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The Comeback Formula: Turn Your Darkest Days into Profit | Mark Jennison DSH #1087
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🔥 The Comeback Formula: Turn Your Darkest Days into Profit 🔥 Join Sean Kelly as he sits down with Mark Jennison, founder of "I'm a Comeback" and recovery expert! 💪 Mark shares his jaw-dropping journey from rock bottom to redemption, revealing how he transformed his life and built a multi-million dollar business helping others overcome addiction. 🚀 Discover the power of self-love, the surprising role of psychedelics in recovery, and why traditional AA methods don't work for everyone. 🎧 Tune in now for: • Mark's shocking 7 major relapses and how he finally broke free • The unconventional approach that's yielding a 97% success rate • Why half of your friends might be silently struggling with alcohol Don't miss this eye-opening conversation packed with valuable insights for anyone battling addiction or supporting a loved one. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets on the Digital Social Hour! 📺 #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #MarkJennison #AddictionRecovery #Entrepreneurship #SelfLove #Comeback #ceocomebackstory #mentalhealth #drugaddiction #personalgrowth #alcoholicsanonymous CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:35 - Causes of Excessive Drinking 06:42 - Identity Crisis and Sobriety 10:06 - Identity Reveal Journey 10:38 - Rock Bottom Moment 13:43 - Selling 90 Cars Challenge 15:14 - Teaching Recovery Strategies 19:05 - Son Phoenix's Impact 21:24 - Coping with Dying Father 22:34 - Mother's Influence 25:50 - Exploring Alternative Paths 27:34 - Ric Flair's Legacy 29:04 - Overcoming Victim Mentality 30:41 - Coaching for Success 33:00 - Benefits of Psychedelics 35:50 - Importance of Self-Love 37:30 - Addressing Military PTSD 39:47 - The I'm A Comeback Podcast 41:06 - Finding Mark Online 41:30 - Outro APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Mark Jennison https://www.instagram.com/iammarkjennison/ https://www.iamacomeback.com/link-tree https://www.youtube.com/@markjennison1 SPONSORS: Prolon: http://prolonlife.com/DSH LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Digital Social Hour works with participants in sponsored media and stays compliant with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding sponsored media. #ad
Chapter 1: What led to Mark Jennison's struggles with addiction?
All right, guys. Got Mark here. Got a very important message today. Thanks for coming on, man. Absolutely, man. Thanks for having me. Yeah. We're going to talk alcoholism and drug recovery, right? Let's do it. Let's do it. My dad was an alcoholic.
Chapter 2: How did Mark's family history influence his relationship with alcohol?
Really? Yeah. He would drink a lot. How'd that impact you? Definitely turned me away from alcohol.
Chapter 3: What was Mark's rock bottom moment?
Do you drink now? 27. Yeah, I've been sober. I mean, I'll have a drink, but I haven't been drunk in like five years, probably. So you use that word sober, right? Is that something that you think that you actually are?
Like, do you think that's a... People have different perspectives on it. My thing is like, I haven't been drunk, but I've had drinks. So some people would say, oh, you're not sober because you've had a drink. Sure. You know what I mean? So I guess it's like relative.
So for me, man, I look at the word sober and it's actually not even in my vocabulary. Really? And like, what's crazy is I've helped thousands of dudes, right? Millions of people have actually tuned into the content, but thousands of people through my program. Yeah.
And I think that the reason that they do it is why they've come to me is because, uh, you know, I will get into this. I'm sure. But, So you can't get more sober. Like once you stop drinking, you're like, you can be better. So for me, I was never trying to chase sobriety. I wanted to chase greatness. Right. So for me, uh, it's been nine years since I've had a drink.
Um, I never counted days, but nine years has had a drink and at the peak of my drinking career, 50 to 60 drinks a day. Whoa.
snort cocaine all day long, handfuls of pills to go to sleep or shoot heroin. And from 27 to 33, I built a transportation company that had millions and millions and millions of dollars, 43 semis, 78 employees, built it up, burnt it down. So when I look at the word sober, I never wanted to be sober because that's like, it just wasn't for me. I wanted to be in power.
That is fascinating. So you were a functioning alcoholic.
I would never even say the word alcoholic. I was functioning for sure, man, at a high, high level. Yeah, like to be able to operate at that degree, you've got to be a little bit crazy for sure. You've got to function at a, I would say high performer and then like an elite performer. Because to pull that type of lifestyle off, bro, you got to be doing something crazy.
