Alcohol Freedom Finders

This week we meet Deb Melo, a fellow alcohol freedom coach, who shares how she began drinking regularly in her mid-30s and gradually reached three to four glasses of wine most nights, then spent years trying to control it A breast cancer scare, an eye surgery complication, and a small stroke all focussed the mind towards change but is was a chance book recommendation at a Weight Watchers meeting t...

This week we've had the pleasure of talking to Tony Fields, the creator and founder of pH seven Performance, which is a members, uh, group for men who want to live better and be better dads at home and like, who needs to be, uh, an alcoholic to stop drinking? What about just wanting to be a better version of yourself? Tony Fields: https://ph7performance.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-f...

In this episode, we talk to Dan Justine's personal trainer. We'll hear how a near death experience led Dan to truly embrace his life as a fitness coach through self-awareness and the support of his fellow physical and mental health experts. We'll also learn his own daily routines and the importance of self-forgiveness and the power of community and connection in overcoming addictive...

This week we’re joined by Lori McGiven, a fellow Alcohol Freedom coach from Vermont where shé also part of the medical examiners death investigation team. At 40, Lori realized she had an issue with her drinking and struggled to break free. Discover how she navigated her journey towards alcohol freedom. Lori shares the transformation from feeling powerless and overwhelmed to finding joy, freedom, a...

In this episode we welcome fellow coach Tim Kelly. Tim shares his personal journey of overcoming alcohol addiction, the multiple attempts at various treatments, and eventually finding solace through Annie Grace’s 'This Naked Mind'. Tim discusses his moment of realization, the support from his fiancée, and the transformative 30-day alcohol-free experiment which marked a turning point in h...

In this episode of Alcohol Freedom Finders, hosts Justine Clark and Barry Condon talk with Sarah Callejo, a fellow alcohol freedom coach from Spain, about her transformative journey to alcohol freedom. Sarah shares how she started drinking at 14, driven by a need to fit in and cope with feelings of being an outsider. She discusses the cultural pressures and how life as a writer amplified her alcoh...

This week, we explored Jason’s incredibly honest journey from being a committed social drinker to embracing full alcohol freedom. Here are the key takeaways from our conversation: The Insidious Nature of Habit: For many, the struggle with alcohol isn't a dramatic "rock bottom" moment, but rather the quiet, insidious habit that creeps up by stealth. Jason shares how easily consumptio...

This week we're joined by a fellow, this Naked Mind coach Corina, who didn't think she had a problem with alcohol at all. She was a working mother, highly successful and functioning well. Until she wasn't. When she hit her mid forties, she was hit by a double dose of stress. Her son was diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome and her mother with cancer. This moment of extreme vulner...

We often feel we should have things under control, especially when it comes to our relationship with alcohol. But what if it's not about being broken, but about shifting your perspective? Today, our guest, Susan Stout, opens up about reframing her relationship with alcohol and how it led to profound feelings of joy and confidence. Get ready to hear how small steps can lead to monumental chang...

This week we are joined by a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, which is definitely a first for us. Dr. Michelle Lynch is an expert in the field of sustainability, and while her work focuses her attention on experimental research to improve the future for us all, it was when she put her own life under the microscope and applied the same curiosity and experimentation to her relationship with...

This week we're joined by our friend Courtney, who was an average middle lane drinker, when she began to question whether alcohol was still serving her.? As many of you may be now... She began to realise it didn't fit with her otherwise healthy lifestyle and started to google the usual questions… Coach Courtney https://www.pmacoaching.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/coach-courtney-peter...

This week we talk to Caroline Sherlock a Nutritional Therapist, a Functional Medicine Practitioner, and a lecturer on genetics and nutrigenomics So Caroline ( as Liam Neeson once said) has very particular set of skills acquired over a long career and it was actually this that made her own drinking feel progressively out of allignment with who she was professionally as well as who she wanted to be...

This week we talk to Cari Wolters from Michigan. Cari now is a seasoned coach helping high achieving women but she takes us back to 2020 when she was deep in the struggle of drinking every night and hangovers anxiety every day. With her relationships strained and self doubt about the kind of mother she was to her young kids, she used curiosity to find her way out - lets jump in and find out how! C...

