Alcohol was David's best friend, Sobriety Changed Everything.
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Sober Motivation Podcast, Brad interviews David, who shares his raw and emotional journey from a challenging childhood growing up in New Mexico. David excelled at football, but after an injury, it was time to hang up the cleats, and his alcohol drinking escalated. David describes alcohol as his best friend, and it wasn’t until he was faced with losing everything that he decided to make a phone call that would change the direction of his life. This is David’s story on the sober motivation podcast.
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00:00 Introduction to the Podcast
00:32 David's Early Life and Family Background
02:26 First Encounters with Substance Use
03:28 Struggles with Belonging and Early Substance Use
06:33 High School Experiences and First Drinking
08:55 College Life and Fraternity Challenges
12:18 Football Dreams and Setbacks
14:55 Post-College Life and Early Career
29:15 Coaching and Early Signs of Alcohol Problems
36:15 Relationship Struggles and Deepening Addiction
39:24 Reflecting on a Serious Relationship
40:29 The Path of Destruction
42:14 Coping Mechanisms and Realizations
48:50 The Turning Point: DUI Incident
55:44 First Steps Towards Sobriety
59:04 Embracing Sobriety and Support
01:12:11 Life After Sobriety
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Season 4 of the Sober Motivation Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories. |
| 0:08.0 | We're here to show sobriety as possible, one story at a time. |
| 0:12.1 | Let's go. |
| 0:15.0 | In this episode of the Sobermortivation podcast, I sit down with David, who shares his raw journey from a challenging |
| 0:22.2 | childhood growing up in New Mexico. David excelled at football, but after an injury, it was |
| 0:26.9 | time to hang up to cleats and his drinking escalated. David describes alcohol as his best |
| 0:32.2 | friend, and it wasn't until he was faced with losing everything, that he decided to make a phone |
| 0:36.9 | call that would change the direction of his life. |
| 0:39.3 | And this is David's story on the Subur Motivation podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | Welcome back to another episode of the Subur Motivation Podcast. |
| 0:47.1 | Today we've got David with us. |
| 0:48.5 | David, how are you? |
| 0:49.8 | Doing good, Brad. |
| 0:50.7 | Thanks, man. |
| 0:51.9 | Yeah, man. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm glad to connect with you and have you on the podcast to share |
| 0:56.6 | your story with us. Absolutely. I'm super excited. Yeah. So what was like for you growing up? |
| 1:03.2 | Man, growing up was interesting. Both of my parents worked for the Indian Health Service and their |
| 1:09.9 | goal was to get to Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
| 1:13.3 | So that's where I spent my childhood 18 years. |
| 1:17.0 | Kind of a small town is probably about 60,000 when I was living there in the 90s, early 2000s. |
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