This it's the two seventeen Recovery podcast with Corey Winfield and it's better half.
Marnie Winfield. Check check chick chick. Check check check check check on my
phone, check on my phone, check in microphone, microphone, microphone.
It is the third of August twenty twenty three. My names Cory Winfield,
and this is the two seventeen Recovery Podcasts. We have a very special guest
from a very special location, and we'll have him on here in just a
second. But Marnie, I wanted to ask you because you haven't been on
why people can probably guess we're right now, but yeah, a little bit
obvious, but I haven't had you on, or you haven't been on since
you have been done with the old College. I know, I'm completely done.
It's amazing like that, it's amazing. What are you gonna do now
to ruin my life? No? No, I mean I don't know.
You're gonna have so much well not so much time, but because you're very,
very busy, but like, it's got to feel relief. It's got
to feel good you've accomplished a goal. It's you know what, It doesn't
really feel real yet. I was with all my peers doing our last kind
of Arrah project presentation, and we both were all talking amongst ourselves and we're
like, so, now what, Like there's this kind of element of like,
I don't know, not emptiness, but like you know, like figuring
out what's next. Yeah, And I'm just so proud of you, And
it's just to show you that, yeah, you can fall off a little
bit. I mean, obviously you've been going to school for quite some time,
but you know, to be twenty seven and finish it, you know,
I mean, it's great. Yeah, yeah, sure. No.
The I want to say, because why it's so significant is because I did
start graduate school when I was so when I had one of my attempts at
getting sober back in two thousand and seven, and I should this on the
podcast before. As you know, I had a relapse and I drove.
I would just Withdrew because I was like, I'm not gonna fail school.
Um, as much as alcohol gotten in the way of my studies, I
never had failed classes because of it. I squeaked by a couple of times.
I mean I definitely agreed to her some because of it, but um,
yeah, I wasn't gonna I wasn't gonna fail any classes, so I
withdrew and then it took up until you know what two years ago that I've
that I reapplied to go back and I had to do all the work to
get my credits transferred, and luckily, you know, that worked out.
So here I am with a with a LMSW degree. I know, yep.
And there's a lot of people out there that think that they can't get
back on our feet and they're too old, or they're too this too,
that, too busy. And your proof that now you're not too old and
you're not too busy. I mean, you prove that. Yeah, but
it was you know what I mean. I don't know if I would get
done it differently in terms of going full time or part time, but I
pushed through it, and you know, I kept my get my chin up,
and you know, it worked out good. It's good. You're an
inspiration to so many. Thank you. Well, I have a special guest
here and so I hate to take her. What's a bee coming at me?
Shoe? What do you tell them? Get out of here? So
yeah, let's go to the special guest and joining me into my left a
man by the name of Scott Schulton and Scott, this is your second time
on the two seventeen Recovery Podcast. How does that make you feel like it's
your sacond time on? Oh, it's great to be back. I actually
there's shirts my second time, it's your third. Well, it doesn't matter
third ninth. Well we were kind of I was using your equipment. Oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was kind of a
trial on. That was good, that was fun, and you had nice,
nice microphones and now you're using my equipment. Uh, what are you
holding out to in your hand there, Scott, I've got a pretty firm
grip here on Corey's microphone. It's a double fister. It's just quite small,
nice soft tip though. It's a nice microphone. Yeah it's Alexa.
How are you doing today? Everything good? I'm pretty stressed, but I'm
pretty thank you. Well, if you need help, you can doct us.
We got therapists over here. We've got drug counselor or drug people.
We got your covered. Alexa got a podcast guy, so that's the manager
up on the sweets floor. Alexa. Here at the here at the ballpark,
just a bit outside. Yeah, we are at the ballpark. Were
the pit Spitters in Traverse City and man, I love clapping like that.
Yeah, that's new. I haven't heard that one yet. Now we're just
here. You had us is your guests on the other day on Sunday,
and it's a nice night out today. We had like a little tornado scare
before or something. But yeah, the weather was intense for about twenty minutes.
It was pretty in the nuts. Well, hey, speaking of nuts,
I wanna talk to you about something you have going on, and Justin
just talked about it either day in our last podcast. He was saying that
he listened to your podcast all right, which is the Reservation Conversation, and
he was like it was really good. Like he was like surprised. I'm
like, well, of course it's good Scott. Scott can talk. Scott
knows what he's doing. Are you getting a lot of a lot of feedback?
Yeah, actually, um, I appreciate that very much. And Justin's
a good dude, you know, I appreciate his feedback. Um, he's
probably got more experience with this than I do. But yeah, I've had
some really good, really good feedback, really good comments. I had my
sister and their family out in California, southern California in and listen. My
brother who's who lives over in Turkey, southern Turkey, uh, right on
the Mediterranean. He listened and he's proud and said it was it was pretty
good. It's it's you know, for them, for my family, because
they've heard my my journey here in the last fourteen years or so, so
they've heard some of this, but they haven't heard it um formatted, you
know, kind of formal, yeah, you know what I mean, with
a little structure to it. So they liked hearing it in that you know,
presentation that way. So that was fun. That was good. I'm
glad I got to hear that. And then some community members. Of course,
the community that that we serve with Reservation Conversation is um really a small
small community of Natives and Indians, and so it's it's good. It's it's
you know, good feedback. There, beautiful studio and we're working on it.
