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Alter Eagle interview with certified peer specialist

“Alter Eagle,” an original Butler Eagle podcast, will feature Betsy Laporte from the Grapevine Center, who has been sober since 2010, in a new episode dropping Monday, July 8.

Oxytocin was her substance of choice, and since her sobriety, she has become a certified peer specialist. She is now in her ninth year at Grapevine.

Laporte is the bridge to mental health services, sharing her own life experience with a goal is to make people feel seen, heard and supported. She also brings value to the female homeless population by filling a closet each year with clothes, shoes, sanitary items and other items.

She is also a single mother who dedicates herself to her daughters.

The episode’s title is “Betsy Laporte: Grapevine Center.” New episodes release Mondays and are available at alter-eagle.com and major streaming platforms, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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