For years, listeners of Hopestream have heard stories about my own family’s experiences with substance misuse and recovery. Today, after 184 episodes, I’m thrilled to finally introduce you to my son, Enzo.  I’m inspired by how he’s built a meaningful life free of substance misuse and for the time and energy he now dedicates to helping kids struggling with their own path to recovery. This is a conversation between two people who did (mostly) everything wrong but now spend our lives trying to help others meet these challenges more prepared than we were. For this conversation, I tried my best to step outside the situation I was so intimately involved in – all the confusion, anger, and fear – and talk to Enzo like any other guest. During the conversation, we discuss: The early influences of divorce and Enzo’s shifting friend group on his eventual high-risk lifestyle and substance useWhy it’s always hard to answer what treatment program “worked” for himWhat Enzo was (and wasn’t) thinking about during his addictionThe consistent characteristics he sees in kids in treatment, and how he connects with themEnzo’s near-fatal overdoses and the intense medical recovery that followedWhy it’s so important to spend judgment-free time with kids caught up in substance useThe podcast is now part of a nonprofit called Hopestream Community: www.hopestreamcommunity.org Learn about The Stream, our private online community for moms, at www.hopestreamcommunity.org/the-stream/ Find us on Instagram: @hopestreamcommunity Download my free e-book, HINDSIGHT: Three Things I Wish I Knew When My Son Was Misusing Drugs: www.brendazane.com/hindsight Join my email list: www.brendazane.com/email