In this honest and engaging episode Pete speaks to addiction, trauma and recovery expert John Giordano. John is also an author and created the G & G Holistic Addiction Treatment in North Miami Beach, Florida. They talk about John’s journey to recovery, when he decided it was his purpose to help others and what his plans are for the future.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• It was by no accident that John Giordano chose addiction treatment as his life’s work. Growing up the son of a heroin dealer and trying to cope with the trauma of being molested as a young boy, he fell hard into drugs and alcohol. Over thirty-five years ago, at the urging of his family, John entered rehab. He emerged a changed man - committed to helping others afflicted by this hideous disease.
• There is such a thing as an ‘addiction’ gene. This doesn’t mean that if you have it you will become an addict but it does highly influence the likelihood it will be triggered, especially if you have a difficult life.
• John started practicing martial arts and it changed his life completely. He left the gang life he had slipped into and put all of his trauma and anger into martial arts. It taught him discipline, focus and how to direct his energy.
• After having a difficult start to recovery in rehab, John eventually broke down. This is when his road to recovery truly started. He then decided he wanted to become a counselor himself so he went back to high school to get his GED and the rest is history.
• John truly believes that no matter what has happened to you in life or where you came from you can find happiness and success. You just have to never give up. Listen to yourself and your inner voice.
• John has done everything he has just to help others. It’s never been about money or notoriety, he just wants to help people live the lives they deserve. He doesn’t take credit when people manage to get clean as he recognises it is them that have done the work to do so, he has just offered guidance.

BEST MOMENTS

“No matter where you come from, no matter what education, no matter what happened to you in life, what family you had, you can be successful as long as you never give up”

“I never chased the money, all I wanted to do was help people and it changed my life, it changed a lot of peoples lives”

ABOUT THE GUEST

John Giordano

Addiction, Trauma and Recovery Expert - MAC,  DHL, CAP, Certified Hypnotherapist, Author, Entrepreneur

John Giordano, who himself is in long-term recovery, is an addiction expert whose career spans over thirty-years. John’s passion for helping people shined through early in life as a Karate instructor – and continued later as he helped literally thousands of addicts find their path of recovery at his former treatment center.

He is considered by his peers to be a pioneer in holistic addiction treatment. John developed innovative new therapies early in his career that have been proven effective and gone on to become standard care in most modern treatment centers. He continues to play a pivotal role in the ongoing effort to usher evidenced-based and scientifically proven holistic modalities into the mainstream of addiction medicine.

ABOUT THE HOST

The ‘Mighty Pete Lonton’ from the ‘Mighty 247’ company is your main host of ‘Fire in The Belly’.

Pete is an entrepreneur, mentor, coach, property Investor, and father of three beautiful girls. Pete’s background is in project management and property, but his true passion is the ‘Fire in The Belly’ project itself. His mission is to help others find their potential and become the mightiest version of themselves. Pete openly talks about losing both of his parents, suffering periods of depression, business downturn and burn-out, and ultimately his years spent not stoking ‘Fire in the Belly’. In 2017, at 37 years of age that changed, and he is now on a journey of learning, growing, accepting, and inspiring others.

Pete can connect with people and intuitively asks questions to reveal a person’s passion and discover how to live their mightiest life. The true power of ‘Fire in The Belly’ is the Q&A’s - Questions and Actions section.

The ‘Fire in The Belly’ brand and the programme is rapidly expanding into podcasts, seminars, talks, business workshops, development courses, and rapid results mentoring.

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