Hey guys this is Holly Whitaker and this is home podcast

so I don't know if anybody's seen the movie Wayne's World, but in it there's this one scene and

Wayne has basically signed away the rights to the show to know his arcade and then he figures it out and he storms out right before

they're supposed to record their show Wayne's World and Garth is left alone on the couch and the show starts and the camera

kind of zooms in and somebody says something about Garth's head exploding and it's one of my

favorite scenes in any movie ever and it kind of describes how odd it feels to be

the only one talking in an intro. So there's that. So

Laura and I started Home Podcast in July 2015, late June, early July 2015. Lord asked me for a while if I

would be interested in doing a podcast and at the time I was doing a million things and I was just like no

It just was one more thing. I didn't want to add to my plate and I didn't really see the value in it.

And then not long after that I was driving to meet some friends, Big Sur, and I was in a rental car and listening to Dear Sugar and the question was about friend divorces and the answer that Cheryl Strait and Steve Omen gave was great, but I was listening to it and I was just like this doesn't apply to me or what I've been through.

In recovery we have such different dynamics when it comes to friend horses.

It's a whole different thing when you stop drinking and you lose your friends.

Or, you know, it was just one of these moments where I was really struck by how

different I would answer the question and then it just became really clear that this

is just such a void there's such a void in the space in the podcast space and

self-help space and you know we're talking about practical matters

as it pertains to those of us that have stopped drinking and are gone through recovery for chemical addiction or behavioral

addiction or those of us that are in this space.

So I called Laura and was just like let's do it and then not long after maybe a couple

weeks after we started thinking of names one of the names we threw around was Sover Village and then we sat

down and I think it was you know it was maybe a weekend morning and we just spent a half hour on the phone with a

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