Euphoric Alcohol-Free

Donna and Tammer represent the husband and wife team behind Surreal Brewing and are dedicated to solely making nonalcoholic craft beers that rock!  I first met Donna at a panel we both spoke at on the shifting drinking culture up in San Francisco and I've been a huge fan of Surreal ever since.  They make some of the most creative, unique, and delicious nonalcoholic beer on the market! Donna shares...

When I turned 30 years old, I felt completely aimless. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and wasn't happy with the way alcohol was making me show up. I knew deep down that I was meant to make an impact, but how? Where do I start? The answer came to me through my intuition. Start with your relationship with alcohol. And by going on that path, all the other doors opened up. Today I'm sh...

Alyssa is a fellow life coach and joins Karolina to talk about how the principles of coaching have drastically helped change her life and both her relationships with alcohol and food. Alyssa is a senior life coach with the Handel Group and today we talk about how keeping promises to yourself and building a life based on honesty is the key to feeling aligned and fulfilled. She shares some incredibl...

The CEO of One Year No Beer, Ruari Fairbairns, joins  Karolina  on this episode about why taking a break from drinking will radically change your life. Ruari's drinking took place in the fast-paced world of oil brokerage, where the motto was work hard play harder, eventually leading him to burnout and exhaustion. Challenging himself to a break, he never expected he would become fitter, faster, bet...

Listen in as Danielle sits down with the Sobriety Queen, Connie McMillan. Connie is an impact speaker, author of  Alcohol Fiend to Sobriety Queen: 25 Steps to Putting Down the Bottle and Picking Up Your Crown , host of Sober Sessions podcast, and owner of Cocktails with Chocolate Non-Alcoholic beverage service. Danielle and Connie talk about spirituality and how discovering a higher purpose can ta...

Best friends since they were teens, Alex and Lisa grew up in local pub-culture in the UK. Everyone they ever knew drank. And together as best friends, so did they for almost 30 years, until one day, they decided to experiment with a new lifestyle. Lisa explored alcohol-free living first, and found so much happiness and integrity in AF living. A few months later, Alex realized alcohol was holding h...

It never occurred to me to ditch booze completely. It was only through experiencing the most profound break that I decided to never go back. When I was first questioning my relationship with booze, I wanted to get more mindful and was so glad when I found Caitlin Padgett. Her gospel is that you can make changes to your relationship with alcohol on your own terms and invite in more awareness no mat...

William Porter, author of multiple books, is an expert in taking a topic most people don't have a scientific understanding of and sharing logical explanations on how alcohol works on your bodies and brains. When you have information to understand the phenomenon, you have power and awareness that no one can take away from you. Tune into our episode to learn: Why alcohol doesn't actually relax you W...

On this episode, Danielle gets to interview our latest Euphoric Expert, Julia Balto, a Health and Wellness Coach specializing in Mental Health Women's Coaching. You may recognize Julia as our guided meditation guru from the very first Mindbar event! Danielle and Julia go deep, talking about their shared life-altering Girl Scout experiences, and personal struggles with mental health and impostor sy...

It's the all or nothing thinking. It's focusing on the destination not the journey. It's procrastinating. It's fitting yourself into small little boxes and checking off to-do lists. On this episode of Euphoric the Podcast, I'm talking with a fellow life coach on the phenomenon that makes us should all over ourselves and never feel good enough: Perfectionism. Loren Cellentani is a life and wellness...

Karolina sits down with Meg Johnson from Kansas City to talk about how much FUN an alcohol-free life really is.  Step back to the holidays of 2018. Meg was overweight, overdrinking, and fell into a pessimistic complaining attitude. One day she looked into the mirror and didn't recognize herself anymore. That moment catapulted a new resolve.  Today Meg is a vibrant and radiant inspiration! She's be...

What we're dealing with in the world right now is unprecedented. From the stress and spiraling into the news, to the boredom of staying home all the time, "coronavirus times" are not easy. In this episode, Danielle and Karolina are sharing what has been working for them to transform their mindsets, build a healthy and happy routine, and stave off boredom. While drinking seems like the easy thing t...

