Being Addicted to Founding a Record Label w/ Blake Mathews | The Hopeaholics Podcast #340

Being Addicted to Founding a Record Label w/ Blake Mathews | The Hopeaholics Podcast #340

June 29, 2026 · 1h 17m · Episode 340

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Blake Mathews shares his journey of addiction, adoption, and finding faith through music.

In this episode of The Hopeaholics Podcast, Blake Mathews shares his story of addiction, adoption, and finding faith through music. Adopted at birth and raised in a Jewish household in Phoenix, Blake started DJing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 13 and built a career in music and nightlife while quietly hiding a worsening addiction for over a decade. By the time he moved to Nashville in 2014 to chase a career in the arts, he was a high functioning alcoholic leaning on psychedelics, convinced the...

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