I replaced alcohol with THIS and quit alcohol for 7 years

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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What if I told you that therewas something that I replaced
alcohol with, and once I'dreplaced it with this, I never
drank again.
In fact, I haven't touched adrop of alcohol for seven years,
after a decade of just honestly, hell.
And when I say hell, yeah, sure, alcohol caused pain, but I had
this desire to stop drinkingalcohol that I just couldn't

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grab hold of.
It was like I'd want to stop.
I'd grab hold of being sober,and then I'd have this idea to
have just one drink, and thecycle would just repeat.
But that was all until I made adiscovery, and I'm going to
break down this discovery inthis video today, because I'm
going to show you what you canreplace alcohol with, and this
will change your life forever.
So whether you've alreadystopped drinking alcohol or

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you're still figuring it out andreally trying your best, you
definitely want to watch thisvideo.
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So many people who try and stopdrinking alcohol look for a
replacement.
I get so many emails andcomments on youtube videos and

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private messages of people thatsay hey, leon, what do you think
of these alcohol-free drinks?
What do I think of mocktails?
What do I think of drinkingthis instead of alcohol?
And to understand what Ireplaced alcohol with, there are
three layers that we kind ofneed to dive into, because you
need to understand the fullpicture here before I show you
what I replaced it with, becauseit's not just as simple as
saying, yeah, I drink somealcohol-free beer because I

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don't drink that, and it's notas simple as saying, well, I
just drink sparkling water.
I want to show you the actualthought process of what I've
replaced alcohol with, becauseonce you see the layers, it's
going to give you, like this, Iget it now, this aha moment.
That's the intention, at leastthat's how these ideas worked
for me.
So let me break down thesethree critical layers for you to
get your head around.

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The first layer, and the firstthing that we really need to get
our heads around, is thatalcohol is a drug.
I've spoken with thousands ofpeople over the years who need
help stopping drinking alcohol,that are interested in joining
my coaching program, sober Clear, which, if you want information
on you, can just go tosoberclearcom and you can
schedule a free consultation.
But anyway, so many people talkto me and they say, leon, I've
never taken a drug in my life,but alcohol seems to dominate my
life and I always think, like,is this rationalization or do

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they really not know alcohol isa drug?
Honestly, I don't know, becauseI'm not going to attack
somebody and start saying, hey,you're stupid, alcohol is a drug
.
No, I'm not going to do that.
But, to be honest with you,these are the thoughts that go
through my head.
This is not a gray area.
Alcohol is a drug.
This is black and white, likethere's no question about this.
The problem, though, is thatbecause it's a drink and it
feels so normal to drink becausewe drink every day right, we

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drink puffy I got a littlecoffee here we drink water, we
drink things to stay alive theact of drinking feels so normal.
I'm pretty sure if you had tosnort alcohol as a line and
that's how you had to consume italcohol consumption would drop
drastically.
But it feels natural and it'salso normalized.
Society sees alcohol not as thesame way that we see any other

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drug, and we'll come back tothis in a second but you've got
to start with this as anunderstanding before you
understand what to replacealcohol with.
So the second layer to this isthis highly addictive drug that
we call alcohol is also a poison.
It's a poisonous, toxicsubstance.
Most of the population don'trealize this, but it's also a
carcinogen, and I don't know ifyou've ever tried like diesel,

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which is this thing that theyused to put inside of a punch.
When I was in America atuniversity, when I was in Tampa,
at USF, I joined a fraternity,and they'd make these punchers
where they'd put this diesel inand I tried this punch and it
was I think it's like 70%alcohol.
It's basically neat alcohol.
I'm quite sure you can't get ahigher concentration of alcohol
without it turning into a solid.
I might be wrong on that, but Itasted this stuff neat and it

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literally set fire to my mouth,my body, my taste buds said,
hell, no, don't drink that.
But what we do is we have thatexact same substance.
There's no difference.
It's the very same drug and thevery same taste.
But what we do is we dilute it,we fill it with sugar, we turn
it into beer, we turn it intowine.
But it's the same crap and it'sa poison.

