Speaker 1: Welcome to the two seventeen Recovery Podcast.
Speaker 2: If you don't make mistakes, you won't learn.
Speaker 1: With your host Corey Winfield, you know, there was a
Speaker 1: reason why that didn't work out, and you can look
Speaker 1: back at it and go, yep, I'm glad that didn't
Speaker 1: work out how I wanted it, because I would have
Speaker 1: been horrible and co host Martine.
Speaker 3: Winningfield fairly expensive membership to Gold Gym when I was
Speaker 3: in college, but I used that all the time.
Speaker 1: It is the twenty seventh of October twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: My name's Corey Winfield.
Speaker 2: My name's Marty Winfield.
Speaker 1: And this is the two seventeen Recovery podcast with the
Speaker 1: original the og Marty Winfields back as the co host.
Speaker 1: How's that feel?
Speaker 2: I'm familiar.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm like nervous, like I better not mess
Speaker 1: up Marning's on the podcast today.
Speaker 2: It is it's like, I mean, it's like riding a bike.
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, I'm trying to think of what
Speaker 1: can't I say now?
Speaker 2: Oh right, see those are the problems you're having.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the censor's back.
Speaker 3: Mine is like I don't even know what I've shared.
Speaker 3: It's been so long, there's so much stuff.
Speaker 1: It's start at the beginning, at the beginning, like what
Speaker 1: beginning right now, we can talk about recovery stories for
Speaker 1: just a second too, because I felt bad for you
Speaker 1: because you were going last, and for me, that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. Chris Goss was awesome. Everybody was pretty much awesome.
Speaker 1: But it started so late. It was like twenty thirty
Speaker 1: minutes late, and then we took a break that was
Speaker 1: way too long, and then by the time you got
Speaker 1: up there, it was already eight o'clock. Normally we're packed
Speaker 1: up and we're leaving at eight o'clock, we're in the
Speaker 1: parking lot. Yeah, see you guys later. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: this was just horrible because some of the people that
Speaker 1: came had to leave by eight and we knew that,
Speaker 1: and all the stuff that you were going to say
Speaker 1: kind of just got chopped up into hey, hurry up,
Speaker 1: let me get up there. But you knew you had
Speaker 1: to be longer than five minutes. But like, you can't
Speaker 1: really share and I think it really threw you off.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we did.
Speaker 1: We'll go over some of that when we released the videos.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I kind of felt bad for you though,
Speaker 1: because feeling that pressure of like hurry up and get
Speaker 1: up there and get over with it loses the whole
Speaker 1: This is the story I was going to tell, right,
Speaker 1: So kind of felt bad for you, But well the
Speaker 1: same time, you handled it well. Out of anybody there,
Speaker 1: I think you may handled it the best of anybody
Speaker 1: that could have.
Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, So, you know, you're dealing with this
Speaker 3: anticipation of getting up in front of a group of
Speaker 3: people and the message that you want to share, and
Speaker 3: I really struggle with It's not so much the public
Speaker 3: speaking piece. It's like having an idea of what it
Speaker 3: is that I want to the message I want to
Speaker 3: get across, and then matching having that match my not
Speaker 3: only my time frame, but also have it not be
Speaker 3: too like scripted. You know, I didn't want to because
Speaker 3: I'm big into like when I write papers or you know,
Speaker 3: work on projects, it's like there's a creation period. There's
Speaker 3: a brainstorming, and then there's like your creation, and then
Speaker 3: there's your editing and then it's your final product. Well,
Speaker 3: when you get in front of a group of people,
Speaker 3: unless you're literally reading for off of a piece of paper,
Speaker 3: it's gonna change, it's gonna adjust, and that's fine. And
Speaker 3: that's great. But when I knew, like you said, I'm
Speaker 3: looking at basically the fact that we're already supposed to
Speaker 3: be done, and so there's no way the idea of
Speaker 3: what I did, any any idea that I did have
Speaker 3: in mind of how this was gonna go, It's not
Speaker 3: gonna go that way at all. And that was okay,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it just it made it left me
Speaker 3: a little bit stumped in terms of picking out the
Speaker 3: important pieces and then kind of rewinding and figuring out
Speaker 3: like what what do I leave out and what I
Speaker 3: want to leave these people with when I know also too,
Speaker 3: as they are looking at their watches like we're supposed
Speaker 3: to be out of here, because there was a you know,
Speaker 3: a time constraint that was out of everyone's control because
Speaker 3: of the attendance that was there.