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Chapter 4: What strategies did Mark use to achieve sobriety?
Chapter 5: How did Mark's son impact his journey to recovery?
And I think that the reason that they do it is why they've come to me is because, uh, you know, I will get into this. I'm sure. But, So you can't get more sober. Like once you stop drinking, you're like, you can be better. So for me, I was never trying to chase sobriety. I wanted to chase greatness. Right. So for me, uh, it's been nine years since I've had a drink.
Um, I never counted days, but nine years has had a drink and at the peak of my drinking career, 50 to 60 drinks a day. Whoa.
snort cocaine all day long, handfuls of pills to go to sleep or shoot heroin. And from 27 to 33, I built a transportation company that had millions and millions and millions of dollars, 43 semis, 78 employees, built it up, burnt it down. So when I look at the word sober, I never wanted to be sober because that's like, it just wasn't for me. I wanted to be in power.
That is fascinating. So you were a functioning alcoholic.
I would never even say the word alcoholic. I was functioning for sure, man, at a high, high level. Yeah, like to be able to operate at that degree, you've got to be a little bit crazy for sure. You've got to function at a, I would say high performer and then like an elite performer. Because to pull that type of lifestyle off, bro, you got to be doing something crazy.
You got to be a little bit obsessed inside of your mind.
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Chapter 6: What unconventional recovery methods did Mark explore?
Absolutely. Did you know what was causing you to drink excessively? Not when I was doing it. Well, here's what I find. There's three reasons why guys like me drink or the people that I help, I should say. Yeah.
Cause just to be clear, like if I want to share it out for your followers, we have a very specific niche, business owners, entrepreneurs, high level executives, men's right now, eventually going to branch out to women who want to gain control and be in power of their life and actually maybe drink again or not drink again. Okay.
So for me, I didn't recognize in the point that even had a problem. As a matter of fact, when I stopped drinking, uh, And I came to reality like, whoa, not everybody drinks like this. Not everybody's just snorting cocaine at five in the morning. Like, this doesn't make sense to me. So I didn't know what I was doing at the time or why I was doing it at the time. And honestly, I don't think I cared.
But the three reasons were, one, there's a habit or a routine that works so well it kicks our own ass. Two, deep-rooted trauma, anger, shame, guilt. Or number three, just like getting wasted all the time. And I was a combination of all three. Damn. So that was me.
So you had all three. Yeah, I drank a little bit. I mean, it's relative, but in college, I definitely drank a good amount. And for me, it was a confidence booster and trauma as well. Sure. Yeah, I didn't feel like I fit in anywhere. So drinking helped me get more comfortable. Do you feel like you fit in now? No, but now I know it. Do you want to fit in? No, hell no. I don't want to be normal.
Isn't that messed up, right? Like you do things that fit in. You didn't even want to do it anyways. This isn't just drinking. It's many things in our life. A hundred percent. Yeah. It's so fascinating. Cause I, I tried to fit in with the cool kids growing up and like, that wasn't me at all. You know, I should have just been myself, but you get bullied, you get made fun of for that. So.
Yeah. I think I was on the other side of that. You were the bully? When I came from a place where I was bullied, right? By my dad or, you know, like it was a tough life. I had a tough life growing up. So you only just hurt people, hurt people, right? So like I would hurt and I would hurt and I would hurt. What I found though, is I was the guy that actually like,
I was always instigating the drinking. So maybe I wasn't a bully, but I'm like, if I'm going out, I'm taking everyone with me. I had an entourage of people all the time. So I wouldn't like make fun of people for drinking, but I would make them drink alongside me to a point of almost like I was the Dom, like kiss my ring.
Like I'm the man I had money back then or have money now, but had money back then. And because I had the money, I thought you should drink with me all the time.
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Chapter 7: What is the Comeback Formula Mark teaches others?
Cold calls. And then I got my phone, and I started doing Facebook, grassroots organic marketing, putting videos out three times a day, talking about my addiction, talking about sales, talking about motivation. But I started getting some momentum. And here's what's unique about it is I tried AA. I tried NA. I tried Cellular Recovery. I went to rehab. Nothing worked. No knocks against them.
They work for certain people. I needed something. I needed to see a quantifiable result. I needed a KPI. I needed indicators to see what the work was doing, right? So I started creating a discipline routine, a discipline structure for myself. And in those 90 days, as I was selling the cars, I recognize that if I could just keep doing these certain types of things, I call them the comeback seven.
