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Recovery Elevator

RE 72: Helping Others is the Key To Getting Sober

Recovery Elevator

Paul

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ty, sober since March 2008, shares how she implements service into her life to stay sober.

I want to give a huge personal thank you to Ty for helping me with the Recovery Elevator podcast. I can't do any of this alone. Thank you Ty.

Also in this episode I interview Jesse from My Sober Roommate.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Recovery elevator episode 72.

0:03.0

Hi I'm Terrell I'm an alcoholic the weight of the world lifted off of my shoulders.

0:08.0

Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us.

0:17.0

According to the Recovery Elevator sobriety Tracker on my phone, I have been sober for 20 months and 22 days. On today's podcast I've got not one but two

0:26.8

interviewees. I've got Jesse he started my sober roommate.com. Turns out you got a better chance of getting sober and staying sober if you don't live at the Sigma

0:37.0

Kai house.

0:38.4

After that we've got Ty.

0:39.9

Ty is somebody who's very special to me because she edits the podcast. I've asked

0:44.9

her about 20 times if she could do an interview and the answer has always been no I'm

0:48.8

good I'd rather stay behind the scenes and simply edit. Ty literally took the weight of the world off my shoulders

0:55.2

when she said, hey Paul, do you need any help?

0:58.2

What I now know about Ty after knowing her for nearly two years

1:01.4

is that's what she does. She fully understands one vital

1:05.7

concept required to get sober and stay sober. That is helping others. That would be

1:11.4

sober.

1:17.0

Ty is somebody that no matter what bind I'm in, what I forgot. Be at my luggage while I'm at the airport,

1:20.0

Ty is always there to help. Ty is always helping other people. And guess she's been sober for nearly a decade

1:26.0

there's no coincidence with that so for the remainder of this podcast episode and

1:30.6

for the remainder of your day don't ask yourself yourself, what am I going to get out of this podcast episode?

1:36.0

What am I going to get out of today?

1:38.0

Ask yourself, after this podcast episode,

1:41.0

what can I give to this day? How can I be of service to the people around me today? How can I make this day better for other people? Because Thai, she's been making my life better for a long time now.

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