Last Drinks

Matt Agnew is a scientist, was on The Bachelor and stopped drinking after his mental health took a turn. In this l o n g conversation Matt talks about his decision to go sober, how his public life effected his personal happiness, when he had his last drink and how sobriety during lock down was a good choice for him personally. Despite having, as Matt says 'a few slip ups' Matt has stayed the sober path and finds it's compounded benefits are a positive driver to keep exploring sobriety.

Matt talks about socializing without alcohol, how to he got back on track after a slip-up, and what he discovered in sobriety that surprised him.

Matt Agnew has shared his enthusiasm for science through several radio spots, invited science talks and a wildly successful show at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and various science fairs and conferences. With a PhD in astrophysics, a background in engineering, and a Masters in artificial intelligence, Matt has a breadth of knowledge he’s dying to talk about! Space and robots, anyone?

His first book was published in November 2022 tilted “Dr Matt’s Guide to Life In Space” (Allen & Unwin) and a second book is planned for release in summer 23/24.

Matt was born in Adelaide, raised in Perth and is now living in Melbourne. 

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Darren has a wide and varied background. He has worked as a para-legal, sold vacuum cleaners door-to-door, worked as a debt collector, was a banker for 3 years, spent 5 years as a statistician for the Australian government, and even spent 2 years as a tele-marketer while putting himself through uni as a mature age student. While doing all of this, he spent 10 years representing Australia in sailing and got a brown belt in Judo.

This conversation is going to blow your mind! Darren unpacks his very controversial opinions about addiction, and if alcohol addiction is real or not, how our brains are wired, if habits are healthy and how to deactivate negative patterns of behaviour. It's a LOT! Keep an open mind when listening!

Darren now works with major Australian and international companies to unblock their performance. He is passionate about helping people get out of their own way so they can stop struggling and achieve more with less effort. He counts Global 100 companies such as CISCO, Caterpillar, Komatsu and others among his clients.

He is the author of six books on communication, leadership and influence. His seventh book Mindset Mastery - Mind control techniques to master anything is currently in the research phase.

Darren's new book is available here: www.MindsetMastery.online

Darren lives in Adelaide with his wife and teenage kids. He loves traveling the country and world to help his clients achieve their goals.

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50 EPISODES!!!

On the 50th episode of Last Drinks also happens to be Maz's birthday.

As this is Maz's EIGHTH birthday without booze, she unpacks how to celebrate a birthday without alcohol with two key things. Intention and a good Response.

Plus hear about the new website (www.mazcompton.com) and her new book, Last Drinks: How To Drink Less & Be Your Best is available now for pre-order.

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With 30 years of experience as a live TV & Radio Presenter, combined with a life dedicated to wellness, Andi proves to be an engaging professional storyteller.

Andi researches the latest information in natural health care to custom create wellness and lifestyle content, she had written NINE books, three of which are best sellers, and used to own and operate a Wellness Clinic, Maz & Andi have been friends for a while, and made time to catch for over priced smoothies in Melbourne when they both lived there. In this candid chat the girls sit down together for the first time in a long time and talk about toxins in the body, the impact of alcohol, how important water is, and Andi makes a very rare personal admission which has both the girls reaching for the Kleenex.

A beautiful endorsement for living without toxins in our bodies, and a true mark of trust and friendship are the themes of this conversation. As well as self- acceptance, overcoming trauma and embracing holistic living.

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A refreshing and beautiful conversation that is powerful for anyone with a brain in their head.

Director and Founder of Dynamic Thought consulting, Dr Ineka Whiteman (married name Ineka van Zyl) is a neuroscientist with 20 years international training and experience in brain research, including studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

With a PhD in Medicine specialising in neurobiology of dementia and other neurological disease, Ineka’s award-winning research has been published in numerous international peer-reviewed medical journals and invited for presentation at scientific conferences world-wide.

Ineka’s passion for teaching and communicating the science of the brain and mind has led her to work with a wide variety of organisations and audiences.

And in this episode of Last Drinks Ineka explains how the brain works, in intriciate detail, how our thoughts create our behaviours and how we can change... yes, we have the equipment to effect change in our own lives.

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Kath Elliot is a breast cancer survivor.

Kath navigated cancer, chemo and change without alcohol. Kath used to drink like most people, all through her early twenties and thirties, a grey area drinker, where nothing crazy happened. Yet she eventually tired of the hangovers and lost memories of the night before and decided to go sober. It was a few weeks later she would receive the news of a harrowing breast cancer diagnosis and her whole world would spin on a different axis.

Maz and Kath talk about the links between drinking and increased cancer risk and have a very raw conversation about the lack of education of these inherent and problematic health risks alcohol consumption can cause. Kath, in remission and healthier than ever, attributes her sobriety to the discovery that more needs to be done to educate women of the impacts alcohol can have on their health and cancer risk.

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Alex Cassidy is a marketer from South West London who in 2021 founded RewardDays, an app that helps people change their relationships with bad habits by providing rewards for successful streaks off them.

Having quit alcohol three years ago, Alex realized his relationship with alcohol wasn't serving him well, and after England lost the Rugby World Cup in 2019, Alex decided he was done with drinking. But how did that go down with his rugby mates? Alex shares his experience navigating sobriety among work, family and, as a rugby player and the surprising online forum he lent on during his sober journey.

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After 20 years of climbing the corporate ladder at big companies and small startups, Casey Davidson wasn’t in love with the life she was living.

Her life looked pretty good from the outside, but didn’t feel as good on the inside. She had too many commitments and not enough hours in the day.

She was constantly going, yet filled with an anxious energy she could never quite release so she would hurry home after work, feeling desperate to relax, and immediately open a bottle of wine.

She'd drink the bottle, and sometimes more, while cooking dinner, helping with homework, doing the dishes, and watching TV.

And then would wake up at 3 am with her my mind racing and her heart pounding, feeling like complete shit. She'd worry about how to handle the business trip next week, get to day care pick up on time, manage everything in-between and how she'd get through the morning with a headache and a hangover.

It was exhausting

Something needed to change. 

Hear how Casey stopped drinking, and created a new and beautiful life.

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Sober Awkward is a wonderful sobriety podcast hosted by Vick & Hamish, two friends who are sober but have hugely different sobriety stories.

In this episode of Last Drinks they join Maz to chat about their last drinks, their sober cause and share bite sized practical advice for anyone thinking about stopping drinking.

Check out Vicks blog: https://www.drunkmummysobermummy.com/sober-awkward

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sober-awkward/id1565657975

Cuppa Community: https://cuppa.community/

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Tom Gozney has built a huge international cult following of well-recognised chefs, but Tom's story didn't start as a promising pizza oven pioneer. As a child, he struggled with severe dyslexia and was highly misunderstood—resulting in expulsion from school and being kicked out of college. Told he wouldn’t amount to anything, Tom turned to drugs and alcohol and soon became addicted. At 20, he entered a rehabilitation program in South Africa and emerged a year later unsure of his path forward. This is where we start our conversation, Tom's Last Drink.

Without drugs and alcohol to lean on, Tom struggled with social gatherings. He didn’t find comfort until he decided to build a homemade brick oven in his backyard where he discovered his love for cooking. Upon doing so, he realized that pizza was his way to re-engage with friends and family, who would bring over pizza toppings (rather than drugs and alcohol) and enjoy an evening in the community—uniting in the healing power of good food and great company. This inspired Gozney to create his first oven business, The Stone Bake Oven Company (2010), with the goal of making wood-fired cooking accessible to commercial businesses, and later residential properties with the establishment of the Gozney brand.

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