He Was Drinking Every Day & Ready To Give Up | The One Thing That Gave Him Hope
About this episode
Pete Kuc shares his journey from a high-flying real estate career to hitting rock bottom and finding hope through sobriety.
Pete Kuc was living a life that looked like the movies. A young real estate hotshot in northeast Florida, he was making a fortune, flying on private jets to the Bahamas, entertaining high-end clients on the waterfront, and running on Adderall and alcohol to keep the whole machine going. He describes it as his own Wolf of Wall Street era — money, parties, and the feeling that as long as he was performing, nothing else mattered. Underneath it was a man who had built his entire sense of worth on being the athlete, then the businessman, then the provider — and had no idea who he was without the win. When the market crashed, it all came apart. A $150 million company gone in a year. Real estate leveraged to the hilt, upside down. He went from living like a billionaire to $7 in his pocket in eighteen months. In the middle of the collapse came a one-night stand, a hidden child he tried to keep secret for years, and three kids across a chaotic stretch of his life. He kept trying to fix it himself — Tony Robbins seminars, masterminds, personal development, charts and triathlon training and sheer discipline — always convinced he could pull it out without surrendering. He never could. There…
People in this episode
Host: Kevin Lanning
Guest: Pete Kuc
Topics covered
- addiction
- personal development
- mental health
- resilience
- life transformation
Keywords
- sobriety
- real estate
- addiction
- personal growth
- life crisis
- mental health
- resilience
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Wolf of Wall Street
Places: northeast Florida, Bahamas
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