How's it going, everyone? Welcome back to another update episode. Got two of my good pals with me today.

Dave G. and Les, both members of the Suburmotivation community, and it's been just incredible to get to know them over the months and the years in all the meetings and everything else.

So I hope you enjoyed these two stories. And now let's start off with Dave G's update episode.

Welcome back to another update episode. We got Dave with us today. Dave, how are you?

Doing great. Brad, how are you? Yeah, man. I'm well. I'm glad to connect again. The first episode

we connected on to. I'm vaguely, I remember too. I don't know if it was that you were unsure about sharing the story, but it was probably the first time, right? And it was really cool experience, man. Yeah, it was, it was, it was, I'll be lying if I didn't say it wasn't cathartic for me because it was good, but it was, it's not something that that comes naturally to me.

I'm glad I did it. I got a lot of great feedback from the community. I didn't anticipate that.

But it was nice to see a lot of people relate to my story and hopefully I was able to help in some

small way. So. Yeah. Oh, I know it did. I know it did, man. And I think at the end of the day, too,

like, I always go into it with this, right, to keep the pressure off, maybe myself and the gas

that join is, yeah, it's going to help somebody. We know that. But even if it doesn't,

let's just say it doesn't. I think both of us have an opportunity to grow in that moment that we spent together and how things have been sent. So I look at it like, okay, if it helps people in the world, gravy, but at the end of the day, it's going to help the two of us that are here. That's right. It's a good thing. It's the right thing to do. And that's anymore. That's how I try to live my life, do good things and just do the right thing. Yeah. that's anymore that's how i try to live my life do good things and

just do the right thing yeah for anybody who didn't catch the first episode we connected on

give us the cliff notes version yeah um uh cliff notes version is i am today i am 2,056 days

over so about five years so be six years in December.

After decades, almost three decades of drinking quite a bit.

So started when I was, you know, probably 15, 16.

And my drinking was, I hear a lot of people talk about, you know, drinking to fit in or relieve their social anxiety and things like that.

Mine was a little bit different.

And everybody's just different, right?

Mine was, I, for whatever reason, I grew up with a lot of feelings of guilt and shame.

And I still struggle with that.

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