In season 3, episode four Roman and Cecily interview Diana, aka Birdy. An ex gang member turned registered nurse. Who describes herself as “disaster, lucky and miracle”. She was able to get clean and get away from gang life so she could save lives and fight on the front lines of the COVID pandemic.

“A lot of times I say lucky because I do love a charmed life. The life I’m able to live now I’m very lucky to have. Because the life that I lived before.. I should be dead or in jail.”

-Birdy

“This life that I have been living has been so abnormal but it has felt normal for so long”

-Birdy

“So you went from being pretty much a threat to human life to working your ass off to try and save lives during the pandemic?” 

-Roman 

“Yea, it’s the right thing to do” 

-Birdy

Birdy is the editor and host of PNX News. She gets to travel the world and create videos with various punk bands. 

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In season 3 episode 3 Roman and Cecily sit down with Suzanne, a marriage and family therapist and sober alcoholic. She discusses how she has handled heartbreak in sobriety and the struggle of processing sexual assault.

“I didn’t know that you could navigate life just pretending like it never happened. Well this rocked my world, completely rocked my world… and life has been really hard, right now. It’s been a really big struggle for me. Hard because as a mental health professional, I logically know these things, but I don’t think I should be feeling these things. Fifty percent of me says what happened was wrong and the other fifty percent of me says you were drunk of course that happened to you.” -Suzanne

“Well, that’s a struggle that a lot of women in Alcoholics Anonymous go through.” -Cecily

Suzanne recommends the book The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. Buy it now in the links below:

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In season 3 episode 2 of the Transformations Recovery Podcast Roman and Cecily talk with Liz, aka Alex, about the West Virginia pill boom of the mid 2000’s, aliens, and being a young heroin addict and sex worker who made it out alive.

"It went from like- everyone’s doing Oxys and Opanas to like, the market is just stripped. And there’s no Oxys and Opanas anymore and it’s like—what the fuck do you do?” - Liz/Alex

“Shoot heroin." -Roman and Cecily

“You shoot heroin, obviously. Ha ha. What else would you do? Nothing else fuckin’ mattered. So like, you know fast forward, a few years I’m a senior in high school, you know, and like, I’m shooting heroin. And like that progression was pretty crazy and super fast too.” -Liz/Alex

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