We were lucky to catch up with Jason LaChance recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Jason, thanks for joining us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

A moment in my life that led me to not only a career change but a life trajectory was the night I hit my knees and acknowledged that I am powerless against alcohol.

At the time I was working in broadcast radio and when I started my recovery journey I was presented with the opportunity to start the Knockin’ Doorz Down podcast to help destigmatize addiction and mental health issues. It felt like a new purpose had entered my life and that it was time to take my 20 years of knowledge from my radio career as well as education in film and TV to serve others by sharing not only my transformational story but the stories of others who turned their darkest times into their greatest advantages.

Through this process, over the last 4 years, I have not only been able to uncover my childhood traumas, mainly surrounding sexual abuse that led me to drink in the first place but also developing skill sets that help others on their healing journeys.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I transitioned from radio broadcasting, event hosting, and commercial acting into the podcasting space when my friend Carlos Vieira wanted to create a supplemental podcast to his autobiography ‘Knockin’ Doorz Down’ which shares his life journey into addiction and out of it.

For the Knockin’ Doorz Down podcast, it is free to listen to wherever you get podcasts and on YouTube. If you’re looking for inspiring stories from celebrities that include Charlie Sheen, Kat Von D, Ric Flair, Kelly Osbourne, Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, and other celebrities as well as experts and change makers in the areas of addiction and mental health who share experiences and knowledge I recommend giving the podcast a listen.

I am really proud of what I have been able to achieve with the podcast, not only the empathy that is exchanged between myself and the guests but also the reach that it has had on others. On more than one occasion I have been blessed to have folks reach out and let me know that the podcast has helped keep them on a path or sobriety, addressing their mental health struggles or that they were on the verge of relapse and some how came across my podcast and it helped them not return to their affliction.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

I think that my work ethic and results have helped me build a reputation primarily with the addiction recovery community. I came into being a podcast host addressing the issues around mental health and addiction issues knowing very little about either.

As a person who is incredibly curious, I have been blessed to develop relationships with amazing mentors as well as mentees who have not only enriched me personally but allowed me to bring knowledge and resources to those in need. With consistent work, I began to have individuals reach out to me to coach them in their sobriety. It became a clear calling to develop more skill sets and become a certified recovery coach, which has been greatly rewarding as I have helped guide others to long-lasting recovery and sobriety.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

A lesson that I had to unlearn was believing the negative things that naysayers told me from childhood through periods of adulthood. It took a lot of work to understand that I am, just as everyone else a whole and complete individual. This led to me living my life by my trade marked saying “No Outside Solutions, To Inside Problems”.

For me, I had to acknowledge through alcohol, relationships, and other stimuli that I like many others was looking for external validation, others to complete me as well as achievements.

For many of us, the negative self-talk that we often do is put in our heads and thoughts by someone else. I was able to look in the mirror and apologize to myself for believing such negativity and develop a mindset and life in which things happen for me and not to me. It has really been moving away from a victim mentality and the sexual trauma of my childhood that I was hanging onto.

Contact Info:

• Website: KDDpodcast.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knockindoorzdown/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knockingdoorsdown
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-lachance-69810818a/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/kddmediacompany
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUSJ5ooBFqso8lfFiiIM-5g
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@kddpodcast