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Losing My Sister to Alcohol at 38: Amber Hughes's Story
21 juni 2023 · 51 min
Amber Hughes was 22 when professionals told her she could not take her sister home. Hannah was four times over the limit, sleeping rough in Oxford, and 40 units of wine a day deep. Lees meer
Hannah had a flat. A degree. She wanted to be a teacher and own a chocolate Labrador.
Then alcohol took everything. The flat, repossessed. The relationships, gone. Four or five bottles of wine at a co-op till her younger sister watched her buy at every shift. A Boxing Day text reading, "it's easier if I just die."
Hannah died at 38 from a seizure after years of heavy drinking. Four days before, the three of them sat on a bench in Oxford laughing through an old photo album.
Amber tells Dave what it's like to love someone in active addiction, to be told to hold a boundary that breaks you, and what came after.
She has since been awarded the British Empire Medal for her charity Amber Lights.
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https://nacoa.org.uk/
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From Cocaine and Wine to 57 Days Sober: Gemma's Story
14 juni 2023 · 53 min
Gemma Rose Barnes walked onto Married at First Sight UK looking for a husband. She was also hiding an addiction. Lees meer
For years wine and cocaine moved together in her life. Lockdown made it daily. By the time the show wrapped, the decanters of free-flowing wine on set had quietly fed something she could not name on camera.
She tried the NHS first. Got told at least it hadn't been 20 years. Fell at the first hurdle.
Then a friend took her kids. She walked into her first 12 step meeting and cried the whole way through it.
57 days sober now, Gemma tells Dave about the childhood that set the stage, the boyfriend she lost as a teenager, the TV experiment that nearly broke her, and why one drink is too many and a thousand will never be enough.
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https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
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Menopause, Alcohol, and Why Women Drink More at 45: Dr Rebecca Lewis
7 juni 2023 · 45 min
Hot flushes. Brain fog. Anxiety. 3am wake up. Bloating. Low mood. Lees meer
That list works for excessive drinking and for perimenopause. Which is exactly why so many women in their 40s and 50s cannot tell which one is wrecking them, and reach for the wine to cope with both.
Dr Rebecca Lewis is a GP, menopause specialist, and clinical director at Newson Health. Her clinic sees 4,000 women a month. She tells Dave what's actually happening in the brain when oestrogen starts to stutter, why alcohol intake peaks between 45 and 55, and why old addictions can come roaring back during perimenopause.
She talks Dave through what HRT really is, why the 20-year-old breast cancer scare was based on bad statistics, and how balanced hormones often make it far easier to cut down on alcohol.
If you've been telling yourself it's just a glass of wine to take the edge off, this one's for you.
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https://www.balance-menopause.com/
https://www.balance-menopause.com/balance-app/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
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From Three Day Cocaine Benders to 11 Years Sober: Danny Bennett
31 mei 2023 · 52 min
Danny Bennett had the loving family. The decent school. The holidays every year. None of it stopped the addiction. Lees meer
By his mid-20s he was 11 stone on a six-foot-four frame, doing three day cocaine benders, neck full of diazepam to come down, washed down with cans of lager. His mum and dad let themselves into his Birmingham flat every day to check he was still alive.
Rehab once wasn't enough. The first stint got him seven clean months. One house party, one line, one beer. Then five weeks of carnage worse than anything before.
Then he went back. The second time stuck.
Danny is now 11 years sober and has built a loyal following on social media sharing strength, experience, and hope. He tells Dave about being a doorman managing a club for a decade without drinking, the moments paranoia took him out, and what's emerging now in his life as he steps into something new.
If you've ever wondered why addiction picks people from "good" homes, this one's for you.
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or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
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https://www.instagram.com/danny2bennett/
TikTok @Danny2Bennett
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
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Mom Drinking Too Much? Sarah Rusbatch Story of Alcohol, Shame & Sobriety
24 mei 2023 · 59 min
Sarah Rusbatch was always the new girl. Moving between Edinburgh, the south of England, and Manchester meant Sarah never quite felt like she belonged. When she discovered alcohol at 14, it solved that problem overnight. It would take another 25 years to realise the cost. Lees meer
In this episode, Sober Dave sits down with Sarah, a health and wellness coach now based in Perth, Australia, who shares one of the most honest sober stories you will hear on this sobriety podcast. She talks about grey area drinking, the two wake-up calls in 2017 that should have stopped her, two years of stopping and starting before she finally quit drinking alcohol for good in April 2019, and the nervous system work that has been the real foundation of her alcohol free life.
If you are stuck on that hamster wheel wondering how to get off, this one is for you.
Sarah is a certified Women's Health and Wellbeing Coach, an accredited Grey Area Drinking Coach, and a Key-Note speaker.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Sarah.
www.sarahrusbatch.com
https://www.instagram.com/sarahrusbatch/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/342319476897067
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
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www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
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From Dapper Laughs to Sober Dan: Dan O'Reilly's Story
17 mei 2023 · 56 min
Dan O'Reilly, better known as Dapper Laughs, was one of the first social media stars to hit a million Facebook followers. He was also a man whose whole career, identity, and friendship circle ran on drinking and cocaine. Lees meer
Then ITV cancelled his show. The tour pulled. His dad had a stroke weeks later and Dan had to make the call to turn off the machine. Days after that, his then-girlfriend told him she was pregnant.
He spent a year self-destructing. One night he called the Samaritans.
Dan went sober for six months last year. Then he picked up at Christmas and it got bad again, fast. Five months in this time, he's running a 35,000-strong Facebook group called Men and Their Emotions and a podcast called Menace to Sobriety.
He tells Dave why the lads' lad finally had to put the drink down for good.
If you're a man who thinks you don't have a problem, this one's for you.
With 2022 being a busy year, Daniel sold out his O2 stand-up show and released his British movie 'The Last Heist', which became the number one Amazon Crime Movie and is currently in the remits for a release on Netflix. @dappersinstagram (Instagram)@dapperlaughs (Twitter)Daniel O'Reilly (Facebook)@dapperlaughs (Tiktok)@menacetosobrietyuk (Podcast Instagram)https://www.youtube.com/@menacetosobrietypodcast (Podcast Youtube)@hyprr_films (Film Instagram)
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Suzanne.
www.instagram.com/janeyhollidaycoaching
www.facebook.com/janeyhollidaycoaching
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janey-holliday-1445b821/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
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When You Quit Drinking And The Food Gets Worse: Helen Bennett
10 mei 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
Helen Bennett is a bulimia and disordered eating coach who spent 20 years caught in a cycle she couldn't talk about. In this conversation with Sober Dave, she explains why so many people who quit drinking find their relationship with food gets harder, not easier, and what to do about it. Lees meer
This one's different. Halfway through, Dave gets coached on his own relationship with peanut butter, the clean plate club he grew up in, the body dysmorphia he still fights, and the word "greedy" he uses on himself without thinking.
