After being invited onto the Living Clean Podcast, I started listening back through the early episodes. Toward the end of many of them, Mason or Travis would often ask a simple but powerful question:

“Do you have something you’d like to say to the newcomer?”

This episode is a montage of those answers from the first year of the podcast.

The question wasn’t asked at the end of every episode—but it came up often enough to leave a trail of wisdom, honesty, hope, and lived experience. What you’ll hear are short snippets of voices, shared in chronological order, speaking directly to the person who matters most in Narcotics Anonymous: the newcomer.

Putting this together reminded me of the magic of this program. The newcomer keeps us grateful. The newcomer reminds us that recovery is not something we graduate from—it’s something w ...