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Welcome to slow mob. Welcome to slow mob. Welcome back, my guest today's Andy Ramage, who is a professional footballer until age

23 after getting injured, he know like changes his career a little so he

opens two major brokerage firms that become very successful and in the process becomes the

almost the godfather, the biggest advocate if you want of alcohol free living.

He's an author and an activist if you want for the topic and definitely one of the world-renowned coaches on how we can live alcohol-free.

I am not familiar with alcohol-free topics because I have never had a drink in my life, not a single

one other than one glass of wine that my dad gave me when I was 11.

Yes, dad it worked and for that I am actually

quite curious not only about how to live alcohol free but why we live with

alcohol in the first place and the I am so grateful that you're here. I like very much what I read

and learned about what you do. Before we talk about the sort of the purpose-driven part of your life, I'm very curious about that shift.

I was not professional but in Egyptian terms, I was playing for the national team.

Until I was 23, I was you know playing for the national team until I wait I was 23 I was also

injured and not football but handball and then I remember vividly at the time how

immersed I was in it to the point that when it was not in my life anymore, it just felt completely like confusing.

For you to be able to leave that and jump and do something else so successfully is actually quite interesting.

Yeah and we see this all the time actually I do a lot of work with athletes now yeah

so I'm also part of the Professional Football's Association's business school, which they've just

opened for former players and because the stats around professional athletes in general that

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