sobriety.

Rachel is a recovery advocate whose life includes years of addiction, homelessness, incarceration, and multiple losses of custody. After completing treatment and reentry supervision, she rebuilt her life, regained custody of her children, and now works in recovery and outreach. Today, she supports others through sponsorship, coaching, and direct community work.

Rachel is the founder of Journey Way Sober Living and serves as a Regional Recovery Liaison at a detox center, drawing inspiration from her own journey in long-term recovery. She is dedicated to helping women and families build healthy, hopeful lives, and finds her greatest joy in her faith, family, and serving others.

Randy Grimes, born in East Texas, excelled in football at Baylor University before being drafted second round by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1983, playing 10 years while battling opiate addiction from team-supplied drugs that led to blacked-out games. After being fired in 1992, he retired to Houston, doctor-shopped for years, lost his job, and nearly lost his family until entering treatment in 2009. Now sober, he founded Pro Athletes in Recovery to help former athletes with addiction and mental health.

Richard Galvan overcame early alcohol use, heroin addiction, homelessness, and arrests to achieve sobriety at 22 via Prop 36 rehab—now 21 years clean.Former owner of Casablanca Outpatient and Essence Healthcare, he sold due to ethical issues and moved to Barcelona from LA.Today, he promotes his book The Addict, runs a 12-step sobriety program, and advocates recovery through AA, speaking, and social media.

Robert Braun is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor Intern (LCDC-I) and serves as Owner, Manager, and CEO at Healing House Mens Sober Living, where he leads with personal experience and dedication to supporting men in recovery. He is also a case manager at Magnolia City Detox in Conroe, Texas.

Rune is a certified Conscious Leadership coach who empowers people to lead with purpose and authenticity. Growing up in Denmark, he developed a lifelong bond with horses, which led him to incorporate equine-assisted coaching into his work. Blending various coaching approaches, Rune creates transformative experiences that inspire self-awareness and intentional action.

Scott Kindel has dedicated his life to advocating for the path of recovery and erasing the stigma associated with substance use disorder. He believes this journey begins by humanizing what is often relegated to the shadows and recognizing how common addiction is in its many forms. Having worked with clients from every socioeconomic background, from CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to members of the homeless population, Scott has observed a common thread uniting them all: an almost compulsive desire to disconnect from powerful emotions and, in most cases, emotional pain.

Taylor Cavanaugh is the only person on earth to have served as both a United States Navy SEAL and a French Foreign Legionnaire. After years of arrests, addiction, and planning to jump into a volcano, he rebuilt his life through discipline and deliberate living. He now runs TCAV Training, coaching people on body, mind, and life transformation.

Ted is the founder and owner of Bodine Recovery Homes in Houston, Texas, where he has been creating supportive sober living environments since 2017. Drawing on his experiences in recovery and the military, Ted is passionate about individualized care and empowering men to rebuild their lives with accountability, community, and personal growth.