Today we talk to Laura Willoughby MBE, who is co-founder of Club Soda, the Mindful Drinking Movement. Their aim is to create a world where nobody feels out of place not drinking. Club Soda has individuals, drinks brands, and social spaces in its membership.

The inspiration for Club Soda comes Laura’s experience of giving up drinking seven years ago. A campaigner at heart with a background in movement building and politics, she realised that one of the big sticking points was a way to support people to take a self-guided journey to change their drinking.

Club Soda has over 50,000 individual members, have built a venue listing guide for mindful drinkers (clubsodaguide.com) and they run the UK’s only Mindful Drinking Festival which is now in it’s 7th edition. She is author of How to Be a Mindful Drinker, a new book for 2020 published by DK books.

Laura is chair of Imbibe’s No & Low Taste Awards judging panel for 2020.

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Alex and Lisa talk to Jane about her life in Japan as a sober person. Jane tells her story about how she journeyed from blackout drinking to a life of sobriety and the trials and tribulations of living overseas in sobriety.

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Alex and Lisa talk to Simon Chapple, founder of Be Sober and author of The Sober Survival Guide about life since sobriety. We discuss his work with Annie Grace and This Naked Mind, including his live talks in Denver, his recent talk at Club Soda’s Mindful Drinking Festival and being vulnerable, along with a whole host of juicy topics from parenthood from a male perspective to ADHD to sober – don'[t know how we got onto that! Nothing was off limits in this conversation!

Check out Simon’s Linktree here https://linktr.ee/besoberandquit to join his Facebook group, buy his book, visit his website and much more!

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Alex and Lisa talk to Siobhan from Not So Secretly Sober about being sober as a young person and finding new friends. Siobhan discusses her first year of sobriety and what it feels like to celebrate a soberversary.

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Alex and Lisa have a good old rant about The Alcohol Industry and Alex gets to use her scientist brain for a change. We swear – too much! It’s all the emotion. We talk about alcohol free drinks, drunk people, sober people, and wine CONnosseurs. We also talk about our upcoming event for the sober and sober curious, including our panel of special guests: Simon Chapple, founder of Be Sober and author of The Sober Survival Guide https://linktr.ee/besoberandquit, Mandy Manners, co-founder of Love Sober and co-presenter of The Love Sober Podcast https://www.lovesober.com/, William Porter, author of Alcohol Explained and Alcohol Explained 2 http://www.alcoholexplained.com/ and Sober Dave, public speaker and sober influencer https://soberdave.co.uk/

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Alex and Lisa, the Sober Experiment, talk about sober socialising with the amazing Millie Gooch, founder of Sober Girl Society about her life before sobriety and her rise to success with SGS. Mille openly discusses sober socialising and sober along with her reasons for quitting drinking and her desire to inspire others.

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You will find Millie on Instagram using her personal account https://instagram.com/milliegooch?igshid=7w4l2tia2fd and Sober Girl Society https://instagram.com/sobergirlsociety?igshid=3hiyjtb5zjd6

Alex and Lisa of the Sober Experiment talk to Karolina Rzadkowolska, founder of Euphoric Alcohol Free about her journey to sobriety. We discuss friends and their reactions to sobriety, making new friends and being creative without the booze.

Karolina is a certified life and transformation coach she teaches students how to make alcohol insignificant in their lives. Karolina Helps find what truly makes you happy and builds a vision that's way bigger than a beverage.

She is obsessed with personal growth, travel, and becoming a better version of herself than she was yesterday. Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Greatist, Refinery29, Elite Daily, The Fix, Thrive Global, Authority Magazine, and other outlets. We are honoured she agreed to come and join us. Thank you Karolina

Visit Karolina’s website: https://www.euphoricaf.com/

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Alex and Lisa discuss the ups and downs of sobriety. This one is a bit of a roller coaster of emotions, we cover anxiety, depression, happy depression (it’s a real thing) there’s lots of laughs and a few confessions thrown in too.

We have lots of events coming up, visit our link below to check out events and get tickets!

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Alex and Lisa chat with William Porter, author of Alcohol Explained and Alcohol Explained 2 to discuss how alcohol affects sleep and anxiety, sober socialising and his new book, Alcohol Explained 2. William supports a growing Facebook group with their journey to sobriety and you can find it here https://www.facebook.com/groups/133108560878880/?ref=share

Visit William’s website http://www.alcoholexplained.com/ to read his latest blogs and read chapters from his books.

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Alex and Lisa interview their first guest, Rebecca Weef-Smith editor of Goldie Magazine, discussing life after sobriety, her relationship with alcohol, mental and physical health and how society treats alcohol.

Rebecca describes herself as ‘Positively glossy and loves life at 55’ and you can follow her on Instagram here https://instagram.com/goldie_magazine?igshid=1mn6oxf28y30t

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