Welcome back to season four of the Sober Motivation Podcast.

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

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

Let's go.

In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with Blake, who shares his journey from growing up in a small town with a drinking

culture to becoming nearly one year sober.

Blake discusses his initial experimentation with alcohol, the challenges of moderation, and the

fork in the road moments that led him to quit drinking.

He also dives into the impact of alcohol on his mental health, relationships, and other

areas of his life. Blake highlights the importance of alcohol on his mental health, relationships, and other areas of his life.

Blake highlights the importance of a support system, replacing alcohol with healthier habits

and his aspiration to break the cycle. And this is Blake's story on a Suburmotivation podcast.

Welcome back to another episode of the Subur Motivation podcast. Today we've got Blake with us. Blake, how are you? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me, Brad. Of course, man. It was great before we jumped on kind of the quote unquote air here. You're just sharing with me how you found the podcast and relate to so many of the different stories. And then through your name in the hat one day too, and here we are. Absolutely.

I'm glad to be here.

Yeah.

So what was it like for you growing up?

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, pretty like population like 2000.

And I was involved in sports, did fairly well in school, had a, you know, your typical normal upbringing.

I got two brothers. And yeah, you know, I just high school was great.

You know, I had loving parents.

I was a two sport athlete.

I wrestled and played football.

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