Welcome back to Season 4 of the Sober Motivation Podcast.

Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories.

We're here to show sobriety as possible, one story at a time.

Let's go.

In this episode, we have Simon, who shares this harrowing yet inspiring journey from teenage grief to getting sober

and completing Iron Man's. Simon opens up about his struggles with alcohol and painkillers,

the wake-up calls that spurred his transformation, and the profound emotional rewards

of his sobriety journey. Simon's story underscores the transformative power of small, consistent actions and the

support from loved ones and overcoming life's biggest challenges. And this is Simon's story on the

sober motivation podcast. Welcome back to another episode of the sober motivation podcast.

We've got Simon with us today. How are you? I'm great. Thank you. Thank you for having me on.

Yeah, of course. Thank you so much. So what was it like for you growing up?

Yeah, so I'm from England. I've got my two parents who my dad was English and my mom was French.

And, you know, I had a really beautiful childhood. I was really lucky. My great parents

lived in a, you know, a nice place in England just outside of London. And things were going

pretty smoothly. I wasn't great at school. I wasn't a great achiever. And I also struggled from

quite an early age with my, with my weight. You know,

I loved my, I love my food with a French mother and, you know, she was a great cook. I probably,

you know, ate a little bit too much. I think that's fair to say and took a bit of stick about

that as a child.

And really, I guess my journey with alcohol started.

It started when I was 15 years old.

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