Hi, my name is Steele. I am a father. I'm a husband. I am a private chef. I am a

podcaster, former professional baseball player, and I'm an alcoholic and today is my six-year sobriety date which is

that's a long time and I didn't realize how long the time it was really until my wife pointed it out to me.

She just said, wow, six years, like that's a long time.

I was like, damn, you know what, you're right.

And I feel like in this journey there's certain milestones that we look for you know the first year obviously is massive five years is is the big one people that get to five years tend to have more success with sobriety in the long run and then 10 years 15 so on and so forth

and I feel like the in-between can get kind of lost and I think that it's important to highlight

these moments whether you're comfortable speaking out about them,

whether you're just going to celebrate with friends and family, or whatever your version of that is,

I think it's important to take time to have these moments and for me

last year I had this great opportunity to come on here and make a video for my five year and

that was such a massive milestone for me and to be able to share that with such a large

audience that this podcast has presented me with which is incredible and you know that's

never lost on me and I'm

always always grateful for this opportunity but for this year I wanted to take

advantage of it again and come on here and and share some more with you.

And I'm going to get into my story again.

I'm going to touch on parts that I touched on last year.

I'm not going to get as in depth.

In years past, when I've made videos or discussed my sobriety dates, I've also

wanted to share things that I've learned over the past year, things that have helped me move forward either in my journey or in my life, things that maybe people don't understand.

And I think that's a good talking point for this year, for my six years, is maybe helping some more people that are listing

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