My guest today just recently graduated an amazing six-month program which tests your patience, sobriety, and dedication to working a program. He has moved into their sober living and is starting to gain back his life.
He talks a lot about how rough it was living in a household where domestic violence was a normal occurrence, and it was expected to "look the other way OR keep it a secret" His mother unfortunately passed away recently due to drug use, so he does his best to carry on being the best version of himself.
He talks about having more than 10 felonies, creating counterfeit money, and the crazy lifestyle associated with the methamphetamine community.
As always if you are interested in being a guest or know someone who would be, please send me a message to cleanorsobercolumbus@gmail.com
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Well, ultimately the I, well, one time I was driving to where I counter for the money. I think I got set up. I, the guy that I was doing it with I got pulled over and there was uncut money printed on paper, cut money. Oh, just did the print sheets of it. And it wasn't cut up yet. Cause it was pretty hard to tell if it was cut up.
Like I doubt I would've gotten cut, but they found the sheets and I was, I'm a dumb ass. I literally like was driving on an expired license plate. That's why I got pulled over. When I have literally like 10 felonies in the car I had, I had like a quarter of ice and I dumped it in my Yeti cup full of water.
So they couldn't prove that. And then I'm like sitting in the cop car with water and drink the whole thing to come on. And then I was in jail, like freaking out, dude. All right. So I appreciate you coming on. Like I said, you know, lots of great things for us to talk about. We got, you know, we're going to talk first kind of about the corporate culture and what it looks like in corporate America, the stigmatism behind that, and kind of what that behavior's like yet stigmatized on our end talk about, you know, kind of what ended you up in prison and what you did in prison growing up, gay, a lot of domestic violence in your story.
Talk a little bit about that and then maybe some, a little bit about your childhood and anything else. So, yeah. So you did want to talk a lot about, you know, kind of what happened to your very lucrative career. So why don't you just kind of tell me about, tell me about that. Yeah. So luckily I'm actually back in my same job and that's something that's, the solution has offered me and working my nine step I was able to get back.
So, wow. That's a short period of time. What's your, what's your clean date? July 13th, 2020. I was actually on a conference. And my boyfriend was driving and I was leading the conference call and the cops pulled us over and they got where they were looking to get out of the car and hung up the phone. And my boss didn't hear from me for a year and four months.
And then when I was in treatment, I was working in the nine and reached out to him and was ending, ended up. He wanted to hire me back. So yeah, my boss is the CEO of the company. So it there's no background checks or anything like that. Cause he hired me on a referral basis. So I was able to get him back, but still that's a, that's a, that's amazing.
And just like, you know, for anybody that's listening, just like a realization of how quickly things could change. Like we talk a lot about the things that come back, you know, first being just, you know, freedom. But also in, in these things aren't guaranteed, like what you're talking about is not a guarantee once I stopped using and doing dumb shit, but in less than two years, Yeah, you've got your fucking dream job back.
Yeah. This time, last year I was sitting in jail and didn't know I was facing six to 10 years, so I didn't know what was going to happen. I would never have guessed that I was just able to go to my niece and