Intention Without Alignment Is Just a Wish

What changes when you get sober beyond putting down the drink? Corey Berrier reflects on the person he used to see in the mirror and the man he has become through years of steps, sponsorship, gratitude, honesty, and integrity. Following last week’s episode about letting go and trusting God’s plan, Corey shares a story from a roofing visit: an initially apprehensive homeowner, a retired military colonel who had met about ten other roofers, thanked Corey and his work partner for their professionalism, kindness, and trustworthiness. Corey explores how the inner work of recovery becomes visible at work and in relationships, even when we never mention sobriety.Show notesLast week on The Successful Life Podcast, Corey shared the reunion with his stepdaughter after years apart and reflected on letting go of outcomes and allowing God to direct his life. This week, he asks what kind of person recovery has helped him become. Before getting sober, he struggled to recognize or like the person in the mirror. Today he can see a man practicing honesty and integrity.Corey explains why that change takes time and repeated action: working the steps, accepting help, sponsoring others, practicing gratitude, and making choices that match his values. He then shares a visit with a homeowner who had spoken with about ten roofers. After Corey and his partner worked with him, the homeowner thanked them for being the most professional team he had met and for treating him with kindness and trust.In this episode: self-respect in sobriety; the difference between stopping drinking and changing behavior; integrity in everyday sales conversations; service and sponsorship; gratitude; and one practical action listeners can take this week.If this episode helped you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs to know that people can change.Send us Fan Mailhttps:newpathemployment.com Connect with CoreyVisit The Successful Life Podcast⁠Follow Corey on Facebook⁠Follow Corey on Instagram⁠Buy My Book on Audible⁠Buy My Book on Amazon⁠

Last week Corey Berrier shared the unexpected invitation to attend his stepdaughter’s theater performance after years without contact. This week, he tells what happened: he went, saw her perform, and afterward they hugged and cried together. Corey reflects on the amends he made three years ago, the time and space their relationship needed, and the joy of being present without trying to control what comes next. He also shares how letting go of his grip on his relationship with his partner made room for repair, and why the life God has led him into has been bigger and brighter than the one he tried to plan. A personal episode about fear, surrender, action, and trusting God’s will one day at a time.Show notesIn “Time Takes Time: Honesty When the Outcome Is Out of Your Hands,” Corey talked about making amends to his stepdaughter and receiving an invitation to see her theater performance after years apart. This week, he shares the next chapter: he went, and they hugged and cried together afterward. He considers how honesty, patience, and respect for another person’s timing made room for that moment.Corey also talks about the fear of letting go in relationships. He reflects on the time and space that helped repair his relationship with his partner, and on the unexpected friendships, work, and peace that have come from allowing God to direct his life. Letting go still asks him to do his part: tell the truth, take responsibility, show up, and release the outcome.In this episode: seeing his stepdaughter after years apart; amends and family healing; letting a reunion be a new beginning; fear of losing a relationship; love without control; surrender and God’s will; and three questions to help listeners identify what is theirs to do today.Connect with Corey●The Successful Life Podcast: https://successfullifepodcast.com●Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JbPsiir58/?mibextid=wwXIfrListen and subscribe●Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/successful-life-podcast/id1486100211●Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oH6xuInZETJTkGYMTXATHBuy Corey’s book●Amazon: https://a.co/d/0iO67k5KIf this episode helped you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs encouragement to do their part and trust God’s timing.Send us Fan Mailhttps:newpathemployment.com Connect with CoreyVisit The Successful Life Podcast⁠Follow Corey on Facebook⁠Follow Corey on Instagram⁠Buy My Book on Audible⁠Buy My Book on Amazon⁠

