This episode contains sensitive content that discusses violence, children, and police brutality. Discretion is advised. Welcome Lt. Randy Sutton to The Mark Howley Show! " The Voice of American Law Enforcement, " Lt. Randy Sutton is a 34-year law enforcement veteran and nationally known media commentator on law enforcement issues. This is an extra powerful episode discussing Sutton's recent 2024 talk at the Republican National Convention (we will share the link below), his noble non profit "The ...
Jun 30, 2025•52 min
"Energy, heart, and attention to detail make for some of the more exciting alt-rock I've heard in awhile" -Reflective Surface Mag Welcome The Warhawks on the The Mark Howley Show! The Warhawks--once described as "the ugly beach boys" -- sit down with us in the midst of recording their new album to share whats going on in the alternative rock world. They discuss music entreupenurship, the hustle in the industry , their upcoming album, band drama and more. This dynamic quartet is made up of brothe...
Jun 16, 2025•42 min•Season 3Ep. 82
"EMPOWERING FAMILIES, BUILDING GENERATIONAL WEALTH!" Vozhi Adiaman is a proud Tamil-American real estate guru, rapper, entrepreneur and overall dope human. He comes on today to share his childhood in Tamil Nadu to his migration to America where he harnessed what many of think is lost, the American Dream. Through his wicked smart ability to pick up real estate industry trends, networking his ass off, pursuing his creative side as a Tamil musician...while staying "whole" as he states are all inspi...
May 23, 2025•44 min•Season 3Ep. 81
Welcome long time intervention expert and specialist, Ross Finke to The Mark Howley Show! Finke shares his three levels to a successful intervention that he claims over 80% of addicts will seek a treatment plan. Like many things, reality shows like Intervention have colored the truth and work that an a family or individual coordinate to seek help for their loved ones. Many of us are impacted by addiction in our families which leave us feeling hopeless. This episode is about empowering loved ones...
May 16, 2025•45 min•Season 3Ep. 80
"When you know you only have so much time...are you just running the treadmill getting spit out by the corporations...?" Welcome Paul Brinkmann, an Ironman--Maui!--triathlete to The Mark Howley Show! What does it take to be an IronMan athlete while also being a family man, lawyer, non profit organizer, bar owner...? Check out this episode to motivate yourself and build awareness around exercise, balance, purpose and success.
Apr 25, 2025•21 min•Season 3Ep. 75
"The things that normal people do to feel good, if you want to be excellent, you can't do that those things." Welcome Jason Ricci to The Mark Howley Show, a world renowned, legendary harmonica player based out of New Orleans. We discuss many topics on the podcast today including his rise to excellence, discovering his bisexuality among a hetero dominant music genre, a long road to sobriety, his passion for harm reduction within sober communities, and his unique life perspective. To mention just ...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 78
Welcome Margaret Nyamumbo, founder of Kahawa 1893 , a Kenyan coffee company, aiming to bring Kenyan coffee to the world in a way that benefits our women farmers. Nyamumbo grew up in Kenya seeing the hard work of coffee farmers, including her family, given very little for their sweat. She tells us 10% or less of coffee profit comes back to the farmers. More disparagingly, women farmers own none of the land and recieve less pay. After traveling to the USA to receive her Harvard MBA, Margaret was c...
Mar 28, 2025•36 min•Season 3Ep. 77
Welcome to GLENNPISODES! We are giving you a compilation of Glenn and Mark's funniest, UNCENSORED moments in the studio. From stories on the road, inappropriate jokes, sales call tales, and all other hilarious banter between old friends. Have a laugh and enjoy!Thank you for supporting our podcast! Please like, follow, subscribe from your listening platform. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @themarkhowleyshow for sneak peaks and updates! We appreciate your viewership!
Mar 24, 2025•32 min•Season 3Ep. 76
Welcome Lauren White, a UK motivational speaker, addiction counselor, social media influencer, ambassador to multiple companies and overall go getter! She comes on today to share her passion for motivating those in their 30s to break free from addictions ranging from alcohol to sugar to vaping. She has a strong background in addiction counseling and offering wellness and health on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. Lauren got clean at the young age of 18 which left her faced with the anx...
