TELL YOUR ADDICTION RECOVERY STORY-- VOICE ONLY

AUDIO CASTING CALL

ARE YOU IN A RECOVERY PROGRAM DUE TO AN ADDICTION PROBLEM WITH DRUGS OR ALCOHOL? DO YOUR HAVE A TOTALLY SHOCKING, OUTRAGEOUS OR TWISTED STORY OF YOUR DOWNWARD SPIRAL TO ROCKBOTTOM?

DO YOU HAVE AN UNBELIEVABLE AND INSPIRATIONAL STORY OF STRENGTH AND HOPE ON YOUR PATH TO SOBRIETY AND REDEMPTION?

YOU CAN’T MAKE UP THESE CRAZY TRUE LIFE SHARES YOU HEAR IN RECOVERY PROGRAMS OR REHAB.

AN EMMY WINNING PRODUCTION COMPANY WANTS TO HEAR YOU NARRATE YOUR STORY FOR AN EXCITING NEW DOCU-SERIES FOR TELEVISION.

WE’LL USE YOUR VOICE ONLY.
YOUR FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT WILL BE USED TO LATER RECREATE YOUR STORY IN A TOTALLY ANONYMOUS WAY TO DRAMATIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE. IT WILL BE USED TO INSPIRE OTHERS BATTLING THEIR OWN ADDICTIONS. YOUR INCREDIBLE STORY FILLED WITH OMG MOMENTS, HEART AND HUMOR WILL BE SHARED.
PEOPLE WON’T BELIEVE YOUR TALE.

RECORD YOUR AUDIO ONLY AND SEND IT TO THE EMAIL LISTED HERE WITH YOUR CONTACT INFO:

1. FIRST NAME ONLY
2. AGE
3. YOUR BRIEF BIO AND LOCATION
4. HOW LONG YOU’VE BEEN SOBER
5. WHAT IS YOUR VICE AND WHEN DID YOU START
6. TELL HOW IT SNOWBALLED OUT OF CONTROL
7. WHAT WAS YOUR ROCK BOTTOM MOMENT
8. WHAT HAPPENED TO LEAD YOU TO SOBRIETY
9. TELL YOUR RECOVERY EXPERIENCE
10. FINALLY HOW YOU’RE DOING NOW
Please make no specific references to individuals, recovery programs or facilities
Must be over 18
Please try and keep to around ten minutes
email to the address any questions
*record on iphone or android using “voice memos” and email via cloud to email address listed

DO NOT SEND ANY PICTURES

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Recording Tips and Suggested Topics

Speak as you would in a meeting.

Begin by giving us your name and phone number. This way, we will have a way to contact you if your story is chosen.

Focus on a specific experience or something that can be handled in 5-7 minutes.

Think about the arc of a story: a beginning, a middle and an end.

IN A TEN MINUTE STORY
20% BACKGROUND/HOW IT STARTED AND WHEN
40% PROGRESSION TOWARDS ROCK BOTTOM i.e. YOUR “DRUNKALOGUE” (A COUPLE STORIES)
20% YOUR EXPERIENCE IN ATTEMPTING SOBRIETY (AT LEAST ONE STORY)
20% WHERE ARE YOU NOW AND YOUR NEW PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES

Remember to include the following things when you begin to record your story:

Introduce yourself as though you were in a meeting.

Location. Are you in Los Angeles? California? Canada? This helps to set the scene for the listener. Details help. If moved location explain that

Here are some suggestions to get you thinking. Feel free to choose something else. An anecdote from your first 90 days
My first sponsor
Getting to Step One
Going back to school sober
Talking to family about your sobriety
My first job sober
My old friends, my new friends
What got me into recovery
Amends Story?)
How I found my Higher Power

Technical: record on your iphone voice memos app and simply send to the email address via the cloud option

Ok to record in segments of what it was like, what happened to seek sobriety, and how is it now… stop and start your recording and edit as you go… or tell the entire story as if you are speaking in a room add humor, emphasis, and inflection as needed… imagine you are narrating your own documentary…