Three years ago, Corey Berrier made amends to his stepdaughter. Shortly afterward, Corey and his wife separated for good, and he was no longer able to communicate with his stepdaughter. He stayed in touch with her dad, but years passed without hearing from her.Then an unexpected text arrived: his stepdaughter would like him to come see her theater performance next weekend.Following last week’s episode about the courage to speak honestly in recovery, Corey explores another uncomfortable truth: acknowledging where you fell short without knowing how the other person will respond. Making amends asks us to take responsibility for our part. It does not give us control over forgiveness, contact, or the timing of someone else’s healing.Corey reflects on the years between the amends and the invitation. How do you keep living by what you said when you receive no reply? How do you respect someone’s space while still caring about them? And when a door opens, how do you receive that moment with gratitude without asking it to resolve the entire past?Corey is grateful for the invitation and looks forward to showing up for his stepdaughter. His story is a reminder that an honest action matters even when its outcome remains unknown.Sometimes things happen quickly. Sometimes they happen slowly. Time takes time.Connect with CoreyThe Successful Life Podcast: https://successfullifepodcast.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JbPsiir58/?mibextid=wwXIfrListen and subscribeApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/successful-life-podcast/id1486100211Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oH6xuInZETJTkGYMTXATHBuy Corey’s bookAmazon: https://a.co/d/0iO67k5KIf this episode speaks to you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone learning to do their part and let time take time.Send us Fan Mailhttps:newpathemployment.com Connect with CoreyVisit The Successful Life Podcast⁠Follow Corey on Facebook⁠Follow Corey on Instagram⁠Buy My Book on Audible⁠Buy My Book on Amazon⁠

In last week’s episode, “Intention Without Alignment Is Just a Wish,” Corey talked about living his values through service. This week he asks whether recovery communities make room for people who live with mental illness as well as addiction. He shares a personal account of a missing friend and sponsee, reflects on his own past hopelessness, and talks about the role of meetings, sponsorship, medication, and professional treatment.In this episode: mental illness in recovery rooms; co-occurring disorders; respecting prescribed treatment; supporting a friend without playing doctor; recognizing hopelessness; and one honest conversation to have this week.Connect with Corey●The Successful Life Podcast: https://successfullifepodcast.com●Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JbPsiir58/?mibextid=wwXIfrListen and subscribe●Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/successful-life-podcast/id1486100211●Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oH6xuInZETJTkGYMTXATHBuy Corey’s book●Amazon: https://a.co/d/0iO67k5KSend us Fan Mailhttps:newpathemployment.com Connect with CoreyVisit The Successful Life Podcast⁠Follow Corey on Facebook⁠Follow Corey on Instagram⁠Buy My Book on Audible⁠Buy My Book on Amazon⁠

Last week on The Successful Life Podcast, Corey shared how three and a half years of showing up in recovery helped him move from isolation toward friendship and connection. This week, he follows that journey into his working life.After repeatedly searching for the right career opportunity, Corey began asking a different question: How can I be of maximum service to my coworkers, customers, and the people around me? He reflects on how that internal shift changed the way he approached work. An opportunity brought him to Wilmington, where the people he met eventually opened a door to roofing—the work he had resisted and now finds deeply rewarding.This episode explores intention, values, faith, and the actions that bring them into alignment. Corey also offers a practical exercise to help you identify one value you can put into action this week.Connect with CoreyThe Successful Life Podcast: https://successfullifepodcast.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JbPsiir58/?mibextid=wwXIfrListen and subscribeApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/successful-life-podcast/id1486100211Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oH6xuInZETJTkGYMTXATHBuy Corey’s bookAmazon: https://a.co/d/0iO67k5KIf this episode speaks to you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone whose path is unfolding differently than they expected.Send us Fan Mailhttps:newpathemployment.com Connect with CoreyVisit The Successful Life Podcast⁠Follow Corey on Facebook⁠Follow Corey on Instagram⁠Buy My Book on Audible⁠Buy My Book on Amazon⁠

In last week’s episode, Corey asked what to do when fear returns after a brave decision. This week, he looks at what happens when you keep taking those steps over years. He shares how he moved from attending recovery meetings while emotionally on the outside to building friendships, serving other people, and allowing himself to be known. The last three and a half years are a chapter of deeper participation in recovery, not the start of his sobriety.In this episode: loneliness in a crowded room; the fear of being known; returning to meetings; the work beneath friendship; service and connection; moving to a new community; and one action to take this week.Connect with Corey●The Successful Life Podcast: https://successfullifepodcast.com●Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JbPsiir58/?mibextid=wwXIfrListen and subscribe●Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/successful-life-podcast/id1486100211●Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oH6xuInZETJTkGYMTXATHBuy Corey’s book●Amazon: https://a.co/d/0iO67k5KIf this episode helped you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs to hear that connection is possible.Send us Fan Mailhttps:newpathemployment.com Connect with CoreyVisit The Successful Life Podcast⁠Follow Corey on Facebook⁠Follow Corey on Instagram⁠Buy My Book on Audible⁠Buy My Book on Amazon⁠

