055: What I wish I heard in High School
Recovery Elevator
Paul
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🗓️ 7 March 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Brandy shares how she has successfully made it to 69 days sober! I also talk about how I mapped out my talk to the largest school audience yet. Footage from this YouTube video to come shortly, but here the video that I made for the freshman and sophomore classes.
-if when on vacation, every time you go out to eat with your boyfriend (who does not want you to drink) you make sure he sits in a place with his back to the bar so you can sneak a drink on your way to the bathroom. -Phenina
-if you wake up in the hospital and have to ask the nurse to help you look up impound lots after your car was totaled 4 days earlier and you have no recollection of where the accident happened. -Maureen
-if you check your bank online to find charges that you don't recognize...after all, you haven't been to that bar in months! You call the bar to contest the charge and then realize that it was your signature on the bill and you had been there in a blackout. -Jill
-if you get so desperate for mixers that you use mint tea or similar to mix your vodka, decided it tastes worse somehow, and just start doing shots, alone, on a Tuesday. -Sarje
-if your podcast app says you've heard those 15 podcasts, but you don't remember a single one. -Arista
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery elevator episode 55. |
| 0:03.0 | And then I'm like, oh, okay, the Dixon has |
| 0:06.6 | looking up. |
| 0:07.6 | It's talking to me and it's telling me that it wants a beer and it's time to put the |
| 0:11.2 | monsters to the state back to bed. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the Recovery Elevator podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:21.0 | According to the Recovery Elevator sobriety tracker tracker on my phone, I have been sober for a few years. much for |
| 0:25.0 | the recovery elevator sobriety tracker on my phone. I have been sober for four days shy of 1.5 years. |
| 0:29.0 | On episode 00, I mentioned that 5% of 5% make it to two years. 5% of people who decide they want to quit drinking, they make it to 90 days. |
| 0:39.6 | And then after that, only 5% from the people at 90 days make it to 2 years. I am not there yet. I've still |
| 0:47.0 | got a long way to go, but something's working. I can't pinpoint exactly what it is, but something's |
| 0:52.4 | working, and I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing. |
| 0:55.6 | On today's podcast I've got Brandy. She's a mother of two and she's 27 years old. |
| 1:00.6 | At the time of this recording I am in between Recovery Elevator meetups. |
| 1:05.0 | I was in Seattle this past weekend and I fly out in two days to San Francisco and I cannot wait. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm going to comment more on the Seattle meet up after the interview with Brandy. |
| 1:15.0 | But first I want to talk to you guys about what I have going on tomorrow at 2 o'clock, or 24 hours |
| 1:19.7 | in 6 minutes, but who's counting? That would be me, because I'm terrified. I'm talking to a student |
| 1:25.4 | body of over 900 kids. Lesson learned here, be careful what you ask for. I've already spoken to a handful of schools in |
| 1:34.6 | Colorado where I grew up. They were powerful experiences. They all helped me stay |
| 1:38.9 | sober and I hope the kids got some meaningful value out of it as well. About two months ago somebody |
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