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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help
you make stopping drinking asimple, logical and easy
decision.
We help you with tips, toolsand strategies to start living
your best life when alcohol-free.
If you want to learn more aboutstop drinking coaching, then
head over to wwwsoberclearcom.
(00:21):
Just think for a second.
What happens when somebodystarts drinking alcohol?
Alcohol gives some sort ofperceived benefit.
Think about it.
When I had my first few drinks,I remember I was out with my
friends and all of a sudden Igot validation.
All my friends were encouraging.
And then, as life went on, Istarted drinking at parties and
socializing and I thought I wasmore lubricated and, you know,
(00:43):
more confident to talk to girlsand all of this stuff.
But when we start drinkingalcohol, we seem to gain
something from it.
But there is a shift thathappens for everybody and today,
in this video, I'm going tounpack that shift for you.
Just think about your drinkingfor a second.
There is a perceived benefit.
What I mean by this is maybefor you it's about coming home
after a long day of work pouringa glass of wine, sitting back
(01:05):
on the couch, drinking the wineand thinking peace.
Maybe for you it's more of asocial thing that when you go
out and you talk with yourfriends, you're having some
drinks.
Maybe for others myselfincluded alcohol was a form of
escapism.
I wasn't happy with an area ofmy life and I could just drink
and forget about things.
But when we drink we feel likewe get something.
We feel a perceived benefit.
Why else would we drink apoison?
(01:26):
Remember the first drink thatyou ever had?
It tasted so damn bad.
I can remember mine, like itwas yesterday.
We stole my best friend's mum'salcohol.
We got the vodka, we took some,we filled it back up with water
the classic trick and it wasthe most disgusting thing I'd
ever tasted in my life.
I couldn't understand whypeople would drink, but I pushed
past that and then I got myfirst taste of feeling a bit
(01:47):
drunk.
But the whole reason why wedrink is because we think we
gain something from it.
And for all drinkers weactually go through this kind of
like, I would say thishoneymoon phase where we drink
and it causes no problems in ourlife.
Now, if alcohol actuallycontinued like that, then my
YouTube channel wouldn't exist.
People wouldn't end updeveloping problems with alcohol
.
I don't see any channels on theinternet that are like talking
(02:09):
about quitting oranges, right,my company is called Sober Clear
.
I don't see Apple Clear.
The problem with alcohol isthat.
Number one, it's a drug.
And number two is it creates anillusion of a benefit.
Think about what alcohol is.
It is a carcinogen.
It is a poison.
It's ethanol.
It's highly addictive.
If you drink enough of it youwill die.
And this substance is supposedto give us a benefit Like what?
(02:30):
Logically, that makes no senseat all.
I don't know if you've evertried diesel.
I remember when I went toAmerica I did a fraternity.
So I went to USF in Tampa forone semester.
I had like one exchangesemester.
Then I went back to universityback in England, but during the
exchange semester I went into afraternity.
Oh my gosh, that was some crazytimes.
That was before I was soberLeon and not drinking for seven
(02:51):
years right, this was during themadness.
But they had this diesel thatthey'd pour into the punch.
But as an Englishman, I'd neverseen this diesel stuff before.
But I thought, oh, I'm going totry a little bit of it.
And I remember tasting thisstuff and honestly, it felt like
my mouth was on fire for like10 minutes.
I think it's 80% or 70%.
It was the highestconcentration of alcohol you can
get, but I thought I'm going totry a tiny amount, just purely
(03:12):
out of curiosity, and I swearthat that was.
It was like worse than eatingthe spiciest food I've ever had
in my life.
I felt like I drank gasoline.
So what they do is they make apunch but they pour this in and
they dilute the living hell outof it so you can't taste it, and
then pour a bunch of sugarydrinks and cranberry and
whatever else was in there.
I don't even know.
But we're supposed to believethat if we drink a small amount
(03:34):
of this absolutely disgustingtasting drink, that we gain
something from it.
Anyway, what ends up happeningis we have these benefits and
then all of a sudden thebenefits start disappearing.
