Dr. Samantha Harte’s Powerful Redemption Story

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this raw and honest conversation with Joe De Sena, Dr. Samantha Harte shares her incredible journey from addiction and trauma to redemption and healing.

Growing up in a dysfunctional family in Brooklyn, Samantha's path was riddled with substance abuse, shame, and relationship turmoil. But through the power of the 12 steps and her own unwavering resilience, she transformed her life, finding sobriety, self-love, and ultimately, a thriving marriage and business.

Now, Samantha is on a mission to modernize the 12-step approach, using her personal experiences to help others overcome their own challenges and unlock their full potential. Tune in for more!

Highlights:

00:00 Intro
00:45 Dr. Samantha’s childhood, academic struggles, and drug addiction
08:44 Overdosing and decision to recover
13:23 Marriage and recovery challenges
16:52 Finding a sponsor and 12-step program
20:19 The beginning of her fitness business
22:23 Separation from her husband and getting back together
26:31 Miscarriages, postpartum depression, and the loss of her dad
29:13 Losing a sister to overdose and writing a book
32:38 Joe’s support and future plans

Transcript

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0:00.0	The next thing I remember was waking up on my side with her hovering over me on the phone with 911 trying to get me to go to the hospital and she told me that I
0:10.7	Seizured and the idea of those steps being the best kept secret in the
0:17.1	rooms of AA and N. A is absurd to me. We don't know how to get through hard things.
0:24.0	Welcome to the Hardway Podcast with Joe DeCenna, founder and CEO of Spartan Races.
0:29.0	We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course.
0:37.0	With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts from every corner of the world.
0:42.0	Get ready to elevate your life today.
0:46.0	Joe DeSenna here, CEO and founder of Spartan
0:48.0	and hosted a hard way podcast.
0:50.0	I've got my new friend from the neighborhood Dr. Samantha Hart.
0:55.0	She is the woman that is getting the world on a 12-step program.
0:59.7	Is that a fair statement?
1:01.5	Sure. And I know coming from that neighborhood why we need a 12-step program because we grew up probably, I don't know,
1:12.0	eight miles from each other, even that that sound right Howard Beach
1:15.3	Shopshead Bay. Oh yeah what's your what's your ethnicity? I'm an Italian Jew
1:21.8	all right I'm I'm all Italian so that makes perfect sense and and
1:28.4	your parents lived in Sheapshead Bay and in that neighborhood in Brooklyn for a long time?
1:33.4	Yeah, both of them born and raised in Brooklyn really never left, although now my mom is in California,
1:40.9	but maybe we'll get to that part of the story.
1:44.0	So you grow up there and you went to high school there I assume.
1:50.0	I went to Midwood.
1:52.0	And what happened?
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