Turning Pain into Purpose: Alex Otte (MADD)

11/15/22 • 19 min

Alex Otte
National President
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Website: madd.org
In this episode of Safe Nation, Captain Nikki Renfroe interviews the National President of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and gets to the bottom of how the organization plans to fight impaired driving. MADD is one of the leading nonprofit organizations working to prevent and reduce alcohol-related crashes and deaths. National President Alex Otte talks with us about her personal experiences as a young teenager with an impaired driver that left her severely injured. Her compelling true story highlights her resilience and explains the passion that she has for working with MADD to eliminate impaired driving. Subscribe to Safe Nation to get more information on how to bring an end to drunk driving!

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Safe Nation - Turning Pain into Purpose: Alex Otte (MADD)

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Turning Pain into Purpose: Alex Otte (MADD)

[00:00:00] Nikki Renfroe: Hey guys. My name is Nikki Renfroe. I'm a recently retired state trooper, and I decided to start a podcast, safe Nation podcast. We're covering safety, security, and law enforcement because the truth of the matter is, Crime is not always clean. It's a dirty job. Sometimes you gotta get your hands dirty in order to get those criminals off the streets, and that's just the real reality of it.

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