Dec 11, 2021
This Week on Talk Recovery Radio
This week on Talk Recovery Radio 2 guest join the show. First Kim Bemis Executive Director of Gobi Support, Inc joins us to talk about his comprehensive educational program to help middle and high school teens and their families rethink their relationship with drugs and alcohol. Second on the show Steve Palmer author of "How the Restaurant Business Saved My Life" joins us to talk about his personal story of recovery from addiction and his book.
Guest 1
About Gobi
Gobi is a comprehensive
educational program with an accessible, web-based application. But
there are real people behind it.
We’re Educators, Experts, Clinicians, Parents - and Young Adults Who “Speak Teen”
Gobi Support, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping middle and high school teens and their families rethink their relationship with drugs and alcohol. Gobi is not a treatment program. The Gobi digital platform encourages self-knowledge, reflection and problem solving to build better communication within families.
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Meet the Founder
Kim created Gobi because,
as a parent of four and professional in the treatment business, he
and his wife could not find any programs that were a suitable
consequence for one of their children who was experimenting with
substance use. He saw an opportunity to create an intervention
program that would reach kids where they lived, online and through
their smartphones.
Kim began working in the field of addiction recovery in 2005 as the Executive Director of New Business Development for the Hazelden Foundation where he led the effort to expand Hazelden’s online business opportunities. In 2010, he cofounded Clere Consulting LLC., focusing on interventions and long-term case management for families of wealth. He is also a serial entrepreneur having started five different companies and served on the boards of over a dozen local and national nonprofit organizations.
Kim is a person in long-term recovery, which means for him that he hasn’t used drugs or alcohol since August 13, 1988.
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Guest 2
Steve Palmer
Steve Palmer is the author of the book "How the Restaurant Business Saved My Life"
The restaurant business enabled
Steve Palmer’s addictions—normalizing his drinking and drug use
until he could not function. He wrecked his marriage, racked up
DUIs, and managed restaurants worth millions of dollars.
In Say Grace, readers will learn how commonplace addiction is in the food and beverage industry, how far an individual can push the boundaries of excess, and how one man found his way to sobriety.
This is not a book shaming those who struggle with addiction, but rather a beacon for anyone who thinks there is no way out. Steve paints a warts-and-all portrait of his life. He does not balk at bringing up how he hurt people or the levels to which he sank because this is a book for people like him.
“My story is specific to me, but it is far from unique,” Steve explains. “The hospitality industry is full of people struggling with addiction and mental health issues—and they don’t know where to turn. They don’t know that help is out there. They don’t know that many of their coworkers are also struggling or already sober. It’s time to open up, speak out, and affect real change.”
Whether you are staring down your own demons, know someone who is, or want to learn more about how an industry can save those that it enables, take a look inside Say Grace.