We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Chad Lemans. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Chad below.

Chad, appreciate you joining us today. What did your parents do right and how has that impacted you in your life and career?

My parents have taught me alot of things along the way, and I’m forever grateful for them. One of the main lessons that’s really stuck with me is to not give up hope. That was taught in many ways by them, but their actions displayed it better than any teaching could have.
After witnessing their hope and faith throughout my entire life, and going through the challenges that I have faced, I am of the opinion that everything in my life had to happen exactly how it happened, and exactly when it happened, in such perfect order and detail for me to have become the person that I am today. I wouldn’t have that mindset and perspective without their guiding light.

Chad, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I’ve been making some form of music since I was in high school, whether it was writing songs on guitar or messing around on fruity loops before I had any knowledge of what I was doing. Later on in my life I did attend college for audio engineering after witnessing an incredibly powerful music festival in which I saw Radiohead, Puscifer, and several other bands, and I thought to myself “I want to know why this sounds the way it does, and how to do that.”

Ironically I now make electronic music…

As far as the recovery podcast (This Pink Cloud) and working in the addiction treatment industry go:
The biggest gift I have today is all of the things I wished had never happened to me, and being open to talking about them… Because that experience may hold the key to helping unshackle another person’s chains.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

Hearing my music being played on the radio is an incredibly rewarding feeling. I make it because I love to make it, and I’m my own worst critic, but when I see other people all over the world are enjoying it like I do, that’s incredibly cool.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

Someone once told me “You can’t have a testimony without a test”.

In 2008, I was in a car accident that cost me my right leg. After being introduced to opioids, I spiraled out of control for the next 12 years of my life. I wound up homeless, and eventually in a coma with organ failure. I was arrested in the hospital after I woke up, because I still couldn’t stop using.

I was released from jail after being in for 20 months in July of 2022, with nothing but the clothes on my back. I ended up going to inpatient treatment, then an outpatient treatment and a sober living house. I was gifted a laptop from a family friend that christmas, and from that sober living kitchen table and a few late nights with (way) too much caffeine, I wrote some ideas and songs that later turned into my first EP release around April of 2023 with frequent collaborator Kelly Reverb.

Since then, I’ve had 30+ releases, over 1000 plays on the radio, and get to live a life I could never had dreamed of while I was in active addiction.

Finding recovery has proved to be the most pivotal point of my life. Without it, I wouldn’t have anything. With it, I have everything.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Chadlemans.com
• Instagram: https://Instagram.com/chad.lemans
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@chad.lemans
• Soundcloud: https://Soundcloud.com/chadlemans

Image Credits

First picture: with Mom (Sheila Williamson) and friends

Second picture: At a gig

Third picture: With Mom and Dad at Grace To Change’s gala

Last: with Mom at her book signing for her book Two Calls: Blossoming Faith: Keeping Hope Alive (twocalls.org)