I’m joined by the brilliant and hilarious Anna David, who’s (almost) at 25 years sober and has the receipts. We get into the infamous “Fix” headline fiasco, why community laughter can be medicine, and how she accidentally checked into the other Promises—think broken hoop, not Malibu tennis courts. Anna talks getting sober at 30, the power of 12-step, and how EMDR rewired her life. We also compare notes on early motherhood being… let’s say “not a spa day,” and celebrate her new gig co-hosting Sober Living and running Legacy Launchpad Publishing. 

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In this conversation with Rosebud Baker, we trace a line from grief to grace: a political-family childhood near D.C., the loss of her little sister, finding alcohol, and then finding a room where people spoke her language. We talk about the slow work of sitting with feelings, Al-Anon, the beginnings of stand-up and writing, sobriety since 2006, pregnancy loss, IVF, becoming a mom, and the memoir she’s written along the way, Fully Baked. It’s a hopeful map for anyone who needs community, laughter, and permission to start again.

This week I sit down with Jonathan Todd Schwartz, who went from daily sports bets and a secret coke spiral to embezzeling money from his high profile musician clients like  Alanis Morissette. We talk parenting while living a double life, the polygraph that blew everything up, and how it all changed. It's riveting from start to finish.

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This week on Drunk-ish, I sit down with my friend Kate Anthony—author, divorce coach, and host of The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast. Kate opens up about how playdates with wine turned into nightly drinking, the shame spirals at 3am (“Holy fuck, I can’t believe I drove”  ), and the moment she realized alcohol was the problem, not her. We talk parenting, hitting that “I’m done” wall, what finally helped her quit, and how sobriety gave her the love, career, and life she never thought possible. Funny, heartfelt, and completely relatable, this conversation is one you don’t want to miss.

Find out all the info on Kate at her website KateAnthony.com

Her book is The D Word: Making the Ultimate Decision About Your Marriage
Her podcast is The Divorce Survival Guide

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This week on Drunk-ish I sit down with Brenda Wilhelmson, author of Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife. Brenda opens up about juggling motherhood, her years of trying to “look perfect on the outside” while feeling wrecked on the inside, and the rocky starts that came before lasting sobriety. We talk about vodka martinis with dissertation-writing cousins, accidentally lighting her hair on fire at an office Christmas party, and the judgment moms face when they admit they’re struggling. Brenda shares how she finally found recovery, what helped her stick with it, and how her life has changed today.

Imagine getting sober before you could drive. That’s my guest this week, Robin Reiser, who checked into rehab at sixteen and never looked back. Well… not willingly, anyway. Robin tells me about being busted by her parents after they found her diary (rookie mistake), what it felt like to think alcohol was her best friend, and the surprisingly relatable “not today” trick she still uses to quiet that little voice saying, “Maybe you could handle it now.” We swap stories, laugh about our old drunk logic, and get real about parenting sober.

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Imagine getting sober before you could drive. That’s my guest this week, Robin Reiser, who checked into rehab at sixteen and never looked back. Well… not willingly, anyway. Robin tells me about being busted by her parents after they found her diary (rookie mistake), what it felt like to think alcohol was her best friend, and the surprisingly relatable “not today” trick she still uses to quiet that little voice saying, “Maybe you could handle it now.” We swap stories, laugh about our old drunk logic, and get real about parenting sober.

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Richard Taite is back for part two, and this time we go deep into what parents really need to know about kids and drugs today. Richard explains how fentanyl shows up in everything from fake Percocet to weed, and how to have the hard conversations with our kids. We also talk about parenting through addiction, whether sending a teen to rehab for weed is overkill, and why he believes early, honest talks can save lives. And because it’s Richard, we still manage to laugh while comparing rehab to choosing between the Four Seasons and Motel 6  .

Richard Taite might be the only guy who can tell me about running into Charlie Sheen in a crack-fueled hallway at 3 a.m., slam the door on his own intervention because “nobody gets sober on a Thursday,", and then casually mention founding one of the most successful rehabs in America. On this episode, Richard and I laugh (because sometimes you have to) about his six-month drug runs fueled by Big Macs, what it felt like to land in a top bunk in sober living, and how sobriety gave him back his kids. Spoiler: he’s still alive to tell it.

Kim Evey is here, and let me just say: when your sobriety story includes Bartles & Jaymes in a high school bathroom, 99¢ store wine tastings, and accidentally peeing in your suitcase on Ambien… you know it’s going to be a good episode. We laugh about the “math” we used to do to justify three martinis before driving home  , the art of hiding booze in the kitchen cabinets  , and how motherhood makes “just one glass” an absolute scam . This one’s equal parts hilarious and terrifying, which pretty much sums up the experience of getting sober.

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