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Flat-Pack Sober is your catalog of tips, tricks, and tactics to build the sober life that you want. I'm dedicated to interviewing sober superstars from all over the world so you can learn what has helped to keep them sober. But I wanna do more than that. What I want to do is help you to understand where they're coming from, and how they learn things so that you can judge whether their advice is gonna work for you or not. In other words, I'm not just trying to add to the massive pile of advic ...
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A podcast about Trudging the Road to Happy Freaking Destiny! Interviews and random soliloquies where we laugh, cry, complain, explore, and learn. All are welcome, No exceptions. Including those who are not in recovery but perhaps know or love someone with addiction issues or just want to learn more. Along with experts and practitioners who help people work through addictions and behaviors they want to change. These conversations will span limitless topics and though will be through the lens ...
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Welcome to The Sober Life Podcast! Here we discuss alcoholism, drug addiction, recovery and how to get sober. We even add a little humor and motivation for good measure. Learn from our host Eli Thomas and his amazing guest how sobriety is not "cookie cutter" but is possible for anyone!
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Have you wondered if that wine might actually be making motherhood…harder? Maybe you’ve questioned your relationship with alcohol, but you don’t want to go to AA and spend time in dark church basements. The Sober Mom Life is for YOU. Suzanne of My Kind Of Sweet and The Sober Mom Life is sharing all about her sobriety and what she’s learned in the 4+ years since saying farewell to alcohol. She’ll also have funny, open, honest conversations with other moms who have chosen to live an alcohol-fr ...
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How do I stop drinking? How do I cut down? Am I drinking too much? I’m sober but why aren’t I happy? Why do people stop drinking? If you ask yourself these kind of questions then this podcast is for you. This show is for people who want to learn how to stop drinking and learn to thrive in their alcohol free lives. If you have given up drinking, would like to give up drinking or are just plain sober curious this weekly podcast is for you. We have recovery stories to inspire you, experts to in ...
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Addiction has been a huge part of my life. The road to recovery is in motion. There have been many trials and tribulations involving alcohol and various drug use. ⁶ have woke up in parks, abandoned buildings,random people's houses, wandered the streets in numerous cities, lost jobs, ruined relationship s, woke up in detox facilities, hospitals and jail. There is much more that has taken place as well. The struggle is real!
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Today’s Real Sober Mom, Laura, grew up in a home with two struggling parents - her father with alcohol addiction and her mother with mental illness. The fractures in her homelife caused her to struggle socially at school, but once she tried alcohol she experienced a sense of relief. Her challenges didn’t feel so hard when she was drinking. At that …
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My guest today is Tribe Member Nikki Swart who has been thriving in her alcohol free life for 5 years In this episode:- Nikki started her drinking career as a teenager, mainly to fit in with her peer group. Her university years were relatively tame, with occasional bouts of binge drinking. However as a working mom she found her drinking patterns sh…
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Happy day sober family and our entire listener community and thanks as always for joining! Our guest for this episode is someone I have gotten to see from Day 1 in the rooms. I love her for so many reasons. I met her at an Austin Women’s Group back in the day and watched her walk through some gnarly life stuff as if getting sober isn’t hard enough …
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Send us a Text Message. Ever think there's a connection between putting together IKEA furniture and getting sober? The steps to sobriety is much like the methodical assembly of those Scandinavian flat-pack puzzles. Each piece, much like each day in sobriety, is a step in the right direction, building a stronger, more resilient self. The way you tac…
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My husband Russell is back on the show, and this time things are a little different - he’s 100 days sober! Today Russell will share why he decided to commit to one full year of sobriety. We’ll talk about the benefits of creating a goal, how he’s handled challenging social situations without drinking, and the physical, mental and emotional changes h…
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Katie and I are here for another installment of SobieTEA, where we spill the tea about our favorite escape: Bravo and reality TV! This week we’re talking about Suzanne’s first impressions of Love Island, and the dizzyingly jampacked first episode of Season 18 of The Real Housewives of Orange County. Plus - Katie meets Jax on her LA trip, How Lindsa…
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Susan Knower, my therapist mom, joins us today for an Ask Me Anything, therapist style! She is a licensed professional counselor with a substance abuse specialization and is here today to answer the most common questions you submitted on Instagram. We’ll talk about the challenge of convincing a loved one to stop drinking, if trauma can be healed wi…
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My guest today is author and coach Nico Morales In this episode:- Nico had a difficult childhood which included abuse and left him with abandonment issues. He started using cannabis at 14, and was on heroin by the age of 20 He switched from heroin to alcohol but progressively increased his alcohol consumption, leading to severe addiction by 27. Nic…
