Welcome back to another episode of the Sober Motivation podcast. I'm Brad, your host. And on this

episode, we follow up with John. You may know him as the tired dad. When we first talked,

John was newly sober. Now he's over three years alcohol free. And he comes back with the real

story. The first year isn't always inspiring. Sometimes it's brutal. We talk about quitting without a

rock bottom, why moderation didn't work for him, and how fatherhood put up a mirror to his life,

and what it actually takes to build sobriety that lasts. Now let's get to John's story. Welcome back to

another update episode of the Sober Motivation podcast. Today we've got John,

also known as the tired dad. Do people refer to you as the tired dad or still John?

Both, you know, uh, I think I've put my name out there now. So I get John a little more.

Yeah, good man. Well, thanks for making time to connect with us. And you had mentioned, too, it was like two years ago. Yeah. That we jumped on and we shared your story kind of with everybody. What have things been like for you since? And before we even get there, for anybody that didn't listen to that episode or maybe needs a little bit of a refresh, like walk us through the Cliff Notes version

of your story related to sobriety. Yeah, I remember that podcast episode. I was, I was newly

sober. I think it was, it was maybe right at a year, maybe even under that. And you reached out,

and it was kind of a new thing for me to talk about sobriety.

I just kind of, it happened for me, you know?

It was a dry January type deal.

I've been trying to get sober for years before that.

I just, and here we were, like, nine months later or whatever it was, and I was talking to you

and just kind of spilled it all out there, like my whole story.

So it was an interesting time back then.

So that's why I wanted to come back on to talk to you again.

I know we've been talking through since then, but it, you know, there's just so much around

sobriety nowadays.

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