Helen and Dave dig into why disordered eating is harder than alcohol in one specific way (you can't quit food), why the calorie deficit trend is causing more harm than good, why athletes and high-functioning women are often hiding it best, and why the answer isn't another rule but learning to listen to your body again.
If you've stopped drinking and the sugar cravings, the late-night biscuits, or the cycle of restrict-then-binge has taken over, this is essential listening.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Helen.
http://bulimiafreedom.com
https://www.instagram.com/bulimiafreedom/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
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https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
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From a Bottle of Red a Night to 6 Months Sober: Jodie Clark
3 mei 2023 · 57 min
Jodie Clark looked completely fine from the outside. Two kids. A husband she loved. A career she was thriving in. Monday morning meetings with senior leadership she always nailed. Lees meer
She also drank a bottle of red wine on her own most nights, gained a lot of weight during COVID, started falling over on her way to bed, and once sat next to her newborn baby in his Moses basket feeling frustrated that he was interfering with wine time.
She tried two-week breaks. She tried three-week breaks. She tried blaming the antidepressants. None of it stuck. Then she set herself a 100 day challenge to shift the lockdown weight, no other goals attached. She's now nearly 200 days in and her whole life looks different.
Jodie shares why grey area drinking is so easy to hide, what it took to admit her drinking was the problem and not the medication, and why she rejects the "recovering alcoholic for life" framing in favour of something she calls discovery.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
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Jodi | Helping people become alcohol free (@soberflourish) • Instagram photos and videos
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www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
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Quit Drinking After Losing My Wife: Simon Thomas
26 april 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Simon Thomas was a household name. Blue Peter presenter number 27. Sky Sports Premier League. The job he'd dreamed of since he was a kid. And then, in November 2017, his wife Gemma was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia on a Tuesday and gone by Friday morning. She was 40. Their son Ethan was 8. Lees meer
Three weeks after the funeral, Simon found a bottle of gin in the kitchen cupboard. He poured it into a Ribena. Within months, vodka in a Coke can had become his go-to, Deliveroo was bringing litres of spirits to his door, and football socks were hiding bottles around the house.
He tried AA. He tried quitting for his friends. It never stuck. Then in January 2022 something different clicked. He quit for himself.
Simon talks to Dave about being famous and feeling like a fraud, the moment Ethan asked for a sip of his "Diet Coke," and why being sober has made him a better husband, dad, and presenter than alcohol ever did.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the insta handle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/ or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Simon.
https://www.instagram.com/simonthomastv/
https://bloodcancer.org.uk/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
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www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
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Quit Drinking Without Hitting Rock Bottom: Andy Ramage's Story
19 april 2023 · 57 min
Andy Ramage had everything. The career, the money, the title. And he still felt five out of ten. Lees meer
That's where this conversation starts. Not at a rock bottom. At a slow grinding epiphany in a successful broker's life that he wasn't actually well, just busy.
Andy walks Dave through quitting drinking nine years ago, the social pressure that nearly stopped him, and the moment his business grew seven times bigger in half the time because he was finally consistent. Then they go deeper. Into emotional sobriety. Into who you become when you peel off the version of yourself that drinking built. Into why grey area drinking might be the most overlooked story in recovery.
This one is for anyone who reads "I'm not that bad" and quietly knows they want more from life than middle lane.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Andy.
www.andyramage.com
www.aretewaycoach.com
https://www.facebook.com/AndyRamageOfficial
https://www.instagram.com/andyramageofficial/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyramage/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
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www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
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Two Years Sober and Still Going: Jenna Hewitt's Story
12 april 2023 · 56 min
Jenna Hewitt looked completely fine from the outside. A thriving business in the wedding industry. Two kids. A husband who barely drinks. Strong friendships. Good runs with her training partner on weekends. Lees meer
What no one saw was the three years of waking up at 3am, Googling "am I an alcoholic," reading every quit-lit book in secret, doing sober stints that kept collapsing, and feeling like she was losing herself one wine bottle at a time. The mummy wine culture gave her cover. She used it. She hid behind it.
Then she booked a discovery call with Dave. Two weeks later she WhatsApped him "I'm ready." That was over two years ago and she hasn't drunk since.
Jenna tells Dave why the one experiment she'd never tried was just carrying on, what it took to make sobriety non-negotiable, and why her seven-year-old can't remember her drinking at all. She also explains why operating as an iceberg with your sobriety is so much harder than finding the community that gets it.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Jenna.
https://www.jennahewitt.co.uk/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
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https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
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Almost Two Years Sober: Rich Evans On Lad Culture
5 april 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
Rich Evans spent 25 years in the fashion industry. He was a stylist, then fashion editor, then fashion director of FHM. He worked at Nuts and Front. He sat at desks where girls in bikinis dropped off crates of Carling and the editor's rule was that the work didn't start until everyone had a three-pint buzz. He loved every minute of it. Lees meer
And then, around 35, the same routine that built his career started to feel like a computer game he'd finished. The hangovers were turning into come-downs. He was at his son's football match wrecked from a Friday he couldn't remember the point of. The lads he was drinking with kept getting younger.
In this conversation with Sober Dave, Rich talks about why his sobriety story doesn't have a movie rock bottom, what grieving the drinking version of yourself actually feels like, how anxiety hid underneath the loud shirts for thirty years, and why "I don't drink" is the most powerful sentence he's ever heard a colleague say.
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Growing Up with an Alcoholic Mum: Ceri Walker's Story
29 maart 2023 · 55 min
Ceri Walker was four years old the first time she saw her mum's eyes change. She didn't have a word for what she was seeing, but she knew. By nine, she was the one who stole the keys out of her violent stepfather's pocket while he was passed out and ran with her mum to safety. By her teens, she was keeping the family secret at all costs. Lees meer
Her mum died when Kerry was 21. She'd lived with her for 21 years. She's now lived without her for 20.
