Myles Weber had reached goal after goal.

He became a stand-up comic. He won the San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition. He worked on his act, marketed his talents, and traveled far and wide, hitting every stage possible, every night and sometimes day possible.

At 33 and a pending first-time father, Weber realized this whole quest for fame and fortune was riddled with more holes than the car at the end of “Bonnie & Clyde.”

“It was an unhealthy obsession for so much of my life,” Weber says.

The former Vallejo, Vacaville, Sacramento and Los Angeles resident anchored the last three years in Las Vegas says the wake-up slap was appearing on Dry Bar Comedy, a stand-up series featuring clean material broadcast on various social media platforms including YouTube.

“Doing Dry Bar was a big step, a big deal for me,” Weber said by phone. “It was great and I’m glad I did it. About 5 million people have seen it online and I’m seeing people pop up at (live) shows because they saw me on Dry Bar. It was a big deal.”

However, that euphoria Weber thought would last didn’t.

“I put so much of my energy into it; too much into the moment,” Weber said. “I romanticized what I thought this was going to be.”

He didn’t have time — or take time — to ponder his achievement or experience emotionally. Why isn’t it lasting? What’s wrong?

“Then the pandemic hit and I thought, ‘This is a new plot twist,’” Weber said.

He pondered life. Brought his wife, Heather, into the equation. He needed to take care of himself. And then he decided it’s time to help others with similar histories in the entertainment field.

“Green Room Talk,” life coaching by the Webers, has a tentative January launch, as the stand-up steps away from the stage.

“Seeing all my brothers and sisters in entertainment while I was doing cruises for a little bit, I know a lot of different types of entertainers — magicians, musicians, dancers, all these types. And I’m seeing all these people suffer mentally. If you’re in entertainment, you’re already messed up in general,” Weber said.

Though Weber’s passion for stand-up comedy “hasn’t gone down necessarily, it excites me what I’m feeling in this new project and starting this company to give affordable ‘coaching’ to entertainers.”

A big plus: “I can manage this from home and I can actually be a dad,” Weber said. “I know a lot of comics who didn’t do this when they had kids and none are happy. I’ve had enough older comics say, ‘Kid, don’t do what I did.’ Message received. I think I can balance them both out.”

The Webers are “in the process” of getting a life coach certification.

“For me, we’ve all gone through a lot of stuff. I’ve been around the country and Canada, talked and listened a whole lot,” Weber said. “I know I’m not the same person I was when I started doing this or when I was in the middle of doing this. I’ve gone through tons of growth. I’ve listened to people for a long time.”

Weber said he wants to help others “find their best foot and put that best foot forward.”

The performer acknowledged his philosophy has changed since he started stand-up at 20.

“When I was younger, I thought, ‘OK, by 25, I want to be here. By 30 here and by 40 I’ll be set,” he said. “I knew comedy was a long game. Now, into my 30s, it’s more just day-by-day let’s see what happens. I’m now enjoying the entire process as much as I possibly can.”

That includes Thursday morning, with an 8 a.m. on-air phone chat on KUIC’s Hometown Morning Show with John Young and an in-person “Special Recording” at Laughs Unlimited this Sunday in Sacramento.

Weber says he wasn’t unlike many comics who turned a tragic childhood into comedy for the sake of survival.

“That’s been the MO with comics. We’re all funny because a time in our life got so dark, if we didn’t figure out how to be funny we wouldn’t make it,” Weber said. “We are all messed up and have PTSD. Entertainers had to make art to get through it. That’s why you see so many comics who suffer from depression.”

The Webers have gotten their feet wet in this whole helping others thing by doing a mental health podcast for a few months.

“We break down every disorder from every angle,” Weber said. “We’ll get a mental health professional to talk about the clinical side or we’ll have someone with a condition or someone who is close to someone with it, like a loved one.”

Weber emphasized that he and his wife aren’t licensed therapists and if someone they’re assisting needs deeper help, they’ll point them in that direction.

A mentally healthy comic will likely remain a funny comic if he or she was funny before, Weber believes, emphasizing a sea of change on the horizon.

“A weird thing happened in 2020. For the longest time, stand-up comedy was very cynical,” he said. “Now, everyone sees that this isn’t cool because society has become cynical. So audiences have said, ‘We don’t want to listen to you bitch anymore.’ It’s like, ‘Yeah, we know now you were right. What else do you got?’ It’s a weird shift.”

Myles Weber is on the Hometown Morning Show with John Young this Thursday, 8 a.m., on KUIC, 95.3 FM. Weber appears live for a “Special Recording” this Sunday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m., Laughs Unlimited, 1207 Front St., Sacramento. For 17 and older, $20. laughsunlimited.com.