Hello, World!

Pondoff’s Anonymous is a podcast about recovery, mental health, and all the real sh*t that comes with it. We don’t sugarcoat anything here. This is a place where we sit down, hit record, and talk about what life actually feels like when you're trying to stay sober, stay sane, and stay alive.

Hosted by Chris Pondoff, Jeff Allen, and Jakob Miller... we’ve all lived through enough of our own sh*t to know that recovery isn’t some pretty Instagram quote. It’s hard. It’s beautiful. It’s ugly. It’s f***ing worth it. And if you’re in it, you get it. If you’re not, you might still learn something. Either way, you’re welcome here.

We’ve had guests from all over — people in early sobriety, people with decades under their belt, folks who’ve buried people they love, folks who’ve come back from the edge. We’ve talked to therapists, musicians, athletes, people you’ve heard of, people you haven’t... but every single person has brought something real to the table.

We’re not doctors. We’re not a program. We’re not here to tell you how to live your life. We’re just here to have the conversations most people are too f***ing scared to have... the ones that might actually help somebody feel a little less broken for a minute.

We record every week at Illinois Recovery Center in Swansea, Illinois. New episodes drop on Mondays. And yeah, sometimes it’s messy. Sometimes it’s heavy. Sometimes it’s funny as hell. That’s life... that’s recovery... and that’s what we’re here for.