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Talk Line: Todd Noack & the Ride 4 Recovery event · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: It's eight thirty six on your Tuesday, May fifth morning,
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  Speaker 1: and it's time for that double dose of talk line
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  Speaker 1: I promised you this morning. Joining me today for the
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  Speaker 1: first time is Todd Noak with Life Connections. Sir, how
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  Speaker 1: are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great. It's a beautiful morning. I woke up.
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  Speaker 1: It couldn't be put better. No matter what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: if you woke up today, you've got a day to
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  Speaker 1: change everything. That's right. So first, I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: want you to introduce yourself, and you know, Life Connections
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  Speaker 1: peer recovery services. What is Life Connections and what do
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  Speaker 1: they offer?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we are a peer run organization. It's a nonprofit.
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  Speaker 2: We serve the whole state of Iowa. But honestly, I
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  Speaker 2: say we serve anybody because we will not deny anybody.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot of people from Illinois that come
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  Speaker 2: over to our after our recovery center that's opened Monday
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  Speaker 2: through Friday from four to ten at night. We do
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  Speaker 2: support groups, we have a technology lab. It's just a
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  Speaker 2: place for people to build community and also talk about
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  Speaker 2: their recovery with somebody one on one privately. And all
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  Speaker 2: my staff, like me, are people with lived experience of
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  Speaker 2: Mental Health and Addiction. We also run the only peer
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  Speaker 2: run respite in Iowa as well as the only one
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  Speaker 2: in the US that is in a rural area. And
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  Speaker 2: then in the recovery center, we have what we call
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  Speaker 2: the Virtual Recovery Center, so that means that people can
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  Speaker 2: join us from anywhere they want. We have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people in other states that join for the support
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  Speaker 2: groups for one on one service, and also we have
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  Speaker 2: one person from Vietnam that joins our Virtual Recovery Center.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic that you have this network that you're building
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  Speaker 1: out and making it so trying to remove as many
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  Speaker 1: barriers as possible to be able to reach out to
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  Speaker 1: people and help them. How long have you turned things
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  Speaker 1: to where you decided to be actively working in the
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  Speaker 1: recovery space.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I've been doing a lot of advocacy
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  Speaker 2: and other work behind the scene in Iowa for seventeen years,
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  Speaker 2: and in twenty fifteen I had the bright idea that
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  Speaker 2: I was going to build a nonprofit in the very
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  Speaker 2: first peer run respite in Iowa. And in October of
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, with much partnership with many people and organizations,
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  Speaker 2: we were able to do that. So October of twenty
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  Speaker 2: eighteen is when we opened. We've had eight hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eleven people come through our respite house and I can't
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  Speaker 2: even talk about the thousands at our recovery center.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is just an absolutely important space to be
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  Speaker 1: in to bring awareness to We quite often have conversations
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  Speaker 1: with Salt Valley voices of recovery on the show. So
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  Speaker 1: I completely get the need for this, and I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: there's folks like you out there, because you know, without
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  Speaker 1: you nonprofits, it's I'm not sure how much help there
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  Speaker 1: is for folks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And don't get me wrong, I think people need
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  Speaker 2: to have therapy, they need psychiatry. But here's the thing
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  Speaker 2: with that. A lot of times what they're told are
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  Speaker 2: what you need to do and what you have to do.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know about you, Brandon, but I'm over eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: I know what I need to do, I know what
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  Speaker 2: I have to do, sit and have a conversation of
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  Speaker 2: what I'd like to do, what would I like my
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  Speaker 2: life to be like. And that's the way that we
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  Speaker 2: approach it, really because we've been there, we know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I mean that's the best way to
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  Speaker 1: put it is when you know where someone is coming from.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot easier to be able to approach somebody
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  Speaker 1: in a manner it's like, you know, now I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: going to listen to you, because yeah, it's like you said,
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  Speaker 1: we're all adults. We're big boys and MiG girls, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: to have somebody tell you what you're going to do,
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  Speaker 1: versus helping guide you and saying like, hey, I think
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  Speaker 1: this is you're going to find this is what you
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  Speaker 1: want to do. That's what really helps people. And so
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  Speaker 1: you're here. You know, part of what you do and
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of nonprofits is holding events that help
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, support some of these these services
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  Speaker 1: and other things. And so you guys got one coming
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  Speaker 1: up really cool, loving your hat them, loving everybody who
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  Speaker 1: get to see for that. You're doing a Ride for
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  Speaker 1: Recovery event.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's our third annual Ride for Recovery and this year,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we always try to take as much work
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  Speaker 2: off of us and me as we can. So we
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  Speaker 2: have an mc a motorcycle club called Broken Spokes out
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  Speaker 2: of Davenport, Iowa that is putting on the ride for
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  Speaker 2: us this year. We are just handling the behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 2: the speakers, the raffle, the silent auction, things like that,
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  Speaker 2: and it's really nice because they're bringing all the clubs
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  Speaker 2: in the quad cities and surrounding together like Moline has
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  Speaker 2: the MOS matter of seconds, so many of them are coming. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a big event. And you know what's sad
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  Speaker 2: about that, Brandon and I don't know how much you
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  Speaker 2: want me to go into detail, but three years ago
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  Speaker 2: when we decided to do this, it's one of the
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  Speaker 2: things I enjoy. I have a motorcycle, I ride, and
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  Speaker 2: I go to a lot of different events, first responders, veterans,
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  Speaker 2: things like that, even suicide of runs. But we planned
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  Speaker 2: this and two weeks later, a young man nineteen years
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  Speaker 2: old that was in the treatment center went to lunch
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  Speaker 2: with his mom and he came back with a disposable vape,
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  Speaker 2: not any TC, just a regular vape, and they kicked
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  Speaker 2: him out and two hours later he died of a
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  Speaker 2: Fednohl overdose at nineteen years old. And so what we
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  Speaker 2: decided is we talked to mom and said, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we want to do this in memory of him, but
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  Speaker 2: in memory for all right, suicide overdose, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: what the situation was. A human life is gone and
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  Speaker 2: we missed the chance to be able to support that person.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know often that's a lot of times.
