Sober.Coffee Podcast

Glenn and Mike take a hard look at self-forgiveness and Living Sorry. Sober. Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fm

Glenn shares the transformational evidences found in recovery with the assist from his favorite band Blue October.

Glenn and Mike take a look at the sad reality of active addiction in this moving episode.

Mike, Glenn and Sarah (sarahsandidge.com) chat about "what's next" -in life and in love.  

Elizabeth joins the boys for the second of a two-part series.  Part two features the joys that the program brings.

Sober pal Elizabeth joins Mike and Glenn in part one of a two-part series.  Part one features her story - her experience, strength, and hope.  

Mike and Glenn bust out the noise makers and streamers and talk about the year ahaed.  

Author Derek Castleman joins Mike and Glenn at the coffee shop to explore the teachings of the Stoics.  

A Holiday Session, as only sober.coffee can deliver.  Mike and Glenn share memories and talk about the true meaning of this special time of the year.

@caelyannmariereed stops in to talk creativity, sharing her strength and hope.  This episode drops simultaneous to her book launch.  You can find her poetry at, of course,, AMAZON, Search " Human: behind the mask by Carly Reed "

Mike and Glenn chat about plans, expectations and getting and staying sober-healthy.

Glenn and Mike welcome in CJ, the professional restaurateur/ server extraordinaire who shares up his hope one post at a time.  

Matt C joins Mike and Glenn at the coffee shop for this special pre-thanksgiving day chat.  

Podcaster Gary Menkes joins Mike and Glenn at the coffee shop to talk about new beginnings and other topics related to sobriety. 

Table for 3 - Jen in the room! Jen is sharing about sobriety in a big way - with Ted Talks. While the anonymity of AA serves us well in the very beginning of sobriety, Jen found her route to service wasn’t becoming a sponsor, it was becoming an advocate that sober life is pretty amazing once we accept and start living in it. She didn’t see that message out there so now she’s bringing the message t...

Table for 3! Matt C joins Mike & Glenn in the coffee shop to talk about ego. Does ego fuel alcohol consumption? Does alcohol consumption fuel ego? Listen in as Matt, Mike and Glenn each talk about the role ego played in their alcoholism and now in recovery. One thing for sure - the struggle with ego still exists on the other side of sobriety. For more about this podcast:  - Visit Sober. Coffee...

Author Will Thatcher is in the coffee shop today! Will writes addiction fiction. Unlike a lot of other books, this book is not is not intended to get people sober, it was written for entertainment purposes.  While Will has written novels in his past, this novel came from needing a creative outlet in recovery. Sober for 5 1/2 years, Will always kept a journal, keeping track of all the different the...

Table for 3 today! Seamus is in the coffee shop. Truth be told, Seamus is an alias. Why anonymity, why use an alias? Seamus talks about the stigma attached to addiction. When he graduated college and started a career - he was already sober 5 years. They didn’t know him when he wasn’t sober, so what positive would come from talking about his alcoholism?  Seamus found he wanted people to get to know...

Chicago Director Eileen Tull joins Mike and Glenn, sharing her experience, strength, and Hope - for the artist in all of us.  This bonus drop coincides with the world premiere of acclaimed Chicago playwright Mia's McCullough dark comedy about family secrets, shared holidays, and household spirits.  The play information can be found online at https://www.theaterwit.org/

Mike and Glenn are back in the coffee shop today talking honesty, bullshit and chocolate chip cookies. As Glenn puts it: Honesty is a core foundational block to getting sober and living a healthy, new purposeful life. If you are bullshitting yourself and others, nothing changes. As Mike puts it: If you throw even a kernel of shat into that batch of chocolate chip cookies, which cookie are you goin...

Recovery is so much more than just ‘quit drinking’. You face the question “I’m not drinking, so now what?” In the coffee shop, Mike & Glenn are joined by Dean Anderson, author of the book “Finding Myself Sober”.  Dean recounts the first 10 or more times he tried to get sober, going through the motions to quit drinking but not filling the hole with anything new - which led him back to the bottl...

Following the recovery journey from the previous episode “Boiling the Frog - Anti-Surrender” Mike & Glenn are talking about the same gentleman, but later in his recovery journey when he discovers true surrender. What changed? He knew he was struggling, he had lost his rental house and was staying in extended stay, but in the last week:  - Lost his job and was not working  - Still drinking and...

Success in getting on the sober path is surrender. At the coffee shop, Mike & Glenn discuss what surrender and struggle look like when you don’t surrender, anti-surrender, and how it’s like boiling a frog. How do you boil a frog? ‘Boiling the frog’ is referring to the premise that if you stick a frog in boiling water, he jumps out immediately. Put him in warm water then raise up the water temp...

The spotlight is on Karen this week! Karen is on the Al-Anon journey while her husband Bruce is on the sober path journey with AA. Desperation brought Karen to Al-Anon and she tells us about changing her mindset from resentment because Bruce made this her problem, to realizing she had to switch the focus to herself, give up control because she could only control herself - not Bruce - and start res...

Table for 4 at the coffee shop today! Bruce is on the sober path journey with AA. Karen is on the Al-Anon journey. Married for 34 years, Bruce has been sober for the last 17 years. Bruce and Karen have gone through it. Listen to Bruce’s story today as he tells us about losing his soul to addiction and deciding he didn’t want to spread this disease to his family - instead he chose recovery. For mor...