Episodes

Join W.A.R. Founding Members Dr. Larry Smith has been sober since September 22, 1999. That’s 26 years of long-term recovery, discipline, and truth. In this powerful W.A.R. Network interview, Dr. Larry Smith breaks down addiction not as a habit, but as a voice. A negotiation inside your own mind. Author of Johnnie and Me: Facing the Voice of Alcohol Within Embracing the Journey of Recovery: From Tragedy to Triumph Dr. Smith explains why recovery is not the absence of craving. It is the...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members Nicholas Ruchlewicz joins W.A.R. to share his journey of surviving a traumatic brain injury after a motorcycle crash and what recovery really looks like when the wounds are invisible. From memory shifts and identity changes to anxiety, depression, and the silent battles men are taught not to talk about, this conversation goes deeper than inspiration. Host Stryker also shares his own near fatal motorcycle accident experience, being dead on the scene for 13 minute...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members From the battlefield to the soul, Chaplain Dr. Larry Brant shares powerful truth about faith, moral injury, PTSD misconceptions, and what real healing looks like beyond uniform and rank. In this W.A.R. Network episode, we go beyond surface level conversations. Chaplain Dr. Larry Brant opens up about serving those who carry invisible wounds, the spiritual weight many veterans face, and why moral injury is often misunderstood. This conversation challenges the na...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members This unforgettable episode of W.A.R. We’re All Recovering is a raw conversation about resilience, identity, and the moment you stop surviving and start rising. Stryker sits down with retired career firefighter, trauma coach, and author Lynnette Fritshaw to talk about breaking barriers as the first female career firefighter in her hometown department, navigating bullying and discrimination inside a system that was anything but welcoming, and how invisible injuries ...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members Welcome back to W.A.R. We’re All Recovering. In this powerful episode, host Stryker is joined by Peter Gunn, a United States Air Force veteran who served 20 years and has since reinvented his life through poetry, epic storytelling, music, and myth. Peter is the creator of The Amazons, a lyrical epic centered on feminine heroism, as well as The Kurupi’s Curse and the Sigma Squad graphic novel universe rooted in ancient mythology and spiritual duality. This co...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members In this powerful and deeply honest episode of W.A.R. We’re All Recovering, host Stryker sits down with Hilary Momberger Powers for a raw conversation about childhood trauma, addiction, recovery, and the lifelong work of healing. Known to many as the childhood voice of Sally Brown from the Peanuts world, Hilary shares what life was really like behind the microphone. Growing up in an unsafe and controlling environment, she learned how to perform before she learned...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members Sam Mitchell is the founder and Executive Director of Autism Rocks and Rolls, a nonprofit and media platform dedicated to changing how the world understands autism. Sam is autistic, a college student, a public speaker, and the host of the Autism Rocks and Rolls podcast, where he has interviewed leaders in education, advocacy, and neurodiversity including Dr. Temple Grandin. In this powerful episode of W.A.R. We’re All Recovering, Stryker sits down with Sam to ta...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members They told him he would not live past 20. Doctors said his body would fail. Pain was constant. Bullying shaped his self-worth. Addiction became an escape. Suicide felt like an option. David W Ebel lived with an expiration date and somehow survived it. In this episode of W.A.R. We’re All Recovering, host Stryker sits down with David W Ebel to talk about chronic pain, addiction, depression, faith, discipline, family, and what it truly means to keep going when life ...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members In this conversation, Wesley Farnsworth opens up about losing almost everything, hitting rock bottom, and rebuilding his life from the inside out. We talk breakdown, identity, faith, discipline, purpose, and what it really looks like to start over when the old version of you is no longer working. If you are rebuilding, recovering, or trying to find your way back to yourself, this episode will meet you where you are and walk with you forward. It is raw. It is honest. ...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members In this Christmas Special episode of W A R We’re All Recovering, host Stryker sits down with Omar Ritter, a decorated United States Army combat veteran, Bronze Star recipient, West Point graduate, Columbia MBA, author, motivational speaker, mental health advocate, and fractional CFO. Omar shares his journey from West Point to combat in Iraq and Kosovo, the struggle with PTSD and trauma, the transition into leadership roles on Wall Street, and how discipline and ...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members In this powerful episode of W A R We Are All Recovering, Stryker sits down with internationally recognized jazz pianist and peace activist Rick DellaRatta, founder of Jazz for Peace. Rick shares how music became a response to trauma after 9 11, how Jazz for Peace grew from New York City to global stages including the United Nations, and why the world invests fully in war while peace receives almost nothing. This conversation dives deep into trauma, recovery, moral...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members Most people want a better life but never learn how to master themselves. Alan Lazaros had to rebuild from a near fatal car accident and he turned that moment into a mission. In this conversation he breaks down discipline identity self mastery and why most people stay stuck in the same patterns. We talk about the moment his life changed the tools he used to rebuild and why personal development is really recovery work. This episode continues the momentum from Kevin ...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members There is a war that never makes the news. It is the war after the war. In this episode Jeff Rogers sits down with Stryker to talk about what really happens when the uniform comes off. The hidden battles with PTSD. The quiet addictions. The fake “I am good” smile you give your family so they do not worry. The nights you cannot sleep and the mornings you do not want to wake up. We break down why so many veterans and survivors suffer in silence, why asking for he...

Join W.A.R. Founding Members The Guru That Found Peace In The Fire feat. Guru Yogi Shivan What happens when life puts you through the fire and you refuse to break. Guru Yogi Shivan shares how he discovered real peace in the middle of pain, chaos, and spiritual warfare. This is not a movie. This is a real man who walked through trauma, loss, and darkness and came out with wisdom that can change lives. In this powerful conversation, Guru Yogi Shivan breaks down how to master your mind, how ...