How To Get Sober? When Drinking Is All You Know with Chester and Rick Duff.
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
Chester and Rick Duff share a special friendship, one that was once fuelled by drinking and addiction. They both joined me in the studio to share the full story of the different places addiction took them to and how they have been able to break the cycle. For Chester is was more daily drinking, which triggered a true hatred towards himself and Rick Duff was more of the weekend warrior but sobriety has changed things completely. We go over many "Rock Bottoms" and failed attempts at sobriety to Chester reaching 9 months sober on the date this episode goes live.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Subur Motivation podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Today I've got Chester and Rick Duff here in studio. First ever in-person podcast recording. How's it going, boys? Good. Yeah. We're doing very good. Nice drive here. Yeah. Leaving Montreal, coming to Toronto. I'm popped up, man. Let's do it. Yeah. So we'll start with Chester, man. What was it like for you growing up? |
| 0:24.6 | Um, I'm popped up, man. Let's do it. Yeah. So we'll start with Chester, man. |
| 0:21.5 | What was it like for you growing up? |
| 0:24.9 | It was a nice childhood with a loving family. |
| 0:30.9 | My dad was a cop. |
| 0:33.0 | My mom was a stay at home for like maybe two, three, four years on my life. |
| 0:38.3 | Then she found a job and they were involved in my, like with school, sports and stuff. |
| 0:47.3 | And I have a brother, a big brother, and like best friends since forever and we just played along and stuff |
| 0:58.7 | and i was pretty happy but like at some point when i got in school i realized that i wasn't an outsider |
| 1:07.7 | they didn't do well in school at all i was was like ADHD with no medication and stuff and it was pretty hard for me to concentrate, |
| 1:17.6 | focus. |
| 1:18.6 | Still hard. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.6 | Party pooper. |
| 1:21.6 | Get out here. |
| 1:22.6 | No cake for you. |
| 1:24.6 | And, um, um, focus man see but uh but like for real um it was very like really hard for |
| 1:36.4 | me didn't do grade in school and uh then i was put on like riddlin and adderol and stuff and |
| 1:43.8 | my grades did better but still I was still |
| 1:48.4 | an outsider. I was stuttering a lot and was picked on with that and it was pretty hard for me like to |
| 1:56.9 | just fit in and to express myself it was really hard because I felt like |
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