Sobriety Updates and Insights with Sober Dave, Kristen, and Manny - was it worth it?
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we hear updates from Sober Dave, Kristen, and Manny as they share their inspiring stories of recovery and sobriety:
- Dave Wilson: Known as Sober Dave, he discusses his journey to becoming a trauma-informed coach and the challenges he faces bringing sobriety talks into corporate settings.
- Kristen: Celebrating four years of sobriety, Kristen shares her experience overcoming alcohol and Xanax addiction and the tools she uses to manage anxiety.
- Manny Vitale: From a former police officer struggling with severe addiction to recovering from multi-organ failure, Manny now helps others through his initiative, 'My Fight Our War.'
Find the full Episodes Below:
Sober Dave Episode #6: David Wilson aka Sober Dave struggled with alcohol for 40 years
Kristen's Episode #93: For Kristen alcohol melted away the social anxiety and then she found Xanax.
Manny's Episode # 29: Manny was told he had 6 weeks to live and nothing could be done to reverse the damage alcohol had done.
Guests Instagram Accounts
Sober Dave: https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
Kristen: https://www.instagram.com/kristenlmcavoy/
Manny: https://www.instagram.com/myfightourwar/
Sober Motivation Community: https://sobermotivation.mn.co/
Sober Motivation Website: https://www.sobermotivation.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everyone, to another update episode. Thank you so much for checking this out. |
| 0:05.3 | On this episode, we've got Sober Dave, Kristen, and Manny, all joining us. |
| 0:12.2 | Incredible stories, sharing what things have been like since they joined the podcast last, |
| 0:16.2 | a little bit of the overall experience of being sober and what it's like working through the years as |
| 0:22.4 | things change and we've become more aware of other things maybe that we want to improve |
| 0:26.7 | in our life and really great chat so let me know what you guys think send me a message over |
| 0:31.4 | on instagram if you're enjoying the update series and yeah let's get into it we got got Dave Wilson, aka Soba Dave, with us. Interesting story before we even kick off. Well, how are you doing, Dave? |
| 0:45.2 | I'm really good, Brad. And it's so lovely to see you, mate. It feels up we've both been really busy in their last few months and that. So it's lovely to see your handsome face. |
| 0:56.5 | Same to you, man. |
| 0:57.9 | Since we're on the podcast, I mean, it's only appropriate to share when I had the thought |
| 1:02.3 | of doing this and I shared this on our episode we did too, you're the first person that I |
| 1:07.9 | mentioned, right? |
| 1:08.7 | Because you have your podcast, one for the road with Sober Dave, |
| 1:11.7 | which has like just that incredible English accent intro to it, which I love. And I was like, |
| 1:17.4 | Dave, do you think I can pull something like this off? And you were like, of course, man, why couldn't |
| 1:24.3 | you? And you were like, you need this, you need that. And then I went right to work on it, right? |
| 1:29.5 | I went on Facebook marketplace, grabbed a roadcaster, got a microphone, like within two days. |
| 1:35.2 | I think I sent you back a picture and I was like, I'm ready to go. And you were like, you're a maniac, man. |
| 1:41.5 | You know, so I appreciate that, man, that you kind of gave me that direction, man, to get |
| 1:46.9 | things started. And look at you now, mate. You're absolutely smashing it out of the park. |
| 1:52.6 | Congratulations, mate. Yeah, thank you so much. So catching up, it's been a while since we've |
| 1:57.9 | chatted on video anyway, and since you joined to share your story on the show. |
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