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Successful Life Podcast
Successful Life Podcast | Addiction Recovery, Sobriety & the 12 Steps
The Successful Life Podcast is a recovery podcast hosted by Corey Berrier, featuring honest conversations about addiction recovery, alcoholism, sobriety, the 12 Steps, emotional sobriety, and personal transformation.
Each episode explores practical recovery tools, spiritual principles, sponsorship, relationships, mental wellness, and what it really takes to build a meaningful life one day at a time. Corey shares personal experiences from long-term recovery, solo episodes on the challenges and victories of sober living, and interviews with people whose lives have been transformed through recovery.
Whether you’re newly sober, working the 12 Steps, supporting a loved one struggling with addiction, or simply looking for personal growth, you’ll find hope, practical guidance, and authentic conversations that remind you you’re not alone.
Topics include:
• Addiction recovery
• Alcohol recovery
• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
• The 12 Steps
• Sobriety
• Emotional sobriety
• Recovery stories
• Spiritual growth
• Mental health and resilience
• Personal development
• Sponsorship
• Relapse prevention
• Service work
• Living a purpose-driven life
New episodes every week featuring real conversations, practical experience, strength, and hope to help you build not just a sober life—but a truly successful life.
Episodes
362 episodes
Rejection Isn't the End : Take the Next Right Action
Rejection can make you question everything—your recovery, your career, your relationships, and even your place in the world. But what if rejection isn’t proof that you’re failing? What if it’s simply part of the process leading you somewhere...
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The Gifts of Sobriety
Sobriety doesn’t mean life suddenly gets easy. Relationships still fall apart. Money gets tight. Jobs change. Fear shows up. Life still happens.But sometimes the hardest moments in recovery become the greatest gifts.In this episod...
The Masks I Wore in Sobriety (And How They Nearly Cost Me Everything)
What if the biggest thing keeping you stuck isn’t alcohol or drugs—but the mask you’re wearing?In this deeply personal episode of The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier shares the raw truth about recovery, authenticit...
Living Sober
What does it really mean to live sober? In this episode of The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier shares his personal experience of long-term sobriety, why simply quitting alcohol isn’t enough, and how working the 12 Steps<...
Am I an Alcoholic? 10 Questions That Could Change Your Life
Have you ever wondered, “Am I an alcoholic?” It’s one of the most searched questions about alcohol, and in this episode of The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier shares his personal experience with alcoholism and recovery whil...
How to Stop Drinking: My Story, What Worked for Me, and How Recovery Changed My Life | Successful Life Podcast
In this deeply personal episode of The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier shares his own journey from active alcoholism to long-term sobriety. Rather than offering medical advice or claiming there’s only one path to recovery, Corey e...
Recovery, Ego, and the Masks We Wear
After moving from Raleigh to Wilmington, I expected a change of scenery. What I didn’t expect was questioning my identity all over again.In this episode of The Successful Life Podcast, I share what it’s been like starting over i...
From Felony Charges to Recovery & Redemption | Stephanie Nicholson on Sobriety, Accountability & Second Chances
In this episode of The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier sits down with Stephanie Nicholson to discuss recovery, accountability, legal consequences, honesty, and rebuilding life after a felony conviction.Stephanie shar...
Recovery Can’t Wait with Chris Budnick
In this episode of The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier sits down with Chris Budnick, Executive Director of Healing Transitions, to discuss addiction recovery, homelessness, detox services, peer-led recovery, and rebuilding lives...
From Prison to Purpose with Nick Jones
In this episode of The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier sits down with longtime friend and entrepreneur Nick Jones for a direct conversation about addiction recovery, entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, faith, leadership, ...
From Addiction to Ownership: How Chef Scott Crawford Rebuilt His Life
In this episode of The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier sits down with chef and restaurateur Scott Crawford for a direct conversation about recovery, leadership, and building a business with real standards. Scott shares how...
From Addiction to Elite Sales Communicator | Brian Burton on Mastering Communication & Personal Transformation
In this episode of the Successful Life Podcast, host Corey Berrier sits down with Brian Burton—general manager at Benjamin Franklin Plumbing, founder of Blue Collar Closer, and host of the Waste No Day Podcast.Brian shares his journey f...
Recovery, Purpose, and the Missing Piece: B Reeves on New Waters, 12-Step Discipline, and Transcendental Meditation
After a five-month break, Corey is back with B Reeves from New Waters Recovery for a conversation on sobriety, mental health, treatment, meditation, and purpose-driven work. B shares what New Waters Recovery actually does, from detox and reside...
Authenticity Beats Outcomes Every Time
Ever notice how hard you grip outcomes when you’re nervous—then watch everything slip anyway? We dig into a counterintuitive truth that changed our lives: releasing control doesn’t make you careless, it makes you effective. From sobriety to sal...
Developing a Leadership Mindset: Gratitude, Empathy, and Human Connection
In this episode of the Successful Life Podcast, host Corey Berrier dives into the importance of gratitude, empathy, and human connection. Reflecting on the busiest plumbing day of the year, he shares personal anecdotes about reconnecting with o...
Overcoming The Fear of Rejection
Fear of rejection can run your day without saying a word. I’ve felt it in rehab bunkhouses, in church pews that taught guilt over growth, and across kitchen tables where a homeowner just wanted their AC to work and their evening back. That same...
I Wasn’t A Fraud, I Was Just Drunk And Terrified
What if the confidence you’ve been chasing is really a mask that’s wearing you down? I open up about imposter syndrome, fear of rejection, and the years I used alcohol and drugs to feel like I belonged. The stories aren’t pretty—Vegas couches, ...
Overcoming Relapse and Addiction
In this episode of the Successful Life Podcast, host Corey Berrier takes a deep dive into the challenging topic of relapse and addiction, sharing his personal journey and insights. Corey discusses the struggles of maintaining sobriety, the pitf...
Lead with Ego?
Ever notice how the same habits that stabilize recovery also stabilize your pipeline? We dig into the leadership mindset that sits beneath selling, sobriety, and self-mastery, and why the strongest credibility comes from consistency, not a job ...
From Resentment To Responsibility: Building Character Without Shortcuts
What if your job title isn’t who you are, and the real proof of character shows up in the choices you make when no one is watching? We dig into that question through the lens of recovery, responsibility, and the everyday habits that either buil...
I Thought I’d Crush It And Almost Blacked Out
Ready for a reality check that actually sticks? I walked into a firefighter tryout convinced I’d breeze through on grit and lifting strength—and nearly blacked out during the PACER test. That moment of shock became a catalyst: exposing my cardi...
Tried to fix everyone and just broke my own sanity
The hardest truth we learned in recovery wasn’t about alcohol—it was about control. For years we tried to push, persuade, and rescue our way into peace, only to end up exhausted and resentful. Then two small words flipped everything: let them. ...
Recovery gave me more than alcohol ever did
What if the most radical form of freedom is simply waking up clear—and staying that way? Corey opens up about life on both sides of the bottle and what changed when he traded chaos for consistency: mornings that don’t start in shame, a mind tha...
Breaking the Chain
Ever wonder why you keep falling into the same relationship patterns? Or why certain childhood memories still sting decades later? The truth might be uncomfortable: you're living out scripts handed down by your parents—scripts they inherited fr...
From Chaos to Freedom: The Power of Personal Responsibility
Ever caught yourself saying "I'm responsible" while your life crumbles around you? That's what I call the illusion of responsibility—looking put-together while avoiding ownership of the chaos within. As a recovering alcoholic, I've mastered the...