The Unruffled Podcast

In this week’s episode, Tammi and Sondra are happy to share a conversation with Kate Rusciano. Kate is a wife, Mama and content marketing manager by day, and an aspiring author by night (and weekends). The ladies discovered Kate from an article that was published in the Elephant Journal that went viral in the sober community entitled, I Wasn’t a Problem Drinker But Spontaneous Sobriety Still Saved...

Episode 58: This Is Us In this week’s episode, Tammi and Sondra check-in on four subjects: sobriety, health, family and creativity. From Sobriety 2.0 to breaking through creative blocks, they catch up on the year thus far. They hope you will hang with them as they chat, high-five and commiserate as only two creative, sober sisters can. This week Sondra and Tammi share three items from their Unruff...

This week on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra were happy to chat with Sarah Andrews. Sarah is a woman who wears many hats, including Mom, social-impact marketer, philanthropic advisor and yoga instructor. They talk a lot about gray-area drinking and how it is okay to let go of something that is not serving you, even before it becomes a problem. Sarah is also someone who has suffered from anxiety and...

Today, Tammi and Sondra are ecstatic to share a conversation with Janelle Hanchett. Janelle is a Mom of four, a writer and the founder of the very popular website, Renegade Mothering. Janelle has a story in which becoming a Mom was not enough to save her from her addictions and it is raw, tender and harrowing. This story has a happy ending, though, and one being that she wrote a beautiful memoir,...

This week on the pod, Tammi and Sondra are happy to share a conversation with Andrea Krussel. Andrea is our favorite kind of multi-passionate: marathon runner, Mama, yogi, occasional actress and creative drama teacher and higher education administrator. They talk about many things, but mostly how listening to your intuition, even when it’s quiet, can put you on a path to fulfillment. If you are so...

Today, Tammi and Sondra are excited to share a conversation with their friend, Amanda Grace. Amanda is an Irish artist and teacher, a ‘Pilgrim Soul’ who bares her soul through her unique style of RAW visual art journaling. They talk about what it’s like to uncover the layers to heal the original wound and how that uncovering led Amanda to question her relationship with alcohol, how she’s attending...

The Unruffled Podcast is one year old! To celebrate, Tammi and Sondra thought it would be fun to answer questions from the listeners. They address questions such as what were recovery’s surprising gifts and struggles, what do they do when they feel judge-y and when did they start to feel their creative super powers. They hope this episode really illuminates the joy they get from being in each othe...

In this week’s episode, Tammi and Sondra welcome Jamie Amos. Jamie is a writer, blogger, wife and Pit Bull Mama thriving in New Orleans. The ladies talk about the illusion of the high-functioning alcoholic, the “chorus of voices” changing the conversation and the reclamation of feminine power. They also discuss how you can survive the worst things imaginable and stay sober. This is a great episode...

In this week’s episode, Tammi and Sondra happily share a conversation with Taryn Strong. Taryn is a yoga and meditation teacher and co-founder of the beloved She Recovers, a global movement to embrace and empower all women in all forms and modalities of recovery. Taryn candidly shares her own recovery story, how that relates to having a Mom also in recovery and how it led them both to the beautifu...

In this episode, Tammi and Sondra are excited to share a conversation with Sam Lamott. Sam is an artist, writer, owner and operator of the media company, Hello Humans and the host of the outstanding How To Human podcast. Sam exemplifies what it means to be a creative in recovery, and having a Mom that writes prolifically about her own recovery, this may come as no surprise. They talk about how his...

In this episode, Tammi and Sondra talk to Jolene Park. Jolene works as a functional nutritionist and health coach through her company, Healthy Discoveries, and also co-hosts her own podcast, Editing Our Drinking & Our Lives. The ladies dive deep into the physiological reasons behind why we drink and the healthy ways we can generate those same biochemicals when we quit drinking and spoiler alert: c...

In today’s episode, Tammi and Sondra had so much fun talking to Amy Dresner. Amy is a former stand-up comedian, writer and author of My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean. Amy’s is a story of soul-baring honesty, resilience and the kind of humor that people in recovery totally get but that makes people outside of recovery completely uncomfortable. Amy is irreverent and sweet...

Today, Tammi and Sondra elaborate on all things Tammi and Sondra, specifically where they are with their current, respective creative projects. From processes to struggles to finding new ways to numb out, it is always deeply enmeshed in their recovery journey. “Sobriety delivers what alcohol promised” is a statement that is never lost on them. They hope to inspire you as much as they inspire each...