Speaker 2: I mean, they had something they had to be back for.
Speaker 1: And we rented the event center, the Grand Trevers Event Center,
Speaker 1: from five to eight, right like we're supposed to be
Speaker 1: out of there, you know, like that's and so I
Speaker 1: was like, well, yeah, well but yeah, so it was
Speaker 1: It's just a bunch of you know, different miscues. But
Speaker 1: on the good note about it, we recorded with our
Speaker 1: board and the audio sounds fantastic, which is good for videos,
Speaker 1: and we're going to release some a podcasts as well,
Speaker 1: so that's coming soon. But yeah, that's that's the good
Speaker 1: note of it.
Speaker 3: So then you can, in your you know, geniusness, can
Speaker 3: try to pick out the piston pieces that I did
Speaker 3: have and make it sound wonderful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was thinking about that too, because in
Speaker 1: the past I just would release the whole thing boom,
Speaker 1: there you go. And then I started thinking, like do
Speaker 1: people sit there and watch three minute videos or do
Speaker 1: they watch a minute video? A minute video. It's a
Speaker 1: good point, you know, so would it be better just
Speaker 1: to cut up Hey, this is a great part of it, Like,
Speaker 1: let's put that out there. I think I might kind
Speaker 1: of go that route, you know, and you might have
Speaker 1: five different clips but they're only a minute long.
Speaker 3: I think that's a great idea, you know, highlights, pick
Speaker 3: out the key points. That's cliff notes, version recovery stories,
Speaker 3: cliff notes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I could still release the whole thing at
Speaker 1: some point too, but just as far as like you know,
Speaker 1: like just hit home on those those points that really matter.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, and other than that, you have a child,
Speaker 1: now five months old. How's that going?
Speaker 2: Five months? Five days?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he is a handful, but he's amazing and
Speaker 3: I love being a mom. I'm embracing it as like
Speaker 3: holy and completely. And when there are those moments that
Speaker 3: moms and dads know that, there's those moments where you're
Speaker 3: like gonna pull.
Speaker 2: Your hair out.
Speaker 3: And obviously I don't have an answer for you child,
Speaker 3: Like there's I would give you anything and everything in
Speaker 3: my capacity, upside down, sideways, backwards, whatever, but I have
Speaker 3: no idea what it is that you need right now.
Speaker 3: And sometimes that's just babies being babies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like what do you want?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: You can't talk. And we recorded a cute video yesterday
Speaker 1: because he loves the bounce. He's bouncing, loves loves the bounce.
Speaker 1: So we had this like little seat you put him
Speaker 1: in and it's on some springs and he just bounces.
Speaker 1: Well that's a horrible explanation of.
Speaker 2: What it sounds dangerous.
Speaker 1: Actually yeah, it's almost like a walker, but he can't
Speaker 1: walk with it. It just bounces, yeah, and not like a
Speaker 1: walker that old people use, but like a walker like
Speaker 1: you set a baby in, you know when they first
Speaker 1: learn to walk, but it doesn't move. It just bounces
Speaker 1: up and down. And it has like three cables that
Speaker 1: hold to the top of it or something.
Speaker 3: If this helps. It's made by Fresher Price. For those
Speaker 3: of you that are thinking, there's it's some crazy conteraption.
Speaker 1: I just built it yesterday. No, but he was sitting
Speaker 1: and he was bouncing, and you're like, he recorded and
Speaker 1: had your phone, so I recorded it and ten seconds in, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like puke.
