An insightful account into how changing your relationship with alcohol can change your life
In I’m Never Drinking Again: How to stop drinking so much and change your relationship with alcohol, successful entrepreneur, investor, and mental health advocate Dominic McGregor, candidly reveals his personal story with alcohol addiction after a whirlwind of business success in his late teens
Dominic McGregor is a 30-year-old entrepreneur and mental health and sobriety advocate. Dominic is currently a Founding Partner of investment fund, Fearless Adventures and ex-COO of global marketing agency, Social Chain.
Along with his co-founder and fellow university drop out, Steven Bartlett, Dominic helped grow Social Chain to a $300m turnover business with 750 staff in offices around the world, including NYC, Berlin and London. After building a global client portfolio that includes the likes of Apple, Amazon, McDonald’s, and the BBC, the pair took the company public in 2019 and then exited in late 2020. Post-exit, Dominic co-founded Fearless Adventures, a company which invests in and provides wrap-around support for founders who are looking to rapidly scale their business. Through this venture, Dominic passionately uses his experiences and huge wealth of knowledge from building and scaling a successful business to nurture new talent and support other entrepreneurs on their journeys both financially and emotionally.
In early 2021, Dominic was appointed by the Cabinet Office as a government policy advisor looking at social media and digital communications.
More recently, Dominic and the Fearless team have created Basecamp Skills, with a mission to nurture, coach and up skill in all things digital, creating industry leading talent. The Basecamp co-founders believe that businesses need cultural and professional diversity to succeed, and they are helping to provide life changing opportunities and enable the business community to build teams with different perspectives. In 2023, Dominic became a feature in the BAFTA nominated and award-winning documentary series Hollyoaks In Real Life. His episode ‘Alcohol Free At 23’ saw him talking to Hollyoaks long-standing cast member James Sutton about his journey with alcohol addiction following a whirlwind of business success in his late teens.
Dominic is releasing his first book, “I’m never drinking again”, sharing the highs and lows of his journey, the lessons he’s learned, and tackling important topics including stereotypes around sobriety, peer pressure, and party culture, to see what we can do to drive positive change. Alongside all his business and career successes, Dominic has found time to become a public speaker at a variety of events. Including the likes of Capital One, Microsoft and many more, along with globally recognised news publications. Bringing forward topics such as mental wellbeing, tech and digital skills, business strategies and success, and more besides. Utilizing his own journey through a variety of bespoke keynotes, opinion pieces, feature interviews, commentary, and panels to inspire and educate audiences of all sizes.
Dom is an approved candidate for the Conservative party and looking to run for an MP seat in future elections.