No One Can Force Us To Get Sober - Kevin's Story
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Kevin shares his powerful story of struggling with alcohol addiction and experiencing multiple rock bottoms. Kevin details his journey through treatments, car accidents, and personal battles, ultimately finding sobriety and purpose through unwavering support and self-discovery. Join us as Kevin recounts how he rebuilds his life and relationships and embraces the joys of family.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Season 4 of the Sobermotivation podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories. |
| 0:07.8 | We're here to show sobriety as possible, one story at a time. |
| 0:11.9 | Let's go. |
| 0:14.7 | Kevin shares his powerful story of struggling with alcohol addiction and experiencing multiple |
| 0:18.9 | rock bottoms. |
| 0:20.2 | Kevin details his journey through |
| 0:21.5 | treatments, a car accident, and personal battles, ultimately finding sobriety and purpose through |
| 0:26.4 | unwavering support and self-discovery. Join us as Kevin recounts how he rebuilds his life, |
| 0:31.2 | relationships, and embraces the joys of family. And this is Kevin's story on the sober |
| 0:35.7 | motivation podcast. Welcome back to another episode of the Subur Motivation podcast. Today we've got Kevin with this. Kevin, how are you? |
| 0:43.3 | Doing great. How about yourself? |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, I'm good, man. Thank you for being willing to jump on here on the podcast and share your story with all of us. |
| 0:50.3 | Absolutely. If I get somebody help, that's my main goal. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah. So what was it like for you growing up? |
| 1:04.2 | Growing up was actually, it was a decent childhood. I grew up a hockey family, Minnesota. We were a tight net family and things were always, we weren't rich, we weren't wealthy. We were just an average |
| 1:10.5 | family down the road, just a normal next door neighbor. Growing up as a kid, drinking was a big thing. It was just like at every event, it was every family event. It was the neighbors who would have a drink while they're mowing the grass. It's a normal thing. It's a normalcy around here. And my life changed a little bit |
| 1:28.4 | when I was at a young age at around eight to nine years old. My mom ended up getting cancer. We woke |
| 1:34.2 | up one morning to school morning and I was like, let's, should be up a little bit way before this. |
| 1:40.6 | And it's probably like nine o'clock and I'm waking up late, this is a school day. |
| 1:45.0 | And just to walk in on my mom having a grandma seizure, sent me and my brother home and I yelled |
| 1:49.8 | my brother's, he called the cops and we saved my mom at the time. But she wasn't really given |
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