One Last Hit #7 w/ Matt H | Alcohol, Cocaine and Five Years as a Dry Drunk Before He Truly Surrendered

Send us Fan Mail Matt H. grew up the son of a cowboy carpenter and an Avon saleswoman, born in 1980s Colorado and raised on ten acres of cow field in the tiny town of Micanopy, Florida. His mom passed away when he was six; his dad got sober a few years later and has stayed dry for 23+ years. Matt took his first drink — a shot of 151 — at 13, swore it off, and stayed dry through high school as a devout Southern Baptist athlete. Then at 20 he picked up in college, and after his high school sweetheart cheated on him and filmed it, he drank to numb the pain, dropped out of the University of Florida, and spent seven years working a downtown nightclub. At 25, cocaine flipped a Jekyll-and-Hyde switch — a thousand dollars of blow a week turned an outgoing, people-loving artist into a hermit crying alone in a dark room. He built theme parks across the country and the Bahamas, drank away the woman he thought he'd marry, and spent five years cycling in and out of the rooms — "dry," but never truly sober.One of the heaviest moments of his life: watching a 23-year-old coworker — a young father of two, drunk on the job — fall 40 feet through a roof and die in front of him, a guilt and shame he carried for years. Today Matt is sober (date 2/16/2026), competes in Strongman, wakes before dawn to sit with God, and has finally found the peace he chased in a bottle and a bag for decades. His message to anyone still out there: keep coming back, keep showing up, until the miracle happens — because it will. This is the One Last Hit Podcast. CONNECTOne Last Hit Podcast: https://onelasthitbook.com/podcastSobriety Talk Podcast Directory: https://sobrietytalk.com Get the Ebook: https://shop.onelasthitbook.com/product/ebook/Get the Audiobook: https://shop.onelasthitbook.com/product/audiobook/Get the Paperback: https://a.co/d/41mLSctSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033tfN9DNibexvEaMuTIX8Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-last-hit-podcast/id1896886126Instagram: https://instagram.com/onelasthitbookFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/OneLastHitBookTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@onelasthitbookYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OneLastHitTwitter/X: https://x.com/austinrampt