Ceri is an ambassador for NACOA (the National Association for Children of Alcoholics) and works at Oasis Project in Brighton supporting parents in recovery. She tells Dave about the inner-child work that changed her life, why she rejects the idea that addiction means there's no choice (because for the child there genuinely isn't one), and why "I couldn't save her" is something she's stopped trying to forgive herself for.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Ceri.
https://www.instagram.com/ceri_walker_/
https://www.instagram.com/nacoauk/
https://www.instagram.com/oasisproject/
https://nacoa.org.uk/understanding-the-child-in-me-by-ceri-walker%EF%BF%BC/?slug=latest-news-events
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
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https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/ www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
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I Thought Alcohol Helped My Anxiety… It Made It Worse
22 maart 2023 · 1 uur
Sam Phillips shares his story of how drinking started young and slowly took over his life. Lees meer
Growing up with anxiety, overthinking, and constant fear, alcohol felt like a solution at first. It gave him confidence, helped him fit in, and quieted everything going on in his head. But over time, that relief didn’t last.
What started as weekend drinking turned into daily drinking, isolation, and eventually losing everything — including his home, relationships, and sense of self.
In this conversation, Sam opens up about:
using alcohol to cope with anxiety
how drinking made his mental health worse
blackouts, risky behavior, and losing control
drinking alone and hitting rock bottom
relapse after trying to quit on his own
how community, meetings, and connection changed everything
Sam is now over 17 months sober and focused on helping others through sobriety, mental health awareness, and building real connection.
If you’re struggling with alcohol, anxiety, or feel stuck in the cycle, this episode will hit home.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
My Guest Sam's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dare_to_dip/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help:
https://www.instagram.com/dare_to_dip/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
https://www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
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Why Women Cant Stop Drinking Wine: The Wine Mom Culture Trap
15 maart 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
Why do so many women in their 40s and 50s feel like they cant stop drinking wine? This week on One for the Road, mindset coach Janey Holliday sits down with Sober Dave for one of the most important conversations on the podcast yet. Lees meer
Janey has coached women for over 20 years and her theory is that this generation has been programmed to drink — through decades of subliminal messaging, wine mom culture, Sex and the City, Bridget Jones, Hurrah for Gin, and the smartphone explosion that put alcohol marketing in front of women every hour of every day.
She and Dave unpack the full timeline. The 80s dieting era. The 90s ladette culture. The 2007 smoking ban that turned pubs into baby shower venues. Covid. The wine o'clock brigade. The secret drinking. The shame. The sandwich generation burnout. And why so many women now sit on what Janey calls the edge of an NHS crisis.
If you're sober curious, questioning your drinking, or trying to understand why quitting wine feels so impossible, this one is for you.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Janey.
www.instagram.com/janeyhollidaycoaching
www.facebook.com/janeyhollidaycoaching
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janey-holliday-1445b821/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
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How We Got Sober: Four Hosts, Four Paths to Quitting Drinking
27 januari 2023 · 59 min
A special bonus roundtable to close out the season. Dave is joined by Eric Zimmer (host of The One You Feed), Casey McGuire Davidson (host of Hello Someday) and Jill Teets (host of Sober Powered) for an honest conversation about how four very different people actually quit drinking for good. Lees meer
Eric got sober first time as a homeless heroin addict in 1994, then again eight years later through a 12-step program. Casey is seven years sober after a bottle-of-wine-a-night habit and quit through online sober coaching. Jill is three years sober, white-knuckled it cold turkey, and added therapy at four months. Dave found community on Instagram and trained as a grey area drinking coach.
The four of them talk about the great obsession with moderation, how none of them remember their actual last drink, the hamster wheel of doom, why the pink cloud is real for some and a misery for others, and how the support you need keeps changing as you go.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Casey, Eric and Gillian.
https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/podcast/
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https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even m…
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The Bored Of My Own Story Moment: Suzanne Shaw On Quitting Drinking
11 januari 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
She was the girl from Hearsay. Then she was the mum on the bathroom floor most mornings, wondering how she ended up here again. Lees meer
Suzanne Shaw spent years drinking to fit in. Through the bullying at school, the late nights in theatre, the relationship with an addict, the early grief of losing her dad. A bottle of wine became "coping." Two bottles became a problem. The dark thoughts became regular.
On Boxing Day 2019, she got on a cruise ship to perform. By January 4th 2020, she was done.
This week on One for the Road, Suzanne shares the whole story. Hearsay. Becoming a young mum. The grey-area drinking that crept up on her. The two false starts before sobriety stuck. The moment she said "I am bored of my own story." And the three years since: ultramarathons for the Samaritans, the Happy Health Club she now runs, and a life she actually wants to wake up in.
A warm, honest conversation about why owning your decision is the whole game.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
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www.thehappyhealthclub.com
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www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.
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From Daily Drinker to Three Years Sober: Ashley Butters on Dry January
4 januari 2023 · 58 min
Ash got drunk for the first time at twelve, at a Christmas party full of A-list celebrities. By eighteen she was pawning her saxophone to pay back a drug dealer. By twenty-eight, she was a daily drinker. Lees meer
This is Ashley Butters's recovery story, told to Sober Dave. The host of Behind the Smile podcast sits down to share what happens when you grow up in an alcoholic home, marry a man two weeks after his brother takes his own life, and finally hit your rock bottom in your own mother's hallway.
You'll hear about: getting drunk at twelve and never having an off switch; the wedding she had two weeks after the funeral; finding rehab the day COVID hit Australia; the somatic therapy that rewired her life; emotional sobriety and the "God-shaped hole" in her soul; and how to actually get through dry January.
If you're starting dry January, this one's for you.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Ashleigh.
https://www.instagram.com/ashbutterss/
https://www.ashbutterss.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/behind-the-smile-with-ash-butterss/id1638627215
https://www.facebook.com/groups/692940225582144
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menop…
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The Daughter of an Alcoholic Who Never Drank a Drop: Shaa Wasmund's Story
28 december 2022 · 1 uur
Shaa Wasmund tried to stop her father at eight years old to protect her mother. By nine, she was homeless in California. She has never had a single drink of alcohol in her life. Lees meer
This is the story of a daughter of an alcoholic who broke the cycle. Shaa tells Sober Dave about growing up with a Stanford-educated lawyer father who was a violent cocaine and alcohol addict, watching her family swing between millionaire wealth and absolute poverty, and the night a man with a shotgun broke in looking for the drug dealer next door.
You'll hear about: the one sip of whiskey that taught her she'd never drink again; what it means to be a child of an alcoholic; channelling an addictive personality into entrepreneurship; becoming the only licensed female boxing manager in the world; raising a teenage son when you've never drunk; and her bestseller Stop Talking, Start Doing.
If you grew up around alcohol, this one's for you.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Shaa.
https://twitter.com/shaawasmund
https://www.instagram.com/shaawasmund/
https://www.shaa.com/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.
