Rebuilding Life After Addiction
Real conversations about what happens after you get clean. For people who are sober but still searching for identity, purpose, and freedom.
What This Podcast Is About
Most recovery content focuses on the crisis: how to get sober, how to survive the first weeks, how to avoid relapse. That's important, but it's not the whole story.
For a lot of people, the harder part comes later. You're six months clean, maybe a year, and something still feels off. You're sober but not free. You're maintaining, not thriving.
This podcast exists for that question. Hosted by Justin Franich and Robert Grant, Rebuilding Life After Addiction is honest conversation about what comes next. No fluff. No platitudes. Just two guys who've been there, talking about what nobody else wants to talk about.
Who This Is For
The Dissatisfied Disciple
You've done the work. Attended the meetings. Hit your milestones. But something's missing. You're clean, but you're not free.
Family Members
You love someone in recovery and want to understand what they're going through. These conversations pull back the curtain.
Anyone Asking 'Now What?'
Sobriety is the starting line, not the finish line. If you're ready to figure out what comes next, you're in the right place.
What We Talk About
Identity
You're not defined by what you did. But figuring out who you actually are takes work.
Relationships
How do you rebuild trust? Navigate old friendships? Learn to be present?
Purpose
You need a mission, not just a maintenance plan. Finding something worth running toward.
Faith
Honest conversations about God and recovery. Not preachy. Just real.
5 Prayers for Families Still in the Fight
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Where to Start
New here? These are our best episodes.
Ben Fuller Testimony: From Cocaine Addiction to Worship
with Ben Fuller
Ben Fuller spent 14 years in cocaine and alcohol addiction. He lost his best friend to an overdose. Then one Sunday morning in Nashville, everything changed. This is the full conversation.
He Lost Everything... But God Met Him in the Wreckage: Rocco’s Story
with Rocco
Rocco lived in addiction for 17 years. Overdoses. Hospitals. Prison sentences. He had three and a half years clean. Serving in leadership. Doing the right things. And then he tore it all down in 30 days. Relapse hit hard and landed him right back in jail. His breakthrough came when he stopped trying to follow rules and started fighting for relationship. Jesus is the program. His mother prayed for 20 years. Faithful. Consistent. When he was running. When he was in prison.
One "Yes" at a Time: How Ministry Shaped Our Marriage
with Ashley Franich
Ashley shares our story. How we met. How God called us into Teen Challenge. What it looked like to say "yes" one step at a time when the path wasn't clear and the cost wasn't small. Ministry didn't come with a roadmap. It came with a basement full of women in recovery while we were raising young kids upstairs. It came with long days, tight budgets, and learning to trust God when the math didn't work. This conversation is for anyone navigating faith and marriage through a season of calling or transition. It wasn't always easy. Looking back, it wasn't always clear either. But every "yes" made sense eventually. If you're wondering how to follow God together when the road keeps shifting, Ashley's been living that question for over 15 years.
The Robe, the Ring, and the Sandals: What God Gives When You Come Home
The Prodigal Son had a speech ready when he came home. The father didn't let him finish it. Instead he gave three gifts: a robe, a ring, and sandals. Those weren't random. The robe is identity, who you are in Christ. The ring is authority, what you carry. The sandals are purpose, where you're going. Most people take the robe. Some take the ring. But a lot of people just stare at the sandals. They get clean, they get forgiven, and then they do nothing with their faith. The ones who stay free are the ones who put the sandals on and walk into something. In this sermon preached at Victory Church in Winchester, VA during missions week, Justin shares the stories of John Selby, who stood before a judge expecting prison and received mercy, Nathaniel, who turned one yes into seven sober living homes in Richmond, and a little foster baby who gave Justin the words he needed on the hardest morning of his life. Your yes doesn't have to be big. It just has to be a yes.
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Meet the Hosts
Executive Director
Justin Franich is a former meth addict, Teen Challenge graduate, and pastor who has been clean since 2005. Today he's a husband, father, and Executive Director of Shenandoah Valley Adult Teen Challenge. He hosts the Rebuilding Life After Addiction podcast and helps families across the U.S. navigate faith-based recovery options, compare programs, and rebuild life after addiction.
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Community Engagement Director
Rob Grant is a Teen Challenge graduate who grew up without his parents, was homeless, and spent years in and out of jail before finding freedom through Christ. He now serves as Community Engagement Director of Shenandoah Valley Adult Teen Challenge, where he takes family referral calls, mentors men in early recovery, and co-hosts the Rebuilding Life After Addiction Podcast.
Part of the Teen Challenge Recovery Story
Rebuilding Life After Addiction is produced by Shenandoah Valley Adult & Teen Challenge, a local ministry in the Adult & Teen Challenge network.
While the national Adult & Teen Challenge podcast Hope Within Reach highlights stories and expertise from across the broader ATC family, this podcast zooms in on what comes next – marriages, parenting, work, and faith once the program is over and real life starts again.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this podcast connected to Adult & Teen Challenge’s Hope Within Reach podcast?+
Rebuilding Life After Addiction is created by Shenandoah Valley Adult & Teen Challenge and focuses on life after the program for graduates and their families. The national Adult & Teen Challenge podcast Hope Within Reach shares stories and insights from the wider ATC network, and both shows point people to the same hope in Christ, just from different angles.
Who is this podcast for?+
This podcast is for anyone walking through addiction and recovery – graduates of Teen Challenge or other faith-based programs, family members, and people in the middle of the struggle who need honest, hope-filled conversations about what comes next.
Do I have to be in Teen Challenge to get something out of it?+
No. Many listeners have never been in Teen Challenge. The stories, principles, and conversations are rooted in Jesus and real life, not in a specific program. If you or someone you love is dealing with addiction, you belong here.
Have questions or want to share your story? We'd love to hear from you.