They Said I'd Never See My Kids Again. Got Them Back Sober w/ Ian Day | The Hopeaholics Podcast #349


Ian Day grew up a standout athlete in a one-stoplight town in Indiana with one bar. His first drinks were sips of Miller Lite off his grandpa's lawn mower. By 17 he was smoking weed every day and panhandling in his high school hallways for lunch money because he'd spent it all on drugs. By 26 he was in Maricopa County tent jail in pink underwear and it was a country song in the jail chapel that finally broke him open for the first time in his life. He was told he'd never see his kids again and he got them back while fully sober. Ian shares his experience in the fork in the road between homeless, prison, and the halfway house, 90 meetings in 90 days, waking up at 4am to work a food bank before heading to a tattoo shop in the evenings, and what it looked like to slowly build a life he never thought was possible. Ian is now 8 years sober, owns Everlasting Inc. tattoo shop in Phoenix next door to a sober lounge, goes into intake prison on Monday mornings, and is raising his kids with his wife, Christin Day


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Timestamps:
0:00 - Cold Open: First Blackout
0:26 - Welcome / Intro
1:45 - Eight Years Sober This Weekend
2:55 - Told He'd Never See His Kids Again
4:06 - They Lied to the Courthouse
6:52 - Losing His Sister at 32
9:27 - The Last Time She Moved Was to Hug Me
12:37 - First Drinks on Grandpa's Lawnmower
13:28 - First Blackout: Let's Try Again
15:40 - Alcohol as a Solution to Social Anxiety
20:47 - Panhandling in High School Hallways for Lunch Money
22:32 - I Believe Wholeheartedly I Would Be Dead Without My Parents
44:57 - Chris Young Song in the Jail Chapel
45:27 - God I Want to Be a Good Man — First Honest Moment
49:16 - Homeless, Prison, or the Halfway House
52:46 - Sponsor Says Stay
53:44 - Two Jobs at 4am for Almost Two Years
55:04 - Meeting His Wife at a CA Convention
1:02:25 - God Told Him to Pay Off His Fines Instead
1:10:09 - What Are You Going to Do With Your Power Today