Lifes Black Belts With Eric Alders

Today's Life's Black Belt is US Army Veteran, Author and Public Speaker, Richard Kaufman.Richard is now known at "The Comeback Coach" for all the work he is doing with helping veterans and people in general to overcome their addictions to drugs and alcohol.Richard and I had a very open and honest conversation about how he finally got sober at the age of 20.  He talks about growing up without a father, getting into trouble a lot as a child, getting hooked on drugs and alcohol by 12 years old and the battle to get and stay sober.He covers his many failures in life including dropping out of school, getting kicked out of the military and almost getting arrested for robbing a bar he worked at.  Instead at that time the arresting officer gave him a choice of going to jail or going into 90 days of rehab.  He chose the later and then went well past the 90 days and spent the next year in rehab, going almost every day.He got himself together but still battled his demons.  Then September 11th took pl