For Leigh Moderation Was A Hamster Wheel - Sober Life Update
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Brad reconnects with Leigh to discuss her journey over the past two years of sobriety. They revisit key moments from her first year and reflect on the importance of her Instagram community in maintaining accountability. Leigh shares personal milestones, including celebrating two years of sobriety on the same day her son graduated from high school.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another update episode. |
| 0:04.4 | Today we have Lee on the podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | An incredible episode. |
| 0:09.0 | I don't even want to really mention anything from the episode in sort of this intro to not give anything away. |
| 0:16.8 | But it was incredible to catch up with her. |
| 0:19.1 | Hear what things were like now. |
| 0:20.4 | I didn't even |
| 0:21.2 | realize when we first connected that she was hovering around eight months sober, I believe. |
| 0:28.1 | Massive progress since then, obviously, for anybody who sticks with it, you're going to realize |
| 0:33.3 | progress. You're going to make progress. When you remove drinking from your life, |
| 0:43.6 | you're in one way or another forced to learn other ways to live life on life's terms. And when we do that and push ourselves, we learn new tools. What I've noticed, too, through this update |
| 0:50.6 | series with so many previous guests, is that they're so much more confident in where |
| 0:55.8 | they're at, where they're headed, and it's like a breath of fresh air, especially for me. |
| 1:03.3 | A lot of the times I work with people that are in the beginning of the process and a different |
| 1:08.4 | way of life seems so impossible. |
| 1:13.8 | It just doesn't even cross some people's minds. |
| 1:15.7 | And I get it because I once lived there too. |
| 1:20.9 | I lived there for a while to where things to be different just didn't make any sense to me. |
| 1:24.0 | I couldn't see life beyond the one I was living. |
| 1:30.2 | But to catch up with people a year later, 16 months later, two years later, and see where they're at now, it's like, man, my goodness, like this thing really does get a whole heck of a lot |
| 1:35.1 | better if you stick with it. |
| 1:37.0 | If you enjoy the podcast, you want to support, head over to buy me a coffee.com slash sober |
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