Shoeless in South Dakota

Booking Overview

An interview-led personal-story show focused on addiction, recovery, mental health, and difficult life experiences, featuring mostly people with lived experience alongside occasional healthcare professionals. Credible pitches include addiction-recovery advocates, clinicians, mental-health practitioners, community organizers, and authors with relevant lived experience; booking difficulty is likely low because guests are generally accessible professionals or community voices rather than high-profile public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 94

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 252.0k subscribers

Instagram: 702 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

shoelessinsd@gmail.com

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Host

Breht - Breht is one of the show’s hosts, welcoming guests for interview-style conversations in the “All Too Human” series.

Dave - Dave is one of the show’s hosts, welcoming guests for interview-style conversations in the “All Too Human” series.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Lived experience of addiction or recovery, expertise in mental health or healthcare, or experience building recovery and support communities.

Required Achievements:

Sustained sobriety or recovery, Clinical experience in emergency medicine or addiction care, Published healthcare writing, Building local recovery communities

Recent Guest Discussions

John Ukadike - Emergency Medicine, Addiction Treatment, Religion, Death, General Health, Communicating Bereavement, And The For-profit American Healthcare System.

Recent Topics

Health, Mental Health, Addiction, Recovery, Buddhism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Shoeless in South Dakota

Shoeless in the Twin Towers (Or Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning, That September Day?)

September 24, 2026

The boys are comin' in HOT with a wide ranging discussion on the cultural-historical repercussions of 9/11, how Bin Laden won the long game, nostalgia for the 90's, the yearning for and catharsis of annihilation, the nuances of an adderall high, postmodern American comedy, addiction and alcholism (as per usual), the total overwhelm of modern life, why Buddha was right about the ambient and persistent dissatisfaction of human life, impossible escapist fantasies we all indulge in, freedom and c...

All Too Human: Neil's "Functional" Addiction and Buddhist-Based Recovery

September 14, 2026

In this installment of the All Too Human interview series, Dave interviews Neil one-on-one to talk about his decades-long struggle with drugs and alcohol and how Dharma Recovery, a Buddhism-based addiction program, helped him find sobriety. Neil also discusses the difficult road to establishing the now thriving Dharma meeting network in Omaha and what it takes to build a non-12 Step recovery community. For general information on Dharma Recovery: https://recoverydharma.org/ For inquiries on h...

Shoeless on a Park Bench (Or How I Fell Off The Wagon Again...)

August 14, 2026

The Boys are SOOOO back... after a long and complicated hiatus. We talk about it all. You just have to listen. Learn more at https://www.shoelessinsouthdakota.com/

Publicly listed emails

shoelessinsd@gmail.com

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