The Unruffled Podcast

This week on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra are excited to share a conversation with Shari Hampton. You may know Shari from the Instagram and podcast world as Served Up Sober. If you do, then you already know how wise, insightful and funny Shari is and if you don’t, go follow her now. She has a fascinating story of how she came to sobriety and is a true testament to try, fail, try again. Shari is s...

In this episode, Tammi and Sondra talk to Brooke Morton with Sober Outside. Brooke has spent over a decade as a travel writer and adventurer and after she got into recovery, she combined her passions to create an adventure travel company for the sober community in March 2018, thus Sober Outside. If you are a lover of travel (or if you just want to hear a beautiful account of recovery), you will fi...

In this week’s episode, Tammi and Sondra check-in on four subjects: sobriety, health, family and creativity. They talk about monotony and exhaustion, exercise and seasonal blues, life in and out of their control, and creative ideas, big and small. They hope you join them for the last check-in of 2018. This week Sondra and Tammi share three items from their Unruffled Toolboxes: Sondra: (1) Hand sti...

On this week’s podcast, Tammi and Sondra are so excited to bring you a conversation with Holly Whitaker. If you don’t already know Holly, she in the founder and CEO of Tempest, Inc. (formerly Hip Sobriety, Inc.) and the newly launched media site, The Temper, and is currently one of the smartest voices in modern recovery. They talk about how she took her sobriety school from just a handful of stude...

This week on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra are happy to bring you a conversation with Patty Muenks. Patty has a beautiful and fulfilling life as a ceramics artist and shared business owner with her beloved husband, but this wasn’t always Patty’s life. She takes us through her drinking story, painting a true picture of what it was like in hopes that you may find some connection in her experience. H...

This week on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra are excited to bring you a conversation with Dana Bowman. Dana is an author, teacher and speaker who sends Moms everywhere who struggle  with alcohol a message of strength and hope through her books, speaking engagements and television appearances. They also talk about perfectionism, marriage, relapse and writing...it’s a very juicy episode. You can learn...

Today, Tammi and Sondra are excited to share a conversation with artist, author and teacher, Sabrina Ward Harrison. Although Sabrina has had a prolific creative career, she came to a point in her life where she felt alcohol was holding her back and today, she shares her sobriety story publicly for the first time. Tammi and Sondra are honored to hold this space for her and they hope that her messag...

In this episode, Tammi and Sondra revisit their time at the She Recovers event in LA. They talk about their favorite parts (the silent disco, duh), which events had the most impact and what left them inspired to take action. Though they both had different take-aways, they both agreed that the best overall part was meeting The Unruffled Podcast listeners. They hope this episode sends good energy ou...

Today, Tammi and Sondra bring you a conversation with Niki Hale. Niki is a multi-passionate Californian and when she’s not providing trauma-informed massage therapy, she’s making, sewing, cooking, gardening, connecting and creating a rich and meaningful life. With alcohol no longer holding her back, Niki is a force to be reckoned. If you’d like to learn more about Niki and her offerings, visit her...

Tammi and Sondra catch up on two of four subjects today, as filtered through the lens of Summer: family and sobriety (check last week’s episode for health and creativity). They talk about teenagers, aging parents, sobriety milestones and service. The summer of slowing down, self-indulgence and the Sober Sister Summer Series was a success! This week Sondra and Tammi share three items from their Unr...

Tammi and Sondra catch up on two of four subjects today, as filtered through the lens of Summer: health and creativity (come back next week for family and sobriety). They talk about hormones and anxiety, painting, making, writing and even job hunting. They also reflect on the success of the Sober Sister Summer Series and their respective themes of slowing down and self-indulgence. No Unruffled Too...

Rounding out the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are happy to bring you a conversation with their friend, Susan Sainsbury. Susan is a creative, sober sister from another Mother, tucked into the Catskills with her family and animals, she has the kind of creative prowess that inspires envy. From her quaint farmhouse, studio and garden, her found object art to her community work, Susan h...

