This is the two seventeen Recovery Podcast with Corey Winfield. Corey Winfield, Corey
Winfield, Corey, you have a rich person's name, like you should be
a billionaire with the name Winfield. Anyway, call me back, bro.
It is the twenty fourth of October twenty twenty three. My name is Cory
Winfield and from the North Studio. This is the two seventeen Recovery podcast.
Joining me in in our studio a couple different people I have mentioned here,
Adamson here and Justin. You're on the mike. How are you today?
Fabulous? Fabulous? How's your week going so far? Fabulous? Nice?
How's your paycheck looking poor? I think I think you meant fabulous. There
you go, Justin and it does look fabulous. So we have an event
coming up this week. Are you excited about that? Yes? Now,
has Adam or Mitch told you the surprise that's going to happen there? No,
you are going to actually have to get up there and tell your recovery
story. Not happening backwards. But you're not on a microphone, Mitch.
It doesn't work that way. Chime, and there is a microphone right by
him. All I had to turn it on and he has to grab it.
But that's too much because they're actually handling the mics for this. It's
behind Adam, so he's reaching behind Adam. Let's do play by play.
Oh, he hits the mirror that's not in the window. Window. I'm
tired of to our sleep. So you were saying, am I mudded,
Yeah, but you don't have headphones, no, saying. We weren't supposed
to tell him about the week, so it was fresh and news. So
you just get up there and you know it was going to be raw because
you know how we like it. Yeah, but raw that happened, not
happening. Nah, that's not happening. But Adam is going to be up
there with me, and it's gonna be Lenny kicking things off, and then
Kendra and then Adam, then myself, and then we're gonna have Mary Ego
and she is head of the Woman's Treatment Center here in Traverse City, and
then David is going to go and he's the head of the Dream Center for
Men here in Traverse City. So it'll be a pretty good, pretty good
deal. It's Recovery Stories, Message of Hope, Part one, and it's
this Thursday at the Grand Traverse Event Center. Doors open at five, starts
slinging sketty like five point thirty, and then we start the we start the
stories at six, and then we go into the messages of hope and stuff.
So fabulous, it'll be a good time. You're looking forward to it?
Yeah? Are you looking forward to your brethren Adam telling his recovery story
because you didn't get to go with us. You were supposed to go,
but then we had to fire somebody and then we just I had Yeah,
then you had rides to do, but if you went with us, you
would have been up there. Probably Does that make you like glad that you
had rides? God has his own plan for me, So I'm kind of
glad I had rides. You're touched by Jesus just says you're touched? You
much show me on this doll. We'll not We'll get at that in different
episode. Because there's some questions being thrown around in the studio last week,
and we were like, but anyway, I figured I would let you guys
interview me and Mitch. I know you're starting a podcast with you and Adam
redacted, and it's getting some legs to it. It takes a minute to
get things going, but once you get a dial Dan, you'll be run
in with it. But I figured I would let you. I will give
you the pleasure and give you the opportunity to interview me about this event that
we're having, and I could be like your first ever podcast interview, kind
of big deal, very prepared. Yeah I wasn't. This is the stick
The whole time was to get me on the mic because he didn't want to
do it. How do you think it would have went if justin all right,
justin interview me. It's I mean we can we can just give it
a shot and then it'll teach me I think needs a chance, and then
we can have people vote on it. Yeah, all right, like that
interview me today? Hell sir, what's your names? My name is Cory.
But that's not that we're on the podcast dude, Like, come on,
man, I don't know how to know. I don't want to buy
a shirt. Wow that was your next one? All right, let's do
this. So what made you think of doing an event like this? Actually,
my wife, it was like we got to do events and actually with
the grant we had, we had to do events. And this one was
the first time we're going to do event that we're not actually using grant money,
So we were kind of thinking what could we put on on our own
and what could we do that's fun because if you use grant money sometimes there
as stipulations like you can't use it to buy food, can't use this to
buy this, can't do use this to buy that. I can't do this,
can't do that. And we wanted to do our own thing kind of
and kind of reach out and get in touch with the recovery community. But
Marnie really wanted to put it on as like a fundraiser to see what we
could do on our own as another means to raise money. I guess if
somebody did want to donate, how do they go about doing that? There's
different ways, Like at the event, you can just come up to me
and slash some cash in my pocket. You know what I'm saying, No,
but you can't. You can write a check, do envelope stuff like
that. You can also go to our website to seventeen recovery dot com slash
support. It's either slash support or slash donate. It's one of those two.
