Geoffrey Blaylock Returns: The Information That's Gap Killing Addicts | The Hopeaholics Podcast


In this powerful return episode, Geoffrey Blaylock comes back to the Hopeaholics Podcast to continue the conversation on addiction as a brain-based disease, diving even deeper into the realities that families and individuals often misunderstand. Building on his previous appearance, he expands on trauma, attachment, and epigenetics, while challenging outdated intervention models and the damaging belief that addiction is simply a choice. He explains how impaired decision-making, toxic shame, and nervous system dysregulation keep people trapped in cycles of relapse and self-destruction. Through compelling analogies and real-world clinical examples, he clarifies why education is one of the most critical tools in saving lives. Geoffrey also discusses how addiction affects not just the individual, but entire family systems, often pulling loved ones into their own form of emotional dysregulation. The conversation emphasizes the importance of compassion without enabling, accountability without punishment, and support rooted in neuroscience rather than fear.


Check out Geoffrey's First Episode:
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Timestamps:
00:03:17 - Subjective vs Objective Decision Making
00:04:29 - Critique of Traditional Intervention Model
00:06:03 - Memory-Based Intervention Approach
00:07:13 - Frontal Cortex Shutdown in Addiction
00:09:32 - Toxic Shame and Fight-or-Flight
00:17:39 - Is Addiction a Choice or a Disease
00:18:50 - Who Would Choose Skid Row
00:19:32 - Addiction as a Brain Disease
00:20:15 - What Makes Us Human and the Frontal Cortex
00:21:14 - Education Creates Empathy
00:23:01 - Why Addiction Is Not Purely Genetic
00:24:03 - Epigenetics Explained
00:26:16 - Cultural Trauma and Addiction Myths
00:29:15 - Identical Twins With Different Outcomes
00:32:22 - Why Children Self-Medicate
00:34:57 - Addiction as a Disease of Decision Making
00:37:34 - Donuts, Dopamine, and Survival Brain
00:39:12 - Unacceptable Lack of Addiction Education
00:41:07 - Attachment and Early Development
00:43:18 - Toxic Ownership and Core Beliefs
00:48:19 - Trauma Profiles and Identity Formation

Mommy Wine Culture Hid Her Addiction w/ Olivia Flynn | The Hopeaholics Podcast

In this raw and deeply moving episode of the Hopeholics Podcast, Olivia Flynn shares her journey through generational addiction, early exposure to alcohol, and the quiet ways substance use became normalized long before anyone called it a problem, opening up about growing up with an alcoholic father, getting drunk for the first time and feeling relief, how bartending culture fueled addiction, and the internal unraveling that led to pregnancy, custody battles, and a moment driving home when she no longer wanted to live, before describing the turning point of admitting she was an alcoholic, praying to a God she didn’t yet believe in, and experiencing a radical shift through faith that led not only to sobriety but to confronting hidden addictions like weed, dismantling “mommy wine” culture, releasing shame tied to motherhood, and ultimately breaking generational cycles for her daughters while redefining what real freedom, healing, and identity look like beyond abstinence alone.

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Timestamps:
00:03:51 - Growing up with an alcoholic father
00:04:44 - Drinking normalized at twelve years old
00:05:01 - First time getting drunk and feeling relief
00:06:43 - Bartending culture normalizing addiction
00:08:11 - Getting pregnant and staying sober during pregnancy
00:09:07 - Custody battle triggering relapse patterns
00:09:41 - Driving home and wanting to die
00:09:59 - Praying to a God she didn’t believe in
00:12:04 - Admitting “I’m an alcoholic” to her mom
00:13:13 - Baptism and sudden freedom from alcohol
00:18:38 - Confronting toxic mommy-wine culture
00:31:54 - Realizing weed replaced alcohol as addiction
00:34:31 - Deliverance session and quitting weed
00:44:56 - Breaking generational addiction for her daughters

How Denial Keeps Addiction Alive w/ Anthony Zorzetto | The Hopeaholics Podcast


In this powerful episode of the Hopeholics Podcast, Anthony Zorzetto shares an unfiltered story of addiction, identity loss, and rebuilding from the ground up as casual drinking and recreational drug use slowly spiral into full-blown addiction alongside a failing marriage, a collapsing construction business, and overwhelming financial pressure, opening up about how substances stopped being social and became a means of survival, the false confidence addiction gave him, ignoring warning signs from banks and loved ones, and the moment he found himself unable to afford even basic necessities, all while reflecting on the painful contrast between who he once was — disciplined, driven, and convinced addiction could never touch him — and the reality of hitting rock bottom, discovering hidden family history with addiction, and ultimately choosing sobriety, responsibility, and fatherhood as the foundation for a new life built on honesty, accountability, and hope.


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Visit our Treatment Centers: https://www.hopebythesea.com
If you or a loved one needs help, please call or text 949-615-8588. We have the resources to treat mental health and addiction.


Sponsored by the Infiniti Group LLC:
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Timestamps:
00:12:44 - Getting sober shortly after meeting his partner
00:13:01 - Accidentally getting married too young
00:13:17 - Addiction worsening as marriage deteriorates
00:13:35 - Cocaine shifting from recreational to coping mechanism
00:14:17 - Using drugs to escape business and marriage collapse
00:14:32 - Living parallel addictions inside the marriage
00:23:01 - Discovering hidden family history of opioid addiction
00:24:06 - Construction business failure accelerating
00:25:14 - Cocaine creating a false sense of power and control
00:25:23 - Ignoring bank warnings and financial reality
00:25:58 - Unable to afford basic necessities
00:26:00 - Being left alone after his wife walks out
00:26:17 - Confronting the contrast between past discipline and addiction
00:30:33 - Anger at entitlement and loss of personal responsibility