Sober Curious

Ruby talks to Layla F. Saad, author of NY Times best-seller Me And White Supremacy—a step-by-step reflection process for people with white privilege to examine their racist thoughts and behaviors, and their participation in white supremacy.

Jordan Younger, a.k.a wellness blogger The Balanced Blonde, quit drinking as part of her healing from Lyme disease. In this episode she talks to Ruby about choosing sobriety for holistic wellbeing, being a highly-sensitive person in a toxic world.

As Needed For Pain author Dan Peres on holding down his high-profile media career in the grips of his opioid addiction, his attempts to get clean, and what it took to finally kick his 60-pill per day habit.

Yogi and educator Sara Clark talks to Ruby about her experience of overcoming bulimia and exercise addiction, and the link between eating disorders and substance abuse.

When Tawny Lara quit drinking ... she also quit faking orgasms. In this episode, which was recorded live at the alcohol-free Getaway bar in Brooklyn, she talks to Ruby about all the ways getting sober impacts our dating life and intimate relationships.

In this episode, author Laura McKowen shares how being honest with oneself and others is one of the cornerstones of living a sober or sober curious life—something that she illustrates with at times brutal clarity in her brilliant memoir, We Are The Luckiest.

"Zero-proof" is following in the footsteps of the meat-free movement—and Grüvi founders Niki and Anika Sawni are leading the charge. In this episode, they share the origin story of their brand, which begins with a family outing to a cannabis legalization party ...

In this fascinating conversation with yogi and author Eddie Stern, we learn what's happening in our bodies when we crave a drink—and how the science of yoga is designed to help bring us back into balance.

Alcohol is often used as shortcut to connection - but it's no substitute for the real thing. In this episode we hear from Chris Marshall, founder of booze-free bar Sans Bar, about how his craving for connection was what fueled his addiction, and his mission to change the face of sober socializing forever.

With her 2015 book This Naked Mind, Annie Grace was the original pioneer of the "new sobriety" movement. In this episode, she shares about the push back she received at the time, how attitudes have changed, and her belief that the biggest advances in society always come from outside of the existing paradigm ...