Speaker 2: It was kind of adorable.
Speaker 1: It was kind of and they smiled like, yeah, that
Speaker 1: feel better.
Speaker 3: He's like, hey, man, if that's that's the cost, then
Speaker 3: I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it was. It was cute and we're learning
Speaker 1: on the fly. But one thing I'm learning is I think,
Speaker 1: was it last year year before we're like, hey, we're
Speaker 1: coming home for Christmas? This is our time, and oh,
Speaker 1: you're not even gonna be here for this. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna be here for that. Huh, Well, this is where
Speaker 1: we're gonna be there. Oh, but you're gonna miss this now.
Speaker 1: When I sent the message, hey we're gonna be home
Speaker 1: with Christmas and this day to this day, oh awesome, okay,
Speaker 1: and my sister put on her phone, Hey, Corey's coming home,
Speaker 1: but Parker will be in town. Obviously, if you're new
Speaker 1: to the podcast, that's our son Parker, So it changes
Speaker 1: the game. I think my dad was a little disappointed.
Speaker 1: I think maybe that we weren't going to stay with him.
Speaker 1: But look, we have a little child who rules what
Speaker 1: goes on absolutely and it's nothing against their dogs, something
Speaker 1: against other people's animals or anything like that. But it's
Speaker 1: just a lot easier to not introduce him to that
Speaker 1: because he could be dead asleep and the deer goes
Speaker 1: walking through the yard and let's say, their little camera
Speaker 1: goes off of their ring thing d beings and the
Speaker 1: dogs start barking. Guess who's not having a nap. Now
Speaker 1: we know what monster time comes. It's a term here
Speaker 1: around the Winfield house at seven pm.
Speaker 2: Seven pm is monster time.
Speaker 1: Once it clicks on, you're on Monster Watch. It could
Speaker 1: happen right as seven if he's up too early a
Speaker 1: little before. But seven o'clock, man, he's ready for bed,
Speaker 1: especially since it gets dark now earlier. He's like, all right,
Speaker 1: it's dark, we need to be in bed. He kind
Speaker 1: of lets us know, so it's like, okay, get him
Speaker 1: in bed, and then something happens, you know, or something
Speaker 1: animal or I don't know. It's just easier to be
Speaker 1: in a hotel where all right, the guy in the
Speaker 1: next room, sorrybody, it's monster time. Baby's crying. That's what happens.
Speaker 1: I what it feels bad, but you know, and then
Speaker 1: to have your your kid up screaming or who knows,
Speaker 1: you know what's going to happen, and you just want
Speaker 1: to just a place where we have a little bit
Speaker 1: of control over it and not have to worry about, oh, no,
Speaker 1: you're waking up dad, or you're waking up this or
Speaker 1: waking up that, or the dog's waking him up or yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So it's hard enough as it is to find that balance.
Speaker 3: And then when you just don't have to like I
Speaker 3: don't want to say taking into consideration, but you know,
Speaker 3: where you're the things are, you feel comfortable like moving
Speaker 3: around at whatever time that you need to to get
Speaker 3: the things you need, and you know, so we're just
Speaker 3: it's just makes sense, just makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this morning he is right now taking an
Speaker 1: ab I guess this morning. It's noon on Sunday, So
Speaker 1: we have the cats down here fighting because why not,
Speaker 1: and he's upstairs sleeping and we'll be able to hear
Speaker 1: him if he does wake up. But we figured we'd
Speaker 1: jump on and do a quick podcast. But so back
Speaker 1: to you, though, what else has been going on? You're
Speaker 1: doing Recovery Friendly Workforce? I mean, what do you want
Speaker 1: to talk about a workplace?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
Speaker 3: The question, the golden question everyone wants to know is
Speaker 3: when's Marnie returning back to work?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: When are you going back to work? Well, I've been
Speaker 3: working this whole time, you know, I've been working a
Speaker 3: lot on the Recovery Friendly Workplace initiative. And it's spearheaded
Speaker 3: by Michigan Public Health Institute and also md HHS, and
Speaker 3: so what it is is it's basically basically an educational
Speaker 3: piece for businesses, organizations, pretty much any kind of agency
Speaker 3: that is interested in being familiar with substance use disorder
Speaker 3: just in general, like overall, So it's a very substance
Speaker 3: use disorder one on one kind of stuff about like
Speaker 3: what it is, what to look for and the bottom
Speaker 3: line and the most important is how to support employees
Speaker 3: or management that could potentially be either struggling with substance
Speaker 3: use disorder or also being kind of empathetic and helpful
Speaker 3: and supportive of people that are in recovery from substance
Speaker 3: use disorder. So being there and understanding what their needs are, uh,
Speaker 3: and you know there's a different element of potentially like
Speaker 3: how the how their.
