ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Evive Live is a conversation series at the intersection of gambling harm and behavioral health. Hosted by Adam Lyons (The Modern Meeting) and Christina Cook (The Broke Girl Society), each episode features clinicians, researchers, treatment providers, peer specialists, and people in recovery having the honest conversations the field needs — about what gambling disorder really looks like, what treatment actually works, and what it takes to build a recovery that lasts.
Update frequency:
every 10 days
Average audio length:
53 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
22 episodes
since Jan. 9, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
The founder and CEO of Evive Sam Demello sits down with Adam and Christina for a wide-ranging update on where the platform is headed — and doesn't shy away from the elephant in the room: whether the recovery space should accept money from the gambling industry. Sam lays out exactly how the new…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Dr. Wiley Harwell has run the Oklahoma Association for Problem Gambling and Gaming for nearly two decades. When he started, Oklahoma had zero Gamblers Anonymous meetings and no certified gambling counselors. Today, it's one of the most respected problem gambling programs in the country.He talk…
Kitty Martz, Executive Director of Voices of Problem Gambling Recovery in Oregon, joins Adam and Christina on this episode of Evive Live to talk about what she calls "ideological biodiversity" — the idea that no single recovery path works for everyone, and that the field needs room for al…
Adam and Christina are joined by Kriston Vanhorn, Program Coordinator for the Problem Gambling Help Network of West Virginia. Kriston shares what problem gambling looks like in West Virginia, why calls to the state's helpline continue to rise, and how their 24/7, human-centered support model i…
Adam and Christina sit down without a guest this week to get into something that doesn't get talked about enough: the gap between what people expect recovery to look like and what it actually is.
They cover the fear of losing gambling as a coping mechanism, why stopping the behavior is just th…
Ronnie Wahkinney will be the first to tell you he's been a man of many faces over the course of his life. Growing up half Comanche in rural Oklahoma, addiction found him early and took him places most people don't come back from. Sitting down with Adam and Christina, Ronnie shares everyth…
Brian Ward turned himself in to the police in 2017. What followed was weeks of waiting, panic attacks, houselessness, and the end of his engagement. What came after that was nine years of peer support work, SMART Recovery facilitation, a seat on the NCPG board, and one of the most articulate voices…
Most recovery conversations focus on stopping. Sal Guarino is more interested in what comes next. In this episode of Evive Live!, Adam and Christina sit down with Sal Guarino — co-founder of The Recovery Partners, Community Engagement Manager at Evive, life coach, writer, and someone who has been i…
Mike Sciandra placed his last bet on December 14th, 2020. He knows the exact date because he tracks it on the Evive app — 1,998 days bet free at the time of recording. What followed that date was treatment, peer support work, counselor training, and eventually becoming the Executive Director of the…
Adam and Christina sit down without a guest to dig into one of the most important parts of recovery — support. Not the surface level version, but what it actually looks like in practice. They talk through meetings, therapy, peer support, online communities, sponsors, and blocking software. They sh…
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