This is free to use, just go to https://twea…
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The Mum Who Quit Drinking After 30 Years: Emma's Recovery Story
21 december 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Emma had to leave her two small children alone in a cinema watching Frozen so she could be sick in the loos. She had only had three glasses of wine the night before. That was the moment she knew her drinking had to change. It still took her another year to quit drinking. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of an award-winning alcohol-free drinks mixologist. Emma tells Sober Dave about being given white port at ten and Babysham at nine, the media industry years of caning shots and white wine spritzers, getting gout at twenty-four, the small town anxiety of being a mum where you can't be anonymous anymore, and the moment she realised wine was poison.
You'll hear about: how mum wine culture sneaks up on working mothers; perimenopause and alcohol; the Halloween death mask night that turned everything around; her seven years sober; and how she now creates beautiful alcohol-free drinks for a living.
If you've ever been sick after only three glasses of wine, this one's for you.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Emma.
Living life sober and sharing alcohol free drinks recipes (@emma_sobersonic) • Instagram photos and videos
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages …
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John Taylor on Quitting Drinking, Childhood Trauma + 19 Years Sober
14 december 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
John Taylor is a qualified addictions and family counsellor, the author of the bestselling book Alcohol Stole My Mum, and 19 years sober. He joins Sober Dave on One for the Road for a quietly devastating conversation about what it actually feels like to grow up loving an alcoholic. Lees meer
John was the special one. The clever boy who sang Leo Sayer to his mum at bedtime. By eight he was trying to sober her up before his dad got home. By ten he was writing his dad a letter begging to be rescued from a Scottish house with three drinking adults. By his 30s he was in rehab himself, refusing to say the word alcoholic because he didn't want to be like his mum.
Inside: the inciting incident at eight, three generations of alcoholism, watching his mum drink herself to death, and the moment he chose his daughters.
Quitting drinking, child of an alcoholic, NACOA, family recovery, generational addiction.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for John.
https://alcoholstolemymum.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/alcoholstolemymum/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.
This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.
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Lou Hamilton on Quitting Drinking After Decades of Buried Trauma
7 december 2022 · 56 min
Lou Hamilton was twenty-three when she watched the Lockerbie air disaster fall from the sky onto the village where she had just moved. She did not lose anyone. She was not injured. So she told herself she did not have the right to feel traumatized, and she got on with it for two decades. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of an artist, author and podcast host who finally quit drinking at fifty, after half a bottle of wine a night had been masking her unprocessed PTSD for years. Lou tells Sober Dave about Lockerbie, the buried trauma she only recognized while making a documentary about war veterans, and the New Year's Day she just decided to stop.
You'll hear about: the night Lockerbie came out of the sky; how alcohol numbs trauma without you knowing; gray area drinking and why it is harder to quit than you think; menopause and alcohol; and the creative life that opened up on the other side.
If you have ever wondered whether your drinking is masking something, this one's for you.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Lou.
www.bravenewgirlmedia.com
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www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and …
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From Touring with Coldplay to Quitting Drinking: Franxy's Story
30 november 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Franxy was the tour manager of Coldplay when Chris pulled him aside and told him his drinking was out of control. He kept drinking for another year. By then he had been sneaking gin he hated down to the kitchen in the middle of the night, refilling the bottle with water, and walking the dog as cover to get to the pub. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of a multi-award-winning tour manager who has worked with Depeche Mode, Robbie Williams, Coldplay and Roger Waters. Franxy tells Sober Dave about eighteen years touring at the heart of the Ecstasy era, the manager who told him he was "just a heavy drinker," and the morning he finally quit drinking.
You'll hear about: drinking on tour as the norm; how the industry hides its problems; getting fired from Coldplay; nine years sober at the back of a Roger Waters stadium tour; and how he co-founded the charity Music Support to help others.
If you've ever told yourself your drinking is just part of the job, this one's for you.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Franksy.
https://www.instagram.com/musicsupport_uk/
https://www.facebook.com/MusicSupportCharity/
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/music-supporthttps://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness,…
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The Drunk Video That Made Her Quit Drinking: Kate Taylor's Story
23 november 2022 · 1 uur
Kate Taylor pulled out her phone on December 20, 2021, two bottles of wine deep, and recorded herself sobbing for thirty minutes. She begged herself to stop drinking. The next morning she watched it back, felt sick, and quit. She has not had a drink since. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of a writer and mother of two who finally quit drinking after twenty years on the wheel. Kate tells Sober Dave about growing up in Hampstead Garden Suburb with Roald Dahl at the lunch table, her mother telling her she was a "changeling" at six, the drinking that started at fourteen, and the night she finally turned the camera on herself.
You'll hear about: how mum wine culture sneaks up on working mothers; gray area drinking; the dangerous nights she only just survived; the 64-day attempt that ended with a barbecue glass of wine; and the simple recording trick that finally broke the cycle.
If you've ever woken up with shame, guilt, and regret, this one's for you.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Kate.
https://www.instagram.com/walking_the_straight_line/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.
This is free to use, just go to https://tweakl…
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Grey Area Drinking: Why Louise Quit Wine For Good
9 november 2022 · 37 min
One glass of wine. That's all it took. By 3 a.m. Louise Morgan would be wide awake, heart racing, the anxiety she'd taken medication to manage now back in full force. Lees meer
For five years she lived like that. Not a daily drinker. Not someone hiding bottles. Just a mum and a working professional who'd have one glass on a Tuesday and pay for it for the rest of the week.
This bonus episode of One for the Road is for anyone who just finished Sober October and isn't sure what comes next. Louise tells Sober Dave how she went from grey area drinker to 150 days sober without ever hitting rock bottom. She talks about the small habits she stacked, the journal she kept on a beach in Cornwall, and why being honest about her anxiety was easier than calling it a health kick.
If you've ever thought you don't drink enough to count, listen to this one.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Louise.
www.tweaklife.co.uk
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.
This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.
https://www.instagram.com/tweaklifeuk
https://www.facebook.com/tweaklifeuk
https://www.linkedin.com/company/t…
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The Functioning Alcoholic Behind The Dirty Martinis: Paul Drayton's Story
8 november 2022 · 1 uur 7 min
He was the funny one. The life and soul. The manager who could run a packed Notting Hill restaurant on four hours sleep and a barman's breakfast Bloody Mary. Lees meer
Paul Drayton was a functioning alcoholic for years before he ever named it. From chocolate liqueurs at his grandparents' house to dirty martinis after work to taking glugs of vodka out of the freezer at his own dinner party. He's been through multiple rehabs, multiple medical detoxes, multiple promises to himself and to the people who loved him.
This week on One for the Road, Paul sits down with Sober Dave and tells the whole story. Drama school with Tom Hardy and Russell Brand. The years of restaurants and binge drinking that looked like fun from the outside. The 2015 collapse. The rehabs that worked for months and then didn't. The rock bottom he can't fully talk about yet for legal reasons. And the last drink, which he had in a service station toilet on the way to his most recent treatment.