Mar 14, 2025•43 min•Season 3Ep. 75
We invited two passionate individuals Amy Wheat, Opioid Specialist and Anji Jorstad, Behavioral Health Supervisor from the Snohomish County Human Services . They discuss the impact of their reach in the fentanyl epidemic and homeless crisis. Snohomish is a small community about 40 minutes North of Seattle. Many believe the inner cities are where the darkest tragedies of drug abuse takes place although you will hear differently in today's interview. We asked not only about the drug epidemic, but ...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr
"We are in an undeclared state of emergency in US education." Welcome Tommy Shultz, the CEO for American Federation for Children. The AFC is the largest school choice advocacy group in the USA. Their mission is to bring better educational opportunities to mainly low income families by changing laws and becoming political aggressive so these children can escape the generational poverty and crime they are doomed into. The country currently employs a severely outdated educational system with pedago...
Feb 14, 2025•51 min•Season 3Ep. 73
“We do not sell, we allow them to buy.” Welcome Simon Severino, the CEO of Strategy Sprints, a highly successful and leading growth advisory consultant agency that advises Fortune 500 companies and high ticket B2B digital businesses. Simon is an expert sale and marketing strategist delivering newfangled sales techniques for digital companies with a global market. He promises by employing his tactics you will save fourteen hours a week, increase revenue while enjoying the process of the “sale soa...
Jan 31, 2025•57 min•Season 3Ep. 72
Welcome Dr. Linda Thornton to The Mark Howley Show! Tune in today for this inspiring TRUE story! Dr. Thornton is the first female trained black prosthodontist (aka she is an expert in dentures) and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Dental Corps. She grew up in a poor family in New Jersey as the youngest of five girls. Her father was determined to educate his daughters and support them in becoming doctors. Their story feels oddly similar to the infamous tennis athletes of the Williams s...
Jan 17, 2025•32 min
Welcome Chris Carlton, the third and final recovery story in our Christmas Series highlighting individuals who have overcome addiction. Chris candidly shares his long battle with alcoholism and the torment it brought his family. Today, he is celebrating nearly 4 years sobriety and became the father he desperately wanted to be. TUNE IN TODAY FOR THIS INSPIRING STORY. You are not alone. If you or someone you know is struggling, please visit www.aa.org OR www.usa-na.org to find local support. Pleas...
Dec 27, 2024•37 min
Welcome Jenn Labesky, the second sobriety story in our Christmas series to support those in recovery over the holiday season. Jenn is a true survivor. She has overcome decades of anorexia, severe alcohol and drug abuse, a suicide attempt, two decades in a physically abusive relationship,homelessness and being sex trafficked. She is six years sober and celebrating one year of recovery from her eating disorder. TUNE IN TODAY FOR THIS INSPIRING STORY. You are not alone. If you or someone you know i...
Dec 20, 2024•36 min
Merry Christmas! Our TMHS Christmas Series Special is focusing on recovery stories from three different guests. We are highlighting individuals that have overcome substance abuse and intense personal struggle to support others in recovery over the holiday. You are not alone. Welcome Todd Gross, our first of three guests sharing his grueling story of Oxycontin addiction and various substance abuse. Like many, while Gross was caring for his father he suddenly had access to painkillers eventually l...
Dec 13, 2024•31 min
Welcome Timothy Jones, MD founder of The Mom & Mitchell Foundation organized in 2021. He knows personally about the profound and devastating effects of mental health disorders on family, friends, and communities. In Tim’s family alone, he has lost his maternal grand mother, his mother, and his son, Mitchell, to suicide. Our conversation goes into the loss of his son and family members to the genesis of his foundation. In his 30 years of medical practice as a plastic surgeon andENT physician,...
Dec 06, 2024•40 min
Welcome Pete Sousa! ESPN commentator, news anchor, and sober podcast host "Payoff with Pete." Nothing like two Philli boys and their east coast energy! Pete and Mark discuss sobriety, early sobriety challenges, and career growth while in recovery. Pete shares the intimate details of his road to recovery while living in a halfway house desperate for new opportunity, he realized he wanted a career with sports and television. He did just that. An awesome underdog story full of inspiration and pearl...
Nov 21, 2024•53 min
Welcome J Muenz to The Mark Howley Show! She blew us away with her funny, charming and unapologetic feminine power. She is an intuitive business mentor, spiritual guide and healer (but that hardly covers it). Muenz's most recent intuitive calling is to focus on international Wild Woman retreats where she can connect more deeply and empower her clients. Her focus and passion is lifting women up so she can "build her empire." In her words, "Don't sit next to me if you don't want to your life to be...