Now it's what I teach. I could actually see the results happening. Right. So I know I'm kind of going all over the place on you, but no, that's great backstory to establish everything, dude. That's it's fascinating to me how you were able to replicate it and now teach others. Cause a lot of people can recover, but teaching it's a whole nother thing.
I went to the world and I said, you're not weak, you're not diseased, you're not powerless, and you're going to pay me, which is the exact opposite of what everyone else teaches, right? AA should be given away freely is what they say. Is it free? I didn't know that. AA is free. Oh, wow. So how do they, is it a charity?
It's like people put in a dollar every time they come in, just $1, $1, $1. So what I did, man, and what Kevin over here did with me, we started doing this was, uh, actually prior to doing, I'm a comeback. I was, remember I was telling you I was selling cars. Here's how this happened. I was selling cars.
And then we created a video program called 30 and 30, how to sell 30 cars in 30 days and create a hundred thousand dollars a year as a car salesman. Cause I pulled it off. We started selling at like $27 on a phone. I was real good on the phone for cheap prices. And eventually what happened is I started coaching them and they didn't care about selling cars. They want to know how I got sober.
Even though I don't like the word, they want to know how I got sober. So I started teaching them what I did. And then over time, it just took off. So that was in 2016. So I didn't even launch. I'm going to come back to 2018. And that's when we started to say there was like this, this vision and this desire to change the world.
And this black, I usually wear a black shirt, but black and white and gold and these things that matter to me. And yeah, man, it's been relentless on the pursuit. Beautiful man. We've helped 13, a little over 13,000 people so far. Let's go. And that is that specifically alcohol or is that every addiction?
So it's, it's business owners, entrepreneurs, high level executives who struggle with alcohol right now. But here's what you know, there's really only three ways those guys mess up their lives, alcohol and drugs, food and women. So it's usually like a combination of all three for the guys that I serve.
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Chapter 8: How has Mark's experience shaped his approach to addiction recovery?
So I found a certain segment of people in my life just like me that want to win. So when I say there's 13,000 guys in the community, that's great. That's what we've helped. But there's a whole, there's hundreds of thousands that believe that same way. So yeah, the community is great though. It's a, it's very powerful.
And when you segment it out by like all business owners, they stop talking about alcohol. They talk about their families. They talk about the gym. They talk about sports. Love it. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome, man. Were you able to talk with your son? My son? Yeah. Yeah. I got him. Your wife let you talk to him?
I never got to talk to him then. I came back and I fought for him. Got it. I fought and I fought. I didn't see him for five months. Whoa. So I have him back now. He's the one I was telling you about. He's 15 years old. We're close, man. He's actually up at a soccer game. Our, Our school that he's in is going to win state for soccer. So let's go.
He's up there cheering on his buddies, but yeah, man, like we're super tight. Like, as a matter of fact, this whole thing is I'm a comeback thing was for him. Really? Yeah. I couldn't do this. I wouldn't have done this for myself. Whoa. So your son just has massive importance to you.
He, his name is Phoenix, right? So like a rising from the ashes, like the Phoenix. And it's interesting because I didn't name him Phoenix. I, he was five when I started this, but his name has some symbolic meaning to me. and I rose from the ashes for him, and even today.
So today I've got my son, I've got my wife, Kendra, who's the love of my life, and I got my two daughters, Jade and Bailey, and I built this family unit. And my whole thing, the comeback guys that we created for, we are really just trying to build legacy and be the greatest leaders we can be for our families. So yes, I got Phoenix back. I've worked on this relationship with him.
We've been super close. I never missed a haircut, never missed a dentist appointment. Like I committed all the way in, probably to the point where I made him a little too weak. A little helicopter parent. Yeah, a little bit of a tough guy, right? So I always want to watch him. Now he's, you know, 6'2", turned into a man, but I kind of softened him up a little bit.
Was there any trauma from his early years? You know, I think about that. I don't know. I think I combated the trauma. But at the same time, I don't know that we'll know until he gets older. Got it.
He had his own situation, right? So his mom, she just passed away, like I said, three, four weeks ago. And she also partied, right? So that's where we came from. So there's definitely some stuff inside. But I made a very conscious decision that I was going to work him. Work him is not the right word. You know what? I'm just going to say what it is. Brainwash him.
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