Welcome back to Season 3 of the Suburmotivation podcast.

Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories.

We are here to show sobriety as possible, one story at a time.

Let's go.

In this episode, Ray discusses his experience of sobriety and how his journey has reshaped his life.

Ray, who was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, shared about his childhood marked by his parents' divorce and recalled the

instability and confusion during those years. Ray tracks his alcohol use back to his early teens

when he started hanging out more outside of the house. A series of various life experiences, including moving frequently, failing out of university twice,

and flirting with danger in Ethiopia, accumulated in a come-to-Jesus moment after a blackout date

night, inducing Ray to seriously address his issues with alcohol.

He sought professional help, leaned into

therapeutic healing, and eventually launched his own podcast, stacking days to share stories of other

people of color, battling and overcoming addiction. And this is Ray's story on the Sobermotivation

podcast. Hey, how's it going, everyone? How's it going out there, everyone? Brad here.

Thanks for checking out another episode. I hope your new year is going well so far. We're at the time of

this recording 15 days in. My goodness, it's went fast. If you guys are enjoying the podcast and

we've kept you out from an expensive bar tab or any other

things, I would love for you to consider donating just to help cover some of the costs of the

podcast. You can go over to buy me a coffee.com slash sober motivation and I'll drop that link

down in the show notes. It would really mean a lot.

Thank you so much for all the kind messages and everybody who's reaching out to be on the show.

I'm doing my best to get everybody on, but it just takes a little bit of time.

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