I talk to Laura Van Antwerp, who once sat on her couch reading a book by the Buddha, candles lit, vibes immaculate -- while doing shots of Sauza Blue tequila with a pineapple back. Her ex-boyfriend walked in and said, "What happened to you?" and she thought he was asking about her day. He was asking about her drinking. Laura tried everything to quit drinking: the wine-only rule, the expensive-wine-only rule, the one-bottle-in-the-house rule, Dry January, even training for a marathon. She talks about how she said she was going to do things but never followed through, and how the shame of all of it kept pulling her back to the bottle until she figured out how to let it go. 

Laura now runs sober adventure retreats and takes women backpacking and whitewater rafting. She went from not being able to complete a Dry January to running a business. Sobriety looks good on her.

Find out more about Laura @YourSoberPal or her website YourSoberPal.com (her Sober adventures are linked to from her website!)

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I talk to Rich Shydner, a standup comic who once performed on acid, had a roast beef sandwich thrown at him on stage by his tripping girlfriend, and thought “I am one with the bugs” while sitting in a stream covered in mosquitoes. So yeah, he’s done some things. He’s also been sober since 1985, which is longer than some of you have been alive, and he's doing great! Rich was part of the original sober comedy crew in LA — the guys who proved you could do the road without a drink.  He also has very strong opinions about microdosing, which boil down to: “If I could microdose, I wouldn’t be in the shape I’m in.” Same, Rich, same.

In part two with Kristi Tanner, we get into what happened after everything fell apart: the second DUI, rehab, divorce, single motherhood, and the very weird miracle of building a life you actually want to be awake for. Kristi talks about getting sober with four little kids, learning how to be alone without losing her mind, and why her children now think rehab was basically the White House. 

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This week I’m talking to Kristi Tanner, and wow, did we have one of those conversations where you start nodding so hard you practically sprain your neck. Kristi walks me through the long, messy road from party girl to mommy-wine survival mode to full-blown chaos, complete with blackouts, denial, rehab, hiding bottles, and trying to convince herself she just needed better “rules.” We talk about how alcohol can make you feel connected right up until it blows your life apart, and how easy it is to confuse shame with proof that you’re just a bad person. 

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This week I'm talking to Celeste Yvonne, author of It's Not About the Wine: The Loaded Truth Behind Mommy Wine Culture, and I have to tell you — I kept saying "same" out loud while reading her Scary Mommy interview. Celeste grew up watching her dad's Nicolas Cage-level alcoholism and figured as long as she wasn't that, she was fine. Meanwhile, she's hiding bottles and white-knuckling through bedtime. We get into gray area drinking, the lie that is "mommy needs wine," and why online recovery meetings have been a game-changer for moms who can barely get to the bathroom alone. If you've ever thought your drinking doesn't count because it doesn't look like the movies, this one's for you.

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This week on Drunk-ish, my friend Kim Evey comes back for a do-over—because last time she was on in 2025, she wasn’t fully telling the story. We talk about what relapse can look like when you’re still saying the right things, still showing up… and quietly sliding into secrecy anyway. Kim gets brutally honest about perfectionism, shame, “sneaky” addiction brain, and how the smallest little off-ramps (skipping meetings, ditching meditation, isolating, even a video game spiral) can add up fast. Plus: pills, gummies, Ambien-hunting, and the moment her kid said, “You’re acting weird.”

I’m joined this week by Sara Kaufman Bradstreet, creator of No More Wasted Days, and honestly we could’ve titled this episode: The Nobel Prize in Making Rules You’ll Break By Tuesday. Sara and I talk binge drinking, brownouts, the fantasy of “I’ll only drink wine and beer,” and the oddly romantic chaos of being drinking partners—until one of you ruins the party by quitting. We also get into her Beachbody era where “I drink beer” was basically a brand pillar and what it’s like to go from alcohol-free to fully substance-free.

Find Sara on her website to hit her up for coaching at  NoMoreWastedDays.co

Her podcast is No More Wasted Days whereever you download your pods

or her IG No_More_Wasted_Days

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Catherine Gray, best selling author of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, is here to talk about her new book Little Addictions, and let me tell you, this one hit close to home. We're talking about all the stuff we do too much of—phones, sugar, procrastination, people-pleasing—basically everything except drinking, which we've already quit. Catherine explains why her journalism friends literally coined the phrase "got Cath'd last night" because of how drunk she'd get, how she ended up topless in a hot tub at a work Christmas party, and why she now obsesses over peppermint tea instead of wine. Funny, relatable, and weirdly comforting.

Little Addictions, is out today (Feb 10th) anywhere you get books. 

You can follower Catherine Gray on IG at @UnexpectedJoyOf

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This week I'm talking with my friend Vicki Moser about anxiety, complicated childhoods, and how sobriety helped her rewrite the story she'd been telling herself for decades. Vicki shares what it was like growing up painfully shy, caring for her sick mom while still a teenager, and eventually finding herself drinking to cope with all of it. We get into the messy middle of recovery, the freedom that comes from owning our mistakes with our kids, and why "powerful, courageous, sober woman" is the only story she's telling now. Plus, we bond over good hair and no bras on Zoom. You know, the important stuff.

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This week I’m talking with Colleen Saldana, a therapist at a recovery center who somehow manages to be both deeply wise and extremely relatable. Colleen got sober at 21, relapsed at 38, and tells the whole “I’ll just have one margarita” story in a way that will make you laugh… and also clutch your water bottle tighter. We get into growing up around alcohol, anxiety, an eating disorder, the way addiction plays the long game, and what finally helped (detox, sober living, sponsorship, and doing the actual program). It’s a big, hopeful, been-there conversation. 

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