ALCOHOL DOCTORS ARE LYING TO YOU

I had to film this video this morning , right now . In fact , I've not even had my coffee yet . I'm going to sit and drink my coffee with you guys while I make this video , but I had to let you know what just happened Because , honestly , I'm getting annoyed at this point and I don't want to be a negative person . I don't want to rant too much .

I don't want to be that guy that's screaming on the internet and that's not my style at all . I want to uplift people , but what I heard the other day pissed me off so much that I had to make this video right now . So what happened ? What am I talking about

? First , who am I ? My name is Leon Sylvester . I am basically the founder of a coaching company called Sober Clear . I've not drank myself for almost seven years . I struggled with alcohol for a decade , trying AA meetings , trying to use willpower , reading stop drinking books , doing all this stuff , nothing worked until I found a new method .

And now that's what I teach in my coaching company . Sober , clear . Now , before we get into why I'm so damn angry anyway , I'm sorry , I'm sorry , I'm just . I'm not even sure how to bottle this emotion up . But before I get into it , I do have a free video training down in the description that you can access . That shows you how my new method works .

It works as little as 48 hours . You know , tens of thousands of people have watched that video . They say it changed their life . So definitely go and watch that free training . But let me get into it . So in my coaching company , right , I do a lot of calls .

I've probably done upwards of two and a half thousand phone calls now with people who have got drinking problems out , with people who have got drinking problems . So you can imagine I've heard it all , but what I heard the other day honestly , I want to go and find this person and beat them to death Not literally .

I hope I don't get in trouble saying that , right ? So let me have a sip of this , because it's early here . So I get on a call with this guy and this guy is super successful .

He works in finance and I think he said he had 600 employees underneath him , right , so this is a top level leader and this is , you know , a lot of the people that I work with .

Right , they've got the financial resources to go to a 50 grand a month rehab , right , not , not listen , I've got clients that aren't at that level , right , but I get a lot of people these top level people they get in contact with me that want help because they want something new , they want something different .

They know that the traditional ways of failing them and what I heard next , just honest to God , just drove me insane . So this guy's like you know he knew he wanted to change , right , starting to affect his health , starting to affect his relationships . You know the trust stuff with the wife , and you know it's the same story .

I've heard the story a million times . So what does he do ? Right , he does what everybody else does . He goes to the doctor and guess what the doctor said Well , have you thought about drinking ? You know ? Just maybe one or two drinks , you fucking what . Honestly , if a doctor said that to me , I would try and get his license revoked .

Like , I'm coming to you with a personal problem , not a personal problem , a drug addiction . And you're telling me to keep taking the damn drug . What If he could drink less ? He'd be drinking less .

A doctor , a medical professional , a person that's probably spent 200 grand on you know college educations and spent 10 years studying , and they're able to read all these academic papers , and somebody comes in with a really personal problem , a drinking problem , a drug addiction .

Well , if you thought about just having one or two , like everybody else , you're fucking what , man ? When I heard that , my heart just sank because I wondered . I wondered how many millions of Americans ?

Because I don't know if this happens in other countries , right , but I thought how many millions of Americans are going to doctors and they're sitting having a conversation , opening up their heart , and the doctor's turning around and telling them to have one drink . Can you imagine that ?

Listen , there's no such thing as one drink , right , just like there's no such thing as one coffee . Hang on , I am addicted to caffeine , right , but I don't care about that . I'll tell you why . If I drink alcohol , I destroy everything , right ?

I will have no money left , I will have no relationship , I'll hurt my relationships with my friends , and alcohol is a slow , slippery slope downwards . Caffeine addiction . I ain't going to drink 10 cups of coffee and then crash my car , right ? You get the point . Anyway , I'm not perfect , so right .

So this guy tells me that the doctor tells him to have one or two drinks . And I heard it and you know , my heart sank . Luckily , this guy saw sense and said I want to try something new , I want to reframe the way I view alcohol . I don't want to go and listen to these dumb ass doctors that have got no clue what they're talking about .

So we joined the program .

So I'm very excited to see the change in this client . We've not actually properly started our work together yet , but that's good news , right . At least he saw sense . So next , next thing I'm angry about .

So I don't want to sound like a gossip , right , but I've seen a stop drinking coach , right , and I'm never going to name this person because I'm not that type of guy and I'm not trying to create conflict , I'm not trying to create an enemy , but it's not just one guy , I've seen it multiple times .

