The speaker shares their experience with addiction, isolation, and coping during the COVID pandemic, including nearly dying from consuming a bottle of gin, dumping all their beers in the garbage, and locking themselves up for two weeks.
The guest speaker describes her experience being portrayed negatively in the media as a young woman in the tech industry, receiving false accusations and feeling like a target for ridicule and judgment.
The speaker shares their habit of regularly reviewing the notes they took on books, using them as guidance in their life. They explain how they take time to internalize favorite sentences and paragraphs, and how they create a plain text file with notes for each book they read.
A person shares how their sober friends helped them overcome the challenges of alcohol addiction by inviting them to attend meetings and getting support from individuals who have been sober for longer.
The speaker shares a traumatic experience from his past involving his family, moving, and being victimized.