Portrait taken at Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center, 2942 W Lake St, Chicago
Dan Hostetler
Executive Director, Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center
Dan Hostetler refers to himself as “a very normal person with the incredible good fortune to have been able to spend over four decades with the same beautiful soul I married in 1981. We share a needy teacup dog and three human children. Somehow I ended up being tasked with another man's vision, Bryan Cressey's, of putting a free, non-traditional human-oriented addiction treatment center on the street, and that's what I've been doing for the last few years. Before that, I wasted too many years climbing to the top of the international change management consulting industry only to arrive at a void, bereft of meaning and flooded with my own, uncontrollable addictions. Now, clean and sober, clear and purposeful, I don't spend my time thinking about my negative net worth because I cannot wait to get to the building that is home to all the other lost souls I encounter and try to help each day of my life. I could not imagine an existence more chocked full of amazing stories and inconceivable miracles of healing. They're everyday occurrences that never get old, and I aspire to never leave them until I transition out of this life”.