Recovery Dialogues & Sober Stories

About Recovery Dialogues & Sober Stories

Recovery Dialogues and Sober Stories (RDSS) is a peer-led addiction and mental health recovery podcast hosted by Antonio Matta, exploring addiction recovery and mental wellness as self-improvement—a self-directed process of reaching your potential through deliberate change. Episodes draw on "lived experience experts," clinical insight, and journalistic commentary that offers coping strategies, explores modalities and treatments, provides lifestyle inspiration, and confronts the cultural and systemic forces shaping who gets well. RDSS surfaces overlooked truths and builds lasting momentum.

Publisher

Antonio Matta

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Apr 2023

Latest episode

6 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Sept 2026

   Still Here, Still Becoming

   At 80, Russell has been sober longer than most overdose-awareness campaigns have existed. He and addiction medicine physician Dr. Sylvie Stacy from Rehab.com (https://rehab.com) talk mental health, addiction recovery, and the clinical insight nobody applies to self improvement after 30 years. Official RDSS website (https://recoverydialogues-soberstories.show) GoFundMe (https://gofuundme.com/recoverydialogues) - even a dollar helps Merch with Meaning (https://recoverydialogues.com) - wear Recovery Mantras to fit your style Content Done Write (https://contentdonewrite.org)- Content for the work you're already doing well.

2. 

   21 Aug 2026

   When the System Runs Out: Trauma, Disability, and the Fight to Keep the Care That Works

   Mental health, self improvement, addiction recovery, and the overlooked truths about who gets care—and who doesn't. Cynthia lives with severe depression, anxiety, PTSD, and disability, and found a therapist who finally made treatment feel possible—until the funding ran out and the system offered nothing in its place. Host Antonio Matta (htpps://delphi.ai/antonio-matta) brings in two experts—licensed counselor Laurie Groh of Shoreside Therapies (http://shoresidetherapies.com/) for clinical insight on therapeutic continuity and ghost networks, and behavioral health access leader Rani Cholagh from Pacific Health Group (http://www.mypacifichealth.com/) on the structural gaps that keep failing the people who need care most—to examine what mental health parity enforcement, provider shortages, and coverage walls mean for real people right now. Content note: This episode discusses grief, disability, depression, PTSD, and systemic mental health access barriers. Please listen at a pace that feels safe for you. Show notes include: Cynthia's GoFundMe link (https://gofund.me/aafe0d09f) | Open Path Collective (https://openpathcollective.org/) | SAMHSA National Helpline: 1-800-662-4357 | RDSS GoFundMe (https://gofundme.com/recoverydialgoues) | Merch with Meaning (https://recoverydialogues.com) Message the show, ask questions for future Q&A episodes, and more: https://recoverydialogues-soberstories.show

3. 

   4 Jul 2026

   A Declaration of Interdependence

   Host [Host Name] explores the multifaceted meaning of freedom in addiction and mental health recovery with [Guest Name], revealing profound truths about interdependence.

Who has been a guest on Recovery Dialogues & Sober Stories

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• R Antonio Matta
• Dr Suzette Glasner
• Christopher Pollock
• Erica Schwartzberg

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100

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Quality

53

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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