The One About Sobriety With Jon Lupin, The Poetry Bandit

The Papaya Podcast

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Known as “The Poetry Bandit”, Jon Lupin takes us through his journey to sobriety and how he surprisingly became a poet in the process. Now 5 years sober, Jon shares his incredible story through alcoholism, divorce and authoring THREE poetry books. With a growing and popular social media, this newly single dad of 3 makes it easy to talk about one of the more uncomfortable things to talk about: being social, and being sober.

Jon’s 3 books Encyclopedia of a Broken Heart, You Only Love Me When I’m Suffering & My Sober Little Moon are all available on Amazon, and you can find Jon @The_PoetryBandit for daily snippets of his work and inspiration.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.5	Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.
0:10.1	I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole.
0:13.1	And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.
0:20.7	So get ready to get inspired, get candid,
0:23.2	get real, because we are all in this digital space together. Hey, thanks for joining me again this
0:34.2	week. I realized last week that every single week I say, hey guys, we're back.
0:39.4	And like, I don't know. I have like the same intro line. I'm trying to drop it. I'm trying
0:42.6	to diversify the way I speak. So anyways, I'm really excited to. That's what I say every week.
0:48.1	I say I'm really excited to, but I actually am really excited. I just landed in Vancouver today.
0:53.1	I'm been awake for 24 hours almost.
0:57.1	And today I'm introducing probably my second ever male guest. Woo, woo. Woo. You can say something.
1:06.2	Sorry. It's okay. You just love me hanging. No, I'm really excited. We are IG friends. We just hung out for the afternoon, had dinner, chilled out in Langley, BC. But please welcome. Do we call you John or Jonathan? You just call me John. John. John Lupin? I said that right? You did. You and your accents. You're now making me have an accent. Yeah. That's how it works. You are known as the Poetry Bandit. Yes, ma'am. So give me the goods. Like, tell me how the heck. You got to be who you are, where you are. Take your time with this. Sure. This is your little origin story, a little intro, and then we'll get into like the meat
1:48.3	and the goods of everything else. But I want you to kind of like dive into how this all came to be.
1:54.4	Well, it doesn't have a happy start. That's for sure. So one thing that a lot of my followers
1:59.9	know about me is that I'm an alcoholic in
2:01.5	recovery. So I'm almost five years sober now. I'll be five years sober in July of this year.
2:08.7	So that's like maybe a few months away. A lot of people don't like it when you plan ahead for
2:13.6	your sobriety because you just take it one day at a time. But anyway, when it was 2014, and it was the year I had several things going on,
2:23.7	and it was a really terrible year for my drinking career, or my best year, depending on how you look at it.
2:30.0	So during that year, my wife at the time had a mental health issue, and we were working through that, and it was going terribly.
2:39.6	And then our son was diagnosed with autism that year as well.
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