Valiant Living Podcast

About Valiant Living Podcast

Welcome to The Loving Leverage Podcast, presented by Valiant Living, where we help you love someone through addiction without losing yourself in the process. If someone you love is struggling with addiction, you know how heavy that weight can be. You want to help, but nothing seems to work. This podcast is for you. Host Drew Powell (Recovery Advocate and Valiant Living alumnus) sits down with betrayal trauma experts, CSATs, therapists, betrayed partners, and alumni living in recovery, along with Valiant Living Founder and CEO Michael Dinneen, LCSW, CSAT-S, creator of the Loving Leverage™ framework. Valiant Living has been restoring lives and families since 2017. Fully accredited by The Joint Commission, Valiant offers residential care, PHP, IOP, and detox services for men and their families, and has earned a national reputation as a premier treatment program for men ages 26 and older. If you or someone you love is ready for help, call us at 720-669-1285 or visit valiantliving.com. We'd love to have a conversation with you.

Publisher

Valiant Living

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Jul 2023

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

72 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Jeanne Vattuone: Partner Sensitivity and the Trauma Nobody Named

   Send us Fan Mail Discovery doesn't only hurt. For many partners it shakes their sense of reality, safety, and trust in their own judgment. And for years, the helping world told those partners they were part of the problem. Jeanne Vattuone has spent her career changing that. Jeanne is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a certified sex addiction therapist and supervisor, a certified partner trauma therapist, cofounder of Willow Tree Healing and Recovery in Santa Rosa, California, and coauthor o...

2. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Episode 70 · Love Without Rescuing with Ian and Roxcy Brown

   Send us Fan Mail Love can look heroic while it quietly keeps the cycle alive. When someone we love is stuck in addiction, the instinct is to fix, cover, explain, and cushion the consequences. But what if the most loving move is to stop rescuing? Drew is joined by Ian and Roxcy Brown, co founders of Iron Ridge Recovery in Texas, the first intensive outpatient program in the state built specifically for men with compulsive sexual behavior. Here's the tension at the center of this conversation. ...

3. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Mondays with Michael: He Keeps Saying He's Fine. What Now?

   Send us Fan Mail The hardest part of getting a man into treatment is rarely finding the right program. It's the moment a smart, successful, "I'm fine" kind of man starts negotiating for control while the people who love him are running out of hope. This is the first Mondays with Michael, a bonus series on The Loving Leverage Podcast that drops on Mondays whenever there's a conversation worth sharing. Every Monday, Drew Powell and Valiant Living founder Michael Dinneen, LCSW, CSAT-S get on a c...

Who has been a guest on Valiant Living Podcast

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

• Madison Burke
• Henry Maxwell
• Michael Dinneen
• Stephen Wilkins

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100

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Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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