Hi, my name is Steele. You may know me from my podcast, Bros and Shows. You may know me as the

recession chef, but I am also an alcoholic. And today is my seven-year sobriety date. And on these

days, I like to do something to commemorate the occasion. And it's usually make a video,

either sharing my story or we're talking about something I've learned in the past year.

But recently, thanks to all of you, I have this new audience with The Recession Chef and a lot of people that don't know my story.

So I thought this would be a good time to refresh some of those that know my story and to tell the new people who I am, where I came

from and what I've been through. And for those you that don't know, I played professional

baseball. I played for the Orioles for parts of six seasons, and then I ended up coaching for them

for three seasons. And that was who I was. I was a baseball player my entire life. My dad was in professional

baseball when I was a kid, so I grew up in a clubhouse, and it's all I knew. It was my identity.

So fast forward, I get into professional baseball as a player. My lifelong dream had been achieved,

and I was working my way to hopefully play in the major leagues one day

and when it came time to make a decision whether to retire and start coaching or keep playing I decided to start coaching um and I got married to my ex-wife when we were we were very young

uh didn't know a lot about the world thought I did. But in about 2016,

it started to, my drinking started to pick up a little bit. Things at home weren't great. I was

extremely stressed at my job and I started to realize that if I was drunk, I didn't care as much.

And my whole life, I had been the person that fixes things.

If you have a problem, you come to me.

My family has a problem.

They come to me.

I loved helping other people, but I hated addressing my own problems.

So if I had shit going on, I would just push it to the side and not address it.

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