Euphoric Alcohol-Free

Grief is a strange thing to show up for publicly when you're still right in the middle of it, and honestly, parts of what I'm going through right now feel so private and so deep that I'm not even sure I have the language for it yet. But I felt called to share, because some of this might help someone. A few weeks ago I recorded an episode about losing Huxley unexpectedly on Memorial Day. If you hav...

Lisa Sykes calls herself the Beyonce of the birth world, and once you hear her talk, you understand exactly why. She's the number one business coach for doulas, midwives, and birth professionals worldwide, and she built that entire identity by refusing to do things the way everyone told her she had to. Lisa spent 15 years as a doula after leaving a corporate career in IT following a redundancy and...

Ashley Roberts graduated from the 5x Certification and has built something really beautiful since then, a feminine embodiment movement practice rooted in dance, somatic work, and helping women find their way back into their bodies after years of operating purely from logic and achievement. In this episode, we get into what feminine embodiment actually means, because it gets thrown around so much o...

In honor of dry July, Karolina is debunking the most common myths and objections about going alcohol-free. What if everything you believed about "normal drinking" was a lie? Society puts "normal drinking" on a pedestal: the cultured person who enjoys just one glass of wine over a nice dinner. But is this achievable or even desirable?  It turns out that 60% of regular drinkers overdrink, and it's a...

I recently lost one of the greatest loves of my life, my soul dog Huxley.  He passed really unexpectedly on Memorial Day. He was 11 and a half. He was fine that morning. He ate breakfast, he cuddled with us, he sat in the sun while we were at the pool. By that evening, he was gone. He had massive internal bleeding and we had no idea anything was wrong until his gums went pale and we were racing ac...

Is drinking really tied to our cultural roots, or is it a habit we can choose to reshape? Since 2018, Karolina's been crisscrossing the globe, proving that you can experience the vibrant charm of cities like Paris, Madrid, and Tokyo without a drop of alcohol. Imagine enjoying the same joys of a wine country weekend or a sunset dinner on the patio without the next day fog. Detaching from alcohol no...

My first book came from 15-minute morning writing sprints in a notepad before I even brushed my teeth. This second one makes me cry almost every time I open it.  That's probably the best way I can explain why writing it has been so completely different, and why I wanted to bring you into that process right now, while I'm still in it. I'm currently writing my second book. I have an agent, I have a...

Rachel McElreath is 28 years old, graduated from the 5x Certification, and has already lived more lives than most people do in a lifetime. She started drinking at 15, Halloween night in Atlanta, a bottle of Hennessy handed to her by a friend, parents in crisis at home, and spent the next decade building a life that looked fine from the outside and was quietly falling apart underneath. She held job...

This week I'm doing something a little different. Just me sharing what's been on my heart after celebrating my mom's 80th birthday. My husband spent four nights making 200 handmade pierogi from scratch to surprise her. I put together a slideshow of almost every photo that exists of her life, black and white photos of a little girl in postwar Warsaw, all the way through to the woman she is today, w...

You're ambitious and driven. You show up. And yet something feels off. Fatigue, the brain fog that won't lift, the periods that wreck you, and constant overwhelm.  Your doctor told you everything looks fine. But you know it's not.  In this episode, Karolina sits down with Leslie Jackson, functional nutritionist and founder of the Becoming Her movement, to talk about what's actually happening in th...

Are you holding back your story, your transformation, and your insights because you don't want to be too "salesy"? Premium selling is one of the most underrated and important skills you can master, ESPECIALLY if you know you're meant to build something bigger than yourself. And it doesn't have to have an ick factor or feel like bro marketing. When selling stops feeling uncomfortable, it can start...

Nervous system regulation is one of the hottest topics right now, and most successful women don't understand how it's showing up in their life. Kat Cynewski and I are talking about how your body responds to pressure, growth, and visibility, and why even the things you want can feel super uncomfortable to hold. We also get into the type of buzzy energy high performers use to show up on stages and l...

So many people are chasing fancy promotions, titles, money, and milestones that look good on paper, but feel empty when they get there. You're told this is what success looks like, but no one really asks if it's what you ACTUALLY want. The way I see it, success coaching is so freaking powerful, both as a modality that you can apply in your life and that you can help others with. It has nothing to...

