Mindful Drinking and Moderation in Midlife: How to Drink Less, On Your Terms

Send me a message 🤗 ============================================= FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES =============================================   In this FAQ episode, we cover:    0:21 What are RTDs? 2:19 Modern convenience 4:14 RTD brand recommendations 5:54 Always check the label 6:50 Where to find them ============================================= Best episode to listen to next:  #29 The r...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE FIRST HURDLES - START YOUR MINDFUL DRINKING JOURNEY IN JUST 3 DAYS ====== SHOW QUOTES “People look at plants and look at their garden and think, ah, just plants, but they're some of the most powerful things on the planet.” “So I get a fizzing on my chest, like that nice fizzing, and you feel nice and like buzzing.” ====== SHOW SUMMARY  Chris Ka...

Send me a message 🤗 In this FAQ episode, we cover: The worst thing you can do Thinking back to your why How did it feel? What are you taking forward? Becoming a moderating drinker ============================================= Best episode to listen to next: #56 FAQ: What does ABV mean? (and how does it affect low/no drinks?) === 🌱 Ready for real change? - https://www.lownodrinker.com/4weekreset...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE FIRST HURDLES - START YOUR MINDFUL DRINKING JOURNEY IN JUST 3 DAY ====== SHOW QUOTES  “I actually think non-alc is boring now.” “The UK is the most sophisticated non-alc market in the world!” ====== SHOW SUMMARY  Rish Ravalia is the UK Manager for The Pathfinder. Rish Ravalia doesn’t pull any punches. In this interview, Rish tells me exactly why he...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE - START YOUR MINDFUL DRINKING JOURNEY IN JUST 3 DAYS: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES =============================================   In this FAQ episode, we cover:    - What does ABV mean?  - Average ABVs for full-strength drinks  - Low/no/light ABVs  - How to send your questions (& get free stuff)    - Best episode to listen to next: #40 What low/no drinkers are reall...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE FIRST HURDLES - START YOUR MINDFUL DRINKING JOURNEY IN JUST 3 DAYS   ====== SHOW QUOTES  'When we started three and a half years ago, there were a lot of question marks in everyone’s eyes;  a lot of pushback from proud bartenders who said "No. I need to sell alcohol. I don't want to do alcohol-free!" And now, in these three and a...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ========================================= I'm doubling down on the Low No Drinker Podcast in 2025! Starting next week, the show will be going to two episodes a week as I introduce the new Low No Drinker FAQ series of solo episodes where I will help you to find, understand and enjoy low, no & light drinks so that you can live a life...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ====== SHOW QUOTES  “And so I doubled down on seeing if I could create the world's first good non-alcoholic wine. And when I say good, it was my definition of good, which it was quite nuanced.” “I always want a democratic price point and qualitative relationship […] I want it to be the household name that we all turn to when we want a g...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE - STARTING YOUR MINDFUL DRINKING JOURNEY: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES  ====== SHOW QUOTES  “I’m not anti-alcohol. I’m a really big believer in inclusivity and I’m a real believer in moderation.”   “I feel like I’m going from Blackberry to iPhone. There is massive change going on here, and the consumer is driving it.” ====== SHOW SUMMARY  DioniLife is a new low/no bevera...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE - STARTING YOUR MINDFUL DRINKING JOURNEY: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES I'm breaking all the rules and taking a tiny break over Christmas/New Year, and I hope you are, too! === 🌱 Ready for real change? - https://www.lownodrinker.com/4weekreset === 🗝️ Become a Vault member to get access to the moderation tools that actually help - https://mindfuldrinking.substack.com...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ====== SHOW QUOTES  “If we wanted to introduce a new variety, we can’t just make a bit in a barrel. We need thousands of bottles just to see if it works. So it’s not a very easy category to […] play around with.” ====== SHOW SUMMARY  Alcohol Change UK describes Eisberg Wine as the ‘Grandaddy of alcohol-free wine”. That’s quite a moniker to l...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ====== SHOW SUMMARY  Ocean Beach Café is San Francisco’s leading alcohol-free spot. In this episode, founder Joshua James takes me on the journey from unexpected inspiration found walking into a failing deli to creating a space where once seen, the wonders of his AF bar, cannot be forgotten. ====== WE CHAT ABOUT 0:00 Coming up...   2:40 Josh...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ====== SHOW QUOTES  “You cannot buy premiumisation, in my view.” “Out of the 95 sommeliers I think we tasted in the first six months, 85/86 are still working with us today.” ====== SHOW SUMMARY  Wild Idol is a premium alcohol-free sparkling wine found in prestigious locations such as Selfridges, Harrods, and numerous fine-dining restaurants....