Drinking always starts off okay.
That's why we don't really seemany teenagers quitting drinking
.
Sure, there's an argument thatthe current generation of young
people are drinking less now,but when I was growing up, I
(03:54):
never met an 18 or 19 year oldthat said, ha, I don't drink,
unless maybe they were anathlete or something, but it
just wasn't a thing.
But then, as I got older, I metmore people who did have
problems with alcohol and theystopped.
So what is the sign?
When should you stop and listen?
This might feel like a bit of apunch in the face, but when the
perceived benefits go whichhappens pretty damn fast for
most people For me it happenedwithin the first few months of
(04:16):
tasting alcohol I was gettingsmashed.
I was waking up with hangovers.
I was thinking why am I doingthis?
Sure, this honeymoon phase canlast a few months.
Sometimes it can last a decade.
But when you get to a placewhere you know that these
perceived benefits are gone,what starts happening is you
start lying to yourself, andthis might be tough to listen to
.
This might be a bitter pill toswallow, but when you start
justifying your drinking, whenyou start saying it's okay, I
(04:39):
only drink a little bit here andthere, it's not that bad.
I hate to say it, but that'sdrug addiction.
That's an addiction that's gothold of you and you're
justifying it, and what I hopethis video has done for you is
given you a wake-up call.
If you've been lying to yourselfor your friends or your family,
telling yourself that it's allokay, I've got things under
control, why, who are youkidding here?
There are no benefits toconsuming poison and I don't
(05:01):
want to feel like some bully orsomething, but I made this video
to call you out, not from aplace of trying to put you in a
corner and attack you.
I made this video from a placeof love, because all drinkers
lie to themselves.
How can you learn about whatalcohol actually is and then
continue drinking a drug?
We're not living in the 1800sanymore.
So many people are stoppingdrinking alcohol.
Thanks for checking out theStop Drinking podcast by Sober
(05:24):
Clear.
If you want to learn more abouthow we work with people to help
them stop drinking effortlessly, then make sure to visit
wwwsoberclearcom.
Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help
you make stopping drinking asimple, logical and easy
decision.
We help you with tips, toolsand strategies to start living
your best life when alcohol-free.
If you want to learn more aboutstop drinking coaching, then
head over to wwwsoberclearcom.
(00:21):
Just think for a second.
What happens when somebodystarts drinking alcohol?
Alcohol gives some sort ofperceived benefit.
Think about it.
When I had my first few drinks,I remember I was out with my
friends and all of a sudden Igot validation.
All my friends were encouraging.
And then, as life went on, Istarted drinking at parties and
socializing and I thought I wasmore lubricated and, you know,
(00:43):
more confident to talk to girlsand all of this stuff.
But when we start drinkingalcohol, we seem to gain
something from it.
But there is a shift thathappens for everybody and today,
in this video, I'm going tounpack that shift for you.
Just think about your drinkingfor a second.
There is a perceived benefit.
What I mean by this is maybefor you it's about coming home
after a long day of work pouringa glass of wine, sitting back
(01:05):
on the couch, drinking the wineand thinking peace.
Maybe for you it's more of asocial thing that when you go
out and you talk with yourfriends, you're having some
drinks.
Maybe for others myselfincluded alcohol was a form of
escapism.
I wasn't happy with an area ofmy life and I could just drink
and forget about things.
But when we drink we feel likewe get something.
We feel a perceived benefit.
Why else would we drink apoison?
(01:26):
Remember the first drink thatyou ever had?
It tasted so damn bad.
I can remember mine, like itwas yesterday.
We stole my best friend's mum'salcohol.
We got the vodka, we took some,we filled it back up with water
the classic trick and it wasthe most disgusting thing I'd
ever tasted in my life.
I couldn't understand whypeople would drink, but I pushed
past that and then I got myfirst taste of feeling a bit
(01:47):
drunk.
But the whole reason why wedrink is because we think we
gain something from it.
And for all drinkers weactually go through this kind of
like, I would say thishoneymoon phase where we drink
and it causes no problems in ourlife.
