About Me

My name is Paul Yearby. I am a Certified Recovery and Relationship Coach as well as a Motivational Speaker. I specialize in recovery building and support, balancing healthy relationships, and motivation speaking to assist in maximizing the greatness and extraordinary potential within us.

Why do I do this? It’s simply because of my own story of defeat and victory!
You see, I’m a person in recovery from heroin addiction and trauma from a span of 30 years. During that time, I was in and out of jail and the prison system for 18 years. I was homeless sleeping in abandoned buildings and cars, as well as eating out of garbage cans. There was also a time where I didn’t even have shoes for my feet. Although I was in a seemingly hopeless situation, and from time to time being called the same, I still had a glimmer of hope that kept me trying. Even despite the numerous times I failed, relapsed, or even lived what people said about me. To add to the defeat, I was terrible when it came to my relationships, especially the ones that were supposed to be the most important. I remember my mother once said to me, “You’re good at saying you love us! Why don’t you start showing it!”

I didn’t understand at that time that “love” is an action word! Because of my lack of understanding, trauma, and addiction, I damaged and severed many relationships both personally and professionally. Then one day, an unlikely source (my dealer) said to me: “This isn’t you, there’s something about you that doesn’t belong here” accompanied by someone saying that I had a gift the world needs to see and hear. It felt like a second wind came over me just before I took my last breath. It was then that I went into my last treatment and started my healing and recovery journey.

Since then, some of my work has been instrumental in building the recovery support curriculum for Options Family Behavior Services in Eagan, Minnesota. With much of my role focused on assisting over 100 men and women in building their recovery plan and actively engaging with moving that plan forward to achieve the lives they dreamed of.