In this inspiring episode, Greg Champion shares his transformative journey from addiction to recovery, highlighting innovative approaches like Startup Recovery that combine entrepreneurship and sobriety. Discover practical tools, mental models, and stories of hope that can guide anyone on their path to lasting sobriety and purpose.

Keywords: recovery, sobriety, addiction, entrepreneurship, mental health, startup recovery, personal growth, hope, mental models, community

Key Topics: Modern recovery culture and innovation The role of purpose and community in sobriety Tools and mental models for lasting recovery

Highlights: Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Recovery and Purpose 01:44 Greg's Early Life and Coping Mechanisms 06:39 Consequences of Addiction and Arrests 10:54 The Turning Point: Jail and Confession 22:45 Finding a Path to Recovery 29:38 The Evolution of Recovery Tools and Startup Recovery 33:08 The Journey to Recovery and Entrepreneurship 37:11 Understanding the New Generation's Recovery Needs 41:15 The Importance of Early Life Skills 45:32 The Role of Entrepreneurship in Sobriety 48:36 Maintaining Sobriety and Family Life 52:06 Success Stories from Startup Recovery 56:09 Taking the First Step Towards Sobriety

Resources

https://www.startuprecovery.com/

https://www.palisadestribe.com/

https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong

https://www.instagram.com/greggchampion/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/greggchampion/

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This episode explores the subtle but powerful shift from scarcity to gratitude, especially when you’re in that uncomfortable in-between space of “I’m okay… but not fully secure.” Kaitlin unpacks how nervous system regulation, belief, and service all influence money and opportunity and how sobriety creates the space to hear divine guidance in everyday conversations.

This episode is for anyone who:

• Feels financially stretched but not in crisis

• Finds themselves fixating on “what’s missing”

• Wants to align abundance with grounded spiritual practice

• Is learning how sobriety expands clarity and intuition

• Needs a reminder that growth doesn’t require rock bottom

Key themes:

Gratitude before abundance

Scarcity vs nervous system safety

Money as energy and value exchange

Surrender and aligned action

Sobriety as spiritual spaciousness

Highlights

00:00 Introduction to Abundance and Mindset

00:59 Lessons from a Conversation with My Son

04:38 The Power of Gratitude in Financial Mindset

08:29 Shifting Perspectives on Abundance

11:17 The Role of Sobriety in Clarity and Abundance

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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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