Charlie starting drinking at 14 and suffered a panic attack on national TV, looking back it was the alcohol.
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we have Charlie Beljan, a professional golfer who has been sober for 39 months. Always hanging out with the older crowd Charlie started drinking alcohol at 14 years old. Charlie shares his experiences of growing up and becoming a successful golfer while battling an addiction to alcohol that seeped into his personal and professional life. He talks about the detrimental impact of alcohol, the challenges he faced, and the turning point that led him to make a life-altering decision to embrace sobriety. His message revolves around the brighter and rewarding side of life in sobriety and encourages listeners to persevere in their fight against addiction.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to season three of the Subur Motivation 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. |
| 0:11.9 | Let's go. |
| 0:14.0 | In this episode, we have Charlie, a professional golfer who has been sober for 39 months. |
| 0:19.8 | Always hanging out with the older crowd, |
| 0:21.7 | Charlie started drinking alcohol at 14 years old. He shares his experience of growing up and |
| 0:27.4 | becoming a successful golfer while battling an addiction to alcohol that seeped into his |
| 0:32.1 | personal and professional life. He talks about the detrimental impact of alcohol and the challenges |
| 0:37.2 | he faced and the turning |
| 0:38.8 | point that led him to make a life-altering decision, which was to embrace sobriety. |
| 0:44.3 | Charlie's message revolves around the brighter and rewarding side of a life in sobriety, and |
| 0:49.6 | he encourages listeners to persevere in the fight against addiction. |
| 0:53.8 | This is Charlie's story on the Suburmotivation podcast. |
| 0:57.8 | How's it going, everyone, Brad here? |
| 1:00.3 | Well, our first episode story episode for the new year. |
| 1:04.7 | Thank you, everybody, for hanging out with me in the podcast in 2024. |
| 1:08.7 | This episode is going to be an incredible way to kick off the new year. |
| 1:13.3 | If you're doing this whole dry January thing or you're deciding to get sober or decided |
| 1:19.2 | to start your journey on January 1st, welcome. |
| 1:23.2 | As you're going to hear from Charlie's story and so many others on the podcast, it's the one thing that changed everything for their lives and improved every area, even areas that we didn't even suspect would be improved. |
| 1:36.6 | We're improved by that one decision. |
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