The Hopeaholics

Chad Carlsen, Natalie Eva Marie

Booking Overview

This is a long-form addiction-recovery interview show featuring survivors, family members affected by substance use, recovery advocates, and professionals working in treatment. Agencies could credibly pitch people with compelling recovery stories, addiction-treatment expertise, mental-health credentials, or practical experience supporting families; booking difficulty is likely low because recent guests are accessible professionals and lived-experience advocates rather than highly prominent public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 363

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 15.5k subscribers

Instagram: 374.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

thehopeaholicspodcast@gmail.com

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Host

Chad Carlsen - Founder of Addicted to Hope and creator of The Hopeaholics, focused on raising awareness about addiction, substance use, and recovery.

Natalie Eva Marie - WWE superstar and media personality who co-hosts discussions about addiction, mental health, and recovery.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Compelling lived experience of addiction or recovery, family experience with substance use or loss, recovery advocacy, or professional experience in addiction treatment and mental-health support.

Required Achievements:

Sustained sobriety or recovery milestones, Public recovery advocacy or content creation, Leadership of recovery programs or communities, Professional work in addiction treatment, mental health, fitness, or related support services

Recent Guest Discussions

Rachel Sereni - Alcohol Addiction, Family Addiction, DUI, Sobriety, Grief, Trauma Recovery, And Building A Recovery-focused Podcast.

Jesse Sanchez - Heroin Addiction, Concealing Substance Use From Family, Fentanyl Loss, Depression, Therapy, And Sustained Recovery.

Jessica Nolin - Childhood Exposure To Drug Dealing, Alcohol Addiction, Home Detox, Anxiety, Depression, And Recovery Advocacy.

Adam Wittbrodt - Heroin And Fentanyl Addiction, Incarceration, Recovery Court, Treatment, Fitness-based Recovery, And Long-term Sobriety.

Riley Jensen - Substance Use During Pregnancy, Psychosis, Postpartum Addiction, Family Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Breaking Intergenerational Patterns.

Recent Topics

Health, Addiction Recovery, Mental Health, Sobriety, Fentanyl

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Hopeaholics

We Should Have Seen the Fentanyl Crisis Coming w/ Sheriff Don Barnes | Re-Release #109

September 28, 2026

In this re-released episode of The Hopeaholics Podcast #109, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes shares warnings about fentanyl, the rise of counterfeit pills and the programs his department developed as the crisis grew. Sheriff Don Barnes has spent more than 35 years in law enforcement and has been confronting the fentanyl crisis in Orange County since his department began seeing the drug in 2015. Barnes discusses naloxone deployment by deputies, medication-assisted treatment inside the jail, r...

Firefighter PTSD, Addiction & the Cost of Being "Tough" w/ James Owen | The Hopeaholics Podcast #363

September 24, 2026

Retired Long Beach Fire Captain James Owen spent his career running toward other people’s emergencies while addiction, trauma, and post-traumatic stress were building behind the badge.In this episode of The Hopeaholics, James opens up about the murder of his close friend and fellow firefighter Captain Dave Rosa, surviving a motorcycle crash that broke his neck, losing and rebuilding his sobriety, and the realization that ultimately changed his life: after spending his career trying to save ev...

My AA Friend Got Me Drunk In My First 90 Days w/ Rachel Sereni | The Hopeaholics Podcast #362

September 14, 2026

Rachel Sereni is co-host of the 2 Girls in a Chair podcast and sober for over 2 years. She grew up mostly alone with her little sister while their dad worked two jobs, because their mother was addicted to opiates and spent most of Rachel's early childhood nodding out on the couch. Rachel got a DUI after she left work early to drink and forgot to pick up her son from school, woke up in jail with her car impounded and her son at his grandma's house. By the end of her drinking she was ...

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