Welcome to Season 3 of the Subur Motivation Podcast. Join me, Brad, each week is my guests and I share incredible, inspiring, and powerful sobriety stories. We are here to show sobriety as possible one story at a time. Let's go. Welcome back to another episode of the Sober Motivation Podcast. Today we've got Dave with us. Dave, how are you? I'm doing well, man. Thank you for having me.

Of course. Thank you for jumping on the show and be willing to share your story with all of us.

No doubt for sure.

So what was it like for you growing up?

The beginning stages of my life were pretty interesting. I was born into addiction.

Both my parents were drug addict and alcoholic. I lived

with them probably for only three years of my life, and then I spent the rest of my time bouncing

around family members. I was given up to my family. Luckily for me, I wasn't given up for adoption

or anything, so I was able to stay within my family.

But that early start was pretty rough. The first few years after not living with my parents,

I was living in a house with drug addicts that accompanied a lot of abuse, whether it be

verbal abuse or physical abuse. I remember waking up in the morning and having to walk over people who had passed out the night before.

And I was only, I think, kindergarten in our first grade at the time.

So there's a lot of just taking care of myself having to grow up quick.

And I think in hindsight, I thought that would be the factor that would fear me away for using any sort of drugs or alcohol.

When in fact, I think it ended up being one of the main reasons why I ended up using was to try to escape all those memories.

Yeah.

Wow.

So things started for you fast.

And where were you born at? I was born and raised in

San Diego, California. I lived there for about 18 years with different family members. Eventually,

I ended up into a good home, but I think at that point, the traumatic experiences that had

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