Speaker | Author | Recovery Coach
He Didn't Read About It. He Lived It. Now He's Bringing It to Your Stage.
Joby Sanchez is a recovery coach, author, and entrepreneur who built a real life and a real business on the other side of addiction. His talks are not keynotes built from research. They are built from 7 to 8 years of living through the hardest version of the story your audience already knows someone is carrying.
Who Joby Is
The Proof Is the Story
Joby Sanchez started using at 15. Cocaine, crack, and heroin. He did not stop because someone gave him a better mindset framework. He stopped because he built a structure that made staying clean the only option that made sense.
7 to 8 years clean. Business owner. Husband. Father. Author of Falling Upwards, available on Amazon.
He is not a clinician. He is not a theorist. He is the proof that the thing your audience is afraid to talk about publicly has a path through it. When Joby stands on a stage, the people in that room who are carrying something privately feel it immediately. That is the only credential that matters in a room like that.
What Joby Speaks On
Three Talks. Built for Three Rooms.
Joby speaks across three areas. Every event is different. The form below tells us which bucket fits your audience so we can build the right talk for your stage.
Talk 01 | Corporate Wellness + Leadership
The High-Performer's Hidden Cost
Best for: Corporate conferences, HR and wellness events, executive leadership summits, DEI programming, employee resource groups
The most dangerous version of addiction looks like a full calendar and a growing career. Joby speaks directly to the version of this story that lives inside high-performing teams. What happens when the person delivering the most is also managing something privately that nobody is talking about. He covers the signs leaders miss, the cost of silence inside organizations, and the framework that actually works for people who cannot afford to stop.
What your audience leaves with:
- A clear-eyed picture of what high-functioning struggle actually looks like inside teams
- Permission to have the real conversation without the clinical language
- A framework from someone who stayed inside the pressure and built through it
Talk 02 | Entrepreneur Conferences + Masterminds
Building From Broken: The Entrepreneur's Recovery Story Nobody Talks About
Best for: Entrepreneur conferences, business masterminds, founder events, in-person mentorship gatherings, scaling and growth summits
Entrepreneurs are not strangers to building under pressure. But there is a version of that pressure that stops getting talked about once you start making money. Joby built a business while navigating recovery. Not after. While. This talk is for rooms full of founders who are performing at a high level on the outside and carrying something that the masterminds and the morning routines are not touching. He does not come in with a system. He comes in with a story that makes the person in the back row feel less alone.
What your audience leaves with:
- An honest frame for what it actually costs to build something while managing something internally
- The story of someone who did not pause the business to get clean. He kept both running.
- A peer-level conversation that creates permission for others in the room to speak up
Talk 03 | Faith-Based Events + Community Gatherings
Falling Upwards: What Grace Looks Like When You're Still In the Middle of It
Best for: Church events, faith-based recovery ministries, community healing gatherings, addiction ministry conferences, men's and women's retreats
This talk is built directly from the story behind Joby's book, Falling Upwards. It is for communities built around faith, redemption, and the messy reality of what transformation actually looks like. Not the version with the clean ending. The version where you are still figuring it out and choosing differently every single day. Joby does not preach. He testifies. There is a difference. One is performance. The other is evidence.
What your audience leaves with:
- A story of real transformation without the polish that makes it unbelievable
- An honest account of what faith looks like from inside the fire, not after it
- A message rooted in the book Falling Upwards that your congregation can continue reading after the event
Credibility
The Story Is the Credential
Joby Sanchez is the author of Falling Upwards: A Tale for the Wild, the Lost, and the Still Trying. Available on Amazon. Written from inside the experience, not from a distance from it.
He has spoken in front of recovery communities, faith gatherings, and entrepreneurial circles. Not with a projector full of statistics. With a story that makes the person in the back row feel seen before he finishes the first five minutes.
His story has a beginning that most people cannot say out loud. What makes Joby the right speaker for your event is not just where he ended up. It is that he is still doing the work every day and he is not pretending otherwise.
Falling Upwards
A Tale for the Wild, the Lost, and the Still Trying
Available on Amazon | $19.95
Every speaking engagement is an opportunity to put this book in the hands of your audience. Joby can sign copies at your event. Contact us when you fill out the form to discuss bulk book orders for your attendees.
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From Inquiry to Confirmed Date
All bookings are handled directly by DDBA / DeLuca Designs on Joby's behalf. Here is how the process works from inquiry to confirmed date.
Fill Out the Form
Tell us about your event, your audience, and which talk fits. Takes about 3 minutes.
We Send a Quote
Based on your event details, audience size, and travel requirements, we send a flat speaking fee within 48 hours.
We Lock the Date
Agreement signed, deposit secured, date confirmed. Your audience is set.
About Joby as a Speaker
Why Event Organizers Book Joby Sanchez
Joby Sanchez is a recovery speaker, author, and coach who speaks from the inside of the experience rather than the outside of it. He is not a clinician who studied addiction. He is not a motivational speaker who found sobriety and repackaged it into a keynote. He is someone who was cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin dependent starting at age 15, built a business during the years he was using, kept his family intact, and found his own way out through a self-built framework that he has now refined over more than seven years of sustained sobriety.
That combination — entrepreneurial success, active addiction, and genuine recovery — is extraordinarily rare in the speaking world. Most recovery speakers address audiences who have already hit bottom and are rebuilding from nothing. Joby addresses a different room: the high-performing entrepreneur, executive, or athlete who has not hit bottom, who is outwardly successful, and who is privately managing something that is quietly taking ground. That audience is underserved. They are in every conference room, every leadership summit, and every men's retreat in America. They rarely get a speaker who speaks directly to their reality.
Joby is also the author of Falling Upwards, published March 2026, which gives every speaking engagement a credentialing artifact that organizers can reference in their event marketing. He is available for recovery conferences, corporate wellness programs, entrepreneur and business events, faith-based gatherings, and men's leadership retreats across the United States. Speaking inquiries are managed by Frank DeLuca at DDBA and receive a response within 48 hours.
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No booking is confirmed until an agreement is signed and a deposit is received. Joby does not speak for free. If the event is the right fit, the fee will reflect it.
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