Sober Motivation Podcast: A Year in Review
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
This episode marks a year-end review of the Sober Motivation Podcast. I reflect on the journey of the podcast throughout the year, having shared many motivational stories from various individuals overcoming alcohol addiction. Major highlights include heart-touching narratives of former WWE superstar, Jake 'The Snake', former NHL player Nate Thompson, and Renee, a mother who lost her daughter to an overdose. The host expresses gratitude to the people he met on Instagram, his friends including Laura, Megan, Stephanie, Ash, Hillary, and Jen for their contributions. He also acknowledges the incredible fan base of the podcast and appreciates the widespread positive response received, with over 800,000 downloads in the year, being streamed in over 100 countries. Lastly, he encourages listeners to remember their progress, appreciate their sobriety, and continue pushing forward despite the challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | How's it going, everyone? Welcome back to this episode, a year in review for the Sober |
| 0:05.7 | Motivation podcast. Wow. What a year it has been. Over a hundred story episodes have been |
| 0:12.8 | published and the impact has been incredible, not only for me, but also for you. I know this because |
| 0:20.6 | a day rarely goes by that I don't hear from someone |
| 0:23.9 | whom the podcast has touched. Over the year, we shared so many inspirational stories, |
| 0:30.4 | and some really hit home. One of those being Jake the Snake, the life he had growing up, and then the rise to the |
| 0:40.1 | WWE, a wrestling superstar, and then his downfall due to addiction. |
| 0:47.2 | His ability to come back from that is incredible. |
| 0:51.1 | We kicked off February with the story of Nate Thompson, former NHL player who struggled with addiction for many of those years. |
| 0:58.2 | We were also joined by Manny. |
| 1:01.2 | Manny went from an EMT to a cop to the biker life to being told there was nothing that could be done to save his life. |
| 1:09.1 | And he was being sent home for a hospice, and that alcohol |
| 1:14.8 | consumption was the root cause. |
| 1:17.7 | We had some powerful women share their stories on the podcast as well, and some of my friends |
| 1:22.9 | from Instagram, Laura, AKA Your Sober Pal, Megan frombysistas, Stephanie Noble, Ash Butters, Hillary |
| 1:30.7 | Phelps, and Jen from Sobisys and so many more. |
| 1:35.1 | Incredibly powerful stories, all a little bit different, all a little bit the same. |
| 1:41.2 | But all deciding that life might look better and could be better without alcohol |
| 1:47.1 | and they moved on it. Also, we had Joe, Mike, and Ricky. Three people I met through Instagram |
| 1:53.3 | and had a privilege to get to know more and more throughout our interactions in the |
| 1:58.3 | sober buddy community. Three people who showed me day in and day out that we can do hard things. |
| 2:04.3 | Thanks a lot, guys. |
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