 Hi there, this is James Swanik and you're listening to the Alcohol Free Lifestyle podcast where you learn how to take back control over alcohol and live a life of health, wealth, love and happiness. Wake up and stop drinking alcohol. It's time. You've been thinking about this for a long time. It is time to start now. My name is James Swanik from the Alcohol Freedom Formula. I've helped more than 20,000 people across the world quit drinking. I've got some free resources for you down below. Wake up. It's a brand new day of energy and clarity and focus and amazing relationships. That's what happens when you choose alcohol freedom. You don't need to be an alcoholic to have alcohol disrupt your life. You don't need to be an alcoholic for your life to spiral out of control. Sometimes it can be this silent destruction that just every week or every month and every year you have these seemingly innocent glasses of wine, the seemingly innocent beer at the end of the night and now all of a sudden the toxins in your body are going to work disrupting your sleep. You're waking up tired, irritable, foggy. Sometimes it takes a couple of days to recover and you don't need to be going out having a huge big night out on the town. All it takes is just a couple of drinks and before you know it you're playing catch-up the rest of the week. Wake up. Do you know that society is in on this whole matrix? I call them smiling assassins. People are out there smiling at you as they offer you these drinks. Have some alcohol. Would you like a wine? Hey, come over for a few drinks. It's time for you to see that this poison that you are drinking is holding you back. Now, what are some of the benefits you get when you choose the alcohol-free lifestyle? For me, I quit drinking in 2010. I wasn't an alcoholic. I was the kind of guy that would drink a two or three glasses of wine some nights, a couple of beers. On the weekends I might drink a little bit more. Definitely not an alcoholic, not getting drunk or anything, but consistently drinking what society would deem to be just a normal amount of alcohol and I woke up and when I woke up, I realized, wow, alcohol is really holding me back. It's affecting my sleep. I've put on about 25 pounds. I look tired. My skin is weathered. My skin is dry. I'm irritable. I'm cranky. I'm not achieving my dreams. I'm just stuck in this constant state of mediocrity, but when I finally went 30 days without alcohol just to start and I loved it so much because I lost 13 pounds because my skin got better. I had more productivity and energy and clarity. I got my dream job, hosting a sports center on ESPN and later creating a business. I realized that all those years it was the alcohol that was keeping me down, playing small. But then when I went alcohol-free, I lost 25 pounds in total over the course of a year. I started going to the gym. I ran a half marathon. I started that business. First of all, I got my dream job at ESPN. Then I started a business, the 30-day No Alcohol Challenge, which has now helped tens of thousands of people around the world quit drinking. I later started Project 90, which is a program to help entrepreneurs and business owners quit drinking for 90 days. I started a sleep company, Swanwick Sleep, with a pair of blue light blocking glasses that we sell with the orange lenses. We've now helped 100,000 people sleep better because of those things. All these amazing things happened in my life because I chose to go alcohol-free. Wake up. It is a brand new day. You can sleep better, feel better, smile more, be more present, be a great role model for your kids. Take that vacation, earn more money, save more money. Just wake up and go, yeah. I feel the way nature intended me to feel. It doesn't mean you have to be walking down the street skipping, skipping, singing Zippity-Doo-Dah, Zippity-Day, but it sure as hell doesn't mean you're walking down the street going, why don't I feel good? I don't understand. I've got everything that society says that I should have and I just don't feel happy. Why? Chances are the alcohol is keeping you down. Alcohol is a depressant, it's a toxin, it's a poison, and yet society celebrates this toxin and this poison as if it's just normal. Wake up. Escape the matrix. There are some free resources down below. Click on them. It's started. Learn how to quit drinking using my methodology. Like this video, share it with someone who you think might benefit from this and wake up because on the other side it is a beautiful new day. Thank you so much for listening. I have some free stuff for you. If you go to JamesSwanick.com forward slash guide, I will send you my formula for reducing or quitting alcohol. If you'd like to watch the video versions of these episodes then you can watch them at my YouTube channel which is at JamesSwanick. If you'd like to send me a direct message on Instagram you can do so at JamesSwanick. If you would like to try a three day challenge, a free three day challenge, you can go to JamesSwanick.com forward slash three day challenge. If you would like to try the 30 day no alcohol challenge, you can go to 30 day no alcohol challenge. If you would like to schedule a 15 minute exploratory call with one of my coaches to see how we may be able to help you in your alcohol free journey, you can go to JamesSwanick.com forward slash schedule. And my request is if indeed you enjoyed this episode or you have enjoyed the podcast, would you please go ahead and rate the show in iTunes and would you please write a review. A review might just be a sentence saying, great listen, hey this was fantastic. Oh, I really enjoyed this. Whenever you give a rating, whenever you write a review, it surges our podcast up in the rankings enabling more people to see it and hear it and potentially inspiring someone out there to reduce or quit alcohol and potentially transform their life. So yes, while it does help me to get ratings and to get reviews, you will actually be directly contributing to helping someone's life by having them discover this podcast. So if you are open to inspiring others and to helping me in the process, would you please go ahead and give this episode a ranking and would you please write a review. Thank you so much for listening and I will catch you on the next one.