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  Speaker 1: That's what these things come down to. Is I get
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  Speaker 1: that there's you know, programs, and there's you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: rules and there's things. I absolutely get that. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to close a door on somebody, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to have another door open waiting for them, or I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what do you expect that someone's going to do. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're going to hope for the best, but
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  Speaker 1: the worst could absolutely happen there. And when you're dealing
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  Speaker 1: with individuals that are dealing with things like that, you
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  Speaker 1: really do need If you have to close the door
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  Speaker 1: on one thing, please try to have something to support
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  Speaker 1: someone waiting. And then if they refuse that support, you
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  Speaker 1: can't help that. But to say I'm just not going
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  Speaker 1: to anymore that that's I mean, it's an imperfect world
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  Speaker 1: right where we try to do the best we can.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if everything worked out, we'd never have any
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  Speaker 1: any issues. So thankfully we got stuff like this. So
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  Speaker 1: when when is the event? Where's it going to happen?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's May thirtieth, and the start is at
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  Speaker 2: Nubbs Microwave Bar in Davenport on West Third. I believe
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  Speaker 2: it is. People can actually go to our website and
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  Speaker 2: get the info. They can buy their shirt, they can
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  Speaker 2: register for the ride, they can buy a hat, they
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  Speaker 2: can buy a band or a women's headband, and the
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  Speaker 2: first two hundred and fifty people that register in person
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  Speaker 2: or online is going to get one of these coins.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a challenge coin we do want every year.
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  Speaker 2: This year we did one with Keiden Dolsen's face on
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  Speaker 2: it with our name and on the back it's got
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  Speaker 2: Ride for Recovery twenty twenty six in memory of Keiden Nelsen,
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  Speaker 2: so you'll get that. It starts at Nubbs. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: registration is May thirtieth, nine am to eleven eleven. We
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  Speaker 2: take off. We have four stops. We go to Princeton, Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go to mccauslin, Iowa, de Witt, Iowa, and then
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  Speaker 2: we end at the Copper Mill in Clinton, Iowa. And
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  Speaker 2: that's where you don't want to make sure you come
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  Speaker 2: to is because we've got Saint Louis Cardinal tickets, we've
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  Speaker 2: got a Green Bay Autograph packers football, we've got Knights
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  Speaker 2: at a casino. We've got all kinds of raffle and
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  Speaker 2: silent auction. And the nice thing is too we have
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  Speaker 2: a few speakers.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome, sounds like an amazing event. I know, anybody
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  Speaker 1: with the bike doesn't really need much of an excuse
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  Speaker 1: to ride, So now when you've got one and it's
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  Speaker 1: helping people out, that's a win win. You can't argue
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  Speaker 1: and say it you're not going to get to ride
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  Speaker 1: that day.
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  Speaker 2: And as far as what the flyer says, jeep, we
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  Speaker 2: have people with jeeps that we're They started coming because
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to include everybody, right, so motorcycles, jeeps, cars,
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  Speaker 2: The flyer even says, covered wagons. I'd love to see one.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to see that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it, folks, Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, get out there. Support this, you know, very important cause. Again,
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  Speaker 1: or Todd, I'm just glad that people like you are
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  Speaker 1: in this space trying to do something because again, there
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  Speaker 1: would nary be a lifeline without these kind of organizations.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else you want to share with this or about
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  Speaker 1: Life Connections.
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  Speaker 2: Just I encourage people to look at our website. We
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  Speaker 2: won't refuse anybody. It's Life Connections recovery dot org. Reach out.
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  Speaker 2: We're there. We don't care what time it is. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: four to seven. You could reach us at our respite
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  Speaker 2: House office, the Recovery Center. Please reach out. You're not alone.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I've got one of the flyers for that. Come
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  Speaker 1: that'll be at the station. You can come see that.
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  Speaker 1: So Todd, thank you again for coming on the show,
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  Speaker 1: sharing in this information. More importantly, again for all the
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  Speaker 1: work that you're doing. I do appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Brandon,