Eric Zimmer

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869 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

Eric Zimmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg · How Small Actions Rewrite Identity (with Eric Zimmer) · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

What luckily happened for me was that at the moment that the despair or that the rock bottom hit, right? matched

Okay, shit, 50 years in prison, that's motivating. matched

Hepatitis C, oh God, I'm dying, right? matched

That at the same moment that happened, hope was presented to me too. matched

And so I think you need both. matched

Is that correct? matched

It doesn't require abstinence, but that's its goal. matched

Its goal, okay. matched

It is not a moderation-based program. matched

Now, it says the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. matched

So as long as you have that desire, you are welcome, right? matched

You are encouraged and you are welcome. matched

But no, you're not going to go to an AA meeting and hear people talking about how to have two drinks instead of 20. matched

It will encourage abstinence. matched

I think abstinence, like I said earlier, it makes sense in that if we think of our substances being like a magnet and us being like metal, getting as far away from it is important. matched

The biggest gift recovery has given me, and it's given me so many, but the single biggest one is that that shit is just not a problem anymore. matched

I tell a story in the book where I was going to the pharmacy. matched

I was picking up my mom's medications. matched

I was driving them to her and I was giving them to her and I wasn't even thinking about it. matched

And what I'm talking about are opiates, Oxycontin. matched

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