Tammi and Sondra are happy to welcome Katie Bickell to the show. Katie is a Mama and writer from Alberta whom they discovered because of a stunning essay she penned that went viral entitled, Moms Tell Me To Drink. They talk about the shame and regret that was all too prevalent before she quit drinking and how that was such a huge block to her creativity. They talk about how our children are watchi...

In this episode, Tammi and Sondra are excited to bring you a conversation with Andrea Owen. Andrea is a mentor, certified life-coach, sober Mama, host of Your Kick Ass Life Podcast and most recently, author of a new book, How To Stop Feeling Like Shit: 14 Habits That Are Holding You Back From Happiness. Andrea talks about her sobriety journey, one in which many can relate, a story of jumping off o...

Tammi and Sondra are so excited to have Laura McKowen on the pod this week. Laura is a Mama, writer, teacher and co-host of the very popular Home podcast with Holly Whitaker and co-host of a new podcast, Spiritual-ish, with Meadow DeVor. They talk about granting yourself permission to change, to say No to things so you can say a big fat Yes to others, and then the biggest Yeses that lead to the gi...

Today, Tammi and Sondra are happy to welcome Jenna Zaffino to the pod. Jenna is a movement educator who specializes in teaching continuing education to pilates professionals, hosts her own podcast, Pilates Unfiltered, is a career coach, Mama and all around sobriety enthusiast! We talk about how she came to define her own recovery through online support, Hip Sobriety School and Gabby Bernstein’s Sp...

Today, Sondra and Tammi talk about the five things that were their biggest teachers of 2017. From Math to hormones, it’s a sweeping and dense assessment of the year. If there is a theme, then that is MAJOR GROWTH. They hope you’ll be able to keep up as they laugh and cry, but mostly laugh. The ladies share their top three tools in their Unruffled Toolbox for the week: Sondra: (1) Reflection; (2) B...

In this episode, Tammi and Sondra are excited to welcome Nicolette Gawthrop. Nico is a Mom to three, photographer, writer, artist and restaurant owner living and thriving in Fayetteville, Arkansas. You may know her on Instagram as @ozarkmamadeer, where she beautifully chronicles her home and style. She generously shares her road to sobriety, one that offers a conscious choice to live alcohol-free...

Today, Tammi and Sondra catch up on four topics: sobriety, family, health and creativity. They talk about how much more solid they felt in their sobriety through the holidays, the difficulty in parenting teenagers, new mental and physical health goals, and the creative energy they are putting into new projects, their homes and so much more. Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, settle in, and catc...

It’s a New Year and today, Tammi and Sondra reflect on 2017, specifically on their respective practices of picking a word for the year. They talk about when they each started the practice, why they do it and how it has shaped their years. They also share their chosen words for 2018 and the intentions behind their choices. It’s time to retire that old, non-effective practice of resolution-setting....

In today’s episode, Tammi and Sondra have a long girlfriend chat with Lori Massicot. If you are immersed in the sober Instagram world, then you probably know Lori as @to50andbeyond. Lori is a Cali girl, wellness coach and just an incredible sober, positive light who placed a goal for herself to be in better health by the time she was 50. She’s done that and beyond. They talk about what it’s like t...

In this episode, Tammi and Sondra bring you an interview with Michelle Pattee. Michelle is a west coast photographer and textile designer who candidly shares her truth about getting sober again after a relapse. They talk about the effort it takes to put recovery as priority, while maintaining roles as mom, wife and creative business owner. It is hard and honest work, and Michelle beautifully descr...

Tammi and Sondra are so happy to talk to Becky Vollmer this week. Becky is a mama, yoga teacher, writer and creator of You Are Not Stuck http://youarenotstuck.com, a site that empowers people to get unstuck and start pursuing the lives of their dreams. The ladies reflect again on Liz Gilbert’s short essay entitled Not This and Becky shares three significant moments (career, sobriety and marriage)...

In this episode, Tammi and Sondra talk to the beautiful Melissa Johnson. Melissa has an incredible story of loss, resilience and fierce motherhood that is an absolute testimony to the power of recovery. Listening to her courageous intuition, she began sharing her journey on her website, www.mytruthstartshere.org and through that, she found her life’s work to serve others in recovery, one clean hom...