So I'm not like singling anybody out here , but I've seen stop drinking coaches . Right , these are supposed to be leaders . These are supposed to be example setters . Right , they're supposed to set the standard and I've heard them sit and say they still drink . Bro , what are we doing here ? What's going on ? Alcohol is a drug , right ? What's going on ?

Alcohol is a drug , right ? Alcohol is a drug , and when you drink the drug , you get dehydrated , your inhibitions are lowered and then it makes you want to drink more and more and more , and it's a chain reaction that never ends until you stop . So we've got one side of the spectrum .

We've got top medical professionals , people that we trust with our lives , telling us to have just one drink . Then we've got stop drinking coaches telling us that they still drink . Right , what is going on ? I want to make one thing clear right , I say in these videos a lot that you can control your drinking , and you can .

You can control your drinking the same way that you can control your drinking and you can . You can control your drinking the same way that you can control your crack cocaine usage , the same way that you can control jumping in front of a moving vehicle . Right , you've got control over those things .

You've got control over getting on an airplane and pulling the emergency exit and jumping out , don't you ? You've got control over that , but you don't do it . Because why the heck would you want to do that ? You've got control over that , but you don't do it . Because why the heck would you want to do that ?

You've got control over shooting us some heroin in your arm , don't you ? You can do that whenever you want , but you don't do it . See , that's where you want to get to . You want to get to a place where you can take it or leave it , but you always choose to leave it . That's what true control is . I say the word control , but you want to know why .

It's a bit of a gimmick . I'll let you in on a little secret . I say it to kind of reel people in . I say that you can control your drinking one day , but there ain't no such thing as control . True control is what

I experience , it's what my clients experience . It's being able to take it or leave it whenever you want and then always choosing to leave it . So these people who are these doctors that are saying have one or two , have got it ass backwards . They're not in control . These gurus that are still drinking I don't get it , but that's the weirdest thing ever .

But they don't understand what true control is and listen , I did a call yesterday with another guy and I felt a little bit bad because I was a bit harsh . So hopefully you'll watch this video , so I'll just in fact I'll send it to you .

I apologize because I was very blunt on this conversation , because he kind of pushed a little bit and it ended up being a bit more of a debate rather than coaching or , you know , seeing if the program was a good fit , and I hate it when a call goes in that direction . But my worldview with alcohol is totally black and white .

Right , I have pure binary thinking with alcohol for me . So binary thinking is when you know . It's kind of like you know you love who is it ? You love Kamala Harris , but you hate Donald Trump . Or it's the other way around .

Right , it's like black or white thinking One person's right , the other person's wrong , and or I mean like in Thailand , you've got the royalist and then you've got the non-royalist , where I am right now . Some people think that you know , binary thinking is wrong in most cases . Usually the answer is in the middle , right , it's in the conversation .

So I don't buy into binary thinking in most things except alcohol . But let me have a quick caveat here , except my relationship with alcohol . Right , that is binary thinking . I think alcohol is poison , I think alcohol is ethanol , I think there's no advantage to drinking it , and I think that that's the case for everybody .

But I'm not going to say that there aren't people out there who do drink and have a relationship with alcohol , that they can have one or two drinks and things are fine . The problem is is I spent years romanticizing that I could be that way , but I'm not built that way . Right , when I have one drink , it leads into more , it leads into problems .

So , anyway , one second , it's early , I need more coffee , hang on ,

so anyway . So I get on the call with this person yesterday and he starts telling me that he's not sure he wants to stop yet , right , and I'm like okay , and I mean at least he's on the call , right , at least he is kind of like toying with the idea .

And I just said , man , maybe we're not right to work together , but I didn't say it like that , I was a little bit harsher because he pushed back on my ideas . But the thing is is whenever somebody pushes back on my ideas on alcohol , I'm open-minded on anything . Right , you can change my mind about anything .

I will listen to anybody on any topic and I'm open-minded . What's that opinion ? You should have strong ideas , loosely held With alcohol . My ideas will not change , my worldview is so strong . And this guy was almost having a little debate and giving me a little bit of pushback and I was getting angry .

