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More great recovery wisdom from Season 1! Having been recovering for a few decades, it is very important to me to be in a position to give back and help others. Many of my guests are also in recovery and have incredible wisdom to share. These are many of the nuggets of wisdom extracted from those wonderful conversations! I hope you enjoy them and take some wisdom away from them. 

My Season 1 guests are all so full of wisdom from different experiences and backgrounds, I wanted to give you more!  This episode imparts so much wisdom that we can all carry with us into our every day. I truly hope you enjoy! 

When we stop fighting the world and stop fighting ourselves, life transforms for the better.  These 10 Points are taken from some of the lessons I impart in my first book, When I Stop Fighting: The Unexpected Joy of Getting My Head Out of My Ass.  I've found them to be some of the most important things I can practice in achieving the kind of life, inwardly, and outwardly, I want to achieve. I...

Having been recovering for a few decades, it is very important to me to be in a position to give back and help others. Many of my guests are also in recovery and have incredible wisdom to share. These are many of the nuggets of wisdom extracted from those wonderful conversations! I hope you enjoy them and take some wisdom away from them.

There are hundreds if not thousands of things we hear, see, and experience that shape us as we move through the journey of life.  I believe with all my heart that the three I discuss on this video are the ones that had the greatest impact on me, by far. Enjoy and I hope this helps you determine what has been most impactful for you!

As we wind down Season 1, I wanted to share some of the great moments we had. These snippets are all quite short but certainly packed with wisdom. I truly hope you enjoy! 

Today I’m joined by Sarah Sandidge, a Life and Recovery Coach who helps over-drinkers find not only discover freedom from addiction, but also what’s next in their beautiful lives! Sarah is also, near and dear to me, a sober human. Sarah’s newsletter The Sober Daily can be really helpful for hints pertaining to sobriety.  Every day is a new theme. I signed up. Very cool and will be a helpful resour...

Today I’m joined by Dr. Rani Thanacoody is a visionary entrepreneur based in the United Kingdom. As the esteemed Founder of AmazingYou, she has carved an indelible mark in the field of holistic wellness. Armed with a diverse array of qualifications, Dr. Rani is an international clinical hypnotherapist, a certified Mars Venus Life and Relationship Coach, a skilled Breathwork Coach, a compassionate...

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – Overcoming addictions, Striving for Success, Leadership, and Doing the Work required for a life well lived, with Oliver Goulet. How it can be easy to go down a difficult and unforgiving path. It’s a lot easier to stay on that path, especially when we’re young.  An opportunity to look at life and approach life in a different way presented itself. Oliver took adv...

Today I’m joined by Nick Pollard, aka The People Displeaser. Nick is a recovered people pleaser and a recovered alcoholic, who has committed to helping others achieve the same. If you haven’t seen his videos on IG, FB, Tik Tok, or YT, you have done yourself a disservice. As a “recovered from a whole bunch of BS” guy myself, as soon as I saw a couple of Nick’s videos, I said to myself, “this dude g...

Today I’m joined by Anna Fruehling, a Keto coach, Primal Health coach, High Performance Coach, and a carnivore, who is thriving after 5 autoimmune diagnoses. She is the founder of SugarX Global, and author of An Altered Spirit: The 12 Steps and Ebenezer Scrooge. Anna is also, near and dear to my heart, a sober human. Anna is a long-term sober person and we discuss a bit about her past, her book, a...

Today I’m joined by Drew Moore, Creator, Producer, and Host of The Sober FixPodcast, and, as you may have already guessed, Drew is a sober human. A very fast progression leading to 14 years of addiction. Nothing really wrong in the rest of life but turned to drinking and drugs anyway. First two years could be characterized as fun, but the remaining 12 was trying to get back to the first two years....

My guest today is Kyle “Koyote” Yates, creator and Host of The Vibes Broadcast Network, as well as a sober human. Koyote and I kick it off with his story of getting to recovery. Peer pressure, the 80’s, drinking and drugs everywhere, losing relationships. Difficult to say no in those days. How some of our friends from those days dropped off because they didn’t party like us, how some are not aroun...

