Today I sat down with my second guest from my Hometown tour “My Town, My Crew”. Meet my friend Brian DiMattia whose local rebound story is truly amazing and inspiring. Brian was born and raised in Old Forge, PA, and resides in Kingston, but when people ask where he is from, he always says old Forge! Brian had a good childhood growing up some experimental recreational substances caused some bad choices with a downward spiral of acceleration towards what would eventually turn into a rock bottom experience. In his late 20s and early 30s his life with absolute chaos, however, with the help of his family, friends, and people in the community he was able to fight back and turn his life around. Today he turns his negatives into positives where now he teaches, kids and adults MMA under the leadership of his own coaches finding his true passion and what is his positive void fill. He took responsibility for what he did and now he wants to tell the story, with hopes to help other people who may have the same struggles that he had. This is his story and would like to share what allows him to grow daily, one day and one step at a time. 

You can find Brian on his platform DiMATTIA’s NEPA Food Reviews: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

@Dimafit43 on Instagram. 

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Today I kick off my Hometown tour “My Town, My Crew”. I got the pleasure to kick it off with Dunmore native Robert “Bob” Cordaro. From high school football player to a law student turned into a local prominent lawyer. Moving into two-term county commissioner. Bob has been in Washington as a politician to living in Philadelphia and brought himself back to the Northeast PA Scranton Wilkes-Barre area, my hometown as well. In 2011 Bob had been included in some federal cases that had him serve upward to 11 years in prison. Today Bob has a great television & radio show and I bring him on today to explain no matter how bad life gets, you keep moving forward. Bob gives some great advice about not giving up and positive vibes to our audience on those struggling daily with issues or addictions. 

Hope you like and enjoy it and hit that SUBSCRIBE button. 

You can listen to Bob at https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/the-bob-cordaro-show-62558 where he has his daily talk show and info for his television show that’s on Sundays locally in NEPA

Today I sat down with my good friend Robert. Robert Borelli was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954, in the middle of the Gambino Crime Family neighborhood. As a young boy, he quickly built a reputation as a little tough guy. Surrounded by real tough guys he began working for The Gambinos by fourteen. By twenty he had two murder wraps and numerous arrests under his belt. He was being paraded around the neighborhood as the up-and-coming star of the feared Gambino Family, the same family which John Gotti would eventually bring into the mainstream media and make a household name.

Over the next twenty-two years, Robert fell hard into the mafioso lifestyle which involved money, crime, and drug addiction. In 1997, as a forty-four-year-old man, he found himself in jail, looking to serve ten to twenty years. With over 130 criminal charges against his name, it was obvious he had become a career criminal. With no help from the Mob, his friend's life seemed hopeless.

Little did he know his story had just begun. In jail, Mr. Borelli found redemption and a second chance. He discovered the truth, faith, and purpose like nothing he had ever experienced before. With a new outlook, on life, for the first time, he decided to do right instead of wrong, to love instead of hate, and to serve instead of take.

From there, Robert Borelli spent time studying the Word of God at both Criswell College and Christ for the Nations Institute. He gained some intense formal education in his newfound faith.

Mr. Borelli’s story baffles the mind and intrigues the hearts of all who hear it.

His passion and calling are to share his story as a preventive to those who are in similar situations and encourage each of us to find the Truth about who we really are.

Today, as he tours around the world, he candidly, emotionally, and passionately shares his life story with all who will listen.

For information contact [email protected]

In this episode, I linked up with my good friend Adrian from the "Invest in Yourself" Podcast & Clothing line. 

You can find him at his channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wGSATB9uusaUCvICpJZ_Q 

or at his Clothing line shop at:

https://iiyclothing.bigcartel.com/

Adrian was very kind when I first came into the podcasting world and we developed a strong friendship helping one another out. Adrian is ready to drop a remarkable docu-series of the mafia that he’s been working on for 6 months. We figured we'd chop it up and speak on behalf of improving our channels and what our viewers can expect moving forward into the new year. Hope you enjoy and please check out Adrian & as always please hit Subscribe on Sober Sitdown!

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Today I got the honor to Sitdown with Gene Borrello thanks to our mutual friends. Gene has been through a lot of obstacles and built up a good name and bad name for himself but in this, we talk about Positive Change. Gene and I are the same age and both came up on the East Coast in the same era. I think this was a great way to talk about how to overcome obstacles and hurdles to a promising prominent future. 

If you like this episode please subscribe and also grab a copy of genes book Born in the Life at https://www.amazon.com/Born-LIfe-Borrello-Ex-Bonanno-Enforcer/dp/1667805576/ref=asc_df_1667805576/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=533377906483&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=546188230336039453&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1025197&hvtargid=pla-1442088629680&psc=1 which was an Amazon best seller. 

You can also reach me on Instagram at @sobersitdownss or Gene at @geneborrello. 

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Well, this is the episode we all be waiting for. Today I’m blessed and honored to Sitdown with the legend himself, The Sheriff, Johnny Alite. John is a giant inspiration to thank for who I am today. His inspirational content kept me positive and inspired years back when I first got sober and was an over-the-road truck driver. The motivation he had on his shows and interviews motivated me to be a better me and set my expectations to a higher standard. Today we sat down to discuss various topics such as Johns's previous life, the future of our children in this country, and misguided and misleading information regarding politics and education. We touched also on some Mental Health and in fact, John has given a great tool for those struggling with his partners at www.betterhelp.com available from any phone. Most importantly we discussed our main focus “Fentanyl Awareness”. John is ready to fight and he needs our help to take this all the way to  Washington. You can stay in touch with John’s mission on his website JohnAlite.com and his IG @TrueJohnAlite. I vow to also once we get our website www.sobersitdown.com and my IG @sobersitdownss to keep everyone updated supporting his mission. There are some more surprises within the episode you will not want to miss. As always thank you and please hit SUBSCRIBE.  

