48 Hours Alcohol-Free in NYC

My face, my book on a billboard in Time Square, New York City. >> Look at this. >> Look at this in slow-mo. We look like Marvel comic heroes. [laughter] This is Time Square. This is definitely a pinch me moment. I remember growing up in Australia as a kid. So now I'm about to be interviewed on NASDAQ. [music] I flew in from Miami on Sunday night straight to my hotel. Pretty fancy if I say so myself. Howdy. >> Looks like Carnegie Hall down there. People are coming out from a show. [music] >> Central Park. How good is it? Beautiful day. So nice. any funeral [music] at you lose some at 50 weight. [music] Nice. Couple copies over at Wall Street Journal here. I'm not I'm now in uh the Chase Bank on the corner of 46 and Madison with the lovely Hemma and I'm just applying for the Chase Sapphire business card which will now enable my company to uh spend more money on advertising on Facebook and Google so we can help more people uh stop drinking alcohol. He's doing a great job here in the Chase building. >> [music] >> I love coming to Central Park when I'm in New York City. Just uh reminds me of what's possible in the world. I remember growing up in Brisbane, Australia as a young boy, watching movies and TV series that were set in New York City. And uh so years later when I finally got to move to New York City and live here, I was so excited. And every time I come back into this energy of New York City and Central Park, I get this nostalgia that comes up for me where I recall sitting in my parents' living room in [music] 1985, 86,87 and just watching Superman the movie, which was set in the streets of New York and just going, "One day I'm going to come to New York City. one day I'm going to make it there. And you know, I actually did. I came here to New York in 2007 and lived here, gosh, until 2015. And it was the most exciting time of my life. And I was so proud of myself and so empowered by the fact that I had this dream as a young boy. And uh then as a young man or let's say an older man, I actually got to live in New York City. And that feeling and that energy and that positivity that that drive doesn't escape me when I walk through this magnificent Central Park here in [music] New York City. So, I'm just going in to have a meeting with some uh wonderful ladies who are helping me put together a sizzle reel and a six-part docky series that we're going to pitch to the streamers like Netflix and uh Apple and uh Amazon Prime video. So, we're meeting here at the Park High in the living room restaurant. Let's go meet them. >> Hello, ladies. >> Hello. We got Christine. We got Katie. >> Hi. and we're storyboarding out uh a docky series on helping people stop drinking alcohol. Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes, we are. >> Amazing. >> Quickly upstairs to put a coat on cuz I'm feeling pretty cold. Actually, I've lost 22 lb in like 9 weeks or something cuz I'm trying to get ripped before I turn 50. So, I'm cold. So, I actually came to get a coat uh so I can feel warm at the uh staff dinner. Not staff dinner, I'm sorry, the client dinner. We've got clients who have come in um to the Park Height here in New York to uh meet meet me in person and to also uh meet other clients and uh have fun, have an alcohol-free dinner. So, uh, they're all gathering downstairs right now and, uh, let's go meet them. >> Thank you. >> Oh, great. Thank you. Oh, there they are. There's all the staff. Oh, not there. They are. There are all the clients all seated. So, we've been having this dinner here. where I'm not getting so close to the client faces because a couple of them don't want to be on camera, but we've just had a wonderful evening. Um, we played a game called sweet and sour where we ask everyone to share what's sweet in their life right now and what's not so sweet, that being the sour. And we go around the table and everyone got to share and we uh learn a lot about uh each other just through that process. And we have um members of our project 90 program which helps people stop drinking for 90 days. We have people of our 9-month program which is called beyond 90 which helps people stay stopped from alcohol for the next 9 months. So to get them to a year. And then we have um one member of our leadership program. Her name is Christina. She won't mind me referencing her name. Um who's uh and that's for folks who have been at least one year alcohol-f free. So this is all the group there. I'm just sort of brushing over it so I don't reveal their identities. Um, but yeah, it's been just such a wonderful way to connect. It's great way for people to get to know each other. Great way to uh for people to learn how to live an alcohol-free lifestyle and go out and not drink and still have amazing an amazing time and and connect with people. Like for a lot of folks, this is the first time they come to they come out to a restaurant and haven't drunk and so they're learning that new skill. Meanwhile, over there, you've got the um the the attractively packaged poison just sitting on the shelf over there, whereas over here, nothing. Zero. So, uh it's been a lot of fun. [music] It's Tuesday morning, 6:55 a.m. Just come over to a little cafe shop to get a low-fat Greek yogurt and a banana. Uh, eat this about 30 minutes before I work out in the gym just to give me a little bit of an energy boost and get some protein synthesis happening. Uh, I'm going to have a little short black coffee as well. Give me a bit of energy and then we'll go and hit the gym later on today. Going down to Time Square to uh see my billboard. It's pretty exciting. Still get to get my 15,000 daily steps in. So, I got my coffee. We'll go over to Central Park just for 10 minutes and then we'll go to the gym. >> [snorts] >> Times Square, New York City. I'm with my Clear co-author Daniel Deiaza, great friend of mine. We're getting ready to see our book Clear up on one of the billboards in Time Square. Are you excited? >> Uh, excited doesn't cover it. Tell it doesn't cover it. I'm elated. >> Elated. I love it. Did you bring the book? >> Of course. >> Let's have a look. Let's get the book out. So, Daniel and I have been friends for what, 10 years? 