Bee Sober

Today Alex and Lisa speak to Alexandra McRobert Aka Sober Yoga Girl. Alex is a 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified Life Coach, entrepreneur, podcaster, and Ontario Certified Teacher. Since a very young age, she was drawn to yoga. She completed her first 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2014 at Yandara Yoga Institute in Mexico. In 2017, Alex completed her 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training at...

On today’s episode we speak to our Amy Guerrero. Amy believes “When we stay curious together, we can experience unimaginable freedom.” On a journey to heal her trauma Amy stumbled (pun intended) into a conscious sober lifestyle and my deeper purpose to support people. Today, she supports sober people to heal past traumas to feel more freedom, pleasure & purpose in create healthy relationships...

On today’s episode we speak to our Bee Sober Cornwall Ambassador, Claire Hatwell. Claire has been sober since September 2016. It took her a long time to get sober, mainly because ‘people like her’ didn’t have drinking problems. Every night without fail she’d put away two to three bottles of wine by herself, but she kidded myself she was all right, because everyone enjoys a drink, don’t they? She c...

Join us today for episode 4 of season 4 where we talk to podcast host and coach, Kylie Butler. Kylie is the host of the popular podcast, A Meaningful Life by Design, Founder of Inspired Careers, Inspired EVP, and A Meaningful Life by Design. She is an Entrepreneur, Career and Recovery Coach. and former People & Culture Leader of 15 years.  She has lived and worked across the globe in London, R...

Join us this week where we chat to Katie McNicol, AKA This Sober Girl. Katie is at 26 year old ex party girl who is coming up to two years sober! Katie was a binge drinker who realised at 24 years old that alcohol was nothing but detrimental to her life. Giving up the booze has changed her life in every way and she now blogs about sobriety, mental health and self care to inspire others to do the s...

Join us on our first episode of season 4. It’s been ages and we are back with more laughs, rants and conversations about how to Bee Sober. In this episode we talk about being curious in your sober journey, treating life as an experiment and fitting in in a world that keeps changing the rules. Please check out our website www.beesoberofficial.com. You can also check out the following link to find o...

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Join us on our season finale where today, Alex and Lisa chat with our Bee Sober Ambassador for men, Oliver Hunter about our new Bee Sober Men’s group and his reasons for wanting the space to be available to men in the online community. Oliver came to drinking late. He was very small and often got asked for ID, the embarrassment of this kept him out of pubs until he was 21. After this there was no...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat with Laurie McAllister, a life and empowerment coach for sober and sober curious women, yoga teacher and writer of many things. In 2016, she stopped drinking and turned her life around - she now supports other women to do the same through coaching, writing and marketing support for sober businesses. Relocating from London to Norfolk to Cambodia and back to Norfolk, Laurie...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat with Hollywood actress, director, producer and author, Brianne Davis about her recovery from and love addiction. This conversation is definitely one you do not want to miss. Whether lighting up the big screen or calling the shots behind the scene, actor, director, producer, and writer Brianne Davis is one of the most electric talents to storm Hollywood by force. She recen...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat with Sarah Rusbatch about how getting sober changed her life completely. Moving to Australia made her aware of how alcohol had become her companion and part of her identity. When Sarah decided to take a break from alcohol, she realised her life had so much potential. Sarah is over 2 years sober and has since re-trained as a women's health and wellness coach with a special...

A year into her sober journey, in July 2019 she says she “found the amazing Bee Sober!” It literally changed her journey big time, she had a few sober friends already but they couldn’t always connect when she needed it. Bee Sober became Kath’s tribe. She would go to Manchester for days out, brunch, meals. It was ace! She became an ambassador in August 2020 and really wants others to have the same...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat CiCi Reagan about her addiction to alcohol and how it has impacted her life, her journey to sobriety and how she uses this to helps others through her writing. TRIGGER WARNING: This conversation contains emotional and difficult topics regarding abuse, grief and domestic violence. Cici believes that getting sober is just not drinking. Recovering is another animal. Cici rea...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat to one of the Bee Sober Bolton Ambassadors, Irene Wignall about her journey to sobriety, her devastating loss of her son, Dusty, at 27 weeks pregnant and her books. TRIGGER WARNING: This conversation contains emotional and difficult topics regarding miscarriage, stillbirth and grief. Irene started her sober journey December 31st 2018 at 10pm. She had thought about it for...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat to Kelly Pegg about her childhood with a parent who drank too much and the impact on her life then and now - what a fantastic and inspirational woman she is! TRIGGER WARNING: This conversation contains emotional and difficult topics. Kelly Pegg is a Mum of 2, Journalist, Radio Presenter, and host of the Podcast The Hot Mess Mums club. You can find out more about her on In...

