Nolen Burchett
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Nolen Burchett is a behavioral health executive, entrepreneur, and person in long-term recovery whose life and career reflect the power of transformation, accountability, and second chances. After overcoming addiction, incarceration, and significant personal adversity, Nolen rebuilt his life through recovery and a commitment to helping others do the same. During his period of incarceration he met Louis Edwards who had, and went on to have, a dramatic influence on him and his future.
In 2017, he began his career in behavioral health and went on to help build and expand multiple substance use and mental health treatment programs across California. Today, he serves as Chief Operating Officer of a growing substance use treatment division, where he oversees operations, growth, leadership development, and strategic expansion across multiple facilities and levels of care.
Beyond treatment operations, Nolen is also an entrepreneur focused on creating practical pathways for people rebuilding their lives. Nolen cofounded and developed a network of structured sober living homes designed to provide safe, high-quality housing, accountability, and stability for people rebuilding their lives in recovery. Nolen's leadership philosophy is grounded in compassion, accountability, opportunity, and the belief that a person should never be defined solely by the worst chapter of their life. His work today is centered on building strong organizations, developing people, and creating environments where individuals can recover, grow, and build lives they are proud of.
In 2021, Louis and Nolen recognized a significant need in Fresno for structured recovery housing that looked and felt different from the stereotypical halfway house.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
- That your past does not have to determine your future, even after addiction and incarceration.
- How Nolen rebuilt his life from incarceration and addiction into executive leadership in behavioral health.
- Why recovery requires both compassion and accountability to create lasting real change after addiction.
- How your life can dramatically change when you consistently make the next, right decision which compounds over time into dramatic, lasting personal and professional transformation
- That structured sober living can help people rebuild stability, relationships, employment, and independence in recovery.
- Why Nolen believes treatment should prepare people for life, not just help them complete a program.
- How Touchstone Recovery Center grew from four employees and ten clients into a full continuum of care.
- Why purpose and profitability do not have to compete when building mission-driven behavioral health organizations.
- That a 73% treatment completion rate and 40% one-year sobriety reflect real lives rebuilt in recovery.
- How relationships formed during the hardest chapters of life can become meaningful business and recovery partnerships.
about the show
Overcoming addiction requires discipline, clarity, and resilience — the exact qualities needed to build a successful commercial business. Clean and Thriving TV reveals how business owners in recovery translate their personal transformation into building and running real commercial enterprises.
Clean and Thriving TV is a premium television docuseries spotlighting business owners who refused to let their past define them. Honoring the grit required to overcome addiction and build a business, the series focuses on operational growth, daily execution, and commercial success beyond recovery.
The series takes viewers inside the authentic stories of business owners who turned their lives around and built thriving companies. Clean and Thriving TV serves as the definitive national stage for these entrepreneurs to share their business insights and inspire others.
