How to win the battle against addiction #34

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Written by Nick Halaris

Hi Everyone and Welcome Back! 

This week on The Nick Halaris Show we are featuring social entrepreneur Will House.  Will is the founder and CEO of Oberit, an innovative new company using AI, neuroscience, and incentives to help people overcome addiction.  When I met Will and heard his inspiring story of redemption, I knew instantly I had to have him on the show.  Will’s willingness to be vulnerable is manifesting incredible positive results in the world.  Addiction is one of these issues that we all “know about” but, for some reason, tend not to talk too much.  But it is a staggering global problem, impacting, by some estimates, over 30% of the population and is one of the leading causes of suffering in the world.

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I wanted to have Will on the show to highlight the important work he and his colleagues at Oberit are doing in the fight against addiction and to share his galvanizing mission.  In this important episode you’ll learn: 

  • How Will was able to overcome his own struggles with addiction and why that drives him in his noble mission to help others

  • The sobering truth about the scale and severity of the global addiction problem

  • Why what we are learning about neuroplasticity should give us all hope not only that we can beat addiction but also that we can change anything in our lives

  • The surprising power that simple practices like gratitude journaling and daily affirmations can have in the recovery process

  • How Oberit’s innovative product is filling a crucial gap in the market by giving people helpful tools and support in the re-entry phase of recovery

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  • Much, much more

We also discuss things like the frightening natural evolution of addiction, why hitting rock bottom is a necessary step in the recovery process, and why it’s so important for recovering addicts to maintain a sense of agency in their lives.  Stay tuned to the end to hear why Will is so committed to proving that Oberit can play a meaningful role in preventing relapse and fill a massive void in the world of care options for those in recovery.

I hope you all enjoy this episode.  Thanks for tuning-in!     

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Nick Halaris

I’ve been fascinated by investing for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I would read the Wall Street Journal, the Economist and Barron’s, pouring over the data tables, stories and interviews with a passion and an insatiable kind of curiosity. As I grew into adulthood, I struggled to find the right outlet and channel for this passion and spent much of my twenties wandering and trying out different things. I had a very brief career as an attorney, spent some time as a strategy and leadership consultant for big multinational companies, failed in an attempt to start a hedge fund, and even ended up helping run a scrap metal recycling operation for a while.

At the age of 30 though, I took my stand. I made up my mind that no matter what I was going to be an entrepreneurial investor. As crazy as it sounds, I owe everything in my life to this one foundational decision—even my amazing wife and my beautiful kids. I don’t think I would ever have met Alicia had I not made this one choice. At that moment in time, the financial world had just been devastated by the crash in the housing market and the near systemic failure of the global banking system that followed. I’ve always had a contrarian bent to my investment thinking; so, to me the carnage in real estate looked like an opportunity.

It all started with one house in Compton California. The business plan was simple: buy a distressed foreclosed home from a bank, bring it back to life with a big renovation and sell it to a first-time homebuyer. Things progressed slowly as they tend to do with real estate. In the first years of this, I think I did 6-7 homes. But then after plugging away day-by-day, suddenly it seemed, things just came together. I found the right investors and the right loans and the right deals and in just a few short years I ended up investing in over 100 such transactions, building a portfolio of almost 2,500 multifamily units and creating a fully vertically integrated real estate company with almost 100 employees.

Fast forward to today and I’m running the second evolution of my entrepreneurial investing career and having so much fun that I have to stop and remind myself that this is all real.

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