Off The Clock Toolbox Talk
Men forging health in the unregulated drug crisis, through real f**king talk.
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Episodes
27 episodes
Season 3 Sampler
The Season 3 Sampler lets you get a bite of each episode:1. Shawn's Story2. Aeris' Story Part 13. Jason's Story4. Superintendent Summit5. Losing Someone to Overdose6. CSO Shane's Story7. Aeris's Story Part 2C...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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50:09
Aeris's Story - Part 2
Aeris’s Story Part 2 picks up where Aeris is just coming back to reality after being in a coma for a month. His steadfast family helps him slowly recover from kidney, liver and brain damage. Advocating on his behalf, his family asks the doctors...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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32:06
Aeris's Story - Part 1
As rod buster Aeris Finch refers to partway through his story, his struggle really began at age 11, when he lost his older brother to an MDMA accident. But some of the effects of that trauma didn’t emerge until he began experimenting with subst...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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36:27
Superintendent Summit
Superintendent Summit features in-depth discussion about how to lead work sites in a day where all our crews are affected by mental health and overdose (drug poisoning). From their own experiences, Superintendents Duncan Jordan and Trevor Botki...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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36:41
CSO Shane's Story
CSO Shane Sewell (different than Shayne’s Story) takes us on his heart’s journey from an 8-year-old with an invisible disability and an abusive parent, to an adult inner life that was continually erupting with low self esteem and feeling like h...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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38:01
Jason's Story
Jason White, electrician and former rock star hopeful, shares his story of substance use, addiction, and the sharp turn that snatched him out of a sinking darkness, showing him a better way of being. Like many people’s stories contain powerful ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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44:15
Losing Someone to 'Overdose'
If you've been looking for relatable, non-invasive support after losing someone to overdose (drug poisoning), you've found it. Holding heartbreak in one hand and inspiration to take action in the other, Kale Moth and Julie Cochrane explore life...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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38:17
Shawn's Story
Ironworker, Shawn Underhill, joins Daniel and Karen to talk about his journey through problematic substance use and addiction. From Shawn’s early days smoking pot as a teen in his first construction job, to navigating problematic substance use ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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37:05
Season 2 Sampler
The Off the Clock Toolbox Talk Season 2 Sampler serves up select appetizers from Season 2 episodes, combined with house-style transitional music to keep your groove on throughout your day. The Season 2 Sampler featur...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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53:13
Shayne's Story: The Aftershow
The conversation continues as Trevor, Shayne and Karen discuss ‘safety is behavioral’; these life-wisdom conversations need to happen in-person, breathing and sharing energy together, preferred where apps, lectures, and protocols fall short. Ka...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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32:03
Shayne's Story
Shayne Taylor, Corporate Director of HSE at The Gisborne Group joins Karen and guest co-host, Trevor Botkin, to talk about his personal experiences with mental health and substance use. Uniquely, Shayne’s adulthood career path fluctuated betwee...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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33:29
Psychedelic Surprise
Continuing the conversation from “Curious AF”, Daniel and Karen talk with Mike Mathers who demystifies psychedelic therapy and the incredible results of clinical trials ongoing amidst a grey psychedelic market in Canada. Mike warns against cove...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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34:36
Curious AF!
Therapist Mike Mathers joins Daniel and Karen to talk about his new book coming out in 2024, Curious AF. Mike sets us up to understand how the human mind operates as a social entity that needs to belong to a group, and influences us to...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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38:04
Random Recovery Talk
Trevor, Kale and Karen drift through some random conversation on subtle aspects of the recovery journey. Kale discusses that recovery isn’t easy, but as you begin to feed yourself, you get strong AF. Trevor remembers how tied he was to his nega...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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22:50
Ditch the Tough. Keep the Love. (A Mom's Journey Toward Change in Policy, Practice and Politics)
Daniel chats with podcast project partner, Kat Wahamaa from Mom’s Stop the Harm about losing her twenty-five year old son Joseph to the unregulated drug crisis, and about the unintentional and intentional harms that are taking place in...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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32:40
Rig Life (and other tough work sites)
An expanded part of Kale’s Story, Trevor Botkin and Kale Moth discuss the specifics of working on an oil rig and other tough work sites. Belonging and paychecks pull us in. Identity and pride in hard work keep us there. Kale says, “That much ti...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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34:44
Squishy Meat Bags (I Don't Have Trauma. You Have Trauma!)
Self-identified squishy meat bags, Jason (guest co-host), Karen (host), and Jonas (OTCTBT Steering Committee member), discuss trauma with Registered Clinical Counsellor, Sabine Sasakura. (Go to 18:51 for the squishy meat bag context). Starting ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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36:40
Kale's Story
Twenty-five year old Kale Moth tells his story of being swept away by life on an oil rig at the ripe old age of 18. With guest co-host Trevor Botkin, Kale explores what he thought it meant to be a man, and how his commitment to self and family ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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37:42
Season 1 Sampler
As a unique bonus episode, the Season 1 Sampler combines clips from Season 1 together with music to keep you moving at work or play. Its a great place to find which episodes of Off the Clock Toolbox Talk are the most helpful for you, your co-wo...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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55:16
Trevor's Story
Trevor Botkin tells his story of recovering out loud from the superintendent's office to using alone in a basement. We start our conversation discussing what, if any, of the various initiatives addressing substance use in the trades, would have...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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41:05
Deconstructing Your Inner Asshole - Part 2 of 2
Continuing the conversation from Part 1, Karen, Daniel and guest, Jason from Nightingale Electrical, talk about the seven forms inner asshole can take. We discuss the shame inner asshole imposes when we let him hide in the dark, which is true f...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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35:06
Deconstructing Your Inner Asshole - Part 1 of 2
Daniel and Karen discuss what our inner asshole looks and sounds like with special guest, Jason White from Nightingale Electrical. After setting up some safety parameters, we build the metaphor that our mind is like a nightclub with a bou...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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27:01
Using Safely (Or... Safer???)
Tylenol, beer, whiskey, cocaine, and many others! This is a safer using conversation like most of us have never had before. Harm Reduction Coordinator, Lianne Radmore, inspires us to think of our substance use differently and understand how we ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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30:49
Cracking Open the Tailgate Toolkit
Colby and Greg join us to share what the Tailgate Toolkit is, and how its helping men in construction navigate the drug poisoning crisis. https://thetailgatetoolkit.ca/Greg shares his experien...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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30:37
Building Hope: Part 2
Picking up right where we left off in Building Hope: Part 1, George and Daniel move into a discussion about harm reduction (taking care of ourselves) and Drug Use For Grownups by Carl Hart. Daniel asks questions about how to deal with people wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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37:29