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On a Mission Podcast

One Year, No Beer and Beyond - with Andy Ramage

On a Mission Podcast

Ellie McKay

4.4 β€’ 1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

“Quitting alcohol isn't just for alcoholics.”

Like many of us, Andy was what he called a “middle lane” drinker. As someone who was always out entertaining or travelling the world, alcohol just became ingrained into his way of being. Something that was just part of the culture! 

From the outside, Andy had it all but despite the external success, he felt empty and lacking. It was great to hear first-hand Andy’s journey of self-realisation which is an ever-evolving quest to live life to the max! 

After achieving financial success with his financial brokerage, Andy gave it all up to co-founded the OneYearNoBeer movement, which has now helped over 100,000 people transform their relationship with alcohol. 

Since then Andy has written two books ‘The 28-day alcohol-free challenge’ & ‘Let’s Do This! How to use motivational psychology to change your habits for life’, and delivered a brilliant TEDx talk titled, ‘The pill will make you limitless’.

For anyone that may be considering doing something similar, hearing how Andy has completely transformed his life may just give you the push that you need. It was relevant to me on a personal level having committed to giving up the beloved red wine for the year of 2022 πŸ‘Š.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Many assume that natural talent and ability are the elements that set the great apart from the good. The truth is that the great ones all put in extra levels of work. Self-development is the key to lasting success.
  • Knowledge is power. Reading the stories of others, being inspired by the lessons learned through challenges can serve to ignite the fires within us when it matters.
  • The pivotal moments in life come through developing self-awareness. If we can take a look at our lives and see where unhappiness is bleeding in, then we can take the necessary steps to repair.
  • Many people are trapped in the "middle lane" of drinking - regular, small amounts that "take the edge off the day". It may not seem excessive, but cumulatively, it holds you back.

BEST MOMENTS

'Technically, I was like Bambi on ice!'

'I remember saying "I'm going to prove them wrong'

'If that's my destiny, if that's my path, then what are we all doing?'

'Drinking is like Kryptonite in your back pack'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

On A Mission - https://omny.fm/shows/on-a-mission  

Andy Ramage - https://andyramage.com/about-andy/

Andy Ramage Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AndyRamageOfficial

Andy Ramage Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/andyramageofficial/

ABOUT THE HOST

The On A Mission Podcast brings you Ellie Mckay's no holds barred chats with some of the UK's top business leaders, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, top thought leaders, influencers and mindset experts.

On a Mission is for unconventional thinkers that want to challenge the status quo. For all those people on a mission to live their best lives and take control of their own destiny.

Ellie is a straight-talking, successful property entrepreneur who passionately believes that everyone has the power within themselves to transform their lives no matter what their situation.

As a mumpreneur with 3 young children and multiple businesses, Ellie likes to keep it real with her no-bs insights and share the things that have helped her achieve the level of success she has enjoyed to date.

CONTACT METHODS:

Linkedin: Linkedin.com/in/ellie-mckay/

Facebook: Facebook.com/ellie.mckay.3150

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onamissonpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EllieMckay

Clubhouse: @ellie83

This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Unimission podcast. For those of you who are

0:04.9

watching on YouTube, you'll see I've got a huge smile on my face because I know I say this a

0:09.6

lot, I've genuinely so excited about this one because I am joined by a good friend of mine,

0:15.3

the fabulous Andy Rammage. And for those of you who don't know Andy, he's got a great back story

0:20.4

which we're going to go into. He's a former professional footballer. He was a hot shot in the

0:24.8

city, created two financial brokerages. But he's also more recently known as the godfather of

0:31.4

the alcohol free movement. He co-founded the one year no beer which has literally helped over

0:38.0

100,000 people completely transform the relationship with alcohol and it's particularly relevant for

0:43.8

for me on a personal level at the moment. He's written two books, he's done a fabulous TEDx talk

0:50.0

which I've listened to, it's absolutely fantastic. And he's just an all-round amazing guy

0:56.4

currently working on his more recent project which is limitless which we'll go into. But without

1:00.4

further ado, welcome Andy Rammage. Oh thank you, that was a nice little intro, I like that a lot.

1:06.3

Thank you, yeah it's a pleasure to be here, I'm excited about this.

1:09.8

You know what, I've genuinely been looking forward to this and I deliberately waited

1:13.8

until February to record this episode because it is such a hot topic at January and so many people

1:20.8

do the dry January, the alcohol free month. But I wanted to have a conversation with you in a bit

1:26.4

more of a deeper level for people that are really sort of taking that journey to the next step.

1:30.9

So I feel like this was the perfect time to kind of do it. Yeah I think it is, it's the hot topic

1:36.6

in January but what's been really interesting I've been involved in this for sort of eight years,

1:40.6

almost eight years exactly to the day that I woke up and said never again and eight years later

1:46.4

here I am, literally almost to the day. But I've seen it really evolve actually and dry jam become

1:51.5

a much bigger thing and the whole movement starting to gather pace, it's becoming, there I say,

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