Welcome to The Kurty D Show, a podcast presenting unique perspectives shaping the world. Each week will showcase conversations and stories of personal fulfillment and overcoming what life throws your way. We believe the solution is catalyzing people to unleash their unique genius so we can co-create and shape our preferred futures. Join us and get stoked with laughter and wisdom along with your host, Kurt Daradics. In this episode, Kurt welcomes his Father, Peter Daradics, to the show to share his story of addiction, loss and renewed hope. Peter opens up about his drug addiction and alcoholism and shares how they impacted his life in immeasurable ways. He speaks to his stay in rehab, relapsing, and how he found the leverage to stay sober for over twenty years! Peter talks about the power of humility, accountability, and mindset methodology and shares why he approaches each day with enthusiasm, hope and love.
01:42 – Kurt welcomes the audience to the first episode of the Kurty D Show and introduces today’s guest, his father, Peter Daradics
03:38 – Peter opens up about the challenges he’s faced amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
05:13 – Peter shares his road to recovery from drug and alcohol addiction
09:50 – Peter recalls the moment he first realized he had a problem and his first experience with rehab
15:52 – How Peter found the leverage to become and stay sober
24:44 – Peter talks about the tough love that was necessary to maintain his sobriety
27:55 – Mowing lawns with a Rolex on
31:34 – Peter recalls moments of humility throughout his recovery
35:32 – What Peter is most grateful for now
38:18 – The power of mindset methodology
40:48 – Peter talks about rebuilding a life with a wife and daughter and correcting mistakes from the past
43:33 – The best piece of business advice Peter has ever received and what Peter still hopes to accomplish in life
46:38 – Which band, past or present, would Peter want to play a gig
47:58 – Kurt thanks Peter for joining the show and let’s listeners know where they can connect with him
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“One of the things that recovery has given me is a clarity and a vision back into the past.”
“As long as drugs and alcohol were involved, it was blocking me from really being present and fully to embrace the opportunity and the gift to what it meant to be a father and to be really participating in your life, Christopher’s life, and other people’s lives, my life as well. But that’s one thing that those letters really spotlighted that ‘Wow, this is my path and my journey. This happened.’”
“I turned my back on you and Chris. That really is hard for me to own up.”
“You can’t want somebody’s sobriety more than they want it for themselves.”
“There was a lot of rehabilitation intellectually, physically and spiritually throughout this process because I didn’t have the confidence that I had at one time being in that space. It was just one day, one foot at a time moving forward.”
“In my experience, the individuals that really blossom through the recovery process, they have really cultivated a spiritual life that is really rich. And they keep growing and expanding it so that their emotional capital, their spiritual capital, their intellectual capital all benefits.”
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