It's gonna get better. Right now, it's kind of messy, but
um yeah, we're really fortunate and um it it speaks to my journey so
far. I heard Marnie talking a little bit ago, and you know,
I heard a lot of you know, gratitude and what she was saying,
So for me, that's the gratitude is that's what I call my house where
I live, it's just called the gratitude. And it's been key a lot
of people. You know, I always have an attachment or a hook or
whatever, and mine has been. If if I haven't had gratitude during my
early recovery, I probably wouldn't appreciate everything I have today, and which isn't
much, but you know, you don't need much really, it's so many
of the simple things in life that that going like this, you know,
to a ball game with friends, co workers. It's those are just like
so important things because you know, we're doing this and we can do this
without the threat of you know, the drink or the drug and have a
lot of fun. And in fact, even though we see people with a
drink in her hand, I feel further away from all of it, you
know, just being here with other people, because the vibe at a ball
game of is always really really good, you know. So yeah, gratitude
for me is what it's all about. And we're trying to remain humble.
That's not always easy for me, but you know, I get bougie,
you do, and I've seen your studio and yeah it might be messy,
but it's messy with nice things, right. You know. It's like you
don't just have well you do have the copy machines. I would say,
you don't have papers just everywhere, but a copy machine just happens to be
in there, you know, stuff like that. But no, and when
you get it all dialed in and put together, and once you have time,
man like you work for the GTB tribe and you're at the behavioral health
yeah unit uh not unit um words, they're hard. Yeah, the entity
that is behavioral health with the tribe it so yeah, that's that's what it's
a it's a pretty pretty fantastic you know machine that we've got there brays understaffed
at the moment. Yeah, that's why I was going forward and want to
say, because it be rude, that's fun and I think and and that's
that's good because that's the opportunity for other people in the future, in the
near future maybe, so that that's good. But once that kind of settles
down and you're not so Russian busy that I think, then you'll have time
to sit down, put things together. Absolutely. Yeah, I'm looking forward
to seeing how that's gonna gonna play out. And you know, right now,
if you want to listen, you can go to the Reservation Conversation dot
com or you can go get the app, which is in the Apple play
Store and the Google play Store. It's called rez podcast, but if you
search for Reservation Conversation that'll pull it up. It's kind of a long one
reservation conversation to put on a little button on an app. So res pond
Res podcast does work. And yeah, Corey has been really critical and spiritading
that that whole design and everything, and it's because of his experience and his
trust. We trust him, and you know, he's artistic that way too,
and he's had a lot of experience with broadcasts podcasting. So we trust
Corey and that's why he's doing what he's doing helping GGB. And I felt
really strongly having Corey a part of it just for that reason, because I
still going back to being humble. I still it's important to me have mentors,
you know, and having people that I recognize that have put in a
lot of work. I'm willing to put into work too, but someone that
can help me and help our team get through the process without making terribly large
amount of mistakes. You know, we still have to make mistakes to grow.
That's how you learn. But it's been really helpful having having two seventeen
and Corey and the team being a part of what we're doing. Yet.
Well, thanks Scott. That's very nice of you to say we're gonna test
these microphones out to see how good they really are. And I'm hoping you
say all that all over again because I like hearing you say those nice things
about me. But yeah, it's a what inning is this in like the
middle of the second and apparently it's a dance dance party in the middle of
the second and there's a fire over there, big fire and that's coming by,
like, h not my house, thinking this that would be kind of
demolish looking like it. Yeah, let by Applebee's. Applebee's. You can
go to the neighborhood. Maybe they're grilling out. Yeah yeah, but no
that that's God. That means a lot that you said all those nice things.
But I don't know if people hurt them, but that you put them
in a letter for me, you know, put that as a testimony on
our website. But no, it's it's been a pleasure. Man Um,
it's been really fun to kind of watch a girl and it's been m interesting,
sometimes frustrating, you know, just for the fact that how like,
when I do this podcast, I'm the CEO. You know, if I
say yep, let's do it, I can do that, you know.
And when it's a somebody else who works for a different company, a different
organization, you know, you're you're not the the head signer guy, you
know, And and there's protocols, there's people that have to go through it,
and then there's a reason for that, you know. I mean,
if I had if your company had forty years and means, we'd have we'd
have helicopters, we'd have I mean, especially even tolds we couldn't have it.
We'd be like, well we need three of them. Then we'd be
at our ball field right now. Yeah we would, But that's not but
yeah, that's the checks and the balances, you know. And of course
we have a board too that kind of keeps me in check most of the
time too. But a lot of times I'll just pay for it with my
own money because then I don't have to get approval. So I like it.
