Ben’s Hidden Battle with Alcohol and the Magic of Sharing
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we have Ben, a pastor from South Georgia, who shares his life story marked by childhood challenges, struggles with perfectionism, and eventually alcohol addiction. Ben discusses growing up in a tumultuous household, his late start with drinking at nearly 21, and how alcohol became both a coping mechanism and a source of shame. He talks about the moment that led him to seek sobriety in January 2022. Tune into Ben’s amazing story of sobriety and newfound gratitude that has transformed his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to season three of the Suburmotivation podcast. |
| 0:03.3 | Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories. |
| 0:08.3 | We are here to show sobriety as possible, one story at a time. |
| 0:12.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:14.1 | How's it going, everybody? |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome back to the podcast, our first episode of 2025. |
| 0:24.0 | And I don't know about you guys, but I feel like 2025 is going to be a great year. A lot of great stuff happening. I feel like it's going to be the year of living in |
| 0:29.9 | authentic life. Pursuing the goals that we have for ourselves, whether it be in sobriety in other |
| 0:35.2 | areas of our life, I feel like it's going to be the year |
| 0:38.6 | of less excuses, less of why we don't deserve or why we can't do things that we've always wanted |
| 0:44.8 | to do. I feel like it's going to be the year where we have to lead with kindness in all of our |
| 0:50.3 | interactions and also the year where we reach back into the fire and help the next |
| 0:54.5 | person struggling. That's what I always visioned this podcast to be, a place that's safe |
| 1:00.8 | for people to land without expectation of getting sober today or tomorrow, but a place where |
| 1:06.7 | they could come hear stories and maybe find one that relates to theirs. |
| 1:16.7 | And if we can offer a sliver of hope that if this guest was able to find a way out, |
| 1:19.0 | maybe the listener on the other side could too. |
| 1:21.1 | I'm excited for you guys. |
| 1:24.4 | I'm excited for us to hang out in 2025. |
| 1:28.4 | I'm excited to bring you guys a bunch more stories here on the podcast. |
| 1:33.3 | I'm really excited for all of you that have joined the Subur Motivation community, which we are still offering one month free for anybody who wants to join, plug into the live meetings, |
| 1:37.3 | a community that's just incredible. It does all of those things that I mentioned above. |
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