Last week on The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier talked about taking the first step despite fear. This week, he asks what happens when you wake up the next day and the fear is still there.Corey reflects on his first seven years attending AA while keeping himself emotionally on the outside. He shares how honesty, asking for help, and small repeated actions changed his experience of recovery. He also tells a story from a roof inspection: when he admitted he was afraid to continue, the person with him helped him make the right decision to stop where he was.Fear returning doesn’t erase the progress you made yesterday. The question is whether you’ll take the next honest step today.This week’s challenge: Choose one place where fear has been making decisions for you. Write down one action you can take in the next 24 hours, tell someone you plan to do it, and afterward ask yourself: What did I expect? What actually happened? What did I learn?Connect with CoreyThe Successful Life Podcast: https://successfullifepodcast.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JbPsiir58/?mibextid=wwXIfrListen and subscribeApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/successful-life-podcast/id1486100211Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oH6xuInZETJTkGYMTXATHBuy Corey’s bookAmazon: https://a.co/d/0iO67k5KIf this episode helped you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs encouragement to take their next step.Send us Fan Mailhttps:newpathemployment.com Connect with CoreyVisit The Successful Life Podcast⁠Follow Corey on Facebook⁠Follow Corey on Instagram⁠Buy My Book on Audible⁠Buy My Book on Amazon⁠

Last week, Corey compared his fear of climbing onto roofs with spending his first seven years emotionally outside Alcoholics Anonymous. He attended meetings and experienced some of recovery’s benefits, but he had not completely stepped into the fellowship.This week, Corey continues that story by asking an important question: What happens after you finally climb the ladder?Taking one courageous action doesn’t guarantee fear will disappear. Real confidence develops when we repeatedly take the next right step—even while fear is still present.In this episode, Corey discusses staying present, moving from information into experience, finding stability through connection, and refusing to let fear make life’s decisions.In This EpisodeWhy fear can remain after we take courageous actionHow focusing on the past or future increases fearThe difference between knowing about recovery and participating in itWhy confidence follows repeated actionHow familiar behavior can feel safe even when it is harmfulThe “three points of contact” that create stabilityHow to identify and take your next right actionKey TakeawayYou don’t need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need enough courage to take the next right step.If this episode helped you, subscribe to The Successful Life Podcast, leave a review, and share it with someone who may be standing at the bottom of their own ladder.Send us Fan Mailhttps:newpathemployment.com Connect with CoreyVisit The Successful Life Podcast⁠Follow Corey on Facebook⁠Follow Corey on Instagram⁠Buy My Book on Audible⁠Buy My Book on Amazon⁠

You can study roofing, learn the terminology, and watch other people inspect roofs—but eventually, you have to climb the ladder.Recovery works the same way.In this episode of The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier compares overcoming his fear of climbing onto roofs with his first seven years of sobriety. During those years, Corey attended meetings and remained close enough to recovery to experience some of its benefits—but he stayed emotionally guarded and never completely joined the fellowship.He knew he was an alcoholic, but he focused on the differences between himself and the people in the rooms instead of identifying with their similarities. Fear of judgment, vulnerability, surrender, and depending on others kept him standing on the outside.You can attend meetings without participating. You can hear about the Steps without working them. You can know people in recovery without allowing them to truly know you.Like standing at the bottom of a ladder, it may feel safer to watch from the ground. But some things cannot be understood intellectually. They must be experienced through action.Corey explains how confidence didn’t arrive before he climbed the ladder—it developed because he climbed it. The same is true in recovery. Faith and courage grow through repeated action: one meeting, one phone call, one honest conversation, one Step, and one day at a time.You don’t have to wait for the fear to disappear. You only have to take the next step.IN THIS EPISODEThe difference between attending meetings and joining the fellowshipWhy Corey remained emotionally outside AA for seven yearsLooking for differences instead of identifying with similaritiesHow fear keeps us isolated and unwilling to ask for helpThe fear of judgment, vulnerability, surrender, and dependenceBeing physically present while remaining emotionally guardedWhy sobriety without emotional recovery can become a “dry drunk”What climbing onto a roof taught Corey about courageWhy confidence follows action instead of coming before itHow repetition builds confidence, faith, and trustThe relationship between fear and procrastinationWhy recovery cannot be fully understood from the sidelinesTaking recovery one meeting, one phone call, and one day at a timeHow sponsorship helps us recognize patterns we cannot see aloneChoosing the next right action while fear is still presentKEY TAKEAWAYConfidence doesn’t come before you climb the ladder. Confidence comes because you climb it.Courage isn’t the absence of fear—it’s taking action while fear is still present. Whether your next step takes you onto a roof or deeper into recovery, you don’t need to see the entire path. You only need enough willingness to take the next step.If you’ve been attending meetings while keeping people at a distance, consider stepping fully into the fellowship. Find a sponsor, work the Steps, make the phone call, and allow people to know the real you.The view changes when you stop watching from the ground and start climbing.New episodes of The Successful Life Podcast are released every Monday at 7:00 a.m. Eastern.If this episode helped you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who may need to hear it.CONNECT WITH COREYFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JbPsiir58/?mibextid=wwXIfrInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyberrier?igsi=MTUycTZxaHI5ZnBtZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qrBUY COREY’S BOOKAudible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0D4SJYD4Q?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflowAmazon: https://a.co/d/0iO67k5KSend us Fan Mailhttps:newpathemployment.com Connect with CoreyVisit The Successful Life Podcast⁠Follow Corey on Facebook⁠Follow Corey on Instagram⁠Buy My Book on Audible⁠Buy My Book on Amazon⁠