I just like it. And then you know, um, not that
the company is gonna go away anytime soon, but whatever it is. I'm
like, well, give a mom microphones, here's your car keys. Yeah
I don't. I don't get do that where I am a strong accountability matter
there. But at the same time, it just it just takes more time.
I guess that's what I was saying. Yeah, but it's it's like
I said, it's a good thing, and like I said, it's been
fun. And you know, the fact that you invited us out here.
We're sitting in the box. I should have described that earlier too. We're
sitting in the GTB suite and we are pretty much right behind home plate,
a little off to third base side, but this is probably one of the
best suites here. See the total the whole field and the pit spitters,
which you found out on Sunday. Like the baseball team, they're not all
from Traverse City, so like that, they're kids that are in college,
early early college or maybe about to go to college this year, and they're
kind of playing for for some money for some tuition fees, I guess.
And so these kids are from all over the country. You know, and
then they spend the summer here and I think Kathy was saying, or maybe
as you Scott, then they find like I don't want to call them like
foster homes, but like, yeah, their host host homes and they just
kind of hang out in the summer, and then they pregnate all the women
in Traverse City and then they leave. Yeah, drink all the beer.
Just kidding. Maybe, I'm sure that's happened. Soak up all the sun.
How many times do you think that has happened each week? Or no?
Like, I don't know how long the pitt Spitters have been here.
It used to be the beach Bums, so I'm assuming about seven years.
I think I think a little longer than that. Fifteen Okay, so not
twenty seven. So I would say I'd say five, five pitt Spitter babies
or beach bumb babies. Twenty years. I'm still saying five. I don't
think it happens all the time. These are young kids, and you know,
back twenty years ago, they were more cautious. I think, yeah
about oh, because because we had rappers like Domino you remember him, oh
man um the digital underground. I mean for trying out loud there. Their
album was called the Sex Packets, which was another word for condom. We
got kids up here the old Skinny pg. Thirteen. Yeah, well it
was a smack the oh he drove them all the way back to the wall
out and it went over the wall round ule double man. That right fielder
was on his horse. I don't think he had much spot, but he
did so. Yeah, the pit Spitterers became the pitch Spitterers in two thousand
and nineteen. Prior to that, it Wash beach Bumps and um the beach
Bumps and this, uh, this organization of field was founded in two thousand
and six. Okay, just say who owns them? The owner? Who's
the owner? We're checking with our team right now. Where producers going on?
And what are you doing? Mornee? Oh, she's watching birds on
her phone. So as we look to find out who the owner is,
because I'm gonna make sure he doesn't hear this podcast, because they're like,
I don't appreciate your coming out there talking about my baseball team been pregnating people.
We'll prove they didn't. Well, I'm sure he's he's no stranger.
True controversy and having to shake, shake hands or kiss babies. What if
he's like Traverse Cities Jerry Jones, he's got babies popping up all over her,
like, oh, I just get the phone and get pointed to sever
city. The mayors of the North Was League uppisters share managing partners in the
principal ownership with the West Michigan white Caps, a affiliated the Detroit Tiger.
Yeah. Oh no, they share managing partners in principal ownership with the white
Caps. Okay, okay, I don't know those people, but they're down
a ground rapids so or comstock or whatever they say they are. But I
think it was was that another double off the wall? Wow? Man,
that smoke is just look at go oh my gosh, what does that mean
when it's black smoke like that? You don't know either, I don't know.
I guess irresponsible broadcasting. Yeah, that's not good when that's that color.
You know that I'm the only one who's doing irresponsible broadcasting here. But
yeah, like over to the yonder there is some smoke. So, but
but look it goes all over from then that has this big old cloud over
here. It created all that. Scott stop it. But I was just
showing them that the smoke went up to these clouds, which go for hundreds
of miles. But Scott, I'm just gonna wrap it up though, Yeah,
man, kind of like we did in the early two thousands, wrapping
it up. I appreciate you coming on, and maybe we'll do a podcast
of yours and just a minute and then nobody will nobody will know any different,
that's right. Yeah, because we brought our mobile studio with us too.
Well. But you might want to use my little microphones. They're so
convenient. I bet people that looking up here are like, wow, those
are some really cool broadcasters. They're holding them with their little It's like we're
drinking tea and good looking. Hold your pinky up, Hold your pinky up.
They're thinking, those guys must be somebody. They must be as somebody.
Yeah, broadcasting live with the little microphones. That's okay. I didn't
want to go through customs again, you know, right, but these babies
around my pocket. But yeah, so Scott thinks again man, And if
you want to shock out this podcast, I recommend you do Reservation Conversation.
My mom listened to it. She liked it. Chick actually thanked me for
sharing the episode a few weeks ago. Oh, I appreciate that it's like
that, so it's really really good. Thanks for sharing. It's a nice,
nice honor. Yeah, but until next time, Marty wants to SA
goodbye night everybody,