Choosing an Alcohol-Free Lifestyle: The Secret to Unleashed Potential with James Swanwick
Win Make Give with Ben Kinney
Ben Kinney Training
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Win Make Give podcast, co-hosts Bob Stewart and Chad Hyams welcome James Swanwick, an influential advocate for living an alcohol-free lifestyle. They discuss James' journey from being an anchor on ESPN to becoming an entrepreneur focused on helping others live without alcohol. The conversation covers James' life transformations, the science behind alcohol's impact on our brains, and practical strategies to embrace an alcohol-free lifestyle.
James shares insights into his personal choice to quit drinking and its profound impact on his life, both personally and professionally. Highlighting the societal pressure surrounding alcohol consumption, James emphasizes choosing an alcohol-free life as a positive, empowering decision rather than a deprivation. He also unpacks the neuroscience behind alcohol's effects and shares practical tips from his program that boasts a 98% success rate. Throughout the episode, James provides options for those seeking to live more focused, healthy lives while avoiding the pitfalls of alcohol.
Connect with James:
- James Swanwick's Instagram: @JamesSwanwick
- Alcohol Free Lifestyle Website: alcoholfreelifestyle.com
- Book: "Clear: The Only Neuroscience-Based Method to Help High Achievers Finally Break Free from Alcohol Without AA, Rehab or Willpower"
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• Ben Kinney: https://www.BenKinney.com/
• Bob Stewart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/activebob
• Chad Hyams: https://ChadHyams.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Wala! And welcome to the win make-give podcast. Bob Stewart, we're going south of the border |
| 0:12.5 | today with that one. How you doing, my friend? I'm doing well, Chad. How are you? I am fantastic. Come on, man, |
| 0:19.6 | that's an easy. That's a layup. |
| 0:21.7 | Bob, I know it's a layup, but when the guest that we're bringing on to today's conversation |
| 0:25.8 | is based in Colombia, I've got to say hello in his language. |
| 0:29.7 | That's fair. That's fair. That totally, I totally slipped my mind. |
| 0:33.2 | All right, because his other language, I would just be saying hello. |
| 0:37.9 | I would just be saying it with a funnier accent than I get to say it, |
| 0:41.1 | and I'm not even going to attempt to do that. |
| 0:43.0 | Bob Stewart, what's going on your side of the world, my friend? |
| 0:45.3 | You know, so I sometimes, Chad, when we're about to do an interview, |
| 0:50.0 | I've knew a week in advance or a month in advance. |
| 0:54.2 | And this one snuck up on me a little bit. |
| 0:56.3 | And so it was yesterday that I was kind of digging in to who our guest is. |
| 1:00.5 | And this is really, I don't know, man, the universe works in strange ways. |
| 1:06.1 | I'm almost getting choked up about this. |
| 1:08.2 | I just saw what of my best friends in the world. |
| 1:11.9 | And this is a guy that I was best, my college roommate, and we were really tight through |
| 1:17.3 | our 20s, honestly, but alcohol is a bond for a lot of that friendship. |
| 1:22.1 | And our lives have went completely different paths in the last 10 years. |
| 1:30.5 | I saw him a couple of days ago. |
| 1:36.1 | He's in bad shape, like really, really bad shape, you know, like liver damage type of shape. |
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