Victory Lane Sober Living
Brad Sowell, Executive Director
Brad Sowell, Executive Director of Victory Lane Sober Living, LLC, is a lifelong native of Bowling Green. He is the son of local pediatrician, Dr. Debra Sowell, and Ron Sowell, CFO of the Medical Center at Bowling Green. Brad attended Bowling Green High School, where he played offensive and defensive line for the Purples. After graduating BGHS in 2002, he subsequently attended the University of Kentucky where he majored in Political Science with a minor in Geography. Upon graduating from UK, Brad attended Mississippi College School of Law, graduating with the Magna Cum Laude distinction and in the top 10% of his 2011 class.
Brad returned to the Commonwealth and began practicing law for McCracken & Judd in 2012. He subsequently practiced in Brownsville with Gary S. Logsdon & Associates. In May of 2015, Brad founded his own Firm in Bowling Green: Sowell, Stevenson & Steidl, PLLC. While Brad’s professional career was exemplary, his personal life was in shambles. Brad suffered from undiagnosed and untreated depression for the better part of two decades and self-medicated with alcohol and drugs.
On May 6, 2019, a failed drug test provided by the Kentucky Bar Association sparked a desire to change; a desire to do something different; and, more importantly, a desire to be something different. For the first time in his life, Brad became honest with mental health professionals permitting them to treat him for his co-occurring disorders: alcoholism, addiction, anxiety disorder and severe depressive disorder. With the assistance of JourneyPure’s Intensive Outpatient Program, daily AA attendance and psychological treatment, Brad quickly discovered a life he never dreamed possible while in active addiction. On March 26, 2020, he ultimately had his license to practice law suspended as a result of the failed drug test from May of 2019; however, rather than feeling sorry for himself over the wreckage of his past, he dedicated his life to helping others who struggle with alcoholism and addiction. In July of 2020, with the support of his loving Wife, Billie Jean, and their four sons, Cayden, Gavin, Brennan and Nolan, the couple decided to pursue another dream: open a sober living facility (“3/4 home”) to help patients transition from an inpatient/residential rehabilitation program into society. Together, Brad and Billie have opened over a dozen sober living homes in Bowling Green/Warren County over the last 6 years. They have helped thousands of recovering alcoholics and addicts since 2020.
Brad was reinstated to the practice of law in August of 2023; however, he remains very involved with the administration of Victory Lane Sober Living.
Billie Jean Sowell, Chief Financial Officer
A lifelong native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, Billie Jean Sowell serves as Chief Financial Officer of Victory Lane Sober Living. After graduating from Warren Central High School in 2003, Billie Jean spent more than 14 years as a professional photographer, serving families throughout Bowling Green and communities across Kentucky. In March 2024, she stepped away from photography to devote her time and energy fully to Victory Lane Sober Living and its mission.
While Billie Jean has not personally battled addiction, addiction and recovery have profoundly shaped her life. She has loved people struggling with substance use and experienced firsthand the heartbreak, uncertainty, and lasting impact active addiction can have—not only on the individual, but on the entire family.
Those experiences have given Billie Jean a deeply personal appreciation for the gift of recovery. She understands what it is like to love someone who is not yet ready to accept help, as well as the devastating consequences that can follow when addiction is allowed to take control. Because of that, she never takes for granted the courage it takes for someone to ask for help, choose recovery, and begin rebuilding their life.
Today, Billie Jean gets to live a very different side of that story alongside her husband, Brad, whom she proudly supports and cheers on as he continues his own recovery journey. Their experiences have strengthened her belief that recovery can transform far more than one life—it can bring hope, healing, and new beginnings to entire families.
At Victory Lane, Billie Jean brings her strong community roots, relationships, and dedication to an organization that has become much more than a career. She is passionate about helping ensure Victory Lane continues to grow responsibly while providing men and women in recovery with safe, supportive, structured homes and opportunities to build lives they are proud of.
Away from Victory Lane, Billie Jean and Brad can usually be found happily, and somewhat hectically, raising their four hilarious and spirited sons, Cayden, Gavin, Brennan, and Nolan, affectionately known as “The Herd.”
For Billie Jean, Victory Lane represents something deeply personal: the hope that every person struggling with addiction has the opportunity to choose recovery and that every family has the chance to experience what life on the other side can look like.
