Long-Form · Honest · On Record

Preston in conversation.

Long-form interviews, podcast conversations, and panel discussions covering interventions, recovery coaching, family systems, plant medicine, and the inside-the-system view of behavioral health treatment.

Featured Conversations

Where Preston has been on the record.

A growing collection of interviews on intervention, recovery, addiction, and what really happens inside the behavioral health system. Specific episode embeds will be added as they go live — for now, a directory.

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Interventions: What Really Works

The 90 seconds after a loved one says "yes" to treatment determines whether they actually go. Preston on the calm, non-coercive approach that gets people through the door.

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The Operator's View of Treatment

What 11 years of owning and operating detox, residential, and outpatient programs actually teaches you about what works and what doesn't.

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Plant Medicine, Honestly

Why preparation is everything, why integration is more important than the ceremony, and who shouldn't be doing this work.

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The Family System Behind Every Relapse

When the loved one comes home and the same dynamics are waiting — relapse isn't a willpower failure. It's a system failure.

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Fentanyl and the Speed Problem

The window to act on opioid use disorder used to be months. With fentanyl it's days. What that changes about how families intervene.

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The Epic Journal: Daily Practice for Recovery

Preston on the daily practice journal now in 20,000+ hands and used in treatment programs across the country.

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High-Functioning Addiction in Professional Settings

The executive who's drinking a bottle of wine a night. The surgeon on benzos. The lawyer who's "fine." How to actually help.

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Why Treatment Centers Don't Solve It

Treatment is an event. Recovery is a life. Why the continuum-of-care model is the only thing that actually translates treatment into permanent change.

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Loss, Grief, and How They Become Addiction

Preston on losing his father to suicide and his brother to fentanyl, and what those losses taught him about what families in crisis actually need.

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What "Vetted Treatment Placement" Really Means

The truth about how most placement services work, what makes Epic Journey's network different, and why we turn down referrals from facilities that pay us.

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Mental Health vs. Addiction (or: Why You Need Both)

The clinical model behind dual-diagnosis treatment, and why programs that treat one without the other consistently fail their clients.

For Press & Producers

Booking inquiries.

Preston is available for podcast appearances, panels, conference talks, and on-record interviews on intervention, recovery, addiction, mental health treatment, plant medicine, and behavioral health operations.

Email epicjourneyoc@gmail.com or call (833) 598-2254 with topic, audience, and dates.

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