Is this something that you just came up with you and Marnie or is
it something that you've been kind of caminating over the years and something we just
kind of came up with, like when do we want to do an event?
Well, let's do one in October. I thought that was a cool
month, and we had just wrapped up Recovery Month, so we didn't really
want to do it then in September, so we figured October be a good
month. And then the name of it it just I don't know. I
was talking with David g actually, who's going to be one of the speakers
there, and he was asking about, Okay, well, what do you
want me to do? What do you want me to talk about? You
know, and it's like, just you know, your story, but we
don't want to you know, the whole details of the bad parts. You
know. He's like, oh, so just that that hope part. You
just want that hope part. And I was like yeah, and so that's
how a kind of message of hope. But then it's like, well,
Recovery stories because Adam and I and Kendrack and Lenny went to the Recovery Story's
training and they told us how to like tell a story, but not our
whole story, but just like take a little piece of our story and put
that into like three to five minutes and tell that. So it's like recovery
stories, message of hope. Yeah, I know how to do that because
it didn't get to go to that train. But anyway, so I think
you were going to I was, and then things happened and so we got
fired and yeah, so I don't know if he got fired, he just
didn't. We don't want to be here anymore. But that's yeah, it's
yeah, whatever. Back to the interview. So when you started all of
this was like four and a half five is years ago. Yeah. I
got out of treatment in twenty nineteen, of March, March of twenty nineteen,
and then April, I think we dine our first podcast, and by
May I already had our business going through the Michigan State website, a nonprofit,
and we had it incorporated incorporated, and then there's different stuffs you have
to do. For sure, I go down to the city Hall and say
I'm starting a business. Here's what your ten dollars, and then you got
to pay the state like twenty five and then there's just things you have to
do on the way to the nonprofit. It took me, I think,
like nine months to actually get the nonprofit paperwork done. It's a lot of
paperwork and to send it off to the irs, and it was like six
hundred bucks and I didn't have six hundred bucks. I needed to wait for
my college money to come in. Back when you were doing all of that
and you were starting this, if you're making a business and you had dreams
of what you wanted it to be, did you ever first see doing something
like this? Was this on the hopes and dreams? Or what would your
four and a half year old, four and a half year old ago self
think of yourself today. So back when I was like forty one, I
mean, p's man, I don't know. I was just trying to get
the podcast off the ground, and I was trying to get the five to
one C three thing done. I was trying to learn how to live sober,
you know, and sober living home. So I knew I want to
do something with it. And one thing it gave me was motivation. I
didn't know what the hell I was doing, and to learn new things and
to figure those things out is what really kind of gave me drive and kept
me going to stay sober. And then, you know, once we started
transporting people to them from treatment, that was just like a whole nother thing.
And then opening a recovery community center. You know, it's awesome.
We get to see new people all the time. We get to help them
start meetings. We see them, you know, come in when they're struggling,
we see them come in when they're having a great time. You know.
So it's it's a great thing. And what's next movies? I don't
know, part two, part two, yeah, probably part two of you
first, but that's another thing. Though. I want to I want to
film this and I'm gonna ask your guys' help doing this too, you know,
because I have three four cameras maybe allegedly, and we're gonna film it
and piece it together and see how it looks, and then maybe we can
charge hey for a two dollars donation or you know, for a million dollar
donation. We'll give you a T shirt and you can keep this movie.
It's a good value. Yeah, we should shoot like behind the scenes stuff,
the director's cut, with the the editorial whatever. Yeah, you can
do that silent phone bro. Yeah, So that's that was my That's all
I got for Okay, that was much better than justin what's your name?
I don't know how to do an interview. I'm sorry. That's all right.
Your blogs are getting better though. Hospital Adam's going to the hospital.
Got to dodge cameras and everything. Now, sorry Adam. This and this
is why people are like, you don't do video when you do a podcast
painting in the butt. Yeah, imagine if we had two more cameras on
one on you and one on Mitch. Yeah, it'd be all over the
place. And I know they make them where I could put it in the
corner and record all of us, but that's not what people want to see.