A raw, funny, surprisingly tender conversation between two men who've been there, lived it, and made it out.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Paul.
https://www.instagram.com/pauldrayton1/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating w…
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Grey Area Drinking And The Lockdown Shift: Emma Gannon's Story
5 oktober 2022 · 57 min
Emma Gannon is a Sunday Times bestselling author, novelist, and host of Control Alt Delete. She also wrote the Guardian piece that lit up the sober curious conversation: I knew I didn't have a drinking problem, but I had a problem with drinking. Lees meer
She talks Dave through it. Growing up around the party-couple normality of wine every night. Uni and PR culture and pretending to enjoy it. Then lockdown, when wine on a Friday became wine on a Tuesday became wine every night. Her husband noticing before she did.
And the bit most sobriety conversations miss. Drinking to numb the good days. The wine on book launch week. The wine when life is actually going well.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Emma.
https://www.instagram.com/emmagannonuk/
https://thehyphen.substack.com/
https://www.emmagannon.co.uk/about-emma-gannon
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.
This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.
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Sober Athlete: Lewis Harrington On Quit Drinking And Pro Sport
28 september 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Lewis Harrington was a professional golfer. He was also a drinker, from 16. Two drink driving convictions by 21. A career that should have been about consistency and discipline, dismantled quietly by Friday nights, away trips, and the championed hangover. Lees meer
In January 2019 he stopped. Same week Sober Dave did. They've never sat down one-on-one until now.
Lewis takes Dave through the moment in a curry house in Spain when a mate said I can't do this anymore. The 90 days that became four years. The two years of grinding work that came after. The line that anchors him now: you can't deliver a message and live the opposite.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Louis.
https://www.instagram.com/the_sharing_experience
https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-harrington-325875b9/
https://www.tiktok.com/@the_sharing_experience
www.thesharingexperience.com
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.
This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.
https://www.instagram.com/tweaklifeuk
https://www.facebook.com/tweaklifeuk
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tweaklifeuk/
Hosted on Ac…
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Eight Years Sober: Quint Bower On Growing Up With An Alcoholic Father
21 september 2022 · 52 min
Quint Bower is eight years sober. He runs a video production and animation company with offices in London, the Netherlands, New York and Los Angeles. His father was Bruce Bower, the Canadian actor in Fawlty Towers, Full Metal Jacket, Octopussy and Empire Strikes Back. He was also a raging alcoholic who lay bedridden for much of Quint's childhood and only sobered up through AA when Quint was seven. Lees meer
Quint takes Dave through it. Growing up in Kew with a house his dad bought from three commercials in the early sixties, between long stretches of being drunk. The fur coat, no knickers existence of looking middle class on the outside while everything inside was tumultuous. Drinking his first beers at 15 after martial arts training, the immediate sense of ease, the feeling of finally being hail fellow well met. The film-extra years in the eighties on the big Thatcher-era movies, Batman, Henry V, Full Metal Jacket. Two bottles of wine and a couple of pints a day, every day, from 18 onwards. Building a business through the financial crash. Writing a psychology MA thesis on addiction while drinking red wine at his desk. Trying to keep an entire startup running on alcohol as a coolant.
He talks honestly about the moments he is not proud of, including being drunk during his wife's labour and being woken by the midwife in time to cut the cord. The walk in Richmond Park where something finally said enough. The AA meeting under the arches at Richmond Bridge that he still recommends. The fitness and the studying that filled the space. And the animations he now makes on addiction, anxiety, anger and depression, used by teachers in classrooms, that grew directly out of getting sober.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links are attached below.
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or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
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Dax On Quitting Drinking, Dear Alcohol, And Why He Stopped For Good
14 september 2022 · 55 min
When Dax wrote Dear Alcohol, he was still drinking every single day. Tequila in the morning before 500 push-ups. A few sips before every music video, every interview, every social post, every show. He had been doing it for years. Lees meer
Then the song dropped, hit 28 million views, and changed everything.
This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave talks to Dax, the Ottawa-born rapper behind Dear God and Dear Alcohol. Dax shares the full story. The cocooned basketball years from 11 to 17 where he shunned every party. The first Heineken in his basement before his first ever party. The "second superpower" feeling that drinking gave him. The Tech N9ne tour with shows every night and drinks before every one. The two and a half years where he could not remember the last time he had gone two days without alcohol. The exact steps he took to stop, including changing every routine alcohol was attached to.
If you drink every day, drink for confidence, or have been quietly trying to quit drinking on your own, this conversation will land.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Dax.
Instagram @thatsdax
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mor…
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The Gray Area Drinker Who Couldn't Stop At One: Sober Jo's Story
7 september 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
Jo, also known as Sober Jo, is a sober coach based in Jersey in the Channel Islands. Before she quit drinking she was the MD of a marketing agency, a former brewery rep, and by her own admission a booze bully who would have laughed in your face if you turned up to the pub on a soft drink. Lees meer
She takes Dave through it. Growing up on an island she describes as filled with alcoholics clung to a rock. ADHD she didn't have a name for yet. The London marketing-agency years where work hard and party harder was the culture. A pregnancy loss that broke her open and pushed the drinking from social to something she did alone at home to numb out. Coming back to Jersey for what she calls a self-rehab and going straight into a job at the local brewery, where she could match the lads drink for drink and was proud of it.
Then the blackouts started catching up. A Christmas client party in 2018 she still cannot remember leaving. Waking up the next morning to find her husband had slept in the spare room and her neighbour had a story to tell her about the night before. The pit-of-your-stomach moment where she thought, I am bored of my own bullshit.
So she did what most of us wouldn't dare. She told her whole office she was quitting drinking for a year and turning it into a charity challenge for Friends of Jersey Oncology, knowing she would let herself down but never let a charity down. Her mum did the year alongside her. She raised over fifteen thousand pounds. And at a wedding in the Cotswolds three months in, someone offered her a gin and tonic, she said no thanks, I'm drunk on life, and meant it.