Speaker 2: Schedule works, what have you.
Speaker 3: So it's basically a supportive piece that all agencies are
Speaker 3: institutions whatever that was interested in learning, it's a free
Speaker 3: training that we're offering. Nice us being two seventeen Recovery
Speaker 3: being the recovery community organization in this area, that they
Speaker 3: would we would be a resource for them as well.
Speaker 3: So I've been working on that, and I've also been
Speaker 3: working on getting my clinical hours under my belt because
Speaker 3: as August approaches, that marks the two year mark of
Speaker 3: my graduation from my master's with social work. So hopefully
Speaker 3: the bigger long term goal is for me to be
Speaker 3: licensed on my own so we.
Speaker 1: Can hear our child in the background. Yes, yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's all important stuff. And you have to tell the
Speaker 1: state when they ask you to work for them no.
Speaker 1: Because with the Recovery work for work place I was
Speaker 1: called workforce because the whole radio thing, we're always you're
Speaker 1: at workforce station. So anyway with the workplace thing, the
Speaker 1: way it's going. And our buddies up in Potoski, a
Speaker 1: community recovery alliance, Caitlin and them, they have kind of
Speaker 1: the same thing. And between us and them, we're kind
Speaker 1: of killing that, like with what actually when we started
Speaker 1: and how we started doing it. We're doing You're doing great,
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to see that and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to come work for us, and you just say, no, that.
Speaker 2: Don't work for the state of I am no, I
Speaker 2: am not. There is no. I have pretty pretty good idea.
Speaker 3: Of my long term goals and I'm going to just
Speaker 3: keep shooting for that.
Speaker 1: I guess you shouldn't tell them though, you should just okay,
Speaker 1: hold on and it's sent them a number like one
Speaker 1: million dollars. But there you go.
Speaker 2: I'll work for you for that right now.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll find the money. But yeah, so, I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll have to cut this podcast short. Yeah, but hey,
Speaker 1: at least we got one in, right, we did.
Speaker 2: We did, and then.
Speaker 1: We need to be still alive. You're not buried in them.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not very much alive and doing fantastic and I'm
Speaker 3: just I'm extremely grateful for well, I mean we're extremely
Speaker 3: blessed to have this baby in our lives. You know,
Speaker 3: for those of you that aren't familiar, we you know
Speaker 3: obvious Corey and I met later in life, and it's
Speaker 3: been an unknown if that was even going to be
Speaker 3: something that could happen for us. And so here we
Speaker 3: are now with this five month old who's screaming as
Speaker 3: long as out upstairs, which whoever thought that would be
Speaker 3: something like music to your ears?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: No? And then you know, trying to find balance right
Speaker 3: now between you know, being a mom and then you know,
Speaker 3: putting the work piece back into play and having your support,
Speaker 3: which you've been wonderful doing the you know limited stay
Speaker 3: at home dad hours that you've been able to give
Speaker 3: up from you know, your demand. That's that's you know,
Speaker 3: at job at two seventeen and so you know, it's
Speaker 3: just been it's been a lot, but it's been great.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think we have the staff that allows
Speaker 1: me to do that too.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely hard time all the time.
