About this episode

Gregg Champion discusses loss, resilience, and the challenges of recovery after personal tragedy.

Most parents don't expect their kid to ask them that question. Gregg Champion is not most parents but someone who’s spent years helping people rebuild their lives through recovery—until the 2025 Pacific Palisades fires destroyed both his home and business and he found himself needing literal help rebuilding his own life. In this episode, Gregg talks about loss, grief, resilience and the uncomfortable reality that recovery doesn't make anyone exempt from life's hardest moments. We also get into why he believes vaping and gambling are quietly becoming two of the biggest addiction threats facing families today. It's a conversation about rebuilding when everything falls apart—and why recovery is about a lot more than not picking up a drink. (It's also about Gregg charming Anna's mom.)

People in this episode

Host: Recovery Rocks

Guest: Gregg Champion

Topics covered

• recovery
• resilience
• addiction
• grief
• family
• vaping
• gambling

Keywords

• recovery
• addiction
• vaping
• gambling
• resilience
• grief
• family

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Pacific Palisades

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