Sobriety coach and interventionist Bob Marier has suddenly became the face of sober coachery (a word I just made up). See, coming to represent a fake word is what can happen when you’re hired to work with Toronto mayor Rob Ford, especially when you’re accused of kicking a Ford heckler. But Marier had been working behind the scenes long before he ended up on the cover of every Canadian paper and his journey to top sober dog was hard-earned: after destroying three noses and grinding his teeth down from snorting more coke than you or I can possibly imagine, he had a fairly dramatic OD, smashing into a glass table and spending weeks in a coma. It was only after seeing a video from his hospital bed of his mom begging him to get help that the then 39 year-old sought help; now he’s over 12 years sober and the subject of a Vice doc. In this episode, we discuss people who talk in platitudes in meetings, boiling Fentanyl patches into pills and how Ford is one of the best people Marier’s ever met, among many other topics.
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