The Brazen Recovery
Podcast
JACOB &
MIRIAM
We’re high school sweethearts and best friends. We’ve been married for 12 years and have two beautiful children. But if that sounds like some fluffy, picture-perfect story where we pretend everything is butterflies and rainbows, think again.
Our marriage was nearly dismantled many times by addiction, deceit and enmeshment.
Our podcast is Brazen. No sanitized self-help. No dry lectures. Just raw, unfiltered conversations from a husband and wife who faced the wreckage of compulsive sexual behavior, chose the work and are building a new life from the ground up.
About us
You can listen to our full story in Episode 1 of the Brazen Recovery Podcast. If you want to hear more of our heart, thinking and raw insight, that episode breaks down the entire journey.
But if you just want the short version, here is the timeline of how we got here:
Two weeks in to marriage
Jacob’s addiction to pornography and unwanted sexual behavior was forced into the light. Miriam jumped into the driver’s seat and tried to fix everything on her own.
the first four years
We spent years trying to wish it all away. We relied on willpower, empty promises and trying harder.
Around year five
We stopped trying to fix it ourselves, began working with a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and joined our very first recovery groups. This was the moment our recovery journey began.
in our seventh year of marriage
As sexual behavior was suppressed, cross-addiction surfaced. Jacob hit a hard rock bottom with alcohol, exposing the deep need to address root pain rather than just swapping coping mechanisms.
for the next three years
On paper, we were checking every recovery box. Groups. Therapy. But in reality, nothing was really changing. Chronic relapses. Staggered disclosure. Enabling. Rescuing.
just before our tenth anniversary
Everything shifted when we both surrendered. Miriam threw up her hands and Jacob accepted his powerlessness to this addiction. He completed to a rigorous 90-in-90 recovery program, dove into community, worked through the 12-Steps and experienced radical, lasting transformation.
Experiencing the power of real community and authentic connection saved our marriage and reshaped our lives.
We built the Brazen Recovery Podcast because no one should have to navigate the terrifying isolation of addiction or betrayal alone. We aren't here to offer dry academic lectures or superficial, sanitized advice. We share our story—unfiltered and unvarnished—in hopes that you can learn from our mistakes, let our pain serve as your wake-up call and find the courage to step into real, lasting freedom.
RECOVERY IS CONNECTION.
Check out our guests
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Drew Boa, PSAP
Founder of Husband Material, host of the Husband Material Podcast, and co-host of the podcast Start Younger.
He specializes in helping men heal from unwanted sexual behaviors by equipping them to outgrow pornography, step into emotional maturity and become the men and husbands they were created to be.
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Taylor Chambers, LMFT
Founder of We Are the Good and the Free.
He specializes in helping men break free from sexual addiction and unwanted behaviors by confronting root isolation, stepping into emotional maturity and moving into deep, sustainable integrity.
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Devon Stribling, Recovery Coach
Founder of Warfare of Grace.
He works directly with men battling compulsive sexual behaviors, helping them dismantle toxic shame, drop self-reliance and execute real recovery strategies rooted in truth and accountability.
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Eric Ford, AMFT, ASAT Candidate
Founder of Eric Ford Counseling.
Specializes in addiction recovery, trauma and helping couples navigate the wreckage of betrayal and find healing and wholeness.
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Reese Crane, Recovery Coach
Founder of The Silent Addiction and leads recovery intensives through Be Broken Ministries.
He focuses on helping men move past white-knuckling and surface-level behavioral fixes by addressing underlying emotional pain, root triggers and emotional sobriety.
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Tyler Patterson
Founder and President of Ever Accountable.
He is the creator of digital transparency tools designed to eliminate secret-keeping and build real-time accountability across devices without blind spots.
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Beth Fischer, M.Ed.
Founder of Healing Families LLC
and creator of the Betrayal Trauma Healing Method® and The Integrity Journey®.She is a trauma specialist who helps individuals and couples navigate betrayal trauma, establish firm boundaries and rebuild emotional safety after severe relationship fracture.
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DAWN KNIGHT, BETRAYAL RECOVERY COACH
Founder of Dawn Knight Coaching.
Dawn is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Certified Grief Educator, APSATS CPC-Candidate, and trained trauma-informed peer group facilitator, with a special focus on women 50+ facing betrayal and major life transitions later in life.
Ready to start healing?
You can over-intellectualize recovery all day. You can listen to podcasts, read every book on the shelf and memorize every tool in the book—it is not going to change your life.
Psychoeducation is a great starting point, but information alone won't keep you sober.
Real transformation only happens when you stop managing your recovery in your head, drop self-reliance and execute a structured plan with relentless, external accountability.
