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Jersey, the Con Jerry I friend a Jerry episode 14 Very excited to be working with retreat the more I learn everything they do and what they're all about the words that come to mind These guys actually give give us shit. Retreat has three inpatient and eight outpatient facilities across Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Florida. Retreat has highly trained admission specialists and transportation team standing by 24, seven. Anybody struggling with substance abuse, mental health, you want to go to a meeting, look for a meeting, just talk to somebody. You can call this number. It's 855-949-0900. Even if you or a loved one is struggling, stay strong and give them a call. Retreat is connected to a lot of in-network and major insurances. But at the end of the day, they're going to help regardless of the situation you're in. And also Retreat has an incredible Veterans program. It's called Healing Are Heroes, which is awesome. It's fully contracted with the VA at all locations. I'll repeat that number. It's 855-949-0900 or you can go to the website if you don't want to call

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To continue to work with retreat. It's awesome what they're doing

You know a lot more more people out there should do what retreat does and that's just you know help people

goes a long way Getting right right into it. Big week, big week. We did Willie Wilcox, that was awesome. It was fun to see Willie for anybody who watched the episode and doesn't know. We were there for Willie's practice round and he pretty much played like the first nine holes and he was like, well I don't even need to see the next nine holes. I'll just play the front nine and did the interview, had a great time. We left the next day Willie's tournament was the next day. So we left Willie stayed, competed in the tournament and he actually won the whole tournament which was was really awesome see. And he didn't just win it. He absolutely crushed it. Yeah, he crushed everybody. I think he won by seven strokes or something like? Seven strokes, yeah. He won by seven strokes which was fucking incredible. That's awesome. Big things, big things ahead for Willie Mann. Great guy, really humble. great. He's just amazed me watching him golf. It was Really really really fun to watch like I said. This is a big week. This is a big week for Jersey Jerry This is this is Derby week, but you know Monday is when the episode is gonna drop so So we can't you know, I can't tell you guys, you know, who do I like? Who you know what course I like in the Derby just notice is a big week for me? By the time you guys listen to this Monday, I'm sure you're gonna see a bunch of clips if you follow me on Instagram or Twitter of me at this Derby party I go do every year really fun party. Looking forward to that and today I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the promises in AA and NA. For me, all the promises they came true for me. And there's, you know, the 12 promises. And the first one, it pretty much says, we are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness which that has 100% happened to me.

You know, when I was struggling and I'm sure people can relate if they're sober like you're struggling and you feel like you're confined like you have nowhere to turn and all of a sudden you go, you get sober. You know, the doors just open and like you feel free again. You don't feel restricted. You can't go out here. You can't go to this restaurant because you're so fucked up on drugs. There's so much stuff that's happened that it just blows my mind. I feel so free today. It's wild. second promise it, we will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. That's another important one. I don't regret a fucking thing that happened in my past. I think, I know people say this a lot, but I think that's pretty much, you know, what made what made me who I am today. You know, I had a big problem with drugs and, uh, you know, I experienced a lot of bad stuff. And, you know, I use those experiences, you know, to help me today. And, you know, I, I'm not going to shut the door on it. and like that's why I started this podcast like um... you know I don't care who the hell

who the hell knows in the world, or who sees my podcast, and they can judge me for whatever. But doing this just reminds me of what it was like. And it gives me a chance to talk about what I went through

and what life is like today. So I definitely am not one of those person that regret their past and they don't want to talk about it. I'm sure you guys know I'm super open about my sobriety. Another one of my favorite promises is our whole attitude.

It's promise 9 or whole... about my sobriety. Another one of my favorite promises is our whole attitude, it's promised nine, our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. That has 100% happened to me. I had, and I'm sure a lot of us can relate, pretty shitty attitude when I was getting high, and I just thought like my life was over, and I didn't wanna, I didn't wanna get up, I didn't wanna shower, I hated everybody, I didn't have really any friends towards the end, everybody pretty much, you know, went away from me, and they didn't want nothing to do with me and I just thought like oh

like you know I didn't care if like I'm something like scumbag you know what I mean

um so my outlook on life definitely changed since since I got sober there's so much joy to life and like

fun things you could be doing when you get sober. It's one of my favorite promises. Another promise that really hits home for me is promise 6 and it's the feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.

I always used to pity myself, like,

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