Episodes

  • Episode 147 - On Living Through It with Purpose

    Episode 147 - On Living Through It with Purpose
    Jun 22 2026
    Fresh out of a therapy session, Vitamin J sits down and gets honest about what it actually looks like to move through the hardest seasons of life with your eyes open and your feet still moving.
    He explores the quiet truth that real connection — friendship, family, the people we show up for — is itself a form of healing, even when we never call it that. And he's clear about where things stand: not beating his head against the wall, but looking for the door. Done holding up what no longer serves.
    At the center of this episode is a reframe worth sitting with: the thing we fear most is often just the part of ourselves we haven't been willing to face yet. The reaper isn't coming for you. In many ways, it is you — and that's actually the good news.
    Episode 147 is a time capsule of survival, a thank-you to the listeners who've stayed in the room, and a clear statement of intention from someone who has decided, without drama or performance, that the conversation around men's mental health, first responder wellness, and what it means to just be human — deserves a real voice.
    This is that voice.

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    Namaste.

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    9 mins
  • Episode 146 - What Isn't Life? — Testimony, Survival, and Coming Back to the Moment

    Episode 146 - What Isn't Life? — Testimony, Survival, and Coming Back to the Moment
    Jun 1 2026
    What does it actually mean to be alive — not just breathing, but feeling alive? In this episode, host James takes a raw, unscripted look at life not as a slogan or a performance, but as testimony. Drawing from years of personal survival — trauma, grief, identity loss, and the slow crawl back toward clarity — this is a conversation about what life actually includes: the pain, the confusion, the recovery, and the moments in between.
    If you've ever felt like you were holding up the floor while everyone else was walking on it, this one's for you.
    Topics covered: men's mental health, trauma recovery, PTSD, grief, survival, staying positive without toxic positivity, identity, healing, presence, and what it means to keep going.

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    Namaste.

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    13 mins
  • Episode 145 - Just Talkin

    Episode 145 - Just Talkin
    May 29 2026
    A calm, at times a little colorful, present dialogue. You must understand life is important now. Time is up.

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    Namaste.

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    17 mins
  • Episode 144 - "Just...."

    Episode 144 - "Just...."
    May 25 2026
    The word "just" gets thrown around a lot — just get up, just move on, just try harder — as if a condition, an illness, or a wound can be switched off like a light. It can't. No one can "just" anything their way out of clinical depression, PTSD, or any other legitimate struggle, and this episode calls that out plainly.
    But there's another definition of just — one rooted in fairness, reason, and what is right and true. In a time when justice has been buried under noise, tribalism, and self-interest, that definition matters more than ever.
    This episode also goes somewhere quieter: the people who believed they destroyed someone else's life often only managed to destroy their own futures. Meanwhile, the ones left standing are still here — still fighting not just to survive, but to live, to thrive, and to be.
    Because life itself — in all its forms — is the most important gift there is.
    Dose of Vitamin J continues the work. Welcome to the present.

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    Namaste.

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    10 mins
  • Episode 143 - The "Impossible"

    Episode 143 - The "Impossible"
    May 10 2026
    Episode 143 - The "Impossible"
    What does "impossible" actually mean — and have you been using it wrong?
    In this episode, we break down one of the most overused and misunderstood words in the human experience. Starting with the actual dictionary definition, he challenges the way modern society stretches language until it loses meaning — and why that matters for your mental health, your relationships, and how you show up in your own life.
    Most of the time, impossible isn't a wall. It's a perception.
    Topics include men's mental health, mindset, rebuilding after hardship, emotional resilience, and learning the difference between real limits and what just feels that way in the moment.
    Stay present. Stay steady. Stay human.
    Dose of Vitamin J | Men's Mental Health | Mindset | Recovery | Real Talk

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    Namaste.

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    5 mins
  • Episode 142 - The Return

    Episode 142 - The Return
    Apr 20 2026
    In this episode, I talk a little about what it feels like coming out of a legitimate psychotic episode, and continue authentic mental health recovery. We touch on Depression, perception vs reality and the dangerous idea that the opinions of Person A dictates the life of Person B.

    This episode marks another major turning point for me and the show both (obviously). Not perfection, regrowing clarity, effort and moving forward.

    If you've ever struggled with Mental Health, feeling misunderstood or simply had to quasi-forcefully reclaim your identity, this is the episode for you!

    New episodes of the Dose of Vitamin J Show focus on authentically lived stories, healing from massive traumas and building and rebuilding as necessary.

    This show is dedicated to my Daughter as well as to the memories of Her Mother/My Wife(RIP), a slain Deputy here locally (RIP), and a child tragically killed in a bus crash a few years ago (RIP).

    In gratitude,

    Vitamin J

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    Namaste.

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    6 mins
  • Episode 141 - On Presence on Easter and Onward

    Episode 141 - On Presence on Easter and Onward
    Apr 5 2026
    Wishing you a Happy Easter as well as a wonderful International Bell Bottoms Day! This show is only here because it had to be... early. Life is.

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    Namaste.

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    4 mins
  • Episode 140 - Telling Adults Life is Important

    Episode 140 - Telling Adults Life is Important
    Feb 22 2026
    I do not carry anything for anyone else. That includes emotional burdens/dead weight. This epsidoe goes into a little detail on where everything is today (recorded 02/22/26), which includes being fully detatched from all that harmed and completely forgiving the same as well as within.

    "What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly" - Mortica Addams

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    Namaste.

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    8 mins