And I don't want to put a table in a room and it looks
like we're having dinner. I could do that, but i'd rather or not.
I'm there to just do the podcast and dinner podcast. There are people
that do them and then they do them well on video, but I'm a
radio guy, so it's like, eh, But for this, we're doing
a little video promo for promoting the event on Thursday, So I think that's
why we're doing it. I know that's why we're doing it so early too.
It's been interesting starting my own or our own podcast all the different ways
people do it, because there isn't one way. There is like the other
sides of the table. There's the the what I call the morning show approach,
where there's a couple of chairs and you know, you kind of angled
sit next to across from each other, you know, and then talk to
each other towards more like one camera or one and then there's one over here
when over there, you know, like that for the the video podcasts.
One that interested me was almost like I call it the news anchor. You
do a podcast where you sit at like a desk, right and if you're
here with your mic and the other person is sitting right next to you and
you're both pointing in the same direction, but you're having a conversation like you
would be right across from each other, and that one's interesting. I don't
know how easy. That'd be kind of difficult, I think. I think
if you're playing different clips and videos, it would be okay, but it
would it would be awkward just to like if I was talking with Justin or
if I was talking with you and I wasn't looking at you and I was
just looking over here. Yeah, Mitch, that's great. You know that
would be awkward. Yeah, that's kind of how we started our podcast because
of the space that we had to do it in and and stuff, and
it did get a little weird, and then people would be like, well,
why can't we hear you anymore? Mitchell, It's because I'm trying to
look over this direction, you know, And it was just it was kind
of difficult. But with help from a very good mentor from the podcast world,
we've made leaps and bounds in that direction. Yeah. So I was
checking up you guys more. But it'll come together. Man, if you
go back and listen to my early ones, they're bad. You know.
We had one microphone we're passing around between three people. Man. Yeah,
and you know when it has an echo on it, you know. I
was like telling you about that. And the reason I knew about that because
it happened to me many times, you know, and even when I thought
I had it dialed in, and that was that was a pain too,
because we'd do it and we we we'd check it and it wouldn't be there,
and then we'd take it like and just and we'd run a podcast and
dirtis what. It's very frustrating, the little monster hiding behind the the monitor
of the computer and it just jumps out and goes, ah, I got
you. But now I even had these little bitty mics, man, and
we use these, like Marty and I will use them, and of course
we don't do it while we're driving, but sometimes when we're driving we'll put
these on and you clip them on and they think there's like twenty bucks.
Actually these are free because I reviewed them and some company from China was like,
leave us a review and I was like okay, and then I was
like, yeah, those aren't as good as the other ones. And then
the other company who I said wasn't as good was like, hey, we
got some new ones. Here some and here's the one for camera. And
I was like, okay. We used a couple of those mics now during
that one production that we put together earlier in the year, our first professional
production that we all did together. I thought we had the other blue one,
the clip on one. Maybe I thought these were clip on ones.
Well, these are are like a little since those are new since then these
yeah, no, no, I've had these for a while. You're holding
out on us. Well, no, because the other ones were better,
but the other one I was gonna use for this, but I left them
at the crib, so I left them on the desk at home. But
yeah, so, I mean there's different things that you can do. But
even these though, as you're like driving down the road or something, or
not driving down the road, but you can use those and they're great.
They're just like little lapel mics. And there's one that actually comes with the
core that does Android iPhone and camera, so I would just buy that one.
Wow, it's not too bad. You know, it's not quality of
a sure mic or a electro voice already twenty or anything, but yeah,
it'll do the trick. But you know, I spent one hundred dollars on
microphones sent backcaus it sucked, and I bought those fine mics for thirty bucks
and they they sounded just fine. So they're gonna be equipped with up on
that on the twenty six while they're doing their recovery stories or some some little
pell mics, or they're gonna have the gold fashioned Yeah, well I do
have. That's what I should do. I should have tyrone hold that I
have one of those like you see in movies where they're like, who have
boom arm and stuff? And I have a mic for it. It's in
the drawer. Dance with it when the song and it sounds pretty good,
souse. I had Adam sitting here one day and I was like, Adam
talked to me and he did and it sounded great. Poor Tyrone, and
he's gonna be like man holding that that you said. We had chicken here,
watermelon dance, spaghetti. Am I gonna have to pick up a bucket
on the way over. Tyrone gets his own chicken. If Demer likes chicken,
though he makes some damn killer wings does Yeah, we should just have
him make wings for like us. That'd be so rude for a donation that
we want to make you some wings too. It's kidding, but it'll be
a good time though this Thursday, and if you want to come out,
feel free. Anybody's welcome. It's the free event. Doors open at five,
start serving dinner at five thirty. If you don't eat, that's cool.
