005: You've got to be kidding me, he's an alcoholic also?
Recovery Elevator
Paul
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
When I found out one of my brother's best friends is an alcoholic I was blown away; an a little upset that we hadn't connected years before so we could have been working together.
Here are some of the resources that Elliot likes.
Like Elliot mentioned, if you would like to get in touch with Elliot, email info@recoveryelevator.com and we will put you in touch with him.
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery Elevator, episode 5. |
| 0:02.4 | Welcome to the Recovery Elevator podcast. My name is Paul. |
| 0:10.4 | According to my Recovery Elev elevator sobriety tracker |
| 0:13.0 | tracker available on Android and iPhone, I have been sober for |
| 0:16.8 | 194 days. |
| 0:20.0 | You know the rule where if you write a strongly worded email or a letter that it might be prudent to wait 24 hours before hitting that send key? |
| 0:30.0 | Well, that's what I did. I recorded this podcast episode yesterday and instead of going to |
| 0:36.1 | the editing board like I do directly after I record a podcast, I decided to wait 24 hours and see if I still felt the same way. |
| 0:44.0 | Well recovery elevator, I do. |
| 0:46.0 | And here it is. |
| 0:48.0 | I don't want this to sound like a diatribe or anything like that, |
| 0:51.0 | but it just might be that. You guys are in for a special treat |
| 0:56.9 | with the interviewee on the show today. His name is Elliot and yesterday |
| 1:01.1 | after interviewing him I was inspired. I was so happy to have him on the show. |
| 1:06.0 | This guy is amazing, but then I played a huge game of the what ifs, right? |
| 1:11.0 | Looking through life in a rearview mirror is a bad way to live and you can't play the what if game. |
| 1:17.0 | You know what if I'd have done this? What if I'd done that? But I played it yesterday for a couple hours and it was not healthy. What I mean by this is |
| 1:24.5 | Elliot who is my brother's best friend he says it in his own words in the |
| 1:29.5 | interview is a recovering alcoholic and has been struggling with alcohol for the last decade |
| 1:35.6 | probably just as long as I have and we should have been working together and |
| 1:41.3 | here was the what if game I was like wow what if |
| 1:44.4 | Elliot and I had been putting our efforts together and and I could have avoided so |
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