The S.O.B.E.R. Method

“You are already a 10.” – Steve Barton Steve Barton Website: https://www.stevebartoncoaching.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/service-marketplace/projects/15194679164/ Co-author of The Father, The Son and The Aha Moment Massimo Rigotti sits down with Steve Barton, business builder, creator of the Game of 10, and a registered health and wellness coach whose process was presented to the Harvar...

“Be curious instead of furious.” – Nadege Saysana   Nadege “Nan” Saysana Website: https://www.milobingefix.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nan.saysana.coaching/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nan-saysana/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nadege.saysana1/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@nadegesaysanacoaching   Massimo Rigotti sits down with Nan Saysana, founder of Milo BingeFix and...

“There’s nothing to be ashamed of. I would rather have Nicholas here any day than have him gone.” – Katie Rizzo Katie Rizzo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katierizzo007/ Website & Books: https://www.katierizzo.com/ The Trimesters of Grief (memoir) – available wherever books are sold Massimo Rigotti launches the Perspectives Bonus Series with Katie Rizzo, mother, high school teacher, and...

“It’s not the thing, it’s the place from which it’s coming from.” – Chris Rogers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebootedteen/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rebootedteen Free Rebooted Teen Parent Program: https://www.rebootedteen.com Massimo Rigotti sits down with Chris Rogers, certified recovery coach and founder of Rebooted Teen. Chris turned his own long struggle with compulsive pornog...

S01E08: The Dopamine Burnout Effect with Dr. Jess Armine "Addiction is not a discipline problem. It is a low dopamine biology problem driven by genetics, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction from sustained high performance and burnout." – Dr. Jess Armine Dr. Jess Armine Website: www.drjessarmine.com Complimentary 30-minute Discovery Session for prospective patients: https://drarmine.as....

“Your brain is a prediction machine running old patterns. The work is updating the data so it predicts better ones automatically.” — George Haymaker III George Haymaker III Website & Brain Club: georgehaymaker.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/georgehaymaker Massimo sits down with George Haymaker III — serial entrepreneur, applied neuroscience educator, and recovering alcoholic. George opens up ab...

S01E06 – The Fight I Have is with Me with Daryl Dittmer Call to Action Observe the moment you feel the urge to numb, scroll, drift, or fight yourself. Write it down in one honest sentence. Then do a one-minute “Show Up Reset”: stand up, breathe, tell yourself the truth about where you are and who you are. Execute it three times tomorrow and measure how you stayed in command. If it affected anyone,...

“The mind must be given relaxation — it will rise better and higher for a rest.” – Seneca You’ve reflected, observed, redesigned, and executed. Now it’s time to release the weight of the past. In the powerful finale of the S.O.B.E.R. Method overview series, Massimo Rigotti walks you through Step Five: Restore. The essential act of making genuine amends, releasing guilt, and creating a clean slate...

Epictetus said, “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” In this episode of The S.O.B.E.R. Method Podcast, Massimo Rigotti covers Steps 3 and 4: Behavior and Execute . You’ll redesign your automatic responses with Behavior Chain Analysis, install a new judgment and action, and test it in the real world through the 7-Day High-Performance Execute Challenge. Built o...

“It is not things themselves that disturb men, but their judgments about these things.” – Epictetus Episode Summary Building on last week’s powerful Stoic reflection, Massimo guides you through Step Two: Observe of the S.O.B.E.R. Method. Learn how to turn your honest self-awareness into real data by catching life’s triggers, judgments, and automatic behaviors the moment they fire. Using Epictetus’...

“Depression is the intersection of who we know we are and who we present ourselves to be.” In this raw and practical episode, Massimo Rigotti explores the exhausting gap between our private truth and public mask — the very place he lived for twenty years as a high-functioning alcoholic. Drawing from his own crash into depression after Samantha’s murder trial and the writing of the S.O.B.E.R. Metho...

Ten years sober today, March 23, 2026. From homeless relapses and scraping for vodka to choosing life on March 23, 2016, this is my raw origin story. Meet Samantha, the 19-year-old who saw me when no one else did, and how her legacy became the S.O.B.E.R. Method: a framework for high-performance individuals to finally become free from addiction and gain real confidence without masks or numbing. Why...