Over time, alcohol took over Dave's life, but giving it up improved every area of his life.
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we have Dave, who shares his deeply personal and inspirational journey from growing up with an anxious mind and early struggles with guilt and shame, to becoming a defined party guy in high school and college. Despite achieving professional milestones, Dave's life was becoming increasingly unmanageable due to his drinking. He opens up about the physical and emotional toll his addiction took on him and his loved ones. Dave recounts his turning point moment of seeking help, the challenges of early sobriety, and the transformative effects it has had on his health, relationships, and overall life. Dave and I discuss the importance of replacing drinking with healthier activities, the persistent struggle with alcohol cravings, and the critical role of self-awareness and support systems in recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to season three of the Suburmotivation podcast. |
| 0:03.3 | Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories. |
| 0:08.3 | We are here to show sobriety as possible, one story at a time. |
| 0:11.9 | Let's go. |
| 0:14.3 | How's it going, everyone, Brad here? |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome back to another episode, and I've got a huge announcement to make, something I've been thinking about, |
| 0:22.4 | wondering about for quite some time now. See, a podcast is interesting. My guest and I, |
| 0:28.5 | we go through the story, we share our thoughts with you, but it doesn't really provide an |
| 0:33.0 | opportunity for you to share your thoughts with us or with me. And this is one of the reasons behind |
| 0:39.9 | creating the sober motivation community. Inside of the sober motivation community, we're going |
| 0:46.2 | to support each other on our alcohol-free and sobriety journeys. I'm also going to be hosting |
| 0:51.1 | meetings each week, and we're going to have other guests hosts that are going to be hosting meetings as well for us to check in, talk about what's going |
| 0:58.6 | on, and just work together to get another day sober. |
| 1:02.0 | The most incredible thing about this entire journey truly is meeting other people that are on |
| 1:08.0 | it as well. |
| 1:09.4 | Watching them grow is so amazing. And I just want to |
| 1:13.7 | formally invite everybody who's a fan of the podcast to jump over and join us in the Suburmotivation |
| 1:19.5 | community. We are now welcoming founding members to the community. You get two weeks free, |
| 1:25.1 | $20 membership. And once we hit 100 people in the community, that's all |
| 1:29.9 | going to change. So I would love for you to embark on this new journey with me, with us. We already |
| 1:35.9 | have some people joining in the community. And I would love to see you there. So click the link down in |
| 1:42.1 | the show notes below or send me a message on Instagram. |
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