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Crawl Out of Your Own Way with Bryan Blackmon
Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of substance abuse, addiction, homelessness, incarceration, and difficult withdrawal experiences. Please listen with care.
Sometimes the person holding you back isn't someone else. It's the one staring back at you in the mirror.
Bryan Blackmon moved from Texas to California chasing a lifelong dream of making it in the music industry. Instead, he found himself sleeping in his car, living in a tent, battling decades of addiction, and watching the life he'd imagined fall apart.
Then came Elaine, an 85-year-old woman who took a chance on him when…
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