In Episode 108 of Built By The Red Stick, Ronnie LeDuff and Michael Oakley sit down with Jarvis Fountaine, a counselor, recovery advocate, and community resource coordinator who has taken his own experiences and turned them into an opportunity to help others.

Jarvis doesn't just talk about addiction recovery from the outside looking in. He has publicly shared his own experiences with substance misuse and now uses those experiences to have honest conversations with young people and adults about addiction, mental health, stigma, and what can happen when we keep everything bottled up.

Today, Jarvis works in counseling and community outreach, helping connect people with resources while also speaking openly about prevention and the importance of creating places where people can actually talk about what they're going through.

This conversation gets into addiction recovery, men's mental health, the pressure many men feel to stay quiet when they're struggling, and what happens when somebody finally decides to ask for help.

Jarvis's story is another example of something we talk about constantly on this show: your past doesn't have to be wasted. The things you've been through can become the very things that allow you to reach somebody else.

Tune in to Episode 108 for a real conversation about addiction, recovery, mental health, giving back, and what it means to use your story for something bigger than yourself.

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