Send me a message 🤗 SHOW QUOTES  “I think we're in a second phase of moderation. The first phase was all about mimicking the taste of alcohol. Now it's about mimicking the whole experience of alcohol: depth of flavour, complexity, mouthfeel and, of course, mood.” SHOW NOTES  CBD, THC, micro-dosing, nootropics, adaptogens… there is a whole sub-category of ingredients making their way int...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ============= SHOW QUOTES “Our friends would bring like a really beautiful bottle, like a premium bottle of spirit, but we would make the mixes and soft drinks, and so our friends called us the Tonic Twins.” “I think we visited 120 accounts or something before someone said, ‘Okay, I'll buy one case’.” ============ SHOW NOTES Raissa &amp...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ============= SHOW QUOTES “I wanted to create something which was for non-drinkers obviously. But also for drinkers. For those people like me who could no longer go out five, six nights a week all the time and drink alcohol. Who wanted to zebra stripe or some days no, and some days yes.”   “I didn't like that feeling when you're ti...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ============= SHOW QUOTES  “The bottle couldn't handle the carbonation in that neck, and we lost £20,000 pounds. I didn't have any product, but £20,000 pounds was gone!”  “Availability and visibility are key in this category.” ============ SHOW NOTES  Avnish Babla is the 1st time entrepreneur behind Savyll Cocktails, a sophisticate...

Send me a message 🤗 ============= SHOW QUOTES  “In the UK, it's 20 quid a bottle. I've always thought about it like some people get paid £20 quid an hour. So you know, if someone's going to give you an hour of their life, bloody, make it good if they're drinking your product, and I honestly believe in that.”   “So you give them two tonnes of raspberry crumble because you'...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ============= SHOW QUOTES “I get emails every week from people saying, oh, ‘I'd love to come and judge, I'd love to learn a bit more about these drinks’. Whilst we’re keen on educating and teaching people. they have to come to us already having some background and some proof that they are making an effort and learning and have expe...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES SHOW QUOTES “We work with a 16th-generation distillery business. We said to them look, how low can we go before we start to lose the full taste experience? So the warm, the mouthfeel, the bite, everything else which you expect from a full-strength gin. And they said 25%.” “When we designed the product in the first instance, we wanted to go w...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES SHOW QUOTES "Today we're doing things a bit differently." "Only 8% of the conversations were about using these drinks to help with sobriety or recovery." SHOW NOTES In this episode, I take a look at a report from Commetric analysing 10,000 Reddit conversations about low/no drinks. Doing things differently Drink types...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES SHOW QUOTES: “If you don't like wine, you may not like our product; in fact, you probably won't like our product. “You know we're not trying to preach; we're not trying to tell people not to drink alcohol. I drink alcohol, everybody in my company drinks alcohol, but there are times and there are places and there are peopl...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ================ SHOW QUOTES   “If 80% of your lifestyle is healthy, you can accommodate a 20% indulgence, which may be your cream cakes, it may be a glass of wine, it may be whatever. It's unfortunately when you tip it over and you suddenly think you'll do 20% healthy, and you expect a result because the body doesn't work tha...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES SHOW QUOTES  “You do not need a sad story to decide that you want to start to look at your relationship with alcohol.”  “It was the, you know, two or three days where I just felt subpar. I was operating at 60% capacity" ====== SHOW NOTES  It's easy to compare ourselves with others in all walks of life but it's very rarely help...

Send me a message 🤗 FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES SHOW QUOTES “It's going to be cooler to buy a non-alcoholic drink than an alcoholic drink sooner rather than later.”  “You know it's fascinating and I think that's why I cannot see this being anything other than the most important change to the drinks landscape in my lifetime, for sure.” SHOW NOTES Pivoting from a successful c...