Izzy Battres

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103 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard May 2025

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We're Out of Time · Rock Bottom to HGTV: Izzy Battres' Journey of Faith and Redemption · 13 May 2025 podcast

The advice that I would give somebody that's struggling with drugs and alcohol or any kind of abusive behavior is you have to be tired. You have to be tired of wanting to get help and change. The advice I would say, and usually I say this when I'm out on the streets talking to people, is are you tired yet?

Because if you're not tired, you got one more run in you, one more hit in you, then, you know, you're not going to fully surrender.

So you tell them that, right? You say, if you're not tired, you don't know what's coming next. And sad to say, some of our guys that went into our recovery home, they go out, they think they got one last run in them. Gone after that fentanyl hit. That's right. Gone. And it's not the same dope like it was before. This fentanyl thing takes you out. You're done.

And you think you got one last hit in you? Boom. And we're burying people still for coming out of our recovery home.

When you're humble, doors open up. God, you know, is a friend to the humble. He opposes the proud, but gives more grace to the humble. And, you know, that grace comes when you're humble. And sometimes, you know, you said, you know, saving face and protecting yourself and all that, that's... You got to drop your guard sometimes.

Oh, you've been there.

What keeps me grounded is just the people that I'm around with. My wife keeps me grounded. My wife keeps me grounded. He who finds a wife finds favor with the Lord. And man, she's amazing. You know, she keeps me grounded. And just being around her, it's just real. And everything is, all the noise is gone. You love her kids just like they're yours. Oh, yeah. Every day I'm praying for them.

Every day I'm looking out for their success. Every day I'm trying to build them up and getting ready for their next phase of their life. How old are those kids? Who's that? How old are your wife's kids, your kids? So Joseph is 24 and Brianna's 22.

So your kids that you had at 45 and 47. Yeah. They're not with you.

A house is down. Up. Up. Yep.

You see, I wanted that from Joseph and Brianna's dad, but he was so caught up in his... And his own madness, we didn't have that. I'm sorry. Yeah. And doing the TV show was very therapeutic for us.

because you know i was the stepdad you know just you said something powerful you're wired to automatically love your dad you are and so i was always you know i was the guy the other guy that's right um and so but doing the tv show together really made us close to each other we dropped our guard and we worked together on TV, doing projects on TV.

And it provided a forum where we had to be amongst each other and even talk things through. And there were times where he would be able to talk it through with the production company. And he would just talk about it. And I'd be surprised about him talking about it. And the people would listen.

And so he's just being able to talk about it and being able to, you know, communicate that I think is a powerful thing.

I agree. I agree. I went through my series of therapy when not being able to have a child. I had to go through that part. And you're right. They provide certain tools and conversations that brings healing. And, and yeah, I agree 100%. Prayer doesn't take care of it. You know, they say, just pray about it. You know, you just need other tools.

Sometimes even your relationship with the Lord, God made therapists, you know, and they have a certain, you know, intuition and gift to be able to help other people out of being stuck. All right.

Well, in the realm of, we're hoping to get season two, right? We did season one. We'll see what season two looks like.

Not of all HGTV, but in this season, we ranked in the top 10. And for it to premiere as a new show, it did fairly well. So of course they're picking it up. Yeah. So we're happy about that. We're happy that we're one of the very first Latino families on HGTV. Predominantly, it's a different demographic. Last one. Yeah.

Um, because I think that that's everybody's, uh, Innate desire is to be seen. Didn't see you as a child. You know, growing up in a household where it's chaos, you go find it somewhere else. And that's where I found it. I found it on the streets. I found it wanting to belong. I found purpose in other things. And you get caught up that way.

And that's what I would say to any young man, you know, making that connection and really making them feel like there's purpose in their life. If they could find that purpose. Then they don't have to go through all the madness and all the chaos and try to belong somewhere where that belonging is going to take them down a bad, evil street.

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