Connections: Healthy Gambling and Gaming

Join host Tana Russell, Assistant Director of Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling, as she discusses gambling and gaming with special co-hosts and internationally renowned subject matter experts. Together they journey to shine a light on the topic of gambling and gaming disorder with genuine care, humor, and a passion for knocking down barriers to care and reducing the stigma associated with seeking help.

Connections: Healthy Gambling and Gaming is a health podcast hosted by Evergreen CPG, with 47 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Evergreen CPG hosts Connections: Healthy Gambling and Gaming, a health show with 47 episodes published.

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  Searching for Belonging: Creating a Culture of Community in Boston’s Chinatown

  Mar 13, 202642 minS0

  <p>Exploring how isolation, immigration, and lack of a sense of community can lead to gambling harm.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Ben Hires, CEO of the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC), and Kevin Lin, Family Connector and Mental Health Clinician at BCNC, join host Tana Russell and co-host Paulina Zyskowski for an honest look at how isolation, immigration, and targeted gambling marketing are shaping the experiences of Boston’s Asian community. Together, they unpack how cultural loss, language barriers, economic pressure, and loneliness can quietly increase vulnerability to gambling harm…and how community-based prevention is working to c...

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  Rock Bottom to Radical Honesty: From Losing at Gambling, to Winning in Life

  Feb 6, 202649 minS7

  <p>Content Warning: this episode discusses mental health concerns, including suicidal thoughts.</p><p><br></p><p>Exploring the turning points that move people from gambling harm toward honesty, recovery, and helping others. </p><p><br></p><p>People impacted by gambling harm often carry years of secrecy, shame, and emotional exhaustion before finding a path to change. In this episode, Adam Lyons (The Modern Meeting podcast) shares his journey with host Tana Russel. From early exposure to gambling at nine years old through two decades of chasing wins, hiding losses, and searching for fresh starts on an odyssey across...

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  Early Exposure, Lasting Impact: Perspectives on Gambling Exposure in Childhood and Adolescence

  Dec 22, 202557 minS6

  <p>Exploring how gambling exposure in childhood and adolescence can shape risk and harm later in life, and what adults need to know to intervene sooner.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Connections, host Paulina Zyskowski, Prevention and Community Engagement Specialist at the Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling, is joined by prevention and behavioral health professionals Mina Hazar, Manager of the Youth Gambling Awareness Program at the YMCA of Greater Toronto; Karen Hlady (MA, GIS, IGDC), Addictions and Gambling Prevention Specialist based in British Columbia; and Maureen Greeley, Executive Director of the Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling...

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  Broke but Not Broken: Women's Voices in Gambling Recovery – S6E4

  Sep 25, 202553 minS6

  <p>Exploring the transformative effects of creating safe spaces for women in recovery—building community from isolation one story at a time.</p><p>Women impacted by gambling harm often face uniquechallenges from caregiving roles to social expectations, and the lack of women-centered recovery spaces. This episode, featuring guests Terra Carbert (Ambitious Addicts) and Christina Cook (The Broke Girl Society), explores the origins and impact of the Broke Girl Society (BGS) Facebook forum and podcast. A growing community of nearly 3,100 women, BGS offers connection, support, and hope to women in recovery from gambling harm. The conversation addresses stigma, unique impacts from gambli...

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  Gambling and Criminal Justice - S6E3

  Aug 5, 202557 minS6

  <p>Many people who end up developing a Gambling Disorder never intend to commit a crime, but the desperation to continue gambling or to make ends meet can lead them there.  The traditional criminal justice system is wholly unprepared to adequately address an underlying Gambling Disorder, or to support the recovery of incarcerated individuals how now have even more access to gambling within jails and prisons.  This episode explores gambling-motivated crimes, the criminal justice system, and other intersecting life impacts that are felt by many individuals and families across the country each year. </p>

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