Gentry Jones | Author of "Overgrown Ivy"

In this episode of Deserts to Mountaintops, Jessica interviews Gentry Jones, author of the anthology chapter titled "Overgrown Ivy," where she details her desert to mountaintop experience from contemplating suicide to thriving sober, single mom.

Deserts to Mountaintops is a limited series podcast created by Top 1% ranking podcast host, Jessica Kidwell, she lifts the author off the page as she holds conversations with co-authors of this inaugural anthology released in January 2023 by Soul Speak Press.

This series is meant to give readers of DTM a deeper insight into the authors that brought their experiences to the page and hopes to inspire it’s audience to a place of transformational healing.

Deserts to Mountaintops: Our Collective Journey to (re)Claiming Our Voice is available now on Amazon.

For more information on Deserts to Mountaintops, Soul Speak Press and upcoming anthologies, please visit www.desertstomountaintops.com.  For more information Jessica Buchanan, please visit www.jessbuchanan.com or follow her on instagram at @jessicacbuchanan

Meet Gentry:
On May 1, 2018, Gentry drove into her garage broken, defeated, and convinced there was no way to stop the train wreck she had become. It was in that moment of feeling like there was no way out that Gentry finally submitted to the only way out. After struggling with alcohol abuse for over ten years, she surrendered to sobriety. Since that day she has been dedicated to learning as much as she can about her addiction, mental health, and personal development so she can use her voice to help bring support and community to others suffering. Gentry built her social media platforms
around her life as a sober single mom and sharing the joy and confidence that can come after addiction. After receiving so much love and support from sharing her journey online, she wanted to do more to give back to the sober community and
became trained as a certified life and recovery coach. Being from a long line of well-respected educators and coaches, she’s using her natural abilities and continued education to teach others how to get and stay sober and reclaim their lives. A few months before getting sober, Gentry decided to only focus on making small habit changes. She started by making her bed every day and strongly believes habits
helped get and keep her sober. She has since created a twelve-week healthy habit bootcamp to help other men and women experience their own transformation to a happier and healthier life. Gentry is dedicated to inspire, entertain, and end the stigma of addiction. You can follow Gentry under the handle @lifewithgentry on all social media platforms. You will also find links to her twelve-week course on those platforms as well.

The theme song is courtesy of the The Mystic Chics.
Instagram @themysticchics

This podcast is hosted by Jessica Buchanan, a NYT Bestselling author, speaker, survivor and founder of Soul Speak Press. Soul Speak Press is a boutique non-traditional publishing company focused on publishing stories from women who have been through something, now they know something, and can teach us something.

Learn more about Jessica's first book: Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six

Learn more about the Deserts to Mountaintops Anthologies. If you're interested in hearing interviews with our Soul Speak Press authors, check out the Deserts to Mountaintops Podcast.