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Shannon always went overboard with alcohol, from the very first time she got drunk from her parents liquor cabinet when she was 15. She spaced out her drinking in her teens and twenties because she always knew she would drink all night once she got started. Once Shannon began having kids she became obsessed with having a clean, healthy, non-toxic l…
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Audrey is back on the show today to celebrate Dry July and her own 2 year soberversary! She’ll tell the story of the last time she ever got drunk and how it kickstarted her path toward choosing sobriety. Plus, we’ll talk about the benefits you’ll receive from trying a Dry July, rising above the shame in early sobriety, the problematic trend of alco…
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My guest this week was Dr Edie Sullivan, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University In this episode:- Neuropsychologist Dr Edie chronicles her journey from studying memory at MIT and working on notable cases like patient H.M., to her research on the devastating impacts of alcohol use disorder and Alzheimer's disease. She…
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Kathryn has been a lifelong overachiever, but that didn’t stop her from being a heavy drinker. It did, however, mask her view of what alcohol was doing to her life. In 2019, Kathryn received her first hint of a wakeup call when she fell down a flight of stairs after a night of drinking. This injury resulted in an emergency surgery months later and …
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Send us a Text Message. Ever think there's a connection between putting together IKEA furniture and getting sober? The steps to sobriety is much like the methodical assembly of those Scandinavian flat-pack puzzles. Each piece, much like each day in sobriety, is a step in the right direction, building a stronger, more resilient self. The way you tac…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever think there's a connection between putting together IKEA furniture and getting sober? The steps to sobriety is much like the methodical assembly of those Scandinavian flat-pack puzzles. Each piece, much like each day in sobriety, is a step in the right direction, building a stronger, more resilient self. The way you tac…
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Gill Tietz of Sober Powered is here to help me kick off Dry July with an Alcohol 101 lesson. From her perspective as a former biochemist, Gill drops some major bombs about alcohol’s effects that will forever change how you look at the substance. We’ll dive into what alcohol is, how it affects our bodies and brains, how alcohol consumption affects w…
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My guest today is Tribe Member and Health & Wellness Educator Maya Acosta who shares her own story as well as some inspiration and great advice! In this episode:- Maya grew up in a family which normalized alcohol consumption and this of course influenced her own drinking patterns. She got married to a vascular surgeon which has given her a unique i…
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Today my brother Jay is joining me for a conversation that he and I both know a lot about - grief and sobriety. Our society encourages us to be quiet about the complicated and overwhelming feelings of grief, but it needs to be talked about, so today we’re doing just that. Jay lost his best friend one month ago in a tragic accident, and today he’s h…
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Happy day sober family and our entire listener community and thanks as always for joining! Our guest for this episode is someone I met in Austin meetings years ago. I respect and appreciate her for so many reasons. Her intelligence and free-thinking approach to life intrigued me and every time she shares, I learn something very cool. I’ve always wa…
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Best selling author Emily (Belden) Bond joins me today for an eye opening conversation about her breast cancer journey and how it has changed her relationship with alcohol. Emily shares the unbelievable story of how she was diagnosed, how her treatment has unfolded over the past year, what she experienced when she shared her diagnosis publicly, and…
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My guest is author and coach Nigel Jones who shares his own story as well as some inspiration and great advice! In this episode:- Nigel started drinking daily at 18, struggled to quit for 36 years. He found success with a mindset shift, declaring himself a non-drinker from day one. We talked more about this identity shift during our first podcast i…
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Dawn’s parents never hid the dangers of drinking from her, and because of this Dawn grew up fearing alcohol. Yet, even as she became older and tried to put barriers between her and drinking, alcohol was waiting in the shadows of her life, ready to pounce. As the mom of four kids (including triplets!) there was no room in Dawn’s early motherhood for…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever think there's a connection between putting together IKEA furniture and getting sober? The steps to sobriety is much like the methodical assembly of those Scandinavian flat-pack puzzles. Each piece, much like each day in sobriety, is a step in the right direction, building a stronger, more resilient self. The way you tac…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever think there's a connection between putting together IKEA furniture and getting sober? The steps to sobriety is much like the methodical assembly of those Scandinavian flat-pack puzzles. Each piece, much like each day in sobriety, is a step in the right direction, building a stronger, more resilient self. The way you tac…
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One of the biggest worries that often comes up in our groups is: How do I travel without drinking? Whether it be a trip to Europe or an all inclusive vacation, it can be hard to envision what travel can look like when you take the focus off of alcohol. My mom, who’s almost 2 years sober, just got back from a trip to Paris! Today she’s here to share…