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Today I sat down with two other podcasters growing by the day.  Adrian from Invest in Yourself https://m.youtube.com/@investinyourself6878  and Hollywood Wade of Crime & Entertainment https://m.youtube.com/@crimeentertainment9303   These guys run a really positive interview style on their platforms. Early in podcasting 4 months ago when I first started these guys reached out and were wanting to offer to help in any way they can to help me adapt to this podcasting hobby. After talking with these guys and becoming friends I feel we all share the same message and have similar approaches and interests. We wanted to throw this together for a while and make a great positive project for those just starting out in podcasting or those thinking of getting into podcasting and just explain to the audience our story and what we feel IN OUR OWN OPINION what WE feel makes a good podcast. I want to thank these guys for coming out and putting this together and continuing to help each other. Hope everyone enjoys and make sure everyone who is unfamiliar with any of our platforms is sure to SUBSCRIBE. Links for Adrian & Wade's show are above in the description.   #podcasting #truecrime #motivation

In this episode of The Sober Sitdown we interviewed author Kathryn Genovese.  Eyes of a Survivor is a true story about a tenacious native girl from Ohio - Kathryn Marie Genovese - who gets caught up in the misery of abuse, destruction, and addiction at a very young age. The book conjoins various stories where she shares her life struggles through addiction and her present being where she stands as of today; being a very empowered woman.  

When dealing with depression, the darkest parts of her life, and the struggles, like an ordinary individual, she started thinking that there is no way out or no way back to living a sober life. Once you have deciphered or become part of the street life, these thoughts become inevitable, and surviving through them appears blurred but only the ones with a strong mindset, resilience, and willpower survive, which is called ‘survival of the fittest.’ As time passes, you become aware of the street crimes and the angles, the ends, and outs of drug dealings and so much more under the radar. 

Eyes of a Survivor depicts the story of the faith and belief of this woman. For the individuals willing to make a 360° turn, this book can serve as perfect self-help guidance to bring them out of addiction and slavery of evil, avoiding them from the afterlife of h***. This book will give you back your integrity and your sobriety and would return you toward your faith and goodness. The belief in self-reliance will open up the doors for you.  Kathryn’s father served as a motivation and role model for her newfound life which brought her to this point. Through this book, she aims to present examples to millions of other people who are looking for a ray of hope that we must just be true believers and have strong faith! It's OK to breathe again and build your self-respect, which will become a product of your own truth as well as your being. In the end, she has a message to all the people out there, “God bless! I hope you enjoy my testimony and my truth.”  

You can purchase the book at Title: Eyes of a Survivor: https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Survivor-Kathryn-Marie-Genovese/dp/B0B3F2C423#aw-udpv3-customer-reviews_feature_div

On This Interview, we did an old fashion Commission style meeting. We had the pleasure to Sitdown with previous members and family members of the life of organized crime representing four out of the five crime families of New York. This Sitdown included Anthony Hootie Russo ex crewmember of the Gambino Crime Family, Larry Mazza ex-hitman and member of the Columbo Crime Family, Anthony Arillotta ex Capo of the Genovese Crime Family and Tore Bonanno the grandson of The Famous Joe Bonanno and great nephew of Joe Profaci along with the son of Bill Bonanno. We decided to step away from the negativity of the mob genre of recent and do a nice piece of entertainment content with facts about the life along with enjoyable content for the audience. Check out the recent guest platforms & merchandising.  

I can relate to this scene very clearly. In my early days in the family business with my father, I would catch myself eliminating a positive with a negative. So after working with him at the bar/restaurant I would try and stay out of trouble and go boxing or hit the gym after the gym I would be so wound up and have so much energy now I know it was anxiety from supplements I would take I honestly didn’t know what to do with myself so I would want to go spend time with my father some sort of sporting event would be on and/or I knew where associates of ours would be so in order to hang out with him he would be in his living room he would be at the restaurant and bar so I would come in and he would be relaxing with friends of ours watching a baseball or basketball game, football whatever so I would try and sit down and have something to eat and hang out with them. Watching them drink and relax made my anxiety worse wanting to jump out of my skin seeing them relaxed and calm. Allowing my mind to play tricks on me I would say fuck it limit yourself to a couple. Yea I would have a couple with them and be more anxious than I originally walked in the first place. As they were sitting there relaxing and enjoying the game, my mind was racing pre-planning the next turn of events (well I know I got about an hour or two then these guys wanna go home and call it a night) I can go to this bar up the street till midnight then this other one that will let me stay after hours I can stop at this deli in between load up with more booze and hit the strip club or after hours bar and have booze at the house to get me to the point Of passing out and having enough to start my day in the morning. Call it sick? I do it is a disease.   In this clip, you will see Christopher so socially uncomfortable worried about if people around him were ok and having a good time cause he’s sober, but In fact, nobody cares honestly they are happy. They don’t have to worry about you or babysit you. He speaks about not being around places that are triggers to him but tony couldn’t understand cause he did not battle the disease of addiction. My father was my number one support, but relapse over relapse started with him telling me just stick with beer you don’t get out of control as I did with liquor. Because he is a composed couple beer a night drinker he couldn’t understand how I felt like I did. When I got sober three years ago I couldn’t go sit down at a bar and watch sporting events with him it took years before I was comfortable being around others drinking but it was sacrifices I made to get myself where I needed to get. I missed many social events because I wasn’t drinking but I also remember being an addict and blacking out at social gatherings I missed because I was present at the event but physically and mentally wasn’t there back then and couldn’t remember a minute of it. So what is the difference if I missed it or not it’s better I missed it temporarily and sacrificed that time rather than remove myself from family and friends permanently cause I was on the road to an early grave?