Show Summary:

In this episode of Background Check, with talk with Shelley Goad, LCDC. Her story begins with her parents being divorced while she was still young and her mom working her butt off to make it.

Then she was introduced to Crown Royal in junior high and then later in life, meth. Her life began to spin out of control because of her addiction. When she drank, she drank to get drunk, and she wanted to be anywhere but where she was, and she wanted to be anybody but Shelley.

While going to see her dad who was dying of cancer, she was arrested in 2007. The car she drove was stolen. She says the best thing her family did was NOT bail her out of jail.

We talk about her going back to school and just doing anything that was put in front of her so that she could help as many people as possible. Now, she's an LCDC in Taos, NM.

Memorable Quotes: “It was the most incredible thing my family ever did for me, was not bail me out of jail.” -Shelley Goad
“Your rock bottom is when you stop digging.” - Shelley Goad

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