S11 Ep 2: From 60 Minute Makeover & A bottle of vodka a day to Sobriety Coach: Dave Wilson

S11 Ep 2: From 60 Minute Makeover & A bottle of vodka a day to Sobriety Coach: Dave WilsonIf you ever watched 60 Minute Makeover with Peter Andre – you may remember a lovely carpet fitter called Dave Wilson. But what we didn’t see was Dave was hiding a big drinking problem and at one stage he was drinking a litre of vodka a night.Then, one day when he was 54 years old, everything changed. I’ll let Dave tell you what happened but five years ago he stopped drinking and he’s never looked back. He has his own podcast called One For the Road (which has around 10,000 downloads a week), he interviews celebrities, world experts and shares stories of all different people and how they’ve overcome their struggles. He’s also written a bestselling book, he has a huge following on social media and he works a coach – helping mainly women with what he describes as grey area drinking.Dave believes we all tell ourselves a story, like he did. He could never live without drinking, he would lose his friends if he gave it up and he’d never be happy again. But it turned out the opposite happened. He didn’t lose a life, he gained one. He has more friends, more adventure and more joy than he ever did when he drank.Dave believe there’s always hope – and we do have the power to make change  – but this starts with changing those stories we tell ourselves, about everything, not just how much we drink. This conversation had a huge impact on me (and something very odd happened in the lead up to Dave appearing… I explain in the episode, but thank you again Universe). I hope this conversation will help you as much as it has helped me.To learn more about Dave and his wonderful work you can find him here: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/To learn more about Empire Fighting Chance and their brilliant work you can find them here: https://www.empirefightingchance.org/And just in case you were wondering you can learn more about me and my books at https://www.elliebarkerwrites.com/x This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thenextchapterbyelliebarker.substack.com