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Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories

Cody Menk relationship with Alcohol became life or death.

Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories

Brad McLeod

Mental Health, Alternative Health, Sobriety, Sober, Education, Quit Drinking, Alcohol Free, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Sober Motivation Podcast, Cody shares his journey from growing up in New Jersey to battling severe alcoholism and addiction, drinking alcohol for the first time at 12 years old. Despite various attempts to manage his addiction, including a stint in rehab, Cody found himself repeatedly falling back into his old habits. A near-fatal accident, where he almost lost his leg, became the eye-opening moment that led him to surrender to a higher power and fully commit to sobriety. Now over a year sober, this is Cody’s story on the sober motivation podcast.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to season four of the Super Motivation Podcast.

0:03.2

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

0:08.1

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

0:12.3

Let's go.

0:15.9

In this episode of the podcast, Cody shares his journey from growing up in New Jersey

0:20.5

to battling severe

0:21.5

alcoholism and addiction, drinking alcohol for the first time at 12 years old. Despite

0:26.4

various attempts to manage his addiction, including a stint in rehab, meetings, and therapy,

0:32.5

Cody found himself repeatedly falling back into his old habits. A near fatal accident where he almost lost his leg

0:38.4

became the eye-opening moment that led him to surrender to a higher power and fully commit to sobriety.

0:43.9

Now over a year sober, this is Cody's story on the sober motivation podcast. Welcome back to another

0:50.3

episode of the sober motivation podcast. Today we've got Cody with us. Cody, how are you?

0:54.9

I'm doing great.

0:55.9

How are you doing?

0:57.0

Yeah, I'm good, man.

0:57.8

I'm glad we could connect and I'm excited to share your story with everybody here on the show. Good. Yeah, I'm excited too. Thank you for having me on, man. I've been following the page for, I think even before I got sober, yeah, three, four years now.

1:11.0

So it's cool to talk to you on the

1:14.1

other side of things, you know? Yeah, 100% man. So what was it like for you growing up? Yeah,

1:20.0

growing up, I came from a normal childhood, New Jersey, grew up in a nice suburban area. Mom and dad were

1:26.8

together, had a younger brother, grew up kind of middle suburban area mom and dad were together had a younger brother grew up kind of middle

1:29.4

class was big into sports my whole life had friends um one of the things that kind of uh was weird on

1:38.6

my early on life is i was diagnosed with dyslexia so that was a challenge for me in school got

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