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Bradley Cooper Quit Alcohol. Here Are 8 Reasons Why…

Leon Sylvester

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Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help you make stopping drinking a simple, logical and easy decision. We help you with tips, tools and strategies to start living your best life when alcohol-free. If you want to learn more about stop drinking coaching, then head over to wwwsoberclearcom.

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Stop drinking Very difficult, no, beautiful, unbelievable, better. Bradley Cooper is a shining example of what can happen in somebody's life when they stop able to take care of my father the way I did when he was sick. So many things.

Speaker 1:

Bradley Cooper is a shining example of what can happen in somebody's life when they stop drinking, and he's not afraid to talk about it. That's the great thing. I'm sure there are many other famous people out there that stop drinking alcohol, but they never tell anybody about it. But this guy just doesn't care. So he stopped drinking when he was 29 years of age, I believe. I just Googled it and he's now been sober for 21 years, it looks like. But in that short video that you just saw, he actually brings up eight very, very, very important topics that you probably overlooked. So what we're going to do is we're going to dive into each of these eight things that he discusses, and I'm going to show you why he is so on the money here. And if you're in a place right now where you're trying to stop drinking alcohol, you're in a place right now where you're trying to stop drinking alcohol, you're thinking of your relationship with alcohol or anything like that, then you are going to get a tremendous amount of value from this.

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Stop drinking. Very difficult, no, beautiful, unbelievable.

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So the first thing that he says which most people don't say is that he said that stopping drinking was easy beautiful, in fact. And it's quite rare that people actually say this. Most people say stopping drinking, you know, is so hard, it's so difficult. I've got to fight these cravings and I've got to say no to this friend and that friend. But he calls it easy, and it's exactly how I feel as well If we've not met yet. My name's Leon Sylvester. I run this YouTube channel. I also run a coaching company called SoberClear and I help people stop drinking.

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I haven't drank myself for seven years, after a decade of struggling and stopping and starting, and I also stopped drinking in my 20s, like Bradley Cooper did, and again my life took off like a rocket ship. But I always say that it's easy to stop. And one of my long-term clients, david, who's now not drank for four years, he said when I first heard you say that I thought you must be drinking something. He always makes me laugh when he tells me that. But he didn't believe me that it could be possible. But there you go, another person saying that it can be easy to stop Because there's nothing hard about not drinking If you get your mindset right, if you reframe the way that you view alcohol. If you can start seeing alcohol for what it is, as this poisonous, highly addictive substance that does absolutely nothing for you, of course it's easy to stop. It's the easiest thing you'll ever do in your life Better.

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Are you kidding life?

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The next thing he gets asked is better. And he says I wouldn't be sat here with you. And do you know what? If I hadn't stopped drinking alcohol, I wouldn't be sat here with you either. There'd be no way, Because all I'd be doing is thinking about myself and my drinking. I wouldn't be thinking about how can I go and create value in the world, how can I go and make videos that help people. No, I'm putting myself first, and I think he's touching on this point as well. I think what he's really saying is he would never reach that peak in his career if he hadn't stopped drinking. And he truly reached the peak of acting. I mean, he's one of the most successful actors ever. I'm sure his net worth is sky high. And he just reached the top of the top. And that's what he's saying. He would never have done that if he drank. But then he starts to kind of break down the layers of why. Why did he reach the top?

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Because I wouldn't have been able to have access to myself or other people.

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And here he breaks down four key points.

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The first thing that he says is that if he hadn't stopped drinking alcohol, he wouldn't have had access to himself. So what does he mean by this? Well, I know exactly what he means, because I've experienced it as well. See, when you stop drinking alcohol, you find a version of you that you didn't even know existed, because when you drink, you're cloudy, right, there's no clarity, there's no real sense of identity, and it's a really strange feeling. But when you drink, you don't even notice that. That's what's happening, because it's this fog that's just always there. So you just think it's totally normal. But then, when you stop drinking alcohol, you get this access to this version of you that you didn't know existed. You're happier, you've got more clarity, you're more productive, you're nicer to be around, and this is what he's talking about Now. He didn't really go deep into what he meant by that, but I know exactly what he meant.

