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Sobriety and addiction recovery for high-achieving professionals.
Learn how to quit drinking, beat burnout, and build an alcohol-free life without losing your edge or risking your career.
The SOBER Method is a weekly podcast for high-achieving professionals who quietly rely on alcohol, drugs, or other dependencies to cope with stress, pressure, and burnout, and who want a proven path to quit for good without losing their edge.
Host Massimo Rigotti is 10 years sober and creator of the SOBER Method, a five-step framework: Stoic, Observe, Behavior, Execute, Restore. He works privately with lawyers, doctors, pharmacists, executives, veterans, and entrepreneurs. Each week: real coaching sessions and interviews with high performers who quit drinking and built alcohol-free lives.
If you've ever searched "how to quit drinking without AA or rehab," wondered whether you're a high-functioning alcoholic or a gray area drinker, or asked how to stay sober while running a demanding career, this show was made for you.
Topics: how to stop drinking alcohol, high-functioning alcoholism, gray area drinking, sober curious living, relapse prevention, managing stress and burnout without substances, socializing and networking alcohol-free, Stoicism for addiction recovery, and rebuilding confidence after addiction.
New episodes weekly. Every episode stands alone. Press play on any one. If you're a professional who drinks to cope, or you love someone who does, start here.
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Why Insight Alone Never Stops a Craving
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Oct 21, 2026 |
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How a Hollywood Agent's Double Life Finally Collapsed
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Oct 14, 2026 |
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Why Your Parents Still Love You After Addiction
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Oct 10, 2026 |
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How Success Makes Addiction Easier to Hide
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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Why Hot Thoughts Hit Before the Craving Does
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Sep 30, 2026 |
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Why Achievement Can Be as Addictive as the Bottle
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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Why the Crab Pulling You Down Is You
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Sep 16, 2026 |
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Why Feeling Buried Does Not Mean You Are Broken
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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Why Perfectionism Is the Lie That Keeps You Drinking
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Why Willpower Fails When the Voice Sounds Like You
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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How to Quit Drinking Without AA (No Meeting, No Label)
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Why You Still Feel Empty After Getting Sober
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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Why Successful Men Still Feel Numb and the Four-Needs Test That Explains It
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Why Willpower Can't Break 5 Generations of Drinking & What Can
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Would You Even Know If Your Kid Was Using Drugs?
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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The Quiet Danger After Sobriety: A Marine's 10-Year Relapse-Proof System
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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PTSD Has an Evil Twin, and It's Quietly Fueling Addiction — A Navy Chaplain on Moral Injury
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Why Most Treatment Centers Lose the Patients Who Need
Them Most and the Fix
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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The Hidden Burnout Sign High-Functioning People Miss
Every Time
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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How to Stop White-Knuckling Your Recovery and Actually
Feel in Control
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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How Getting Thoughts Onto a Map Breaks Your Worst Mental Loop
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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The Mind Trick That Kept Him Addicted for 31 Years and
How to Catch It in Yourself
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Substance Was Never the Problem — How one mother broke a cycle she didn't know she was feeding
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Why Food Cravings and Binge Eating Are Just Another Addiction – And How to Break Free
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Why Busy Professionals Are Quietly Quitting Alcohol in 2026 and How You Can Too
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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How High Achievers Can Stop Running on Fear ft. Steve Barton
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May 27, 2026 |
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Why High Achievers Lose Control at Night and How to Stop ft. Nadege Saysana
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May 20, 2026 |
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“He Wasn’t an Addict…He Was My Son”: A Mother’s Fight Against Shame and Silence ft. Katie Rizzo
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May 15, 2026 |
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How to Break Addiction Habits Before They Reach Your Kids ft. Chris Rogers
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May 13, 2026 |
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Why High Achievers Still Struggle With Addiction ft. Dr. Jess Armine
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May 06, 2026 |
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I Was Taking 50 Pills a Day with George Haymaker
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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The Fight I Have is with Me with Daryl Dittmer
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Restore: Closing Loops & Rising Higher | Massimo Rigotti
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Behavior & Execute: Insight Into Action | Massimo Rigotti
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Observe: Life's Triggers | Massimo Rigotti
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Depression & Stoic Reflection | Massimo Rigotti
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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I Was High-Functioning and Homeless. Then I Chose Life.
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Mar 16, 2026 |