Speaker 3: Obviously you have no idea people, how how hard the
Speaker 3: time you give them.
Speaker 2: I feel for you guys, big time.
Speaker 1: That's pain. It was easier just to look them all, thanks, justin.
Speaker 1: That makes no sense obviously, thanks Mitchell, but yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I give them a hard time, but no, for real,
Speaker 1: if we didn't have the staff that allow me to
Speaker 1: you know, work from home. And I use that term
Speaker 1: very loosely because I'm not like you, I cannot multitask.
Speaker 1: I yeah, I'll just say that done. I don't have
Speaker 1: to give examples. But it's just it's harder for me
Speaker 1: to check my phone or to talk to somebody, or
Speaker 1: to do this or do that, which reminds me have
Speaker 1: to call somebody today. But yeah, it's it's good to
Speaker 1: have you back on and to hear your voice and
Speaker 1: to be a co hosts. And I tell people, you know,
Speaker 1: like the two seventeen Recovery podcast was for me. It's
Speaker 1: something and I started to help me stay sober, and
Speaker 1: then I just started kind of getting people involved and
Speaker 1: with starting getting their recovery home. I had guys that
Speaker 1: were in room two seventeen with me, and then that
Speaker 1: kind of fell through, and then Ryan Beckman came on
Speaker 1: and Chris Goss and then it shifted and I made
Speaker 1: you the co host. Made you do it. It's not
Speaker 1: you were like, hey, I want to be a co host.
Speaker 1: It was something that you did, and I appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and you're the person that it kind of reels me
Speaker 1: in and it makes sense of the podcast. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of important, you know, and that's why I didn't want.
Speaker 1: You know, we still do some from the office studio,
Speaker 1: and it's just not the same. You know, it's me
Speaker 1: and two or three guys or whoever. You know, we're
Speaker 1: just goofing around. We're having fun, but we're not getting
Speaker 1: into those conversations that you and I would have. Sure,
Speaker 1: And that's why I tell people like it's I mean,
Speaker 1: you can listen, but it's not the same without Marnie. Well.
Speaker 3: And the thing is too, is I mean, as our
Speaker 3: life balances out a little bit more and we have
Speaker 3: a better idea of like what timing looks like and
Speaker 3: with a baby, like perfect example is I mean there
Speaker 3: is no planning on when when they're going to need
Speaker 3: what they need. But yeah, to be intentional about doing
Speaker 3: these because I really do love doing these podcasts and
Speaker 3: I think it's important platform to be able to talk
Speaker 3: about living life and recovery, right, like what it looks
Speaker 3: like to make decisions, to you know, face challenges, to
Speaker 3: celebrate your successes without you know, having the use of
Speaker 3: drug or alcohol. And I think that's important. I think
Speaker 3: that's what we want these podcasts to be, is to
Speaker 3: have that messaging and to have experiences that people can
Speaker 3: relate to and hear about stuff, you know that we
Speaker 3: need to hear about when you know, you just want
Speaker 3: to know how what's it like to live sover? And
Speaker 3: this is it the daily grind, you know? So but yeah,
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm better go get him. And I just want
Speaker 1: to say good luck with jacket Off this week. That's
Speaker 1: who you're playing fantasy.
Speaker 2: Football, Fantasy football league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing fire my team's jacket off. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know you're going to go jacket off at a party.
Speaker 2: You were so close, so close to having a whole podcast.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was number one being quarterback for the week.
Speaker 2: And that's who you have horrified and now it's glorified.
Speaker 1: So I think you're going to beat jack Off today
Speaker 1: or this week. I should say yes, So good luck
Speaker 1: to you and I do hope you win.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate it. I hope I do.
Speaker 3: So all right, thanks everybody, I have a good week.
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