Getting sober stops the immediate damage—but it doesn’t automatically heal the wounds that caused us to drink or use drugs in the first place.In this episode of The Successful Life Podcast, Corey Berrier explores the important difference between simply being sober and actively living in recovery. Many people remove alcohol or drugs from their lives but remain trapped in survival mode—still controlled by fear, isolation, people-pleasing, defensiveness, overthinking, and the need for outside validation.Corey shares how childhood rejection, family dysfunction, financial instability, failed relationships, and painful experiences can become deeply rooted patterns that follow us into adulthood. Although these behaviors may have once protected us, they can eventually prevent us from experiencing emotional freedom.Using personal stories from recovery, relationships, business, and sales, Corey explains how unresolved rejection can cause us to shut down, expect the worst, avoid difficult conversations, and react emotionally. He also discusses why alcohol and drugs were often not the original problem—they were the medication used to escape it.True recovery requires more than abstinence. It requires identifying the patterns that keep us stuck and becoming willing to do the work necessary to change them.Through the 12 Steps, sponsorship, prayer, meditation, service, personal inventory, and connection with a recovery community, we can learn to pause when agitated, accept uncertainty, trust God, and respond to life instead of reacting to it.The work isn’t always comfortable, but the freedom on the other side is worth it.IN THIS EPISODEThe difference between being sober and being in recoveryWhy sobriety alone doesn’t eliminate survival modeHow childhood rejection can affect adult relationshipsPeople-pleasing, isolation, defensiveness, and controlWhy unresolved fear causes us to shut downHow rejection appears in relationships, business, and salesWhy alcohol and drugs were often the medication—not the original problemThe emotional consequences of being a “dry drunk”How the 12 Steps reveal destructive patternsThe importance of sponsorship and accountabilityHow prayer and meditation support emotional sobrietyLearning to respond instead of reactingWhy recovery community and service change everythingMoving from fear and survival into faith and freedomKEY TAKEAWAYRemoving alcohol stops the bleeding, but recovery teaches us how to heal the wounds.You don’t have to continue living scared, isolated, and controlled by old survival patterns. There is a better life available—but experiencing it requires honesty, willingness, connection, and action.If you’re struggling with alcohol, drugs, or remaining emotionally stuck after getting sober, consider finding a 12-Step program, connecting with a sponsor, and becoming part of a recovery community.New episodes of The Successful Life Podcast are released every Monday at 7:00 a.m. Eastern.If this episode helped you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who may need to hear it.CONNECT WITH COREYFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JbPsiir58/?mibextid=wwXIfrInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyberrier?igsi=MTUycTZxaHI5ZnBtZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qrBUY COREY’S BOOKAudible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0D4SJYD4Q?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflowAmazon: https://a.co/d/0iO67k5KSend us Fan Mailhttps:newpathemployment.com Connect with CoreyVisit The Successful Life Podcast⁠Follow Corey on Facebook⁠Follow Corey on Instagram⁠Buy My Book on Audible⁠Buy My Book on Amazon⁠