This week we speak to the amazing Tony Will, who joined us in the same week that her TED Talk went live! Tony is a trailblazer and a disruptor who has broken many glass ceilings for herself and for women in general. Speaking of general, she is the general manager and governor, uh, of the Kalamazoo Wings, a men's professional ice hockey team in Michigan.  A world dominated by men and steeped i...

In this episode we meet Jeannette Levitt whose drinking became a problem in the aftermath of a painful divorce. On reentering the dating world she thought that drinking alcohol was the only way to appear confident, and sexy but when she found alcohol freedom herself, she realised she’d been wrong and as she puts it - there is actually nothing confident or sexy about being sloppy drunk. She’s now a...

 In this episode, we meet coach Kate Nichols, a Brit living in Canada,  who before finding freedom from alcohol and becoming a coach herself, saw herself as a happy social drinker.  But that was before a family intervention during COVID lockdown made us see that swigging wine from a, from secretly stashed bottles in the closet wasn't quite as innocent as she'd been trying to make out to...

In this episode, we talk to our friend Michelle, whose entire social life revolved around alcohol, which I think most of us can relate to.  So, when she decided to make a change, she didn't know how to tell her friends, or even her close family.  She was wracked with shame, and petrified of what people might think. Severe judgment of ourselves and underestimating the kindness and forgiveness...

 In this episode, we talk to Amanda Foster from Zero Fierce, a digital marketing expert who's also a fellow This Naked Mind alcohol freedom coach, like Justine and myself.  As you'll hear, Amanda is also an expert in grief and has written a fantastic book called Spirits and Sorrow that brilliantly and autobiographically takes our culture's understandable instinct to numb grief with...

 In this episode, we meet Judi who in her youth used weed, cocaine, amphetamines, uppers, downers, you name it. She took them all. But age 23 when the fun stopped, she quit them all without much effort. All that is except alcohol. She describes alcohol as her demon.  Her story will knock your socks off. And if you're thinking demons require exorcism, priests, and God, you won't be disapp...

 In this episode, we catch up with Ayshea, an alumni of our first Alcohol Freedom Finders 30 day program.  Aisha is a fantastic advert for our program's potential, because like so many people before she gave it a go She had never even considered a life without alcohol. Drinking had been part of her life for years and felt central to her friendships and had never been problematic. She just tho...

 In this episode, Margie tells us about the emotional moment she went from feeling alone and too old to change to finding a coach who gave her the belief that she actually could change. She felt firsthand the power of having a coach to guide you who's been in your shoes, faced what you're facing and found their own way to freedom.  She now helps others find their way with our own success...

In this episode, you'll meet Martha, whose life as an on call midwife kept her drinking under control. But when she retired, those guardrails evaporated. And when COVID lockdown hit, like so many other people, she found herself drinking more than she'd ever wanted to.  Fed up with the cycle of frustration and shame, her journey to alcohol freedom began with an Instagram post about the sc...

In this episode, we meet with Mark Wong, the founder of the Impossibrew Alcohol Free Brewing Company, who you may recognize from his appearance on Dragon's Den. , after hearing he had a liver condition that meant he could no longer drink alcohol, this beer loving Durham University philosophy student was so unimpressed with the lack of buzz he got from the alcohol free beers on the market that...

 In this episode, we meet with Jessie from Boston, a trained sommelier and hard liquor aficionado who describes her family as having many generations of alcohol dependence.  We'll hear how she herself has had to come to terms with both ADHD and autism, as well as childhood trauma.  That trauma was triggered again during the COVID pandemic, where her alcohol use came to a head.  Working 14 hou...

After a career in advertising for big alcohol, our guest, Adam Murphy, blows the whistle on his former employers, comparing their methods for selling a known cancer causing agent to those of big tobacco. He describes how governments are powerless because they're also invested in the success of our alcohol companies. They sell a product they know kills consumers and we, the consumers are auto...