In this episode, I’m joined by Ian Fee, author and entrepreneur, who has been sober since 2017.

Ian didn’t wake up in a jail cell or lose everything overnight. Instead, sobriety became a slow, honest reckoning with the damage alcohol was quietly creating in his marriages, his parenting, and his sense of self.

We talk about high functioning drinking, emotional sobriety, intense rehab, generational patterns, and what it really means to become present.

Ian shares how willingness, not catastrophe, changed his life, and how stacking small daily habits like gratitude, journaling, and accountability transformed him into the father, partner, and leader he always wanted to be.

Highlights:

(01:51) The first drink at 17 and the early normalization of alcohol

(07:31) When high functioning success masked deeper problems

(12:40) The third day in rehab that changed everything

(15:10) Getting served divorce papers and choosing sobriety anyway

(16:13) Sitting in the emotions instead of numbing them

(29:55) Daily gratitude and baby habits that rebuild a life

Find out more about Ian:

https://ianfee.com/

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