Today I’m joined by C.J. Moneyway, creator and producer of the C.J. Moneyway podcast and founder of C.J. Moneyway Entertainment, Inc.  As an author and public speaker, C.J. brings wisdom, creativity, and charisma to all pursuits in which he engages.   A couple of Midwestern guys kicking it back and forth about life, parents, going off the path, and finding ourselves again. How finding the Bible he...

Today I’m joined by one of my great friends of 35+ years, Tony Hoskins A guy who is in my first book, (by his actual name), a college  classmate and teammate of mine, a very successful entrepreneur  and all-around good dude. One of my favorite things about my longtime friend is that he adheres himself to a code. The light above Tony’s head is NOT a halo, in case there’s a question 😊 Tony’s shares...

Today I’m joined by Byron H00ver, an educator, husband, father & writer, who I’ve gotten to know via social media and I’m very glad that I have. Byron has a lot to offer this world and I’m honored and excited to be involved in any way, with that unfolding story. Byron is also a sober human!   Byron and I have a lively, funny, and very enjoyable conversation about sobriety, writing, spiritualit...

Today I’m joined by Michele Weinstat Miller, a 4X published author,  Michele's books have been named "Best of 2019" by Strand Magazine;  Outstanding August 2021 Mystery & Suspense title by Library Journal;  and semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. Kirkus Reviews  calls her "Mary Higgins Clark with Teeth." Michele now serves as  General Counsel for a n...

Today I’m joined by Gigi Langer, a Stanford PhD, author of two  published books: 50 WAYS TO WORRY LESS NOW, published in 2018,  and LOVE MORE NOW, published in 2023. Additionally, Gigi is the  co-author of five books, as well as hundreds of articles for teachers             and teacher educators. Gigi is also a very long-term sober human. ***** Please find a very special and generous offer from Gi...

Rise up and build something; the author journey; legacy for children; being stuck vs staying stuck; Resonance; Healing is Powerful; Family relationships; Real, Raw, Vulnerable, with Nicole Danielle. Nicole and I dive into our author journeys, what we believe our legacies might be. How we can be stuck in the mud and how we “unstick” ourselves. Nicole’s book and her journey from being in the storm t...

Everything changes in Sobriety; Are we Willing? Doing the Work; People pleasing; I’m enough; Simple but not Easy; Daily persistent Effort; Taking Risks, Emotional Sobriety, Emotional Regulation, Change, with Brian Joyce. Brian and I talk about gratitude and how it keeps us in the present moment, the here and now. Gratitude takes practice, life takes practice. Change and transitioning to a better,...

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – The Recovery Journey, A.A., Sobriety, living in Massachusetts and Georgia, wanting Sobriety more than wanting to drink again, finding the right meetings, with Rich Sullivan. Rich shares his difficult journey to recovery after getting started at an early age with alcohol. Getting sober with A.A. and moving forward with recovery. Finding an agnostic A.A. group an...

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – Self-Acceptance over Self-Improvement, finding Freedom, and the Mission to help others, with Ryan Delaney  A powerful conversation with Ryan about the struggles with discontent, depression, and how we can be at war with ourselves. How exploration, practices, trying, moving forward, sometimes backward, can make all the difference. Helping others with their journ...

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – The Train Wreck, 12 Steps, Trauma, Grief, Coughing up Those Hairballs, and Healing, with Dr. Bob Beare  Dr. Bob and I peruse the importance of sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope in order to help others with their journey. The gift of the 12 Steps in our recovery and beginning the healing process. Grief and how we can allow that grief to move out of us by op...

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – Working through life’s Hurdles, Finding Purpose, our Support Systems, and the reward of continuing to improve ourselves, with my longtime friend, Norm Potter.  Norm, a great friend of mine, dives into his story of how he found success, inside and outside himself; how he overcame the hurdles of his limiting thinking and started to see life and his journey differ...

When I Stop Fighting – The Podcast – The Joy of Recovery, Acceptance, Self-Awareness, and no more Hiding, with Nadine Mulvina, creator of “The Sober Butterfly” and host of  “The Sober Butterfly” podcast  Nadine and I have a very honest and open conversation, starting with Nadine’s progression with alcohol, how the “badge of honor” carried itself through her drinking career, and how alcohol became...