Sober 35 years since 4/9/1981 at age 37, Don is a powerful and funny speaker.
Don grew up on a tobacco farm on the southwestern Kentucky/Tennessee border to a middle class family though he told many he came from a poor family.
"Probably the most informative thing I can tell you about my early life is that it was not a thing like I thought it was...My capacity for sel-delusion is astounding."
A lawyer by training and profession, he built up and then lost a successful practice.
He landed on the streets of Nashville where he got sober later to return to Louisville and life as a sober, productive member of society and the legal profession.
He even spent some time on the ethics committee for the state bar association.
Amazing turn around.
(1 hr 11 min) (12.2 MB) (id#1400)