# Acceptance as Strength: Recovery and Rebuilding with Musician Ezra Vancil

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Podcast: [Midlife Circus: Gen X Reinvention](https://stenobird.com/podcast/midlife-circus-7546053)
Published: 2026-06-10T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://midlifecircus.fm/episodes/episode-33-acceptance-as-strength-recovery-and-rebuilding-with-musician-ezra-vancil
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Message the Show Ezra Vancil got signed to a music label as a teenager and spent the years that followed living the life of a rock star. By 21 his label had dropped him with no plan B, and the next two decades were a collapse into addiction and isolation that nearly cost him his life more than once. The night he hit bottom at 40, he woke up on the kitchen floor to the realization that his life had to change. This conversation is the story of what happened next: how Ezra stopped running long e...

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