Hey, how's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another update episode here, connecting with my buddy Scotty and my friend

Mike.

Both of these guys put in a lot of work into their sobriety, into their life once they

made this decision.

It's been incredible just to see the change and just even how people talk and their level

of awareness, especially these two.

Here on the podcast from when they first joined me and I've known them over the years and just

so proud of them.

So check out these episodes.

We got Scotty's first and then we'll plug into Mike's second.

And if you enjoy this or anything stands out to you, be sure to send them

over a note on Instagram. I'll drop their contact information like I always do if I can.

Down to the show notes below, let us know what you think. Now let's get right into Scotty's story.

Let me tell you someone about addiction. Yeah. Welcome everybody to this update. We got my buddy Scotty here. It's been a couple years, too. We were chatting since you've been on the show. And I'm thinking a good place to start is for anybody who didn't catch that episode. Take us back to what things were like for you. Oh, man. It's been a while. I get constant reminders driving through my city about what it used to be like.

But yeah, man, I feel like I'm so far from the guy that you even met. So yeah, I struggled with addiction 20 years, 20 plus years.

I was just like a functioning alcoholic, got into the drugs, tried to just get off them, didn't work, and then things got

worse, and they got a lot worse, and the rock bottom lasted about five or six years. I was in

debt with my place, I was in debt with my credit cards, and like it was just one thing after the

other. My dad died, right? That spiraled me a little bit more than my brother-in-law.

He overdosed. And we found him, actually. And that's when I stopped. That was the last day,

February 2nd, 2022. So my date is 2-2-22. 2-22. Well, good, man. I mean, yeah, I even when you popped on here, I'm like, man,

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