Was having a little debate and giving me a little bit of pushback and I was getting angry because I'm thinking yo , dude , like you're wrong . And he'd say well , you know , you can't compare alcohol to crack cocaine which which I do and I'm like what , what are you talking about ?

Like it's a freaking drug , the same way crack is , and it kills more people than crack . Anyway , he's like , but no , but anyway , the point of the matter is that he wasn't sure if he wanted to stop or not and I just said well , we're probably not the right fit to work together . Totally cool , let's go our separate ways .

If you ever want to help in the future , I'm here for you . You know all good . But what's the problem here ? Well , the deeper problem lies in these damn idiots that are telling people to have one or two drinks . It's ludicrous , all these damn idiots that are telling people to have one or two drinks .

It's ludicrous , all these damn idiots that are telling people that they still drink alcohol , when they're supposed to be the ones setting the example . And you know what ? I'm going to be honest . I tell people sometimes that when you go through my program , you can still drink . And you can Because , do you know what ? I can't stop anybody from doing anything .

I can't stop anyone from doing anything . And I'll be honest , right , because I go back to what I was saying before about binary thinking . For me , my ideas on alcohol are set . They'll never change . There have been people in my program that have gone through my program and they have successfully managed to drink less . Right ? That's happened a handful of times .

Is that the norm ? No , is that my goal for them ? No , but I'm not in control of anybody's actions , right . But going back to what I was saying , is , the point of this video here is that we're getting mixed messages all the time from people Doctors , coaches , alcohol companies drink responsibly . There's the big one drink responsibly , right ?

What the heck does that even mean ? And , honestly , I'm just getting fed up with it . Sometimes I wish I owned an alcohol company , because I'd be bloody so rich I wouldn't be staying in a hotel right now . I'd be in a castle , but I'm not , because I'm not an unethical drug dealer , right ? That's selling a drug that's killing millions of people .

So let me end on this . I wanted to remind you , right , that there's no such thing as having one drink . If anybody's telling you that one day you're going to be able to drink , the chance is low , right , I told you . There's people in my program that have done it . It's not the norm , it's not what I want for people .

I want people to get to that place of true , true control where they can go on that vacation , you know , to a place like a fully inclusive place where there's nice food and everything and there's alcohol there and they don't drink . You know I've done that loads of times . You know I've got a free upgrade to first class recently .

So I'll tell you a quick story . My video editor and my wife we flew from Dubai to Bangkok , business class , and

I paid for my obviously for my wife and I paid for my editor as a gift just to say thank you for all the great work that he's done , because he's made these videos amazing . So you've got him to thank for a lot of these videos . So , as a way to say thank you , I upgraded him to business class and it's Emirates , so it's nice . Anyway , lucky me .

They say hey , you , leon , you've been upgraded to first class , so that was pretty fun . And you know , they come in and then it's unlimited drinks and it's all this expensive stuff and it's like I don't even notice it , it's like I'm blind to it . And then I saw the guy next to me drinking his champagne and I thought why , what's the point ?

And we've got all these associations with , like , well , I'm in first class , so I should have my champagne . And I'm sat there drinking this orange juice , still feeling like a boss , right , still feeling pretty good . But this is the point , right , alcohol is poison . It doesn't enhance your life in any way . It does absolutely nothing for you because it's a drug .

And yeah , I'm sorry to go on such a rant , but I was getting annoyed . I was getting annoyed . Anyway , listen , quick one . We're accepting new clients right now , so we're open for enrollment . Excuse me , I had to close enrollments down in March . Things got too crazy , but we're back in April now . We are accepting clients right now .

If you want to see working together as a good fit . Go beneath this video , click the link . You can fill in a form like an application form , and then you can schedule a time to speak with me or a member of my team . In fact , if you click the link on this video , I'll get in touch with you myself . I'm in a good mood . I want to speak to people .

I want to get people on track . I want to stop this bullshit stuff that I keep seeing on the internet . Uh and and and this terrible advice from doctors and oh and there's , there's the other one . The last thing I'll tell you think about rehabs . Right , $30,000 , stay with us for a month , stop drinking alcohol , relapse . What do you think they say ?

Oh , you've relapsed , come back , it's free . Hell . No , that's another $30,000 , mate . Anyway , the industry's mad . I'm here to help you . I'm here to serve you . If you want my help , click the link down below . Book a call . Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking Podcast by Sober Clear .

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