Trailer: Back from Broken
Back from Broken
Colorado Public Radio
5 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Back From Broken is a podcast about the highest highs, the darkest moments and what it takes to make a comeback. Colorado Public Radio’s Vic Vela — a journalist and recovering drug addict — talks to guests about how they’ve struggled and the surprising ways they put their lives back together. It’s an intimate show about challenges like substance abuse, PTSD, gambling addiction and mental health issues. Ultimately, it’s a podcast about hope.
The first episode arrives Feb. 21, so subscribe now!
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| 0:00.0 | I believe in comeback stories and second chances. |
| 0:03.1 | I believe in recovery. |
| 0:05.6 | And I believe this new podcast can really give people some hope. |
| 0:11.4 | For months, we've been working on interviews here at Colorado Public Radio, |
| 0:14.9 | talking with people you may have heard of and others you haven't, |
| 0:18.3 | about some of the most devastating events of their lives. |
| 0:21.5 | I missed Christmases and birthdays, and instead I was in the crack house somewhere. |
| 0:25.9 | I buried my grandmother, and I buried my emotions. I never grieved. |
| 0:30.5 | You know, I'm distancing myself from my family. They had no idea I was even using heroin until the first time I overdosed. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Vic Vellup. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm a journalist at Colorado Public Radio. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm also a recovering drug addict. |
| 0:45.1 | And I wouldn't be alive today if I hadn't found a way to get my life back on track. |
| 0:50.4 | I've been talking to people who've made their own recoveries. |
| 0:53.5 | It was not that very long ago that I'd been living on the street, |
| 0:58.0 | been running from the police, been in treatment. |
| 1:01.0 | And here I was buying a house. |
| 1:04.0 | This one, I really feel like I earned. |
| 1:08.0 | Addiction, illness, physical impairment. They can hit all of us and the people we love. |
| 1:14.7 | But that's why recovery stories are so powerful. People who face amazing struggles. I put both |
| 1:21.0 | my arms up and yelled to the car to stop. And the lady smiled as big as she could and stepped on the gas and came right at me. |
| 1:30.7 | People who overcome some of the darkest moments of their lives. |
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