My First Million: Why I Got Sober (for entrepreneurs)

Hubspot Podcast Network Hubspot Podcast Network 6/2/21 - 4m - PDF Transcript

All right.

Quick break to tell you about another podcast that we're interested in right now, HubSpot

just launched a Shark Tank rewatch podcast called Another Bite.

Every week, the hosts relive the latest and greatest pitches from Shark Tank, from Squatty

Potty to the Mench on a Bench to Ring Doorbell, and they break down why these pitches were

winners or losers, and each company's go-to-market strategy, branding, pricing, valuation, everything.

Basically all the things you want to know about how to survive the tank and scale your

company on your own.

If you want to give it a listen, you can find Another Bite on whatever podcast app

you listen to, like Apple or Spotify or whatever you're using right now.

All right.

Back to the show.

All right.

Today is a special episode, so this is going to be a video on YouTube, but also on the

podcast.

So if you're listening to this, you're probably on my YouTube or you are on the My First

Million podcast.

If you're on my YouTube, then you probably don't know me, but basically my name's Sam

Parr, I'm most popular because I started this company called The Hustle, and I recently

just sold it to HubSpot.

It was a really big deal for me and my family, and it was a pretty good exit.

It was a popular media company that I sold, so millions of people read us each day and

know who we are, and I guess you can kind of say I'm a successful entrepreneur.

I mean, a lot of people would say that there's people that are way more successful, obviously,

but that's what I'm known for.

But I'm also the host of a podcast that my company owned, and it's one of the top ten

business podcasts, and we talk about cool ideas, and we brainstorm different ideas,

and we have a lot of famous guests on, and it's really cool podcast, it's called My

First Million.

We just brainstorm, I mean, it's to simplify it, but today I'm talking about something

kind of strange, something kind of different.

So I've been sober for about seven or eight, I think seven years this July, and I stopped

drinking when I was 23 or 24, I'm about 30 now, 30 now, 31, and it's kind of weird to

talk about this on a business podcast or on a business channel, but a lot of people who

are focused on business or who are focused on high achievers or achieving, they have

a lot of the same things that I have, which is I love to go all in on stuff, I get obsessed

about things, I can get addicted to things very easily, and those attributes are also

what can be part of being an alcoholic and having substance addictions, and I had that,

and I overcame it, and I wanted to talk about that.

And interestingly, what made me addicted to alcohol is actually what has made me a pretty

successful entrepreneur and fairly successful at a lot of different things I do in life.

So I've got some notes here, so you might see me look at my notes every once in a while,

but I've got a large Twitter following and I tweeted out to them that I was going to

do this, and I got hundreds of messages, so with people asking questions, so I'm going

to try and go through all of the questions that people answered, but I want to do today

is I want to explain to you how I got addicted and what that was like, but then also how

I fixed it, and then six or seven things that I learned and how my life changed and what

I noticed about being sober after having an alcohol problem.

So let's just start.

Machine-generated transcript that may contain inaccuracies.

Sam (@theSamParr) gets real in this episode. He talks about his struggles with alcohol and the reasons why he is now sober. He shares 8 lessons he learned from his experiences. He ends the episode by answering questions he received on Twitter.
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Show notes:
* (0:00) - Intro
* (3:56) - How it started - Sam's background with alcohol
* (11:24) - The first turning point [oasis]
* (13:36) - Asking for help [university clinic]
* (14:49) - Going to California
* (17:41) - The second turning point [Joe Garvin]
* (20:07) - Getting help [SF Clinic]
* (23:13) - Coping while sober [eating sugar]
* (24:39) - What Sam has learned
* (25:46) - Lesson 1 - The inner game
* (27:26) - Lesson 2 - Being open
* (29:33) - Lesson 3 - Booze messes up your body
* (31:16) - Lesson 4 - Sober Sam = Attractive Sam
* (33:04) - Lesson 5 - Having fun while sober
* (35:14) - Lesson 6 - Intense realism
* (36:57) - Lesson 7 - Control your emotions, control your reality
* (37:17) - Lesson 8 - Saving $$$
* (37:58) - Q&A