Host Dave Roberts interviews Steve Moore, an award-winning author and licensed clinical professional counselor with 25+ years of experience and 35 years of continuous sobriety. Moore shares his early life in a German orphanage, adoption, abandonment into foster care and a psychiatric hospital, and an abusive childhood followed by life with an alcoholic, PTSD-affected adoptive father. He describes his progression into heavy drinking, Air Force service, and entering treatment on October 10, 1990 after a doctor warned of severe liver damage. Moore discusses his work through moresobriety.com helping people heal emotional wounds, shame, grief, trauma, and core beliefs, reframing relapse as a learning opportunity, and using tools like gratitude lists and the “stop sign” method. He also uses songwriting/poetry for healing, highlights fellowship’s role, reflects on nearly relapsing after his wife’s death in 2024, and explains his book “34 Years Sober” on sustaining long-term recovery.

Bio and Contact Information

Steve Moore is an award-winning author, licensed clinical professional counselor, and Master Addictions Counselor with over 25 years of clinical experience and more than 35 years of continuous sobriety.

Steve is the founder of mooresobriety.com where he helps individuals heal emotional wounds, reduce shame, and build lasting recovery grounded in self-awareness, compassion, and personal responsibility.

He is the author of four books exploring grief, addiction, shame, and family systems, and his work is shaped by both clinical practice and lived experience. At the core of his philosophy is a powerful belief: you can’t go home, until you’ve gone home—a reminder that unresolved childhood experiences often influence adult relationships, self-worth, and coping behaviors.

In addition to his clinical work, Steve is also a songwriter who uses poetry and music as tools for healing childhood trauma, and he teaches clients how to access creativity as a pathway to emotional recovery. His songs can be found on his You Tube Channel “Songs and Melodies Productions”.

A veteran-informed speaker and educator, Steve blends psychology, whole-health recovery principles, and personal narrative to foster clarity, resilience, and sustainable personal growth.

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Website: https://www.mooresobriety.com

Email: serenity_counseling_services@outlook.com

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-a-moore-lcpc-ncc-mac-506a6034

Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578391686586

Instagram Profile: https://www.instagram.com/samwv_u1982/

Host Dave Roberts interviews Jeff Johnston, founder and CEO of Brighton, a mental wellness app combining health, wealth, and purpose with evidence-based AI support. Johnston recounts losing his 23-year-old son Seth to fentanyl poisoning on Oct. 4, 2016, and later his wife Prudence to alcoholism in 2021, describing ensuing alcoholism, grief, suicidal ideation, and a shift from status- and money-driven living toward seeking peace, joy, empathy, and resilience. He discusses reframing pain and suffering, stigma around men crying, and how guided plant-based medicine experiences (psilocybin and ketamine) helped him. Johnston outlines his advocacy work (Living Undeterred project, podcast, 2022 nationwide tour) and explains Brighton’s AI-driven journaling, pattern recognition, and personalized prompts, plus his book This One’s For You written partly for Seth’s daughter Brighton.

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Jeff Johnston is the Founder and CEO of Brightn, a comprehensive mental wellness app that brings together health, wealth, and purpose through evidence-based AI support. His life was forever changed on October 4, 2016, when his oldest son, Seth, died from fentanyl poisoning at age 23. Formerly a successful entrepreneur and financial advisor in Iowa, Jeff stepped away from his career to become a vocal advocate for substance use awareness and mental health. He began speaking in schools, joined the board of a local treatment facility, and launched the Living Undeterred Project in 2020 to confront stigma around addiction. That same year, he authored This One’s For You and launched the Living Undeterred Podcast. In 2021, Jeff lost his wife, Prudence, to alcoholism. Driven to create meaningful change, he completed a 95-day nationwide tour in 2022 and is now building Brightn to help others live with greater resilience and purpose.

Website: www.brightn.app

Twitter: https://twitter.com/undeterreddad

Facebook: https://facebook.com/brightnapp

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightnapp/

Podcast: https://linktr.ee/LivingUndeterred

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-a-johnston/

Book: www.thisonesforyoubook.com

Email: jeff@brightonapp.com

Phone: (319) 899-3400

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Host Dave Roberts interviews Cindy Barg, a motivational speaker, retreat leader, licensed psychotherapist, and author whose life was shaped by multiple losses. Cindy recounts a car crash at age 12 that killed her father, injured her family, and led to a near-death/shared-death experience in which she felt taken out of her body, encountered a loving “other side,” and was told to return. Years later, her older brother Michael Barg, who said he would die young, was murdered at 39 in a home invasion, inspiring her book The Heavens Never Cried and a second completed manuscript about what her deceased brother communicated to her. Cindy describes post-death visitations from Michael, discusses grief, counseling, respectful approaches to skeptics, cultural differences in caring for the dying, and urges listeners to live fully

Cindy’s Bio and Contact Information

Cindy Barg is a dynamic and internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, retreat leader, licensed psychotherapist, and published author. After a series of devastating life experiences, her existence was completely splintered.

Through Cindy’s own grief and healing process, she has experienced extraordinary conversations and signs from the other side, confirming that those who have passed are still with us. She shares these experiences with local and international audiences in the hope that my journey will provide hope and inspiration for others moving through the grieving process.

Connect with Cindy:

Website: cindybarg.com

Email: cebarg11@gmail.com

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