Ezra Vancil Addiction, Divorce and the Rebuild Nobody Saw Coming

About this episode

Ezra Vancil shares his journey through addiction, divorce, and rebuilding his life and music career.

A Texas musician. Two divorces. A decade of addiction. And a life rebuilt from the ground up. This one will hit you somewhere real. Get your High Value Man Score. Reclaim your energy and drive. Takes 2 mins. 👉 https://highvaluemanproject.com/score Last week Jonnie turned 52 and looked at exactly what he's learned about making sure he's not running himself into the ground. This week his guest has lived the full version of that story, and come out the other side making the best music of his life. Ezra Vancil is a performing songwriter, author, and father from Texas. He plays in a band with his daughter. He's been signed, dropped, divorced twice, through addiction and sobriety, in and out of mental hospitals, and at rock bottom more than once. He got sober at 40 and has spent the thirteen years since rebuilding a life, a marriage, and a creative purpose that actually means something. This is his story. WHY THIS MATTERS Most men who are struggling aren't struggling because of their circumstances. They're struggling because somewhere along the way they lost themselves inside a version of life they were trying to hold together. Ezra did what a lot of men do: kept the ambition running…

People in this episode

Host: Jonnie Jensen

Guest: Ezra Vancil

Topics covered

• addiction
• divorce
• recovery
• fatherhood
• mental health
• music

Keywords

• addiction
• divorce
• recovery
• fatherhood
• mental health
• music
• sobriety
• Texas

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: High Value Man Project

Places: Texas

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