Sara Jachimiak, Benji Rosenzweig, Lauryn Snelson, Matthew Wilson
87 episodes
5 months ago
One Show at a Time is a storytelling podcast where people in recovery share raw, honest accounts of addiction, transformation, and what life looks like on the other side. Born from the Yellow Balloon community—a network of sober music fans from groups like Wharf Rats (Grateful Dead), The Phellowship (Phish), and Much Obliged (Umphrey’s McGee)—this show began as a project to spotlight voices from inside the scene. But today, it’s grown into something bigger.
Each episode features a new speaker from any walk of life—jam fans or not—offering a deeply personal window into their journey. You’ll hear where they came from, how they fell, how they got back up, and what’s keeping them grounded now.
If you're in recovery, love someone who is, or are just curious about how people rebuild their lives one day—or one show—at a time, this podcast is for you.
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One Show at a Time is a storytelling podcast where people in recovery share raw, honest accounts of addiction, transformation, and what life looks like on the other side. Born from the Yellow Balloon community—a network of sober music fans from groups like Wharf Rats (Grateful Dead), The Phellowship (Phish), and Much Obliged (Umphrey’s McGee)—this show began as a project to spotlight voices from inside the scene. But today, it’s grown into something bigger.
Each episode features a new speaker from any walk of life—jam fans or not—offering a deeply personal window into their journey. You’ll hear where they came from, how they fell, how they got back up, and what’s keeping them grounded now.
If you're in recovery, love someone who is, or are just curious about how people rebuild their lives one day—or one show—at a time, this podcast is for you.
This week Mallory C shares her story. Mallory just celebrated 1 year of continuous sobriety. She talks about overcoming anxiety and depression and working through the hardest parts of early recovery
This week marks the 2-year anniversary of our podcast! 🎉
To help us celebrate, we’re honored to have Jessica J join us on her 4-year sobriety anniversary.
Jessica is a cherished friend of the yellow balloon community, and in this episode, she shares her powerful story — from skydiving adventures to working the steps, and finding recovery while navigating the restaurant industry.
This week’s speaker Nick, who just celebrated 10 years. He talked about everything from his swimming career, to mental health, to working the steps and living the DINKWAD (double income, no kids, with a dog) life.
This week's guest Mike K. is a long time Yellow Balloon community member. A wise man, a smart ass and an all around great dude. He shares his wisdom and a lot of laughs.
This week’s episode is Steve D, who just celebrated 1 year of continuous recovery. He tells an amazing story about overcoming adversity, mental health issues, and drug addiction. Everyone can learn from what Steve has to say.
This week we hear from Sara R. who just celebrated 11 years. Sara shares her story of delving into her addiction at a young age, finding a solution, and a higher power, while relying on the lessons she learned from her upbringing.
This week is a special episode, with Danny L., who shares his story of finding a spiritual path of light, love, and presence after battling his addiction and pain from loss.
In this week's episode Ian C. shares his story at a very fast pace. He talks about recovery, the steps relapse, finding solution and learning to dance like no one is watching.
In this week's episode, we hear from Andy K. a professional touring musician who knew he was an alcoholic from day one but struggled to find a solution that stuck. He now has long-term recovery and is living his best sober life.
This week we hear from Roy D. or as you may know him The Good Baklava Guy - and no, this isn’t a sponsored shout-out- it's "Dude in recovery who has the message that if you do the work, you can live a wonderful life."
In this week's episode, we chat with Sarah K, who recently celebrated two years of continuous recovery. She serves as the Touring Table Coordinator for the Divided Sky Foundation tables at Phish shows. If you see the tables at a show this year, be sure to stop by and say, 'Benji, Lauryn, and Matt say hi!'"
This week's guest Kristin G. is an amazing woman with an amazing story. Having just celebrated twelve years, Kristin shared her story of surviving abuse as a child, suffering from a debilitating drug addiction, trauma and pain, but then finding recovery, building a wonderful life and building a beautiful family.
This week, we hear from Lexi—a sober mom, nurse, biking enthusiast, and proud Yellow Balloner. She opens up about hitting rock bottom, the pivotal moment when she realized something had to change, and the inspiring journey that followed. Now, Lexi shares how she turned her life around and found a new path forward.
This week we hear from old school Phell/Wharf Rat Matt M. who brings his decades of recovery to us. From his mother giving him alcohol as a young child, to raising well adjusted kids who have never seen him drink, Matt shares an incredible story with us.
This week's share is Lori C, who recently celebrated one year of continuous recovery. She shares her story of knowing about recovery from an early age from family, to finding the problem also with family. Now she is focused on the Solution.
In this first episode of 2025, Johnny P. shares his story of getting sober young, finding religion in the Church but spirituality in the rooms, special needs parenting, and traversing complex life situations with the help of his recovery support system.
In this last episode of 2024, Tracey S tells her story of finding recovery in MA. While Marijuana Anonymous is not as well known, it saves lives. Tracey talks about being a “dry drunk” and how she found her way to working a program after years of recovery.
In this week's episode Keith H shares with us his story of recovery, coming from a place of many people in his family passing from this disease, to finding solution on Zoom during the COVID shutdown.
This week's guest is Melanie G. Program Director at Divided Sky Foundation. She tells her story of recovery, coming from getting high at a very early age, to hitting rock bottom with the realization that the misery was no longer worth using. You can learn more about the DSF at https://dividedsky.org
One Show at a Time is a storytelling podcast where people in recovery share raw, honest accounts of addiction, transformation, and what life looks like on the other side. Born from the Yellow Balloon community—a network of sober music fans from groups like Wharf Rats (Grateful Dead), The Phellowship (Phish), and Much Obliged (Umphrey’s McGee)—this show began as a project to spotlight voices from inside the scene. But today, it’s grown into something bigger.
Each episode features a new speaker from any walk of life—jam fans or not—offering a deeply personal window into their journey. You’ll hear where they came from, how they fell, how they got back up, and what’s keeping them grounded now.
If you're in recovery, love someone who is, or are just curious about how people rebuild their lives one day—or one show—at a time, this podcast is for you.
