From Burnout to Breakthrough: How Sobriety Reignited My Business Success

3 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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First-person testimonial by Charles Cormier describing his move from a long-term full-time role into entrepreneurship, which led to burnout while juggling family and business responsibilities. He reports excessive alcohol use, checked into rehab about 430 days prior, and credits sobriety with significant improvements to his mental and physical health and a roughly 70% increase in revenues since getting sober.

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So I think one of the things that was challenging for me after being a full time resource for 17, 18 years of my career and then all of a sudden here I am as an entrepreneur, right? The guardrail sort of completely came down and I started feeling like things were just crazy, right? I've got to manage people. I'm married, I've got three kids and my mental health, my physical health was not in a place where I wanted it to be. The stress of running a small business was catching up to me. I felt like I was consuming too much alcohol and I decided to step way. I actually checked into a rehab facility about 430 days ago and decided to pursue a life of sobriety, which has been incredible for my business. I think revenues are up something like 70% literally since the day that I decided to get clean and sober. But it was for a few reasons, right.