Digital Social Hour
From Champion Coach to Addiction Advocate: A Powerful Journey | Coach Cochran DSH #1187
17 Feb 2025
Step into an extraordinary story of resilience, redemption, and purpose on this special episode of the Digital Social Hour Podcast with Sean Kelly! 🎙️ Join us as we welcome legendary college coach turned addiction advocate, Coach Cochran, for a raw and inspiring conversation you won’t forget. From dominating the sidelines and winning 8 national championships to battling a hidden decade-long addiction, Coach Cochran opens up about his powerful journey of recovery and transformation. 💪✨ Discover how this champion coach went from coaching elite athletes to exploring Las Vegas tunnels with a charity group, helping the homeless, and launching the American Addiction Recovery Association. 🏈➡️💜 Whether you’re a sports fan, someone battling addiction, or just need a boost of inspiration, this episode is PACKED with valuable insights and hope. 👉 Don’t miss out on this eye-opening discussion about breaking stigma, overcoming addiction, and making a real impact. Tune in now, and be part of the change. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:41 - Exploring the Tunnels in Vegas 04:29 - Finding Your Purpose 05:44 - College Football Salaries Surge 07:50 - Leadership Techniques 13:41 - Understanding Addiction 18:10 - The Dangers of Overdosing 20:45 - Identifying Addictive Substances 21:24 - Returning to Rehab 22:51 - Rise in Overdose Deaths 29:58 - AARA Overview 32:13 - NIL Impact on Sports 38:53 - Henry Ruggs Case Analysis 40:02 - Most Athletic Sports Compared 42:56 - Future Plans for Coach Cochran APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Coach Cochran https://www.instagram.com/coach_cochran_ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #recoverycoach #addictioncounselor #mentalhealth #substanceabusecounseling #chrisherren
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migraines these really bad headaches and uh the doc uh after about two years of writing all kinds of different you know blood thinners let's try this let's try that they wrote me oxy for headaches yeah and it worked jeez like i could coach all day
All right, guys, special episode today. I think first time I've had a college coach on. Coach Cochran, thanks for coming on today. Yeah, thanks for having me. Fired up to be here. Yeah, one of the most decorated college coaches of all time. Yeah, man. Pretty cool. Pretty cool.
Cool to learn from you. And now you're on a new mission. Big mission. Yeah, we'll dive into it. You were just out here in Vegas exploring the tunnels, right? Yeah.
Just checked out the tunnels. A group called Shine a Light took us around Saturday to go feed, give them water, meet them, kind of see where they are, meet them where they are. Saw some really interesting things. Yeah. There was a... There was a guy there that has been there for 10 years. He lost his entire house in a hurricane in Puerto Rico. Found his way to Las Vegas.
Soon as he landed, all of his luggage got taken. Whoa. So he tried to get a job. He tried to move, tried to shake. Couldn't. Found himself in the tunnels. Yeah. And has been there 10 years. That's crazy. And just talking to him, he's not leaving. That's his home. Yeah, at that point, that's a long time. Yeah. We offered him, like, go to rehab, offered him beds, and he was like, no, I'm good.
Wow. He's more comfortable there than rehab or a bed? Correct. Interesting.
And what I'm finding out, talking to the people at Shinalight, that if you offer them a bed and they come to, they've never had a bed in so long, they freak out for the first like two weeks, just trying to understand that like they have a place, they don't have to go run and chase food. And so they have to figure out their mindset and how they change the way
They think completely because they went from every day. I want to go hunt either for a substance or food and then find a way to get back to that bed that they created. Wow. But it was, it was tough because it was their home. You know, so I was real careful with how I filmed my stuff. Yeah. Did they let you film like? They did. Oh, they did.
Wow. As long as you didn't, I just didn't feel comfortable filming them. Yeah. Or filming their like specific little hole that they've created. Yeah. I heard some of them get pretty pissed down there. Yeah. Yeah. So I stayed away from that. Did you see a lot of substance use down there? I didn't see the use, but I saw the paraphernalia. Hmm.
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