Now, if alcohol actuallycontinued like that, then my
YouTube channel wouldn't exist.
People wouldn't end updeveloping problems with alcohol
.
I don't see any channels on theinternet that are like talking
(02:09):
about quitting oranges, right,my company is called Sober Clear
.
I don't see Apple Clear.
The problem with alcohol isthat.
Number one, it's a drug.
And number two is it creates anillusion of a benefit.
Think about what alcohol is.
It is a carcinogen.
It is a poison.
It's ethanol.
It's highly addictive.
If you drink enough of it youwill die.
And this substance is supposedto give us a benefit Like what?
(02:30):
Logically, that makes no senseat all.
I don't know if you've evertried diesel.
I remember when I went toAmerica I did a fraternity.
So I went to USF in Tampa forone semester.
I had like one exchangesemester.
Then I went back to universityback in England, but during the
exchange semester I went into afraternity.
Oh my gosh, that was some crazytimes.
That was before I was soberLeon and not drinking for seven
(02:51):
years right, this was during themadness.
But they had this diesel thatthey'd pour into the punch.
But as an Englishman, I'd neverseen this diesel stuff before.
But I thought, oh, I'm going totry a little bit of it.
And I remember tasting thisstuff and honestly, it felt like
my mouth was on fire for like10 minutes.
I think it's 80% or 70%.
It was the highestconcentration of alcohol you can
get, but I thought I'm going totry a tiny amount, just purely
(03:12):
out of curiosity, and I swearthat that was.
It was like worse than eatingthe spiciest food I've ever had
in my life.
I felt like I drank gasoline.
So what they do is they make apunch but they pour this in and
they dilute the living hell outof it so you can't taste it, and
then pour a bunch of sugarydrinks and cranberry and
whatever else was in there.
I don't even know.
But we're supposed to believethat if we drink a small amount
(03:34):
of this absolutely disgustingtasting drink, that we gain
something from it.
Anyway, what ends up happeningis we have these benefits and
then all of a sudden thebenefits start disappearing.
Drinking always starts off okay.
That's why we don't really seemany teenagers quitting drinking
.
Sure, there's an argument thatthe current generation of young
people are drinking less now,but when I was growing up, I
(03:54):
never met an 18 or 19 year oldthat said, ha, I don't drink,
unless maybe they were anathlete or something, but it
just wasn't a thing.
But then, as I got older, I metmore people who did have
problems with alcohol and theystopped.
So what is the sign?
When should you stop and listen?
This might feel like a bit of apunch in the face, but when the
perceived benefits go whichhappens pretty damn fast for
most people For me it happenedwithin the first few months of
(04:16):
tasting alcohol I was gettingsmashed.
I was waking up with hangovers.
I was thinking why am I doingthis?
Sure, this honeymoon phase canlast a few months.
Sometimes it can last a decade.
But when you get to a placewhere you know that these
perceived benefits are gone,what starts happening is you
start lying to yourself, andthis might be tough to listen to
.
This might be a bitter pill toswallow, but when you start
justifying your drinking, whenyou start saying it's okay, I
(04:39):
only drink a little bit here andthere, it's not that bad.
I hate to say it, but that'sdrug addiction.
That's an addiction that's gothold of you and you're
justifying it, and what I hopethis video has done for you is
given you a wake-up call.
If you've been lying to yourselfor your friends or your family,
telling yourself that it's allokay, I've got things under
control, why, who are youkidding here?
There are no benefits toconsuming poison and I don't
(05:01):
want to feel like some bully orsomething, but I made this video
to call you out, not from aplace of trying to put you in a
corner and attack you.
I made this video from a placeof love, because all drinkers
lie to themselves.
How can you learn about whatalcohol actually is and then
continue drinking a drug?
We're not living in the 1800sanymore.
So many people are stoppingdrinking alcohol.
Thanks for checking out theStop Drinking podcast by Sober
(05:24):
Clear.
If you want to learn more abouthow we work with people to help
them stop drinking effortlessly, then make sure to visit
wwwsoberclearcom.
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