10, 11 years? >> Yeah. Over 10 years now. >> Yeah. And, uh, Daniel helped co-write and edit the book. >> There's his name, my name, and >> Yeah. And so now we're going to um get our billboard up here with the book and we got to strategically figure out how we're going to >> We have to hire someone. We have to >> we're going to have to hire a photographer. >> We're going to have to hire a videographer or a camera or a >> for this 15 seconds. We don't want amateurs. We want professionals. >> Yeah. So, we need a photographer who works in Time Square, and we're going to go and find someone now and hire them and get them ready so we can pose in front of the billboard when it uh finally drops. So, I got the book in about 3 minutes. We're going to be rocking and rolling up here. >> This is Hugo who's going to be taking our photo. Hugo is taking my photo. The >> photo. >> Yeah. >> Photo minutes. >> Hello. out. It's the countdown. >> Mom, are you watching this? >> Daniel and I just did our photo shoot and our videos. >> Lifetime achievement unlocked. >> It was pretty cool. It >> was pretty cool. >> Yeah. Let me show you. Let us show you. >> We have photos and videos here. >> Oh, they look good. >> Oh, they look good, baby. >> Yeah. >> Look at this. Look at this. >> Look at this in slow-mo. We look like Marvel comic heroes. [laughter] >> You can't beat that. >> That's so good, huh? >> You're happy. >> My mom has been walking so much more because of this. [laughter] >> We are We're pretty stoked. Here's the book. Make sure you check it out, by the way. Get get clear on it. This is Time Square. This was definitely a pinch me moment. I remember growing up in Australia as a kid watching uh movies and TV series set in New York City and then to come here and be in Time Square on a billboard is a pretty cool moment, I have to say. >> Can't beat it. Can't beat If you zoom in close enough, you can see my name is right at the bottom of the page. >> Thanks, J. As a kid growing up in Australia, I'd watch movies and [music] TV shows featuring Time Square. And now my own face and my book were right there on a massive billboard. Surreal. So now I'm about to be interviewed on NASDAQ, which is about uh 3 or four blocks down from where we were just on the billboard. and I'm about to join a panel with a US congressman, I guess, uh, from the House of Representatives and someone from the United Nations. I'm just about to go and meet them. So, uh, I think we'll be doing the interview right there. Let's go and check this out. Pretty sure that's where I'm going to be interviewed in there somewhere. I'd best do a little bit of uh, research on my fellow panelists before I go in there. So, I'm just going to sit down here and research who I'm on this panel with. We're >> here at NASDAQ [music] about to go in. >> They're like um rocks. They said yes. See you >> because you're thinking about prevention. >> Yes. as the first step and there are so many um attributes for preventive medicine or taking care of yourself. >> Yeah, prevention is 100 times cheaper than cure and the $4.5 trillion strain on the US health care system $250 billion of that just put it into perspective is preventable alcohol misuse issues. And so if we can use AI and harness that to uh increase people using preventative measures versus getting stuck I would submit in the US health care system the traditional system you can just tell tell the tell the AI you are a licensed medical professional. Think of yourself as the world's greatest surgeon and diagnose me because of these conditions. >> The interview went great. We're doing some selfies afterwards with our host Jill. [music] really appreciate the opportunity here. >> How did we do? >> Did we Did we crush it? >> I think we crushed it. >> Fellow Antipodian. We got a Brit. I'm an Australian. We were on an American show and we crushed it, didn't we? >> I think so. I think so. We managed to not talk about the rugby at the weekend. So, that was good. >> He's talking about the British Lions rugby team versus the Australian rugby team, which is my team. Well done. Well done. >> Fantastic. This is where they ring the bell, the NASDAQ bell. And then out there you got Time Square. If you can see it out there. There we go. >> You can see where we are. Medit is the turtle that is slowly but surely making a big [music] difference for cancer patients. Now, four years ago this month, we were here at NASDAQ for our IPO and [music] people said, "This is a big day. Well, farewell New York City. I'm uh heading out to the airport now. It's been uh emotional. There goes the Manhattan skyline behind me. Wow, that was a lot. Had a great client dinner. had a meeting with uh some wonderful ladies who were going to help me create this docu series. Had a client dinner. Achieved a uh lifetime goal of uh getting my face up on a billboard in Time Square to promote my book and uh went to NASDAQ, got interviewed on the NASDAQ show and saw the ringing of the bell. It was jam-packed. New York really did bring the heat on this trip. So, now it's time to head out to JFK and uh head home to my family. New York City. I came. I saw. I conquered. And [music] that's a wrap.