Welcome to Season 3 of the Subur Motivation Podcast.

Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible, inspiring, and powerful

sobriety stories.

We are here to show sobriety as possible one story at a time.

Let's go.

In this episode, we have Dr. Sumit Ball, who always had a vision of being a doctor

very early on in life.

During high school, he was a great student and a football team member when he began drinking

alcohol.

When he graduated college and had no medical school to go to, Sumit began furthering his

exploration of meditation, and that was when his relationship with alcohol would change

forever.

Dr. Ball is currently an interventional radiologist in Brooklyn, New York, and share some

valuable insight with us on the effects of alcohol.

With over 18 years of being alcohol-free, this is some meat story on the sober motivation

podcast.

Hey, how's it going, everyone, Brad here?

Look, this episode's incredible, and we're going to get right to it. But before we do, I just got off of the big Sober Buddy Zoom meeting that we have once per month. We had about 75 to 80 people there. And let me tell you, it was incredible. Hearing people's stories about where they're at, two people shared that they had not smiled like that in months, but being able to share their story in a Zoom room full of other people that could understand, just really validated where they're at. And that's the importance

of community and connection when we're on this sober journey. I mean, you'll hear it all the time that

connection is the opposite

of addiction and getting connected with people that are on the journey is extremely helpful.

And that's exactly what we do over at Sober Buddy with our two meetings a day in our supportive

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