Welcome back to season five of the Sober Motivation Podcast.

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

We're here to show sobriety as possible.

One story at a time.

Let's go.

Today's conversation is about pressure, grief, and the mask we wear to survive.

Philip grew up trying to be perfect, the cop's kid, the overachiever, but behind it all was anxiety and a voice that wouldn't shut off.

Alcohol silenced that voice until it started destroying his life.

After losing his mom as a teenager and spiraling into a rest in a DUI,

Philip had to choose, keep performing,

or get honest. He's now 18 years sober. This one's about ego, vulnerability, and the power

of community. And this is Philip's story on the sober motivation podcast. Today we've got

Philip with us. Philip, how are you? I'm doing fantastic, man. Thanks for having me here.

Of course. Thank you for jumping on here and being willing to share your story with all of us.

Oh, dude. It's always a pleasure just to like obviously talk about our stories, but also like just

connect with our community, man. Like I've been, I have been an active follower of you and your work

for years now.

And we kind of were joking like we've been, you know, messaging back and forth.

And I just appreciate the, you know, all of the hard work that goes into staying consistent,

putting out content, fielding the email, you know, feeling the messages.

And putting this out, man, this stuff is not easy to do, man. So I'm a TV producer

by trade. That's what I do for work. Yeah, man, consistency is hard, bro, constantly doing the work.

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