Inside a Bartender’s Addiction: How Alcohol & Drugs Took Over His Life Until One Shocking Moment | Zak Williams

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Zak Williams shares his experience as a bartender, the impact of alcohol and drug addiction, and the turning point that changed his life. He discusses how substance use affected his career, relationships, and mental health, and what led him to seek recovery. Zak also talks about his journey to sobriety and the steps he took to rebuild his life. #BartenderLife #AddictionRecovery #AlcoholAbuse #DrugAddiction #LifeChangingMoment #SobrietyJourney Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Connect with Zak Williams: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/champerz?igsh=NWFnYTc0NTMydmE2 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCXSDG9KIR7sGiyvSV03p6ZQ Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/zak-williams/1695017011 Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Thank you to our sponsors this week: Buy Merch: https://www.ianbick.com/shop Use code lockedin at checkout to get 20% off your order Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction to Zak Williams, Vermont Hip-Hop Artist 00:05:56 A Unique Childhood: Military Discipline and a Free-Spirited Mother 00:13:05 Transition from High School to College Football 00:20:06 The Influence of Sports and Lifestyle Choices 00:26:48 The Impact of Addiction in Family 00:33:42 Intense Confrontation and Escape 00:40:52 Life of a Bartender: Partying and Late Nights 00:48:00 Confronting Family Resentment and Addiction 00:55:23 Hiding Alcohol from Loved Ones 01:03:38 Overcoming Challenges Together as a Family 01:09:34 Debt and Dangerous Encounters 01:17:56 Rock Bottom and Suicidal Thoughts 01:24:32 Understanding Signs of Alcohol Dependency 01:32:31 A New Beginning in Rehab 01:38:45 Adventure at Bigam Falls Goes Wrong 01:45:38 Mountain Rescue and Injury 01:52:28 Sharing Wakeup Call Stories Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why do your socials look so good?
0:03.5	Mine are basic.
0:05.3	I use Adobe Express.
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0:38.1	I'm at Zach. Welcome to Locked in. You are from Vermont. I don't know if we've had a Vermont guest. Hopefully, yeah, maybe the first. Yeah, maybe we did. I don't know. I don't remember off the top of my head. There's so many guests. It would be cool once I hit like every single state of guests. But thanks for coming. Thanks for being a listener of the show.
0:41.9	You drove almost five hours to get here today and none of your friends want to make the trip with you. Nobody wanted to come. Thank you so much for having me. Huge fan and really excited to
0:49.2	share my story and just, yeah, I love being a part of what you've got going on thank you man
0:56.3	well we love you being a part of it because that's what it's all about you know the guests that
1:00.0	make the show what it is that are able to share their stories and come on and you're you're also
1:04.6	a rapper right I want you to plug in your music and then what kind of music it is that you do yeah
1:09.2	um so I perform hip hop.
1:13.6	Zach Williams music.
1:15.6	I'm on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube.
1:22.0	J.G. Productions is the guy I work with.
1:25.4	Joey Groom.
1:26.4	Shout out Joey Groom.
1:30.7	He makes all the beats. And I just write and rap. He does everything else. So, you know, all the credit to him. That's awesome. Yeah. And you look
1:36.5	like logic too. Which is so funny because now that, yeah, just meeting you and hearing you say that I've,
1:41.4	I have co-workers that call me logic too. Yeah and everyone calls
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