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They Said I'd Never See My Kids Again. Got Them Back Sober w/ Ian Day | The Hopeaholics Podcast #349

1 hour 15 minutes Posted Jul 31, 2026 at 12:00 am.

Cold Open: First Blackout

Welcome / Intro

Eight Years Sober This Weekend

Told He'd Never See His Kids Again

They Lied to the Courthouse

Losing His Sister at 32

The Last Time She Moved Was to Hug Me

First Drinks on Grandpa's Lawnmower

First Blackout: Let's Try Again

Alcohol as a Solution to Social Anxiety

Panhandling in High School Hallways for Lunch Money

I Believe Wholeheartedly I Would Be Dead Without My Parents

Chris Young Song in the Jail Chapel

God I Want to Be a Good Man — First Honest Moment

Homeless, Prison, or the Halfway House

Sponsor Says Stay

Two Jobs at 4am for Almost Two Years

Meeting His Wife at a CA Convention

God Told Him to Pay Off His Fines Instead

What Are You Going to Do With Your Power Today

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They Said I'd Never See My Kids Again. Got Them Back Sober w/ Ian Day | The Hopeaholics Podcast #349 Ian Day grew up a standout athlete in a one-stoplight town in Indiana with one bar. His first drinks were sips of Miller Lite off his grandpa's lawn mower. By 17 he was smoking weed every day and panhandling in his high school hallways for lunch money because he'd spent it all on drugs. By 26 he was in Maricopa County tent jail in pink underwear and it was a country song in the jail chapel t...

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