Garrett Gomez spent his life learning to make decisions nobody else could make for him. Recovery taught him there were decisions he should not make alone.

In this candid conversation with biographer Rodolfo Alvarado, Garrett looks back on the self-reliance he learned as a young rider and how that same instinct followed him into adulthood. Recovery eventually taught him another kind of strength: asking people he trusted for guidance, listening to their experience, and recognizing that simply not drinking was not the same as doing the work required to recover.