Welcome back to season four of the Super Motivation Podcast.

Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories.

We're here to show sorority as possible, one story at a time.

Let's go.

If you've ever wondered, why can't I stop or felt trapped by shame, this episode is going to hit deep.

I sat down with Jermaine, a Bay Area native whose drinking didn't start as party chaos.

It was quiet, functional, in-house alcoholism that escalated over a decade into withdrawal

seizures, liver failure symptoms, jaundice, a coma, and life support.

Today, Jermaine is 12 years sober.

And this is his story on the sober motivation podcast.

What's going on, everyone, Brad here?

Great to have you back for another episode.

Excited today, I'm actually recording the holiday special of the Subur Motivation podcast,

having a couple of guests.

We're going to talk about all of the ways that can help us stay sober over the holidays.

I also recorded for Just Between Us podcast, a really cool episode yesterday.

And it was an emotional episode.

I shared two letters that I got from my parents when I was 17 in the psych ward basically

ultimate and basically like an intervention of I had two options of picking one rehab that was

going to be shorter term like three months or the other option, which was going to be 10 months and far away from home

and a completely different thing.

So I walked through sort of what my experience was there and what I learned in rehab a little bit.

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