Jo is now over three and a half years sober and coaches women through the same path. This one is funny, raw, and full of practical hooks for anyone wondering whether their relationship with alcohol is quite as casual as they have been telling themselves.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
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The Jazz Drummer Who Quit Drinking At 25: Jack Cotterall's Story
31 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
Jack Cotterall is a 29-year-old jazz drummer from the Cheshire and Stoke-on-Trent border. He has been sober for four years. The drinking in his family goes back generations. Lees meer
He takes Dave through it. His dad, a professional drummer, died of a heart attack at 32 when Jack was four. His granddad, also a professional drummer, died at 62 after a lifetime of twenty pints a night. Jack discovered drinking at his granddad's funeral surrounded by jazz musicians at age 11 or 12 and never really stopped. By 14 he was in a touring band of men two and three times his age, getting bought pints of mild at the bar because they looked like Coke. By his early twenties he was on three bottles of scotch a day, plus wine, plus cocaine to keep going. He was 25 when his liver started failing, when he turned yellow on a gig in Leeds, when he had what he was certain was the same heart attack that killed his dad on the side of the M62.
The breaking point came in September 2018. A relationship ended, the cocaine finally couldn't be hidden, and Jack called his old friend the trombonist Adrian Cox, who had been sober for a while. Adrian drove up and told him: you won't believe me yet, but you will feel better.
This conversation is about the long inheritance of drinking in music, the gigs Jack does not remember playing, the slow climb back, and the first time he walked down his street sober and noticed trees he had never seen before.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Jack.
https://www.instagram.com/jackcotterill/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/jackcotterillmusic
www.jackcotterill.co.uk
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co…
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Child Of An Alcoholic, Now Sober Herself: Amy Dixon
24 augustus 2022 · 54 min
Amy Dixon lost her dad Steve to alcoholism in September 2020. He was 68. Two weeks before he died, Amy had already started the work of giving up alcohol herself. In this conversation with Sober Dave, she opens up about what it was actually like growing up as the child of an alcoholic, and what life looks like two years on. Lees meer
Amy talks about the bear she thought was prowling the house at night, who turned out to be her dad snoring drunk. The hospital visit at 15 when he turned up paralytic at half ten. The Al-Anon meeting she walked into in her twenties and couldn't connect with. The Amazon browsing history she found after he died, full of books about how to recover and how not to hurt your children.
She also talks about her work with NACOA, the six Cs every child of an alcoholic needs to hear, and why she finally decided to stop drinking herself two weeks before her dad's death..
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Amy.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/amy-dickson11
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.
This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.
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Quit Drinking Or Die: How Mike Survived End-Stage Alcoholism
27 juli 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
Mike Faria was 36 when he looked in the mirror and saw highlighter yellow eyes staring back. His liver was shutting down. His stomach was the size of a beach ball. His mother had started planning his funeral. Lees meer
For five months he'd been drinking a litre of vodka a day. Working in construction. Raising two sons. Telling himself he was weaning off.
A paramedic asked Mike who the president was. He answered wrong. They took him to hospital against his will, where he spent three weeks in an induced coma with a 92 percent chance of dying.
He woke up feeling reborn. Doctors couldn't believe his liver had started to recover. Today Mike is sober, raising his sons, and sharing what he went through so other people don't have to learn what end-stage drinking really looks like.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Mike.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRkjTPyn/
https://www.instagram.com/jerzeymike/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@ GrownupHustle
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.
This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.
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Hiding A Bottle A Day From Everyone: Michael Sargood
20 juli 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
Michael Sargood is 500 days sober. By the end of his drinking, he was on a litre of vodka a day, had lost a relationship, his driving licence, nearly lost his home, and was going to bed every night with a knife under his pillow. Lees meer
In this conversation with Sober Dave, Michael opens up about growing up gay in the 90s in a conservative part of the UK, why he loved alcohol for the same reason his dad hates it, and how being on antabuse and moving back in with his parents in his late 30s saved his life.
Michael talks about ADHD, charity shop fashion, why early sobriety is genuinely boring, and why he no longer chases happiness but contentment. He also shares the line his partner said that changed everything: I just want to die or have a real shot at life.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Michael.
https://www.instagram.com/happywithoutthehooch/
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=happywithoutthehooch
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@ GrownupHustle
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.
This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.
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Alcohol, Addiction & Hitting Rock Bottom | Abi Feltham’s Recovery Story
13 juli 2022 · 49 min
In this episode, Sober Dave sits down with Abi Feltham to talk about her journey through alcohol addiction, mental health struggles, and recovery. Lees meer
Abi Feltham shares what it was like growing up feeling disconnected, struggling with low self-esteem, and using alcohol from a young age to cope. What started as a way to feel more confident quickly became something much deeper.
Over the years, her drinking escalated into daily use, working in bars, travelling across Southeast Asia, Australia, and North America, and surrounding herself with environments where heavy drinking was normalised.
Abi Feltham opens up about:
drinking to cope with self-hate and depression
living abroad while alcohol and drugs became part of daily life
hitting rock bottom, including a suicide attempt and time in a psychiatric ward
how addiction continued even after returning home
the moment everything changed and she realised she had to stop drinking
Now over two years sober, Abi Feltham talks about recovery, the challenges of early sobriety, and how working on herself has changed her life.
This is an honest conversation about addiction, mental health, and what it really takes to rebuild your life from the ground up.
*Trigger warning-suicide discussed in this weeks episode*
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Abi.
IG -Abi instagram
Tiktok - Abi Tiktok
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@ GrownupHustle
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you impro…
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The Mother of 10 Who Quit Drinking:Danusia Malina-Derben's Story
6 juli 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
Danusha Malina Durban was in her late twenties before she took drinking seriously. By the time she was a working mother with a city consulting career, she was fiercely territorial about her bottle of Prosecco. It was the only thing in her life nobody else could touch. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of a mother of ten who quit drinking quietly three years ago. Danusha tells Sober Dave about being adopted by Polish parents who survived World War Two, growing up around her father's hidden vodka, the late-onset drinking that crept up on her in the city, and the night she finally said enough.
You'll hear about: how mum wine culture catches working women; the 3am self-loathing she could not shake; quitting alcohol without telling anyone; staying sober through losing her best friend; and what real freedom from drink looks like.
If you've quietly wondered whether your drinking is bigger than it looks, this one's for you.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Danusia.
https://www.danusiamalinaderben.com/
https://www.schoolformothers.com/
https://www.instagram.com/school.for.mothers.podcast/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danusiamalinaderben/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@ GrownupHustle
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics cov…
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He Quit Drinking After His Hip Was Destroyed. Adrian Cox's Story
29 juni 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
Adrian Cox needed a hip replacement at thirty. Not from a sports injury. From drinking. The alcohol had thinned his blood so much it stopped feeding the ends of his bones, and the ball of his hip had turned half black. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of a jazz musician and the tour manager of UK ska legends Bad Manners. Adrian tells Sober Dave about leaving home at fifteen to join a band in Devon, the cooking sherry by the river that became his daily routine, drinking himself into hospital wards he had researched on Google, and the call from a sober stranger that finally turned things around.
