Hey, it's Vic. I want to give you a heads up before we start. There's some emotional stuff in this

episode, including talk of heavy drug use and someone dying. It might be hard for some people to listen

to, but I promise this episode has hope, too, just like always, on this show. In three, two, one.

Okay. Awesome. All right. Good luck. Good luck. We go, two, one. Okay. Awesome. Good to see you. Hi, guys. Hey, Dana. How are you? Um, so we were just

going to do a quick workout. This time of day, it's typically staff working. Dana Smith works at the

Phoenix. It's a small gym with a really down-to-earth vibe, exposed brick, natural sunlight,

lots of free weights and jump ropes. It's a gym that I actually used to go to when I first got

sober. I went to visit Dana there recently. She was learning a new exercise, and Thomas, who's one of

her co-workers, showed us how it's done. So now you have to pretend that there's a million dollars in there.

And I need to get it out.

The only way of getting it out is slamming and fling down as hard as you can.

Now you got me.

Million bucks!

Million dollars,

my elbows!

Dana loves this gym, and her passion for exercise is really inspiring.

Watching her do her thing for a couple of minutes really motivated me to up my own exercise routine.

When I'm not at Phoenix, I go to other gyms and I like high five people on the treadmills.

And they like probably think I'm super weird, but I come from a Phoenix environment where that's what we do.

We encourage and we motivate each other, so I don't know you, but Sue, you go on that treadmill,

you know? Like, we just get, and so now it's become, like, it's just become part of who I am, I think.

So it's hard for me, too, to be motivated if I don't have other people doing it with me.

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