Recovery, responsibility, and peace of mind.
SHOW UP is a conversation series shaped by recovery, discipline, and the hard work of personal change. Daryl Dittmer speaks with guests whose stories move between addiction, panic, trauma, philosophy, science, travel, and practical responsibility.
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SHOW UP is a recovery-shaped conversation series about becoming honest enough to change. Its center is Daryl Dittmer, whose introductions return to addiction, low confidence, financial rebuilding, and the decision to live differently. The tone is direct. It is also patient, with room for long stories and imperfect sentences. Episodes often begin with a simple challenge: the real fight may be with oneself. From there, the show follows guests into the practical details of rebuilding a life. Dexter Morton talks about isolation, panic, friendship, biochemistry, and the attempt to integrate scientific and spiritual ways of seeing. Daniel Fenley brings a harsher road, moving through law enforcement, PTSD, addiction, burnout, rehab, memoir, and advocacy. Ryan Welz connects recovery with Stoic philosophers and the idea that old texts can steady a modern life. Zach Smith adds an unexpected angle by treating travel logistics as a question of trust, presence, and stress reduction. The result is wider than a standard sobriety show. Addiction recovery is central, but the conversations also circle career, financial freedom, family travel, spiritual practice, responsibility, and the social cost of changing habits. SHOW UP is strongest when it stays close to lived experience. A missed exam, a panic call, a spouse carrying the burden of travel planning, or a person leaving old friends behind can carry more weight than a grand theory. The show’s advice is plain: change the influences, tell the truth, take responsibility, and stop pretending the old way still works. It does not make healing sound easy. It does make healing sound possible, especially when supported by better people, better habits, and a clearer relationship with fear. The conversations are warm without becoming soft. They can also be repetitive in a human way, circling the same themes until the lesson lands. Listeners looking for technical clinical guidance may find it more memoir-driven than instructional. Those drawn to recovery, philosophy, and grounded personal reinvention will find a sincere show built around accountability and peace of mind.
Made for: For listeners interested in addiction recovery, personal responsibility, Stoic or spiritual reflection, and candid stories of rebuilding after collapse. It especially suits people who prefer plain talk over polished self-help formulas.
What sets it apart: SHOW UP blends recovery testimony with wider conversations about travel, science, spirituality, philosophy, and financial rebuilding. Its distinct strength is the way everyday logistics and severe life crises are treated as part of the same question: how a person stops fighting themselves.
SHOW UP with Daryl Dittmer explores the quiet battles we fight with ourselves and the discipline required to change our lives. Through practical insights and conversations with successful leaders and entrepreneurs, Daryl shares the principles that helped him rebuild self-respect, create financial freedom, and find lasting peace of mind.Nothing changes until you show up.
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A travel conversation that treats logistics as the main event.
Show Up frames vacation talk as a case for why stress-free travel matters. Daryl Dittmer and Zach Smith tie Anywhere.com, Zach Smith's worldwide travel platform, to a promise built on ease, trust, and deep connection, and the conversation keeps circling the moving parts behind…
A grounded conversation about rebuilding life through practical change and inner work.
The episode stays centered on Daryl Dittmer and Dexter Morton as they talk through life change in practical, unsentimental terms. Daryl threads the discussion through drinking, drugs, zero confidence, and the slow work of showing up to life, while Dexter brings added depth…
A plainspoken recovery story about trauma, service, and what it takes to start again.
This episode gives a clear, unvarnished look at Daniel Fenley’s collapse and rebuild after more than 18 years in law enforcement, with trauma, addiction, burnout, PTSD, and rehab shaping the story.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Care, culture, and the choices shaping Black women's lives.
Root-cause health, explained plainly.
Hope, tested in real conversation.
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