You'll hear about: drinking on tour as a teenager; living above a pub in Belgravia with a £700 a week bar tab; cocaine and gambling addictions; losing friends to drink; the avascular necrosis that took his hip at thirty; and what eight years sober actually feels like in the music industry.
If you've ever told yourself your drinking is just part of your job, this one's for you.
This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Adrian.
Instagram- @ontheroadinrecovery @adriancoxmusic
www.Facebook.com/adriancoxmusic
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which inc…
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The Child Of An Alcoholic Who Quit Drinking In Her Twenties
22 juni 2022 · 57 min
She started drinking at 14 to numb a life that was falling apart. Her parents had separated. Her uncle had died suddenly. Her mum had just been diagnosed with a terminal illness. And the only coping strategy she knew was the one her alcoholic father had modelled her whole life: drink, lie about it, and make everything look fine on the outside. Lees meer
This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave talks to CeCe Reagan, a sober writer, poet, domestic abuse survivor and child of an alcoholic who quit drinking at 24 and has spent the last six years rebuilding her life across two countries.
CeCe opens up about the full story. Drinking to oblivion from her first ever party. Almost losing her life in a seven-year abusive relationship that started when she was 16. Losing her mum at 19 while still in active addiction. Trying to get sober at 23. Moving to Newcastle 16 days sober and white-knuckling her way through. Finding her people in church basements with a Geordie accent she could barely understand. And eventually using writing — poetry, journaling, letters to alcohol — to process everything she had spent a decade numbing.
If you grew up with an alcoholic, drink to numb grief or trauma, or are trying to quit drinking young, this conversation will land.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for CiCi.
https://www.instagram.com/cicireagan
https://www.facebook.com/cici.reagan
www.cicireagan.com
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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Fraser Franks On Sobriety, Football And The Father's Day That Changed Everything
15 juni 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
Fraser Franks was a Chelsea academy kid. He played 12 seasons as a professional, climbed up through Brentford, AFC Wimbledon, Luton and Stevenage, and ended his career at Newport County with a heart condition that forced him to retire at 28. His last finished game was against Manchester City in the FA Cup. Lees meer
He takes Dave through it. The shy kid who promised himself at six years old he'd never touch a drop because he wanted to play for Chelsea. The 17-year-old who finally took his first drink and felt the cheer. The careful weekend-only drinking through his career. Then retirement at 28. A wife about to give birth. No idea who he was without football. And a crate of beers in the fridge on a Tuesday night, because for the first time in his life there was no training the next day.
The drinking turned. Hiding bottles in the garden. Walking the dog as cover to nip to the Sainsbury's Local. Working away in hotel rooms because that was the only place he could drink without anyone seeing. A Father's Day breakdown with his wife and mum that finally cracked it open.
Now Fraser is nearly a year sober, works with Premier League clubs on player welfare through his company B5 Consultancy, and is a new ambassador for Alcohol Change UK alongside Dave.
This one is for anyone leaving a career, an identity, or a structure that's been holding them together. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow @soberdave for more.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Fraser.
https://twitter.com/Fraserfranks
https://www.instagram.com/fraserfranks/
https://www.asipofsobriety.com/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Da…
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Quit Drinking In Grief: Stacey Heale On Wine, Loss, And Survival
8 juni 2022 · 57 min
Stacey Heale was hiding glasses of prosecco behind cookery books in her own kitchen. Her husband Greg, lead singer of the band Delays, had stage four bowel cancer. The country was in lockdown. Friends kept dropping off wine with the groceries. Lees meer
She'd put her two small daughters to bed with a flute on the bedside table. By the time she got to the stories, the words on the page were blurring.
It wasn't the volume, Stacey says. It was the intention. The hiding. The 10am pour. The need to numb out an unbearable situation while still being everyone's cheerleader.
This conversation goes deep on wine mum culture, drinking through caregiving, what alcohol does to grief, and how Stacey pulled it apart before she became the kind of mother she didn't want her girls to lose.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Stacey.
https://www.instagram.com/stacey_heale/
https://www.ted.com/talks/stacey_heale_the_transformative_power_of_social_media
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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Quit Drinking By Changing Your Mind: Marisa Peer's Method
25 mei 2022 · 39 min
Marisa Peer has worked with thousands of people including royalty, rock stars, actors, and Olympic athletes. She's the founder of Rapid Transformational Therapy and one of the most respected therapists in the world. Lees meer
In this conversation with Sober Dave, she says something that stops you in your tracks: in 30 years of work, she has never met an addict who believed they were enough.
That's the whole thing. The drinking, the drugs, the food, the gambling, the shopping. They sit on top of one quiet, unspeakable belief: I am not enough.
Marisa walks Dave through how she gets people sober fast, why willpower targets the wrong layer, what alcohol is actually doing for the people who can't stop, and how the medical world has made addiction sound more complicated to fix than it has to be.
She also shares the story of the 65-year-old alcoholic who finally got married, what Adele's lyrics give away, and the three-step process she uses to rewire the mind for indifference to alcohol.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and contact links for Marisa
.Instagram
https://rtt.com/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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Quit Drinking And Cocaine: Seye Adelekan On Hitting Rock Bottom
11 mei 2022 · 59 min
Seye Adelekan is the bassist for Gorillaz. He's toured with Lana Del Rey, Emeli Sandé, KT Tunstall and Paloma Faith. By his early thirties, he'd also spent three months locked in his bedroom, drinking three bottles of cheap wine a day, scraping cocaine bags off the floor, with bottles piled to the height of his bed. Lees meer
On April 1st 2019 he walked through the doors of Teen Challenge, a residential Christian rehab in the middle of a motorway. No phone. No internet. No guitar for the first 16 weeks.
What followed was an identity crisis, a confrontation with childhood trauma he'd packed away, and the slow rebuild of a person who could finally tell the difference between his playing being okay and him being okay.
In this conversation with Sober Dave, Seye talks about sober shaming, the music industry's relationship with drink, and the blast radius of good decisions.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and contact links for Seye.
Instagram @seyemusic
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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Sober At 20: Steve Flynn Of The Happy Pear On Quitting Drinking
4 mei 2022 · 51 min
Steve Flynn was 20, deep in Irish rugby-lad culture, and proud to tell his granny he was going out to get drunk. He hadn't kissed a girl sober. He didn't really know who he was outside the pub. Lees meer
Then his twin brother Dave found a book on detox in the library. They quit drinking for a month to train for a marathon. They never really went back.
Twenty years later, Steve is one half of The Happy Pear: a million-and-a-half followers, five number one cookbooks, online courses that have reversed heart disease markers in thousands of people, and a vegetable shop that started with a small dream and a stinking van full of cabbage.
