Mod Sun's Path to Sobriety and Self-Discovery
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Sober Motivation Podcast, Mod Sun shares his transformative journey from a chaotic childhood in rural Minnesota to becoming a successful solo artist. He discusses growing up with divorced parents, early sports ambitions, and how he looked up to Travis Barker which sparked his music career. Mod Sun opens up about his battles with alcohol, cocaine, and the turning points that led him to sobriety, and the steps he took to battle addiction. Just passing 5 years this is Mod Sun’s story on the Sober Motivation Podcast.
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00:00 Introduction to the Podcast
01:05 Early Life in Minnesota
05:04 Transition to Sports and Social Life
09:03 Discovering Music and High School Challenges
21:25 Substance Use and Post-High School Journey
27:44 First Band and the Influence of Bob Dylan
32:58 Joining Four Letter Lie and Pursuing a Solo Career
35:02 First Tour Experiences and Early Career
35:58 Struggles with Substance Abuse
38:37 A Dark Turning Point
43:01 The Path to Sobriety
45:08 Maintaining Sobriety and Personal Growth
48:19 The First Day of Sobriety
56:17 Embracing Sobriety and Its Challenges
01:08:10 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3 of the Subur Motivation Podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible, inspiring, and powerful |
| 0:07.7 | sobriety stories. |
| 0:09.1 | We are here to show sobriety as possible one story at a time. |
| 0:12.8 | Let's go. |
| 0:15.0 | In this episode of the podcast, Mod Sun shares his transformative journey from chaotic childhood |
| 0:20.1 | in rural Minnesota to |
| 0:22.1 | becoming a successful solo artist. He discusses growing up with divorced parents, early sports |
| 0:28.1 | ambitions, and how he looked up to Travis Barker, which sparked his music career. |
| 0:32.8 | Mod's son opens up about his battle with alcohol and cocaine and the turning points that led him to sobriety and the steps he took to battle addiction just passing five years this is mod sun's story on the sober motivation podcast how's it going out there everyone i hope things are going well if they're not a hope they turn around for you soon uh welcome back to another |
| 0:55.9 | episode of the podcast this is a ton of fun we're almost at 160 episodes which is incredible |
| 1:02.4 | i've got a lot more in store a lot more incredible ones i really hope you guys enjoyed this one |
| 1:07.2 | this was a masterpiece to put together to make everything flow and do all those things |
| 1:12.9 | on the back end to make the podcast really come out smooth. I want to mention that before we get |
| 1:18.0 | started, if you're enjoying the show and maybe we've saved you from an expensive bar tab or anything |
| 1:23.8 | like that, please consider donating to support the show. |
| 1:28.1 | I do everything myself from booking the guests, |
| 1:30.5 | reaching out to people, |
| 1:32.4 | having people booked, |
| 1:33.5 | rescheduling, |
| 1:34.6 | recording the episode, |
| 1:37.3 | editing the episodes, |
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