Your stage: VisualizationYour stage: Identity DriftYour stage: Compounding FrictionYour stage: Decision PointYour stage: Retirement
Conversations about mental preparation, retiring from alcohol on your own terms, and what it actually looks like to walk away from drinking without a rock bottom.
Daniel Kobryner sits down with Colin Casillas to talk about retiring from alcohol after 30 years of regular drinking, without a rock bottom. They cover what changed in Colin’s clarity, health, and performance, the five-stage Prepared Sobriety framework, why identity beats willpower, and how to handle social situations without a drink in your hand.
What does it take to retire from alcohol without hitting rock bottom? Colin Casillas, founder of Prepared Sobriety, joins the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast to talk through his six years of mental preparation, the five-stage framework, and the health changes that followed his decision to retire from alcohol on April 16, 2025.
What’s the one habit quietly limiting your leadership? Scott Brandt and George Dovolis sit down with Colin Casillas to unpack the decision to retire from alcohol and how it changed his clarity, leadership, relationships, and health. The conversation covers the science behind alcohol’s effect on decision-making, Colin’s five-stage Prepared Sobriety framework, and why leadership starts with candid self-reflection.
What happens when a high-performing professional chooses to retire from alcohol before hitting rock bottom. Anj Castro sits down with Colin Casillas, founder of Prepared Sobriety, to talk through his decision to walk away from alcohol and how it changed his health, relationships, career, and sense of purpose.
There’s no rock bottom and no crisis. Colin was functioning and successful from the outside looking in, spent six years mentally preparing, then retired from alcohol as a performance decision. He speaks as a peer, not as a counselor.
No. His approach is non-12-step and non-program. The framework focuses on mental preparation, identity, and a decision, not meetings, steps, or labels.
Anyone who’s been quietly thinking about this for a while, whatever they do for a living. Not people in crisis, people who are done running the same failed rules over and over.
Book a complimentary 30-minute call. It’s one-on-one with Colin, and there’s no pitch.
Wherever you are in thinking about this, there’s a next step that fits.
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