Parenting Through Addiction with Cat Greenleaf

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Host of the Soberness Podcast, Cat Greenleaf, shares her experiences as an alcoholic and getting sober while parenting. She and Bryce Hamilton, LSCSW, discuss how addiction and alcoholism affect parents, where and how parents struggling with addiction can find support, and offer empathetic feedback and encouragement. 

They share the statistics and first-hand experience of what being a child of a parent with an addiction feels like, and how it impacts their family.

Full of support, encouragement, and actionable steps you can take now, this episode is especially valuable for any parent wondering if they have an addiction problem, have considered seeking help for an addiction, or want to get sober.

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Cat created and hosted NBC’s long-running series Talk Stoop—the celebrity interview show filmed on her Brooklyn front steps. Yep, the one with the bulldog that dominated NYC TaxiTV and USA Daytime in the 20teens. Over nine years, she hosted hundreds of guests, racked up four Emmys, launched countless adventures—and had so much fun.

Then she got fired. No fun. After losing her job, she thought she’d never to go back to journalism. With no other marketable skills and no idea what to do next, she entered an epic dark night of the soul.

Looking for light, her family moved to the beach in Coney Island. There, Cat got serious about her own sobriety and began bringing recovery meetings to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and men. That work inspired her to found the nonprofit Restorative Housing Organization. RHO is dedicated to training formerly incarcerated men and women to renovate undervalued NYC waterfront properties, which are then rented to Section 8 tenants. She loves it. But once a journalist, always a journalist.

So when she weirdly got name-checked on Hacks last season, she took it as a sign.
Soon after, she heard her old friend, musician Steve Earle, talking openly about his sobriety on a radio show —a thing she didn’t know people were even allowed to do. And she realized she wanted to be the one talking to Steve Earle about sobriety on a show! Soberness was born in September 2024. 

Learn more about Cat and her podcast here:

Website: www.Soberness.com

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