Nov 09, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Meet Mark Shelfo, the program director of PEER Seattle. Peer Seattle focuses on cultivating powerful, healthy lives by providing peer emotional support and development services to the LGBTQA community impacted by addiction, mental health and/or HIV/AIDS. Their services now stretch all over the state of WA. Marc candidly describes his own intense experience coming to terms with his sexuality, battling a ten year long meth addiction, and ultimately, WHY he chose to make a difference in his communi...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 9 min
OUR EPISODE WITH D.A.D.S MARKS THE START OF SEASON 3! THIS MONTH WE ARE HIGHLIGHTING NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE UPLIFTING OUR COMMUNITY IN SEATTLE, WA WHERE OUR SHOW IS PRODUCED. Meet Marvin and Jeanett Charles, founders of DADS, that started in their living room in 1998. DADS stands for Divine Alternatives for Dads Services. They wanted to apply the lessons they had learned during their own recovery and the rough period when they put their family back together. They had been homeless, un...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Welcome to our show Thomas Jøren Neilsen, owner of TJN LLC . He is a 2x Clio Award Winner, involved in projects of multiple VMA nominations, and sound designer for VMA winner " BOA " by Megan Thee Stallion. Jøren was called to this work from an early age, he shares with us the growing pains and success he has found from committing to his passion. His resume extends from working with Blink 182, Post Malone and Sprite. Most recently he designed sound for a commercial during the 2024 Summer Olympic...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 35 min
Sam Matthews, NP founder of Angels Psychiatry has been in the mental health field for over a decade. He specializes in care of children, adolescence and beyond. Sam discusses topics such as medicating minors, diagnosing and interviewing young patients, the increasing conversation around gender dysphoria, and common misconceptions around mental health in children. Sam is a graduate of Gonzaga University of Spokane where he received advanced training in Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry. He also ha...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Join Bridget (daughter) and Mark (Dad) once again as they come together for another episode to celebrate Bridget's birthday! She requested we publish this on her birthday so here we are! We titled our episode "Three Doors" as we comically choose three blind topics to discuss with one another in complete bluntness. A sneak peek into our relationship as a father/daughter production and family business banter. For anyone who works with their family, you will enjoy this episode a little extra. Thank...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Jul 13, 2024•2 min
"We are the anti-pod coffee company." Meet the founders of Nomi Brew, Naomi Masdon and Scott McMartin who are launching a cutting edge new product that aims to eliminate pods from single serve coffee machines. A long trial and error process has finally resulted in a coffee machine that offers a great cup of coffee without the trash. A bewildering statistic, "Globally, more than 9.8 billion plastic, non-biodegradable coffee pods, each taking up to 500 years to break down, are produced every year....
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Happy 4th from The Mark Howley Show! We decided to offer this special episode on Independence Day to acknowledge the veterans, military, civic duty officers, police, fire and all members that help protect and serve this country and all they have endured. This special features Jaime Martinez, a retired combat medic and recovering addict working with Summit, the largest behavioral health corporation in the US. He travels all over Arizona and the country to find and identify veterans that need drug...
Jul 04, 2024•1 hr 20 min
"A Recovery Story" is a segment of our show dedicated to individuals that have overcome their challenges with substance abuse and personal struggle. Today we welcome Ken Davies who shares his sobriety story that began at a very young age. "I came in with a white flag...I surrendered...I needed to know there was another way to live." Ken discusses how AA and fellowship sustained his sobriety and changed his life. He discusses how he remained sober through the unimaginable after losing his wife an...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr
Welcome Joe Barksdale to The Mark Howley Show! Our episode today dives into a raw conversation on suicide, depression, a late in life autism diagnosis and many career changes after being drafted in 2011 by the Oakland Raiders. Using humor and honesty, he opens up about the challenges he faced when he decided to leave the NFL, became a musician, then a comedian, then an autism advocate and now in seminary school. What appears to be a scattered path is actually a search for self expression in its ...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Welcome Dr. Jennifer Dorn to The Mark Howley Show! Dr. Dorn is an expert on prenatal, postnatal, and pediatric chiropractic care. An increasingly popular standard for newborns and throughout their first year, Dorn explains the importance of bringing your baby to a chiropractor to support their neuromuscular skeletal system and overall health. "You are born, and at that moment you have to breathe, hear, smell, communicate, eat, poop and digest...we are connecting that baby into their parasympathe...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 6 min