In this conversation with Sober Dave, Steve goes deep on Irish drinking culture, how giving up alcohol gave him permission to question everything else, and why community and laughter are the superfoods nobody talks about.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and contact links for Steve.
Instagram @thehappypear
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Grey Area Drinking In Midlife: Kelly Burkhart Quits Wine
27 april 2022 · 55 min
Kelly Burkhart looked like she had it all. Healthy food business, two teenage kids, marriage, the lot. From the outside, perfectly on point. Lees meer
Inside, she was climbing into bed at 11.30pm with a triple gin and tonic after a 16-hour day, alarm set for 5.30am to motivate her team.
It wasn't bottles. It wasn't every day at the start. It was an Aperol Spritz that turned into another Aperol Spritz. It was the recycling slowly filling up. It was the dad-and-mum guilt of not being able to drive to pick her son up because she'd already had a few.
This is grey area drinking, the kind so many women in midlife are quietly in and don't know how to name.
In this conversation with Sober Dave, Kelly talks about doing Dry January as a cover for never going back, what changed when her husband had a cancer scare, and why she's now four months sober and never been clearer.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and contact links for Kelly and Boxxfresh.
www.boxxfresh.com
Instagram @Boxxfresh
Facebook @Boxxfresh
Twitter @Boxxfresh_xx
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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The King Of Weed Got Sober: Ryan Phillips's Story
20 april 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
At his peak Ryan Phillips was pulling in half a million dollars a week in cash, buying 80% of the marijuana in British Columbia. National Geographic called him the King of Weed. Lees meer
It started at 19 with an ounce of BC Bud in a deodorant cap. By 23, he was face down at a US border crossing with the DEA's guns drawn and 103 pounds of marijuana in the truck. Two years in a maximum federal penitentiary followed.
What finally stopped him wasn't prison. It was a quiet realisation, after losing 50 friends to murder, that no amount of money could fill him up.
In this conversation with Sober Dave, Ryan, an ex-pro ice hockey player six years sober this July, talks about junior hockey abuse, 50-plus concussions, the Japanese prisoner who taught him law of vibration, surprising his daughter at her door, and the ride across Canada he's starting in May for mental health.
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or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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Five Years Sober: Bryony Gordon On Why Sobriety Isn't A Cure
13 april 2022 · 55 min
Bryony Gordon is a Telegraph columnist, the author of The Wrong Knickers, Mad Girl and Glorious Rock Bottom, the founder of Mental Health Mates, and nearly five years sober. Lees meer
She takes Dave through it. Growing up scared, with what she now knows was OCD running untreated through the eighties and nineties. The first drink at 14 in a park with a friend, a litre of cider and a small bottle of vodka, being violently sick, and knowing immediately she wanted to do it again. The Telegraph noticing she was good at turning her chaos into a hilarious column. The cocaine years, the blackouts, the late twenties she now looks back on as sad rather than funny. The slow horror of realising that all the rules she had built around her drinking, no drinking before the baby was in bed, no spirits, no every-day drinking, were not proof she was in control. They were proof she was not.
Bryony talks openly about the type of OCD nobody drops into conversation. Not the sock drawer. The Pure O type, the intrusive thoughts that convinced her she might be a serial killer, that made her check the local papers for murders on the walk home from school. The way alcohol shut the OCD up for a few hours and then made it louder the next day. The rehab she went to. The counsellor she still sees. The friend Holly she met there who lived a mile from her with kids the same age.
Bryony and Dave talk about the recovery community, why she still calls herself an alcoholic, why she does not see sobriety as a cure, and what it took to start Mental Health Mates so that people experiencing mental health issues had somewhere to walk together.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Bryony.
@bryonygordon
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drink…
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James Veck-Gilodi on Quitting Drinking, Blackouts + Music Industry Riders
6 april 2022 · 51 min
James Veck-Gilodi is the lead singer-songwriter of Deaf Havana, with three top-ten albums, a top-five record, headline shows at Brixton Academy and tours with Kings of Leon behind him. He played almost every one of those shows drunk. He joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking after 15 years of touring through it. Lees meer
James started getting hammered at 14 in a small Norfolk town. By 18 he was on tour and the riders never stopped. By 2019 he'd overdosed on Xanax and alcohol, and his now-wife had broken up with him at an airport in Asia. He got sober in April 2020 through AA, slipped this January, and is now back and clearer than ever.
Inside: the cocaine years, the resentment that drove the slip, the only sober show he's ever played, and Deaf Havana's new music.
Quitting drinking, Deaf Havana, music industry, gray area drinking, AA, sober journey.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for James.
Instagram @deafhavana
Twitter @deafhavana
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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How Sobriety Unlocked His Career: Philip Barantini
30 maart 2022 · 49 min
Philip Barantini moved to London at 17. He was on Dream Team, then Band of Brothers as the youngest cast member, then Ned Kelly. He had free Soho House membership, a driver, and a 5am bedtime. Then the work fizzled out and the anger came in. He spent the next decade in restaurant kitchens drinking red wine out of coffee cups during service. Lees meer
In this conversation with Sober Dave, Philip walks back through the whole arc. The mum who poured her vodkas with him at the bar when he was ten. The audition years where he thought he was untouchable. The wife who packed up and left after six months of marriage. The morning something in his brain just switched, the one-on-one counsellor who helped him stay sober, and then the loss that opened the door to everything since: directing Villain with Craig Fairbrass, then Boiling Point with Stephen Graham, then his production company Three Little Birds Pictures, named after his late mum's favourite song.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Philip.
https://www.instagram.com/barantini/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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Sober After 27 Years Of Drinking: Cat Sims's Story
23 maart 2022 · 56 min
Cat Sims got blackout drunk at 13 and her parents thought it was funny. She'd been drinking that way ever since, mostly with people who drank that way too. By her thirties she'd figured out she could mix vodka with coke and Xanax and stay personable instead of sloppy. She thought she'd solved the riddle of life. Lees meer
There was no movie-grade rock bottom. There were car wrecks and missed bedtimes and 4am anxiety attacks from over-drinking. There was a marriage that nearly broke. There was a mother she loved who'd fallen asleep face-down in her dinner in front of Kat's school friends, and a shame Kat had been numbing ever since.
At 100 days sober, this is Kat as honest as she's been about any of it. No spin. No "I've never been better." Just: this is hard, this is necessary, and this is the work.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click follow to be notified of the release of our next episode.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Cat.
https://www.notsosmugnow.com/
https://www.instagram.com/notsosmugnow/https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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