#4 - From Sick to Sober Superman: Adam Jablin on The Hero Project, Getting Clean Two Months After Mike (in 2006), and Why "Lotsaholic" Was a Real Diagnosis

Mike Diamond and Adam Jablin got sober within three months of each other in 2006 — Mike on April 16, Adam on July 14. Twenty years later, they're sitting down for one of the longest single-guest conversations on the feed, and the parallels in their arcs are remarkable: both went through the prosperous-on-the-outside / wrecked-on-the-inside chapter, both turned that into a coaching practice, and both wrote books to put their lived experience into other people's hands.Adam is the author of the #1 bestselling Lotsaholic: From a Sick to Sober Superman — a memoir of confronting not just alcohol and drugs but all the dependencies and addictive patterns that hide underneath them. He's the founder of The Hero Project, the high-level transformational coaching program he built around the simple thesis that every person has the chance to become the hero of their own life. He's coached thousands. He's a regular keynote speaker and corporate consultant. He helped build, run, and sell his family's multimillion-dollar corporation before building his coaching practice. And in a generational throughline, he's been mentored by Dion DiMucci — yes, that Dion, of "Runaround Sue" — who has 56 years of sobriety and is co-authoring a book with Adam.This conversation, recorded mid-2022 (one of the early episodes of The Dose) is the rare deep conversation between two interventionist-tier sober coaches who also sit on the talent / entertainment / publishing side of the recovery industry. They go where most recovery podcasts don't — Adam talks openly about his divorce, the parenting reality of staying present when your home life is in chaos, and how both of them had to keep their grounding "during these uncertain times" (a phrase the original Apple description uses three times, suggesting the COVID arc is woven through the whole episode).