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My guest today is the lovely Nicole Klassen who did our very first 66 day Sober Challenge 5 years ago – not only has she been thriving in her alcohol free life ever since but she’s reconnected with her voice as a writer.. What a pleasure to hear Nicole's journey through sobriety, her rediscovery of writing and to learn about your current work which…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever think there's a connection between putting together IKEA furniture and getting sober? The steps to sobriety is much like the methodical assembly of those Scandinavian flat-pack puzzles. Each piece, much like each day in sobriety, is a step in the right direction, building a stronger, more resilient self. The way you tac…
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Growing up on the road following the Grateful Dead tour, Elan didn’t experience much in the way of boundaries. This loose childhood caused Elan to feel uncared for and unsafe. Alcohol wiped that feeling away, and she quickly began to rely on the substance. As Elan got further into childhood, her father remarried, and his new wife installed strict b…
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Audrey and I are back with another installment of Ask Me Anything! Today we’re giving our thoughts on how to handle your new sobriety in so many circumstances - on vacation, during family visits, at sporting events, and more. Plus, we’ll share some of our lowest drinking moments, our advice for talking to kids about alcohol, an update on upcoming S…
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My guest today is Dustin Dunbar, author and leader of the Alcohol Free Revolution In this episode:- Alcoholism affected Dustins family; his grandfather and father both struggled with it. Despite his early vow not to drink, Dustin began drinking as a teenager due to peer pressure. He enjoyed a successful career in sales, real estate, and insurance. …
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Katie and I are here for another installment of SobieTEA, where we spill the tea about our favorite escape: Bravo TV! This week we’re talking about the Vanderpump Rules 3-part reunion, the latest developments on The Valley, Carl and Lindsay’s breakup from a sober perspective, and the status of the Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion. Plus - The T…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever think there's a connection between putting together IKEA furniture and getting sober? The steps to sobriety is much like the methodical assembly of those Scandinavian flat-pack puzzles. Each piece, much like each day in sobriety, is a step in the right direction, building a stronger, more resilient self. The way you tac…
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Julia Dzafic is back on the show to share a story that is so relatable and important. If you are new to sobriety and summer is feeling like a challenge, then this is a must listen! Julia’s first appearance on the podcast highlighted her first experience with sobriety, but as summer rolled around that year, she felt like she had a grip on alcohol. M…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever think there's a connection between putting together IKEA furniture and getting sober? The steps to sobriety is much like the methodical assembly of those Scandinavian flat-pack puzzles. Each piece, much like each day in sobriety, is a step in the right direction, building a stronger, more resilient self. The way you tac…
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I’m recording this exactly a year after the death Eusebius McKaiser died at the tragically young age of 44. He was a national treasure for South Africans – an author, a journalist and broadcaster. One of the smartest public intellects in the country he was a fierce defender of truth and justice as many politicians found out to their cost! He was al…
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Karen grew up in a home without alcohol, but that didn’t stop it from finding her in high school. Binge drinking quickly became a part of her life, and she chose not to go to college because she knew she would party it away. After making her way through beauty school, Karen became a mom, and drinking ended up slipping pretty easily into the backsea…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever think there's a connection between putting together IKEA furniture and getting sober? The steps to sobriety is much like the methodical assembly of those Scandinavian flat-pack puzzles. Each piece, much like each day in sobriety, is a step in the right direction, building a stronger, more resilient self. The way you tac…
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On this weeks solo episode I talk about our Breaking Free program which we run four times a year. Registration for the current program is open until 30th May - more info here We limit each Breaking Free group to 20 so you’ll always get personal attention In this episode:- I talk about the warning signs of alcohol dependence as well as the benefits …
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Summer has arrived! The days are long, the weather is gorgeous, and the pool party invites are starting to arrive. If the idea of not drinking this summer is causing you anxiety, this episode is for you. Today we’re going to prepare you for your first sober summer, so you can experience the magic that can be found in these long, beautiful, alcohol-…
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NEWSFLASH! - Our Breaking Free Program is open for enrollment until 30th May - get more info here I'm Janet Gourand, founder of Tribe Sober and I celebrated my 9th Soberversary on 23rd May, 2024! Most of our Tribe Sober members know my story – how I quit drinking and started Tribe Sober but as we are getting new podcast listeners every week I’m re-…
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Katie and I are here for another installment of SobrieTEA, where we spill the tea about our favorite escape: Bravo TV! This week we’re talking about the season finale of Vanderpump Rules, Brittany’s frustration at Jax’s drinking, the problematic drinking culture on Summer House, and Carl and Lindsay’s fight. Plus - PK and Dorit, Why budgets are bei…
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