Plainspoken recovery, faith, and table-talk humor.
Take 12 Recovery Radio Network is a long-running recovery table with microphones on. Episodes move from housekeeping, jokes, music cues, and mailbag moments into practical 12-step conversations about action, prayer, expectations, purpose, and staying sober.
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Take 12 Recovery Radio Network is recovery radio with the rough edges left in. It has announcements, disclaimers, songs, bits, mailbag moments, and the easy interruptions of people who know one another well. The show is rooted in 12-step recovery, but it does not present itself as the voice of a particular fellowship. That distinction matters. Its conversations use the language of steps, defects of character, prayer, meditation, service, and spiritual experience while staying in the realm of personal perspective rather than professional advice. The tone can be warm and funny. It can also turn grave quickly when addiction, pain, relapse pressure, or purpose comes into view. Episodes such as Step Eleven and Step Twelve focus directly on spiritual practice and recovery action. Other conversations start from everyday friction. A phrase like choosing the hard thing becomes a way to talk about urges, difficult conversations, the gym, bad relationships, procrastination, and the cost of staying stuck. The hosts and recurring voices are comfortable pushing back on easy answers. They ask what a slogan actually means in daily life. They also joke around enough that the room never feels sealed off from ordinary human silliness. Faith is a steady presence, especially in discussions of God, prayer, meditation, and asking for direction. So is practical recovery talk. The show returns often to helping newcomers, bringing experience back to the rooms, and using sobriety in service of other people. It is not slick therapeutic content. It is closer to a living table conversation, with music bumpers and network-family warmth holding the pieces together. Listeners looking for cleanly edited expert interviews may find it loose. Listeners who want recovery spoken in plain words, with conviction, humor, and spiritual backbone, will understand its appeal fast. Take 12 makes sobriety sound hard, possible, and shared.
Made for: For people in or around addiction recovery who connect with 12-step language, faith-based reflection, practical slogans, and conversational support. It also suits listeners who prefer lived experience over polished clinical distance.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the blend of recovery radio structure and familiar panel looseness: music cues, mailbag, jokes, spiritual discussion, and blunt practical application all in the same hour.
Take 12 Recovery Radio is a Twelve Step focused recovery talk and positive music radio & podcast network helping to break the stigma of drug and alcohol addiction. Your host is Monty Dale Meyer aka the Monty'man from Albany, Oregon. Shows include a variety of guest and co-host. Celebrities, authors, clinicians, treatment providers, comedians, recovery recording artist and the real life stories of experience, strength and hope from those who have been to the darkest edge of addiction and come through to the light of recovery. LEGAL NOTICE: Take 12 Recovery Radio, Take12Radio.com and our shows are DBA/KHLT Recovery Broadcasting and protected by Federal Copyright Laws. Shows may not be altered…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Take 12 makes Twelve Step recovery practical through candid talk about sobriety, faith, relationships, accountability, and the disruptions of daily life.
Take 12 Recovery Radio Network turns recovery principles into conversations about ordinary pressure: a flat tire, an argument, unfinished dishes, a difficult apology.
A flat tire becomes your sobriety plan, and somehow the dishwasher joins the meeting.
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A recovery chat that turns ordinary resistance into a clear, usable question.
Choose Your Hard frames recovery as a plain accounting of tradeoffs. Lili, Alicia, and the Monty Man keep the conversation loose, but the point stays steady: if the pull toward drink, drugs, or food is hard, so is staying stuck, and so is the quieter effort of starting the gym,…
A plain Step 11 talk about prayer, meditation, and staying useful to other people.
Take 12 Recovery Radio Network centers Step 11 on prayer and meditation as steady recovery work, then keeps circling back to conscious contact with God and the wish for the knowledge of his will and the power to carry it out.
A recovery chat about flat tires, missed meetings, and the way life keeps getting in the way.
This episode turns a recovery-table conversation into a plain reminder that interruption is part of recovery life. It starts a little loosely, drifting through parade plans and Sober St.
Step 10 is framed as prompt cleanup for what is still unsettled.
The episode treats Step 10 as practical upkeep: stay watchful, notice when something is wrong, and deal with it while it is still fresh. It returns to intuition, mental muscle memory, and the value of not carrying unresolved baggage into the end of the day. Mr. Dion Miller, Mr.
Dirty dishes turn expectations into a recovery question with a laugh and a sting.
Take 12 Recovery Radio Show turns expectations into something as plain as a sink full of dishes. A question about whether it is reasonable to expect someone else to clean up becomes a grounded look at what happens when that expectation is not met.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Monty Dale Meyer hosts with co-hosts Dion Miller and Roger McDermott on Take 12 Recovery Radio.
Take 12 Recovery Radio Network examines debated recovery questions including disease-versus-choice models, faith-based treatment, family enabling, triggers, and the difference between a slip and relapse.
This episode introduces the Take 12 Recovery Radio Show with its host and co-hosts discussing recovery topics in a casual, personal manner.
This episode of the Came to Believe Recovery Podcast features hosts Monty Man and Tom Williams discussing recovery topics with a focus on taking action, as introduced by the song 'Keep It In Motion' by Guided By Voices.
This episode explores the nature of God as a metaphor, defends offensive comedy, and transitions into a radio show promoting recovery and positivity.
This episode features host Recovered Alcoholic introducing a recovery-focused talk show with guest Andrew Ace Greenspan, discussing finding purpose through pain in addiction recovery.
This episode of the Came to Believe Recovery Podcast discusses aligning one's heart with God's will as part of spiritual recovery, featuring hosts Alicia Martinez, Tom, and Monty.
This episode introduces a 12-step fellowship radio show focused on recovery, offering hope, joy, and support through talk and music.
It starts loose.
Step 11 gets the spotlight.
The Came to Believe Recovery Podcast opens with Monty and Alicia in that familiar recovery-table rhythm.
The broadcast opens with a disclaimer and a warm welcome over the air.
This episode of the Came to Believe Recovery Podcast discusses the journey from merely surviving to thriving in recovery, featuring host Monty Mann from Take 12 Recovery.
This episode discusses the role of enablers in alcoholism, featuring hosts and guests from recovery programs to explore support dynamics in addiction.
This episode appears to be an introduction to a podcast about avoiding complacency, likely focusing on recovery and personal growth topics.
This episode discusses the spiritual and practical importance of knowing when to remain silent, framed within a recovery context.