Isabel shares the deeply personal story of growing up feeling unseen, struggling with alcohol and substance abuse, experiencing multiple attempts at sobriety, and eventually finding real recovery through acceptance, spirituality, connection, and service.

From leaving home at 16 and moving across the world to hitting a spiritual bottom, getting sober, and learning to finally let people see the real her, Isabel’s story is about more than quitting alcohol or drugs. It’s about discovering freedom, embracing your “weirdness,” rebuilding trust, and realizing that you are worthy of love without having to prove yourself.

If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, recovery, shame, or feeling alone, this episode of Crosstalk Podcast offers a powerful message of experience, strength, hope, and the possibility of a completely different life.

Access our website for the full notes for this episode :

Video is available on ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/ nstagram.com/crosstalkpodcasts/⁠

𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ leaving a review here

Lost in Del Valle, written and performed by Ned Van Zandt, is at the Soho Playhouse through October 14. Tickets: lostindelvalle.com

Viewer discretion: This episode discusses overdose, addiction, and incarceration. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 or contact the SAMHSA National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.

Ned Van Zandt had 12 years sober, a Broadway career, money in the bank, apartments in New York and Los Angeles, and a recurring role on Law & Order. Then, in 2000, he decided he could have one drink. Seven years later, he was in a Texas state jail in Del Valle.

In this episode, Ned talks openly about relapse after long-term sobriety, the difference between simply not drinking and actually doing the work of recovery, overdose, surrender, asking for help, and how he rebuilt his life after losing almost everything.

He also shares how he turned those experiences into Lost in Del Valle, his autobiographical one-man show in which he plays 19 characters. By the end, the conversation arrives at the thing Ned says he would tell his ten-year-old self: “You are enough.”

Access our website for the full notes for this episode :

Video is available on ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/ nstagram.com/crosstalkpodcasts/⁠

𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ leaving a review here

What happens when childhood trauma, grief, sexual abuse, and addiction collide? Matt Bocchi shares his journey from losing his father on 9/11 to addiction, opioid abuse, and eventually sobriety.

He opens up about the abuse he survived, the stigma that kept him silent, and how telling his story became part of his healing and purpose.

A powerful conversation about 9/11, addiction recovery, trauma, sexual abuse, sobriety, spirituality, and healing.

Access our website for the full notes for this episode :

Video is available on ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/ nstagram.com/crosstalkpodcasts/⁠

𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ leaving a review here