Welcome back to Season 3 of the Suburmotivation podcast.

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

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

Let's go.

In this episode, we have Brendan, who recounts his childhood in Northeast Seattle,

growing up in a loving, close-knit family, and the early

influences of his father's sobriad. Diagnosed with ADD, school was a challenge for Brendan.

But he found identity in sports. A series of concussions during high school led him to begin drinking.

This episode dives into Brendan's battles with addiction, including alcohol and Xanax, which worsened

over time. After hitting rock bottom, Brendan sought help spending 90 days in rehab. Now, sober over

five years. He discusses the tools that helped him stay sober and the importance of community

support. And this is Brendan's story on the sober motivation podcast. How's it going, everyone? Brad

here. Oh, man, I just got done moving. Oh, it's been a week now, but let me tell you, it was a lot.

So that's why it's a little bit quiet here on the podcast. I had all my stuff packed up.

And then the move and everything like that. And it was way more stuff than I ever realized. But we're all settled in now. I'm in a new office. So the audio is going to sound a little bit different for a bit until I can get some of this stuff figured out. But I want to thank you guys for the messages. Another incredible story here coming up on the podcast. It's the holidays are right around the corner for us.

You know, New Year's too is a big one, Christmas. Just the holiday season, right, can be really,

really tough if you're new to sobriety or really anywhere you're at in your sobriety. It can be tough. So I just encourage everybody to stay connected to what's working for you. I also want

to throw it out there too. We're still rolling on with one month free in the suburb motivation community. So I would

love to have you join a bunch more people from the podcast are joining in. It's really great to

get to connect with everybody, learn a little bit more about your stories and where you're at,

and hopefully offer some support and some help along the way.

It is truly a magical community and everything is completely possible on this sober journey.

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