Today Alex and Lisa speak to Jen Payne about her struggles and successes as a child of an alcoholic parent (COA). TRIGGER WARNING: Jen has an amazing story that she tells with dignity and empathy to raise awareness for COAs which touches on some very sensitive and emotive issues. Jen is a Nacoa volunteer and is always happy to hear from you. You can find Jen at: https://www.instagram.com/jen_payne...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat to Laura Cook Boldt and Tom Boldt about their book, Unravelled, and their amazing joint journeys as a Mother and Son in recovery. LAURA COOK BOLDT was born and reared in St. Louis, Missouri, and is the daughter of the late Mary Margaret Blair and Howard Winston Cook, both from Jefferson City, Missouri. Married to Tom for thirty-plus years, mother of four grown boys, and s...

What are the odds of this? Today, Alex and Lisa chat to Gambling Guard about his gambling addiction and his journey to recovery and find surprising similarities between gambling and alcohol addiction. As a ‘rite of passage’, Gambling Guard wanted to have a bet for the first time, now that he was able to gamble legally in the UK. The bet paid off and the seeds of his addiction had been sown. After...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat to Bee Sober Ambassador, Laura Henry about life as a single mum, how she stopped drinking and the benefits of sobriety with our usual laughs along the way. Laura joined Bee Sober as an Ambassador back in August 2020. Early in her sobriety she realised she needed a circle of sober friends and reached out to set up Bee Sober Bolton as one half of the team. Laura chose to st...

Today Alex and Lisa speak to Emma Cambell, Aka Limitless Em about her incredible journey of recovery from breast cancer and how she coped living with someone who was alcohol dependent on is own amazing journey to recovery. Em is an author, columnist, speaker and long term cancer thriver. She is known on social media as @limitless_em – a handle she adopted following her third cancer diagnosis in 20...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat to Emily Syphas about sober socialising, and sober with lots more juicy bits in between. Emily founded Sober & Social in 2018. Sober & Social is a brand and community that supports those wanting to explore and lead a teetotal lifestyle. Their core ethos is to empower, encourage and celebrate living your healthiest and happiest life. The community was founded on th...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat to Clemmie Telford about the pressures on people in society to drink as part of socialising. Alex puts her foot in it, Lisa wants no part of it, and Clemmie doesn’t let her get away with it. Clemmie will be two years sober in May and has just written and published her debut book “But Why?: How to answer tricky questions with kids by having an honest conversation with your...

Today Alex and Lisa speak to Dawn Comolly, Aka Sober Fish about her sober story, how we think without a voice in our heads, walking, and people who see words as colours (a type of synesthesia). Here is Dawn’s story: “After a sobriety article popped up in my newsfeed in the summer of 2016, I decided to take a year off alcohol in 2017 and blog about my journey. However, after an incredible 6 months...

Today Alex and Lisa talk to Luke Worsfold about his recovery from drugs and alcohol to running a successful online recovery programme and becoming a recovery counsellor. After losing his mum, Lisa, to drugs at the age of 10, Luke Worsfold has gone from an emotionally dead, drug-addict to a fulfilled, recovery counsellor. He now runs Lisa Inside Addiction that provides online recovery programs to h...

Today, Alex and Lisa chat to an awesome Nacoa duo, Josh Connolly and Ceri Walker about their childhood experiences, the impact on them as adults and parents and the support that Nacoa can offer for children of alcoholic parents, adult children of alcoholics and parents themselves. This special podcast marks the end of COA week 2021. COA Week is a campaign to raise awareness of children affected by...