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If you drink enough of it youwill die.
I'm not being mean and I'm nottrying to point my finger and
say you're a bad person oranything like that, but if you
drink enough of it it will putyou in a coffin.
That ain't good, that'sabsolutely terrible.
But as a society we just giveit a pass.
Bear with me, you'll see wherethis is going in a second.
But the third thing that I hadto get my head around, and you
probably need to get your headaround.
I'm not trying to soundjudgmental.
But the next thing I had to dois stop lying to myself about

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the pain that alcohol caused.
Alcohol caused pain in my lifeHangovers, a lack of energy,
putting on weight, not setting agood example to my family and
to my friends, prioritizingdrinking over everything else.
It caused pain in my life andwhen I used to drink is I had to
rationalize it, I had tojustify it and I had to come to
terms with the fact that alcoholwas probably the biggest source

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of pain in my life, because anymajor problem that I had
usually had alcohol linked to it.
So now we've built thisfoundation and now we're a
little bit clearer on whatalcohol actually is and the role
that it plays in our life.
Let's change the example andyou'll see how powerful this is
in a second.
But imagine a friend, maybe afamily member.

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In fact, if you want to make itreally severe, imagine somebody
that you really love a spouse,a child, something like that.
Imagine that individual gotheavily addicted to crack
cocaine, one of the mostdestructive drugs in the world.
Now imagine they got clean.
They stopped the drug.
It's been a month and they'rein the very same predicament as
somebody who's stopped drinkingalcohol.
They're thinking what could Ireplace the crack with?
So what he does or she does,the person that you love and I

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know it's a little bit weird tothink this way, but it'll make
it a lot more powerful.
But just imagine that thisfriend, this family member,
whoever it is, they go and visittheir old crack smoking friends
.
They go wherever they go, intothe abandoned house, who knows?
And all their friends pull outtheir pipe and start smoking.
And then the person, whoever'sin your mind right now, has
their pipe in their pocket andthey think, oh right, okay, I'll
pull it out, but I'm not goingto smoke crack.

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Oh, look at this sawdust on theground.
Okay, I'll put the sawdust inand now I'll smoke the crack
pipe.
Ah, now I don't feel like I'mmissing out.
What would you think about that?
Would you think that that'sokay?
Would you think that thatperson has a high chance of
succeeding as a non-cracksmoking person hanging around
their friends trying to fit in,trying to smoke the sawdust?
And I know this example ispretty crude and not very nice,

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but hopefully you're starting tosee what I replaced alcohol
with.
Now the thing with crack is it'snot the best example because
it's illegal.
So for the crack smoker, ifthey ever stop, they're probably
going to get away from thecriminals and the underworld
that they have to deal with.
But here's the thing withalcohol we can't escape it,
unless you go and live in acountry with a government where
alcohol is banned, like in theMiddle East or something like

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that, where even then though,there's I don't know places
where you can probably stillfind the stuff.
But unless you go to a placelike that, you live in a world
where drinking alcohol isnormalized.
When you change the substance,you see the absolute madness and
insanity of trying to replace adrug.
What would you think about thecrack smoke?
You'd think what are you doing?
You've stopped it, move on withyour life.
And this was a very long-windedway of saying this.

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But this is how I feel withalcohol it is a drug, it is a
poison, and it did nothing forme.
When I'm around people whodrink alcohol, I don't feel the
need to replace alcohol withanything.
If I saw a bunch of people thatwere shooting up heroin into
their veins or smoking crack,I'd be like yo, no thanks.
Keep me away from these people,and I'm not here to judge
anybody that puts anything intheir body.

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People are free to do whateverthey want.
But when I see people drink, Idon't feel this need to join in
and get an alcohol-free beverage.
Because what am I communicatingto myself by doing that?
Listen, I'm not saying that youshouldn't drink these drinks.
I've got people that I workwith that drink these drinks.
I just don't do it myself, andit's not like you're guaranteed
to relapse if you go and drinkan alcohol-free beer or whatever

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it is people drink.
I don't even know.
To me it makes no sense, becausenow it feels like I'm trying to
replace alcohol with somethingelse, and the last thing I want
to try and replace alcohol withis a fake alcoholic beverage.
This is a pretty extremeopinion, but I wanted to share
it with you, because when yousee that you don't need to
replace alcohol with anything,in fact, the only thing that you
replace it with is the lifethat you really want, the health

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that you want, the business youwant, the career you want the
family life you want.
You become the person that youwant to be.
Instead, that is the ultimatereplacement for alcohol, not an
alcohol-free beer.
Instead of trying to replacealcohol with something, why not
go towards the life that youreally want.
That is so much more excitingand it's so much more
sustainable.
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