About Us
My Story
My name is Brian and I’m the founder and currently the sole operator of Quit and Conquer. For fifteen years I struggled over and over again to get a grip on my substance abuse. I struggled to keep my life on track, I struggled to function in society, and I struggled to survive. I’ve always been very particular about how a man should act and conduct himself, yet the more liquor I drank and the more drugs I took the further I was from exemplifying the traits I claimed to hold in such high regard. Eventually the time came when I had had enough of my own shit. The total collapse of many aspects of my life was on the horizon, I knew it, and I finally made the decision to change everything before I pulled the rug out from under myself.
When I first got into recovery I did all the things that people normally tell you to do. I went to rehab, I went to Narcotics Anonymous, I kept not picking up. This all worked and I stayed clean, but at the same time I entered a point in my life where I felt totally lost, without any direction or purpose. The problem was obvious, I spent so much time drinking and using drugs that I never really planned for the future or thought about what I wanted to do with my life. I had no personal skills or tools to facilitate the further development of my life either, and I really had no concept of the amount of work it would take to get there. All I knew was I needed to do something. Go somewhere.
Since then I’ve been learning and building. I’ve been focused on creating a life for myself that I’m proud of and is filled with purpose and meaning. I now have direction, I have goals, and I am constantly looking to learn and implement the skills and character traits necessary to make progress. When my mindsets changed, everything changed, and it all started coming together.
My Purpose
Getting clean is simple even if it’s not easy. Don’t take drugs, dont drink anymore. Done deal. But people constantly go back to the same old shit even when their life is markedly better after they quit. This is because they don’t know what else to do or where else to go. They’re lost, and this feeling can linger for months or years, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
I know this feeling all too well and while 12-Step programs like NA helped me get and stay clean in my initial phase of recovery, it didn’t help me answer an extremely important question—whats next? When I started working on this problem for myself things really started coming together. I began feeling comfortable without drugs and alcohol, I had something else to do, and I began piecing my future together.
This is where Quit and Conquer comes in. It’s my way of trying to help people minimize the amount of time they spend feeling lost. I’m looking to help people figure out what they want from life, determine what actions they need to take to get there, and to help them develop the tools and mindsets that will help them along the way. It’s something I wish I had available to me when I first quit, so I decided to build it, and here we are.