Today Danielle is interviewing Karolina about her journey and how Euphoric came to be. Karolina loves traveling, personal growth, and her sweet fluffy Samoyed. She shares how she went from an insecure, jealous young adult to working on her self-development and living her passions today. We all have such a huge potential and yet drinking is often used as a way to dim it. Karolina is passionate abou...

Brought to you by two 30-something women living the high alcohol-free life in San Diego, Euphoric the Podcast is about the expansive and magical place you enter when you ditch the booze. Today, we're diving deep into Danielle's story and the amazing community of soul-seeking women she's created. From nursing, the military, divorce, body image, and finding freedom in the AF life, Danielle shares it...

What if alcohol was clouding up your ability to share a magnificent gift with the world? Today I sit down with Bri McCorkell, a life coach and spiritual teacher for moms, who stopped drinking on her path towards a greater awakening. Bri has three children and we talk about how hard motherhood can be and how easy it is to quell that isolation and pain with a drink. But deep down, we are way more po...

Brandy speaks around the nation to audiences about loving yourself and loving your body. She had a history of constantly criticizing herself and always feeling like her body and shape wasn't good enough. She was the ultimate mean girl to herself.  But things changed when Brandy discovered self-love and also expanded her definition of self-love when she stopped drinking two years ago. We talk about...

Danielle sits down to talk with Shari Hampton, founder of Served Up Sober, a unique San Diego organization that offers holistic recovery modalities, like meditation, community acupuncture, and restorative eating workshops. Listen in as Danielle and Shari discuss the nuances of sharing your story, getting vulnerable in sobriety, navigating a relationship with a partner who drinks and way, way more!...

It's a new decade!! Danielle and Karolina address how to make changes to your drinking for the new year.  Habit change comes down to awareness and changing the beliefs you have about alcohol that don't serve you.  It's also about committing to PROGRESS and not being a perfect version of yourself. Being both a perfectionist or a permissionist puts you in a box destined to fall short. Tune to learn...

Janey Lee Grace is in the biz. She's been a singer, BBC radio presenter, and author of multiple books on holistic health and natural living. Though it wasn't until she ditched the booze that she truly stepped into her fullest health, happiness, and self-love. When Janey stopped drinking, she was surprised to learn that it didn't feel like giving something up but rather like she was gaining everyth...

Lisa spent her career climbing the ladder in the legal field in New York City—a high-pace environment that led her to drink more and more over time, until one day she woke up realizing how badly she needed alcohol to function and how miserable it was making her. Lisa not only transformed her life, she also fulfilled her dream of becoming a writer. She is the author of Girl Walks Out of a Bar, her...

Danielle had such a great time talking with Sara Miller about her journey with alcohol! Find out how Sara went from being a baker in Minnesota to a zero-waste health coach in California, and how her health challenges sparked her to reexamine her relationship with drinking. In this episode, Sara shares how important progress is over perfection and that life change can happen with baby steps. If you...

Jenn Kautsch's story is fascinating. Unlike many of us, Jenn didn't drink in her teenage years or 20s. In fact, she didn't really pick up drinking until she was a mom and well into her career in her mid-30s. Her drinking mirrors a phenomenon in history—consumption levels were lower for women in the 80s and 90s and then starkly rose in the 2000s as the drinking culture changed. Fifteen years later,...

Kate Bee is such an incredible voice in the alcohol-free community and I'm so happy to have her on the show. She is the founder of the Sober School and has created an alcohol-free life that she loves. We talk about her journey and what it was like to quit drinking in England at 29 after YEARS of doubting her relationship to alcohol. But then came some "sober firsts" that helped expand her into a b...

Less than a month ago, we launched something big. The first of its kind in San Diego--a sober pop-up bar. But it was so much more than mingling over mocktails. Over 35 women joined us for focused connection, intention setting and visualizing their dream lives, while yes, also having all the yummy alternative drinks. Listen in to learn how we built this event community and how you could get started...

How do you navigate the dating scene if you are alcohol-free or want to quit? Isn't meeting up for dates at the bar the standard? I'm so happy to have Amanda Kuda on the show, a mindset coach, to talk to us about how to date as a sober woman. Amanda gave up alcohol because she wanted more in life. More spiritual growth, more abundance, and more connection. And while there were some stumbling block...