With a few more episodes to go in their Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are excited to share a conversation with their friend, Lara Frazier. Lara is a writer, speaker and recovery advocate with a strong voice in the recovery community. She has a very powerful story that’s she’s told on a couple of favorite podcasts, so if you want to hear Lara’s complete journey to sobriety, you can c...

In this week’s episode and as part of the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra talk to their friend, Sarelle McCoard. Sarelle is a sober Mama living in Ohio and is someone who really works hard on her recovery, and it shows. Always a student, she began a new career as a chemical dependency counselor at 48 and there is hardly a creative challenge that she isn’t willing to take on. Sarelle’s...

Adding to the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are excited to have their friend Diana Unlu on the show. Diana is a sober Mama, passionate and thriving in Austin, where she is busy creating a life from which she no longer wants to escape. Through her beautiful travels, home and family, her life is Instagram-worthy, but it is the changes that she’s made on the inside through recovery tha...

Continuing with the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are happy to bring you an interview with their friend, Gloria Blecha. Gloria is a sober Mama, Californian lover of woo and light who almost stumbled into sobriety by way of first attempting to address her issues with money, shopping and spending. This is this first time they’ve had someone on the podcast that was willing to be so tra...

Tammi and Sondra are honored to bring you another interview in the Sober Sister Summer Series this week with Nicole Baker. Though they often use this platform to talk about what life is like now in recovery, sometimes it is necessary to travel deep into what it was like and what happened to us that got us to where we are today, and Nicole takes us on that journey. Nicole’s story is powerful, somet...

Continuing with the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are excited to welcome Miki Romo. Miki is a sober Mama, occupational therapist and aspiring yoga teacher who has a story not often told in the recovery space. So many in recovery often have co-occurring issues and those around food often ride along with alcohol and other addictions. Miki is someone who didn’t start down a path of rec...

Coming off the heels of the Austin and Santa Rosa Women’s Circle events, Tammi and Sondra thought it would be a good time to revisit community. (If you want to listen to first time they talk about community, go back to Episode 5 https://soundcloud.com/stevehecht-561628099/episode-5-creating-community.) Specifically, they talk about ideas on how to build one, how they evolve and most importantly, h...

Staying with the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra welcome back Erin Shaw Street to talk about sober travel. (You may remember Erin from Episode 18 https://soundcloud.com/stevehecht-561628099/episode-18-erin-shaw-street, so go back and listen to that one if you want to hear her entire story.) As a travel writer, Erin has so many great tips on sober travel, including not just how to prep...

Continuing with their Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are happy to have their friend, Jenn James, on the pod. Jenn is a sober Mama, artist and recovery coach-in-training who has built a colorful life in sobriety that includes all things crystals, plants, books and nature. Jenn is a beautiful example of someone living her best, most exciting life in recovery. You can learn more about J...

In this episode, Tammi and Sondra are excited to have Natalie Fairbrook on the podcast, helping them kick off a slightly new Summer format called the Sober Sister Summer Series. Natalie is a friend (often referred to on the pod, *that* Natalie), sober Mama, yoga teacher and recovery coach in training and from party-girl to passionate teetotaler, her story is sure to resonate. This series is all ab...

In this week’s episode, Tammi and Sondra were happy to talk to the radiant Amy Newman. Amy is a health and wellness advocate, where she makes her love of plants as medicine accessible to all over on her platform, Whole Life With Amy. She has also adopted the alcohol-free lifestyle, and the ladies talk about how she came to that decision as a powerful choice that went hand-in-hand with the taking b...

Tammi and Sondra have been wanting to talk to women in recovery who hold full-time jobs but also make time for creativity, so that is what this episode is about. Beverly is a sober Mom, full-time scientist and passionate crafter who makes time to do something creative every day. Beverly shares many helpful tips on how she makes this happen and the ladies know you will be inspired by her drive and...

Tammi and Sondra are excited to share a chat with Natha Perkins Campanella. Natha is a sober Mama, life coach and astrologer, whom the ladies discovered after she reached out with an offering of a natal chart reading, in which she was open to discussing certain astrological chart markers that make some more susceptible to using drugs and alcohol. It took a whole three minutes for the ladies to say...