The Ambitious Addicts podcast is a weekly show about addiction recovery, ambition in recovery, and real-life stories of recovery.
Episodes Feature lived experiences of both the host, Terra Carbert, and other women in recovery who have gone on to create lives they never even imagined were possible when they were actively living in their addiction.
This recovery podcast includes lived experience episodes discussing all addictions including:
Gambling Addiction
Alcoholism
Drug Addiction
Sex Addiction
Codependency
Workaholism
Food Addiction
And more
No two people recover the same. The Ambitious Addicts podcast was created to highlight the wide variety of ways that people across the world have found recovery, healing, and gone on to live a life they no longer want to escape from.
Digital Recovery with Keagan Lee Taking Back Your & Attention
Author, public speaker, and tech ethicist Keegan Lee joins Ambitious Addicts to share her journey exploring the impact of social media and digital environments on mental health, identity, and human connection. Keegan is the author of "60 Days of Disconnect," a personal reflection on stepping away from social media and what she discovered on the other side.
Through her work and lived experience, Keegan dives into the reality of how digital devices can consume us, the psychological effects of constant connectivity, and how our relationship with technology shapes the way we see ourselves and the world around us.
Today, Keegan speaks and educates globally on digital well-being, helping individuals, parents, and educators build healthier, more intentional relationships with technology while still embracing its benefits.
Keegan can be found online at https://keeganwlee.com (https://keeganwlee.com) and can be reached via email at keeganl444@gmail.com.
This episode is a production of the Self Discovery Sisterhood.
Music courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions.
Music:
"Kilkerrin" https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351863 (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351863)
"Miniatures" https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351866
"Kid Kodi" https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351867
"Delmendra" https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351867
18 Mar 2026
Update With Christina Cook, The Broke Girl Society Creator
Ambitious Addicts welcomes Oklahoma-based Christina Cook back to the show. Christina Cook, a gambler in recovery, created the Broke Girl Society Podcast and online community to help women. Christina retells a bit of the origin story of her recovery as a former problem gambler. Like a lot of people who fall into problem gambling as a vice, Christina speaks about life events such feelings of powerlessness in early childhood and later in adult relationships. "Not feeling like I had control in my life was a big catalyst," she said of gambling. For awhile, gambling became her solution. "Even my own [inner] voice went quiet ... it felt like a sense of peace for awhile."
Later in the episode Christina recounts how those early traumas and experience struggling with problem gambling eventually shaped her vision for a women-centered community specializing in gambling recovery. Women were particularly underrepresented in her part of the country, so she saught a way for women to have a forum to connect. The Facebook Group Broke Girl Society has about 3500 members and hosts multiple virtual meetings weekly. People from all over the U.S. and the world tune into the Broke Girl Society podcast and visit the online community. You can find the online facebook community here https://www.facebook.com/groups/brokegirlsociety/.
Christina continues to attend conferences throughout the U.S. and the world to gather the latest emerging knowledge in the gambling harms space, so she can bring it back to her audience.
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Do you know someone who you'd consider to be an Ambitious Addict? Please let us know at terra@ambitiousaddicts.com
This episode was hosted by Terra Carbert and produced by Kirk Klocke. Music courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions. Ambitious Addicts is a production of the Self Discovery Sisterhood. Search Self Discovery Sisterhood on Facebook and Instagram; on Tiktok, find Terra at @selfdiscoverycoach
Visit us on the Web www.theselfdiscoverysisterhood.com
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Music:
Kilkerrin (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351863)
Kid Kodi (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351867)
Miniatures (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351866)
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18 Feb 2026
Jimena Lerma: Recovering From Anorexia, Exercise Addiction
Nutrition coach Jimena Lerma joins Ambitious Addicts to talk about a long road to recovery from disordered eating and exercise addiction. Starting in her pre-teens, Lerma's relationship with her physical body was influenced by social pressure to achieve an unrealistic ideal. Internalized social pressure drove Lerma to adopt unhealthy eating and exercise patterns, which eventually harmed her health and overall wellbeing.
Lerma realized her yearning for an unattainable ideal of thinness was doing more harm than good, so she sought healing through holistic and spiritual means. Recovery came in fits and starts, but eventually stuck. Lerma eventually applied her own recovery journey and experience with practical and business knowledge to launch a coaching practice, mostly aimed at women looking to heal from disordered eating and improve their relationships with their body.
Lerma can be found on Facebook via her name or on Instagram @jimena.ler.ma
She welcomes DM's with inquiries about taking the first step toward better health and wellbeing.
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This episode is a production of the Self Discovery Sisterhood. It was hosted by Terra Carbert and produced by Kirk Klocke. Music courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions.
Do YOU know a woman in recovery from a substance or behavioral addiction who might make a great guest on Ambitious Addicts? Email Terra at terra@ambitiousaddicts.com
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Music:
"Kilkerrin" https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351863 (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351863)
"Miniatures" https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/351866
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Aarti Achar
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