64: The Worst Day of My Life Was My Beginning (with Doug Bopst)
Rise Together Podcast
Dave Hollis
4.6 • 11.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We're back this week with another from our series on doing life with people who are different from you. This week Dave sits down with Doug Bopst, a former felon turned fitness coach and author who turned his darkest moment into a path to the light. Prepare yourselves: this conversation will make you confront some uncomfortable truths about your own life, such as what types of things are you using to cope with discomfort, and are they propelling you forward or holding you back? Join us for this frank discussion on addiction, recovery, faith, support, and finding a way through it all.
To learn more about Doug Bopst, follow him on Instagram @dougbopst
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to another episode of the Rise Together podcast. This week, we continue our series |
| 0:09.3 | of rising together with people who have a story that may be different than what you are familiar with, |
| 0:19.7 | something that maybe has in their life experience, something that you could learn a little bit about, |
| 0:24.5 | learn a little bit from, think differently about people who are also coming through an experience |
| 0:31.1 | like the one you're about to hear about, an experience of addiction. Here's the interesting thing. |
| 0:38.0 | You know, I want to talk to a friend here named Doug, Doug Boost. Doug has a crazy story in that |
| 0:48.5 | he had a life that descended into what ended up being the worst moment of his life. Or so, he thought |
| 0:57.6 | it was the first moment of the rest of his life as he was being arrested and taken to jail |
| 1:04.0 | for felony drug possession. And in hearing his story, it's a story of addiction, it's a story |
| 1:14.2 | of having started with, you know, some simple coping mechanisms that ballooned into something |
| 1:21.0 | bigger. And I'd like to encourage you to consider how even if you aren't someone who's |
| 1:28.4 | taken some serious drugs, how addiction starts small, what can start for many of us as reaching |
| 1:37.3 | for something to help take the rough edges off of a tough day or a long day is something that can |
| 1:43.7 | snowball and get out of control and get out of us being able to still have it be a healthy |
| 1:50.8 | part of our life. It can turn into a barrier from who we'd like to be or how we'd like to show up |
| 1:55.3 | for the people we love in a snap. Yep, here in this instance, we're going to talk about the addiction |
| 2:00.4 | of drugs, but addiction isn't exclusively to substances. It's not exclusively to things that you |
| 2:05.9 | take. Addiction can be food. Addiction can be the way that you're paying attention to status on |
| 2:12.0 | social media. Addiction can be vanity. It could be the way that you're working out beyond |
| 2:18.4 | something that is healthy. It can be, frankly, anything. And so as you hear this story, I hope that |
| 2:24.8 | you'll also consider the parallels or the analogies that might be drawn for how any of us in trying |
| 2:32.8 | to quiet the voices in our head be they of people in our past who may have left stories of our |
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