Euphoric Alcohol-Free

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...

So excited to have Norah Ginty, an alcohol-free lifestyle coach, joining us all the way from Galway, Ireland. Norah had an on-again off-again relationship with alcohol spanning fifteen years. She knew alcohol didn't make her feel her best and yet felt pressured to drink by the culture around her. Because she didn't identify as an alcoholic, she tried hard to make moderation work for her, only maki...

Danielle and Karolina sit down today with Angela Shanahan to talk about the sober bar pop-up they are organizing in San Diego, MindBar. MindBar is all about making connection with inspiring women without the inevitable hangover that follows a night out. A night for mocktails, discussion, and intention setting that leaves you feeling inspired instead of depleted.  Angela had the idea for MindBar an...

It hits you at 4 a.m. You wake up with a start, heart racing, pit in your stomach, and mental doom and gloom of knowing, you're here again because of the wine you had last night—it's so gross you can still taste it. Uhhh, not again. Danielle and I explore why alcohol ruins sleep so much, from the 4 a.m. wakeup calls to even the benign drink or two that ruins the quality of your sleep and leaves yo...

Sober living is a best kept secret and opens the doors to so much happiness, intentionality, and grace in your life. But with so much stigma and preconceived assumptions, not drinking alcohol in our society is rare and questionable. It can be hard to tell people about a positive life change without well-meaning individuals drilling into the negative. Today Danielle and Karolina explore their best...

Danielle and Karolina talk about all the things they are excited for during the summer--movies in the park, camping, trips, and pool days--and all the ways summer is so much better alcohol-free. Without a depressant in our systems, we feel young again and capture the same spirit of summer we used to feel as children. Forget everything the clever marketing ads want you to believe, that summer equal...

So what the heck is gray-area drinking and what does it mean to go alcohol-free today? More and more people are quitting not because they have a "drinking problem" but because they have a problem with drinking. Gray-area drinking is the space between the extremes, between a totally healthy and moderate relationship to alcohol (you know, like no more than one drink per day), and the rock-bottom han...

I am beyond thrilled to have this guest on the Euphoric podcast. Not only is Andy Ramage my hero, he was one of the key people who shifted how I viewed alcohol and allowed me to see how limitless life can be without it. Andy is the co-founder of One Year No Beer, a global movement to transform people's relationships with alcohol by taking a break from drinking and discovering how incredible life i...

Social media is THE place to find a community of sober folks—it's literally how Euphoric the Podcast was born and shared. But Danielle and Karolina suspect that constantly checking your phone for new updates is pretty similar to the same dopamine manipulation that goes on with drinking. It's not easy to sit with your thoughts and engage with the people around you, and we constantly want to reach f...

The age-old question: so what do we drink when we aren't drinking?! Karolina and Danielle dive into why maintaining the ritual of a "special drink" is so important (especially early on!), their favorite drinks to have at home, in a bar, restaurant, or at parties, and how traveling alcohol-free can be made even more exciting when you open your eyes to what fun beverages have been available the whol...

Today we talk about how much drinking can stifle creativity and what to expect once you stop. We mean creativity as so much more than the fine arts, but creating or building anything that did not exist before. We both find that it takes vulnerability and honesty to be creative but also tenacity and perseverance. (Something the drinking versions of us sorely lacked). Listen in on how to recover you...

Danielle sits down to talk recovery with fellow nurse, Tiffany Swedeen! Tiffany is a certified life and recovery coach, founder of Recover and Rise, author of her blog Scrubbed Clean RN as well as a registered nurse in recovery from opioids and alcohol. Her goal is to eradicate shame and empower women to live a life of radical self-love. Listen in as we discuss Tiffany's fascinating journey from C...

Danielle and Karolina segue from their morning routines in episode 12 to their must-do evening routines. Find out the top three things each of them do to balance out the day and give themselves space to decompress. You know that highly successful people have morning and evening routines, and no, they don't involve wine or binge watching TV. If you're newly sober and wondering what to do to fill in...

Danielle and Karolina are just getting back from a St. Patty's Day Mimosa-Free brunch and are brimming with inspiration and giggles! Listen as they discuss their top three, must-do routines every morning--and how they couldn't be more different! Although they both meditate, they found out they do very different styles. Find out why Karolina writes *first thing* in the morning, and how taking the t...