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I have a client who stopped drinking alcohol after 40 years of drinking and he said his wife started calling him Kevin 2.0. I love that, and what he said was almost like he felt like a teenager again, even though he was like a 60-year-old retired dude. But he felt like this version of him came back out and that's what Bradley's referring to. The real him started to shine. Not the alcohol version of him, not the one that's clouded, kind of hungover, a little bit tipsy no, the real him shined, and that real him just went on to dominate his career.

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The second thing he starts talking about is that he wouldn't have had access to other people. Now it's tough to really understand what he truly means by this, but I have a pretty good idea, see, because he became somebody of so much value. Is that then doors started opening, right? Maybe I don't know, I don't know his exact career path, right? Maybe somebody in the comment section can tell me more. But what probably happened is he stopped drinking alcohol and then maybe he made some really awesome movie because he wasn't drinking.

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And then all of a sudden people start noticing and then things start snowballing, and then more people want him, more people want him. He's getting offers for this movie, that movie, this thing, that thing, and all of a sudden he's got access to this, all of these people that just want him. And I don't know for sure that that's what he's talking about. But I'm pretty sure that that's what he means, because even in my own life since stopping drinking alcohol. The network that I've built is totally different than what it was, but it's all because I became somebody of more value Not to say that as like a, you know in an arrogant than when I was drinking. I've built a company that helps people. I've built this YouTube channel, one of the largest resources on the internet for helping people stop drinking for free. So when I meet people and they see this, they're like that's cool, which means that I do get access to people that I didn't have access to before.

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Or even been able to take in other people if I hadn't changed my life.

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No way and I never would have been able to have relationships that I do, but then he goes a bit deeper and then he says that actually he wouldn't be able to take in other people, and what he's talking about here is being able to build that deep relationship with somebody else, and I know exactly what he means.

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So I've been in a relationship with my fiance we're about to get married for six years. I never had a relationship for six years when I was drinking because, like he said, I couldn't take in other people. But since stopping drinking I've been able to have a very grounded relationship with one woman. I have people that I work with, I have freelancers, I have employees. I have people that I've worked together with for five to six years and I'm telling you, if I was drinking, they would not be sticking around working for me, they'd be going to work for somebody else. And he really just boils it down to how his relationships have just been so much better.

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I never would have been able to take care of my father the way I did when he was sick, and then he goes to a totally different level.

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He starts talking about when his father was sick. See, there's so much crammed into that 20 seconds at the beginning of the video that probably just went straight over your head and that's why I wanted to make this video to just go another level deeper. But he said he was able to take care of his father, and I know exactly what he means here, because when you don't drink, you're no longer this selfish person that's thinking about themselves. You know, I've heard people that I've worked with say you know, I'm now able to go and pick up my kids from the baseball game. I've worked with people again that have looked after sick parents, and this is what he's saying is he's able to be somebody who's there for others, who's there for people that he loves, and that's what I wanted to end this video on.

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I wanted to let you know this super, super critical point when you stop drinking alcohol, it's got nothing to do with you. Sure, you're going to feel better, sure, you're going to change your life, sure, all those good things will happen. But you know who gets the most impact? It's the people who look up to you. It's your family, it's your children, it's your spouse, it's your friends right. These are the people who get impacted by your decision to. Not Not only do you set a better example to them by not drinking in the first place, but you become somebody that's more accessible to them, emotionally accessible to them, somebody that's more present and grounded, and Bradley Cooper just hits on these points so perfectly. Again, I just love to see people like this making content like this. Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking Podcast by Sober Clear. If you want to learn more about how we work with people to help them stop drinking effortlessly, then make sure to visit wwwsoberclearcom.

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