To six o'clock is when we're gonna kick off the thing. And in
the last hour and a half or so, here's a good one. What
I mean, you mentioned a couple of them, But what made you choose
the recovery stories people other than they went through the training on how to do
it? Like was there like a backstory or like you knew them? You?
I mean, I know you trust them, but what what's what made
you choose the people that you did. Well. It's funny because Adam,
Lenny, and Kendra and myself were all on treatment together. The very last
time I went to treatment, all those people were in there, and so
Kendra and Lenny they work at a treatment center. Adam obviously works for two
to seventeen recovery. But it's just one of those things where it's like,
man, like, we were in treatment together and we were all in the
group when one of the one of the guys I believe it was Steven,
who was leading the group, was like, hey, you know, like
two of you out of this whole twenty five are going to make it?
Yeah you know, and eight of you are going to die, and they
like do those things yeah, And I don't know. I was just like
wow, and I was was like, Oh, not gonna happen to me
and everything, Oh two of you gonna make it? Oh, not gonna
happen to me, you know, aight, are you gonna die? Oh
well, not gonna happen to me. Yeah, And I was like,
yeah, that's what everybody says, and it still happens. Yeah, And
there have been quite a few people who have died that we were in treatment
with. But you know, we just got to keep moving forward with our
lives and what we're doing, and that those are the choices, man,
like jail's institutions or death. That's it, and you've got to figure it
out, you know, to avoid those things. But we have and it's
kind of like a like a homecoming of sorts, you know, like I
love Kenny and Lindra, Kenny and Lindra, I love I love Kenny and
Lindra. I love Lenny and Kendra. And I think that it'll be a
fun time. You know. It's names have been changed for protection. Yeah,
I started putting too many clues in there. People can figure out who
they are. No, it's cool. I like it. I like the
whole the whole thing, you know, behind it. And I'm really looking
forward to making the spaghetti. It's gonna be my favorite part. It might
be better than what you think. And Marnie's real stressed out over it,
and I just told her, like, if it's sex with order pizza,
I got little scissors on on speed down man, and we should reach out
to them anyway, by hey, throw some pizzas. That's on the recipe,
actually the case for the spaghetti recipe. It's one of the last steps
and call little caesars. I thought Kim was making her spaghetti, so well,
things just things change. Do the sauce, like they're just gonna they're
gonna open sauce, put it in the thing, and then they want someone
to stir some stuff into it, like we're not crushing up tomatoes doing home
style stuff. She'd like carrots in no way. It was good stuff,
but you know carrots, the carrots in the vegan one. So yeah,
I didn't it would have been good. But about Kim because she doesn't listening
to this podcast. Oh well, I mean so she did make it,
did try it it. It was really good, but it was it was
it was almost bigger than what we're doing. Yeah, we we're bigger than
It's kind of hard to explain, like we had to do something that was
more mass producible. Sours was great. But we just didn't have the time
to go and get all the ingredients and break it down and everything. Because
she made her from scratch. It was delicious, it was amazing. She's
a really good cook. And I'm not just saying that to like, you
know, fluff her up because she has made stuff. I'm like, Kim,
this is gross. She appreciates, she told me she appreciates the feedback,
but I also see the look in her eye and wants to hurt me
sometimes. But still, so that's you know, that's what that's the story
behind the sauce. Well, thanks for that. And I got your ass
two times. Because you can't drive, I can drive. No, we
can't ask them how to drive six speed. Okay, Okay, let's go
there. That's their podcast. You gotta go on their podcast. Maybe you
can interview them on their podcast. Somebody didn't tell me that the reverse was
in the wrong direction. All right, it was dark this morning, Oh
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