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Table for 3 today! Seamus is in the coffee shop. Truth be told, Seamus is an alias. Why anonymity, why use an alias? Seamus talks about the stigma attached to addiction. When he graduated college and started a career – he was already sober 5 years. They didn’t know him when he wasn’t sober, so what positive would come from talking about his alcoholism? 

Seamus found he wanted people to get to know him first, and IF the sobriety thing came up, he would share it. Early in sobriety he was concerned with what people thought, but now he can sum it up with:  “You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do,” a quote from David Foster Wallace.

In this episode:

 – Seamus Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SeamusMcTier

For more about this podcast:

 – Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

 – Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

 – Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

 – In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Chicago Director Eileen Tull joins Mike and Glenn, sharing her experience, strength, and Hope – for the artist in all of us.  This bonus drop coincides with the world premiere of acclaimed Chicago playwright Mia’s McCullough dark comedy about family secrets, shared holidays, and household spirits.  The play information can be found online at https://www.theaterwit.org/

Mike and Glenn are back in the coffee shop today talking honesty, bullshit and chocolate chip cookies.

As Glenn puts it: Honesty is a core foundational block to getting sober and living a healthy, new purposeful life. If you are bullshitting yourself and others, nothing changes.

As Mike puts it: If you throw even a kernel of shat into that batch of chocolate chip cookies, which cookie are you going to eat? Just a single kernel of dishonesty is enough to ruin the whole batch.

They both say it very differently, but agree on this:  lying eats your soul, but living in honesty and the truth is very freeing.

For more about this podcast:

 – Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

 – Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

 – Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

 – In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com