What happens when your ambitions outgrow your current life? A few months after going alcohol-free, I was sitting at a park, on my lunch break from my day job, reading a Jack Canfield book. All of a sudden I found myself writing down the most outrageous goals. Next fall I'll tour the US on my book tour. I want to make millions of dollars. I want to be a top speaker. I had no social media presence,...

Picture this: You walk into a dinner party dressed as your 5-year future self. You're introducing yourself as a New York Times bestselling author, you're talking about your sold-out retreats, and your waitlist of clients. That's the magic of alcohol-free entrepreneurs getting in a room together during the Empowered AF Coach Live Immersion in Dana Point, and it's one of my favorite weekends of the...

You have been hypnotized your entire life by your parents, teachers, friends, and the media you consume. And it's shaping far more of your emotions, feelings, and beliefs than you think. Inside this episode, I'm breaking down how subconscious programming actually works, how it gets installed (without you realizing it), and how to start changing it, so you can not only dehypnotize yourself from the...

What if you don't wake up at 5AM, you work in sweats, and still build an incredible life? You don't have to have it all together to be successful, impactful, or inspiring. I went from being a drinker to someone who hasn't desired alcohol in eight years, and having writer's block for a decade to writing a bestselling book with a 6-figure book deal. I don't share this to brag – I want to expand what...

What if the biggest thing standing between you and your next million-dollar idea… is alcohol? After working with hundreds of alcohol-free women, I've noticed a fascinating pattern: once alcohol leaves their lives, their creativity explodes. Ideas start flowing, intuition sharpens, and visionary thinking returns. And for many women, that spark has led to businesses, books, certifications, and life-...

AI isn't coming – it's HERE. 13% of jobs are already becoming obsolete by AI, from admin to HR to data analytics. So here's the real question. What makes you irreplaceable? This topic has been weighing heavy on my mind, so today, I want to talk about how to develop and position your personal brand so you stand out (and why alcohol-free women will thrive in this new era). Your emotional intelligenc...

8 years ago, I stepped into the biggest initiation of my life. I made a decision to stop drinking, and it completely altered the trajectory of my ambition, my standards, and my identity. We're going to cover 8 things I've learned in the last 8 years being alcohol-free. You'll hear about the alcohol-free "brain scramble", the sneaky danger of the word "someday," the importance in trusting signs fro...

Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of alcohol-related suicide. Please listen with care. Colleen Clifford lost her husband to alcohol, but it took years and a handful of wild card moments for her to confront her own relationship with drinking. 95% of the time? She felt in control. 5% of the time, something flipped. A split-second decision, a blackout, or a version of herself she didn...

Hadley Sorensen didn't stop drinking four years ago because everything fell apart. She quit because something felt off, even though from the outside, her drinking looked completely normal. That intuitive hit led her to do what only 1% of people ever do – write the book she couldn't find:  The Dirty Truth on Social Drinking: "Everything in Moderation" and Other BS . Hadley talks about how she is di...

If you think about it, drinking again in February is kind of like texting your toxic ex at 2 am after you started dating a really good guy.  Trust me, I've been there. I understand the weirdly tempting allure of alcohol and the fear of committing beyond Dry January… But why not keep dating this alcohol-free life for another month, and see how it goes?  In this episode, I'll share some stories from...

David Goggins, Warren Buffett, Gretchen Rubin, Elizabeth Gilbert, Brene Brown: These wildly successful people all share ONE habit that completely contradicts the champagne-on-a-yacht fantasy we've been sold. I have been in so many rooms with high-achieving 7-8-figure entrepreneurs, leaders, and authors, and it is UNCANNY how many times alcohol is missing. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. I...

You're doing Dry January … but your partner isn't…so that sucks. But what if that wasn't actually a problem? What if it could bring you closer? If drinking used to be how you connected, you don't have to feel like you're leaving your partner behind (after listening to this episode).  Learn how to use the Breadcrumb Strategy, how to serve their soul, not their personality, and tips for your relatio...