Episode 4 – Chris Wallis

In this episode, Vince is joined by Chris, an NHS paramedic with years of frontline experience seeing alcohol from a very different vantage point; not the boardroom or the networking dinner, but the consequences.

Together, they talk openly about the grey area between social drinking and the cultural conditioning that makes stopping feel harder than it should, and why even people who know the risks still find it difficult to change.

Vince shares his own story; from years of heavy drinking built around football, work, and social life, to the quiet anxiety that eventually tipped the balance, and the gradual realisation that sobriety felt less like giving something up and more like getting something back.

This conversation is about the slow, honest reckoning that happens when what used to work stops working and what’s possible when you decide to do something about it.