Biography

Eddie Fischer is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the How U Doin Foundation, a Northlake, Texas based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization inviting teens to connect, strengthen mental health, and discover direction through an experiential Clubhouse culture. He is also the creator of Uncle Eddie Eats, a mission driven venture blending his passion for pizza, storytelling, and community building. Both platforms share a single heartbeat, helping young people and their families overcome adversity, rediscover purpose, and experience lasting transformation.

With nearly 20 years of continuous sobriety, Eddie leads from lived experience. Born and raised in Sayreville, New Jersey, substance misuse began at age 14, where it all started. What followed were years of compromising his values, drifting from his potential, and losing sight of who he truly wanted to become.

As a teenager, Eddie was a standout shortstop and highly competitive baseball player. The game was more than a sport. It was identity, discipline, and direction. He continued playing into junior college, but substance misuse gradually eroded his focus and performance. When his baseball career ended, he felt untethered and without purpose. The one thing he loved most had slipped away.

Outwardly ambitious and driven, he later built a 50 million dollar book of business as a high producing private mortgage banker after relocating to Scottsdale, Arizona in 2000. On the outside, he appeared successful. On the inside, he was unraveling.

In 2005, Eddie made the courageous decision to ask for help and entered treatment at The Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. Treatment was a beginning, but it was not the end of his struggle. After returning home, he continued to wrestle with addiction before finally surrendering on April 13, 2006. That date marks the beginning of his continuous recovery journey.

Recovery rebuilt more than his sobriety. It rebuilt his character, discipline, and commitment to service. In early sobriety, Eddie launched Saverio Custom Clothing, channeling his entrepreneurial drive into rebuilding his life with focus and determination. When the market crash hit, that venture collapsed, and he lost nearly everything financially while in recovery. He did not lose his sobriety. That season stripped away identity tied to income and performance and redirected his ambition toward work that would outlast any business cycle.

Years later, after returning to The Betty Ford Center for an alumni celebration, Eddie reconnected with the recovery community in a deeper way. That visit led to nearly a decade of volunteer service as a Regional Alumni Volunteer, supporting individuals and families beginning their own recovery journeys.

For more than a decade, Eddie has worked in crisis intervention, sober living operations, and adolescent focused treatment environments, serving adolescents, young adults, and families navigating substance use and mental health challenges. Through that frontline experience, he witnessed a painful truth. When treatment ends, support often ends. Too many teens return home without consistent, long term support that is engaging and financially sustainable for families. Options are often short term, clinical, or cost prohibitive, leaving parents overwhelmed and young people disconnected.

The How U Doin Clubhouse was built to change that.

Opening in Northlake, Texas, the 10,000 square foot donor supported Clubhouse, including 5,000 square feet indoors and 5,000 square feet outdoors, will operate six days a week and is built around Four Core Elements: Fun, Connection, Discovery, and Direction.

The Clubhouse provides structured, fun, engaging support within an experiential, solution oriented environment where teens want to show up. It includes a pizza kitchen, podcast and media studio, Quiet Room, experiential wellness programming, family engagement nights, and community master classes. It is designed to create belonging first and measurable movement forward second.

A Northlake resident for six years, Eddie is deeply invested in the community he serves. He and his wife Michelle, celebrating 20 years of marriage, have built their life in the same town where the Clubhouse is being created. He leads with entrepreneurial vision, hard earned humility, and nearly two decades of sobriety. He is responsible for the culture, the standards, the families who trust the organization, and the teens who walk through its doors.

Eddie believes that when young people are invited into belonging rather than labeled or judged, they rise into strength, responsibility, and purpose. He has built his life to prove it.