Sober Edge

My guest today is Angie Chaplin. Founder and owner of Mindful Leadership + Recovery, Angie Chaplin is a speaker, facilitator, educator and author with more than 20 years of work in human resources and organizational development. Leveraging her own journey from alcohol addictionto business owner, Angie guides leaders to live, love, and lead extraordinary lives of their own design.

In this episode, Angie walks us through the principles of leadership and how to apply them to Personal Leadership. Her Value Mapping Model teaches us to use our own values as a guide to living AF. Angie shares her framework for change based on the 4 pt. Behavioral change model and shares how to create a WRAP a wellness recovery action plan. . This episode is chock full of practical tools and practical steps. As Angie says, life after alcohol is a 'choose your own adventure'.

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Your 60, 90 days alcohol-free. You feel solid and happy….at home. But, what happens when your first vacation rolls around? Or, the boozy work convention? Susan Larkin is a This Naked Mind Coach who shares her 5 key steps to learning how to manage our mind and discover the joy and beauty of sober travel!

Susan shares her own discovery about the pitfalls of travel and how to navigate landmines using a variety of tactics and tools so that you can have the vacation of your dreams - without alcohol!

Susan's mission is to help professional women discover how to get their drinking under control and become free and create a life they want to wake up to! She knows first-hand what it's like to feel stuck, knowing alcohol did not work for her, but also not being able to let go.

Susan is passionate about helping women take back their power of choice, and create an amazing and vibrant life!

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Intentional Growth. This alcohol-free journey is one of the most intense periods of self-development and personal growth that one might ever experience. Many of us, me included, come to appreciate and even enjoy the intense learning phase. So, if you don't want to fixate on alcohol but you want to keep growing and learning, what comes next?

This episode is a bit of a departure as Teri shares how she does 'the work' to keep learning and growing on the other side of drinking. This is Part 2 of a two-part series where Teri shares resources and tips to help you stay connected and centered as you create this alcohol-free life!

Part 2 focuses on community - where can you find and engage with those with others who are also focused on personal growth? Teri shares her own mastermind experience and how she created an 'intentional' book club to escape the 'wine and whine' club she had been a part of for several years.

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Come behind the scenes as Teri shares in this special 2-part episode how to keep growing and learning on the other side of drinking.

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This conversation with Jodi Cohen, founder of Vibrant Blue Oils has helped me recognize the power that is in oils. I have been curious for a while if essential oils could offer any support during the detox and repair phase after we stop drinking, so I reached out my fellow FNTP (Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner) Jodi Cohen. Why? Essential Oils harness the power of plants that have been used for centuries for their healing properties. One of the reasons that oils work vs. supplements is that essential oils can cross the blood-brain barrier through our olfactory system, or sense of smell, without having to breakdown through our digestive system and other organs. This can mean a direct path to healing. In particular, we talk about using essential oils to help stimulate the Vagus Nerve and help us reduce anxiety on our journey to regulate our nervous system while removing alcohol.

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For Bitter For Worse

What happens when you get hit with a job loss and a health crisis all at once? If you are like my podcast guest this week, Shelley Elkovich, you do what you love - create a cocktail 'made with love, not alcohol'. We have a rich and fascinating conversation about taking a leap of faith, and turning your passion into your full time business. Shelley shares the inspiration behind her cocktail company, For Bitter For Worse, what it means to 'reverse bootleg' and how to become a social pollinator.

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Congratulations! You've made it 30, 60, 100 days without drinking! You feel amazing, powerful, rested, restored, and….terrified.

There is so much emphasis on not drinking and how to stop and support around taking a break, but, what happens when we have stopped? Where is the support and guidance to stay stopped?

And so, in todays episode, I share how I focus on the 'after alcohol' piece in my coaching. And I outline some practical steps to help you navigate what comes next.

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One of my favorite things in this Alcohol-free space is discovering new and delightful offerings that are without alcohol. Today, I invite you to get to know Rightside Brewing and Owner and Founder Emree Woods. Since opening operations in January of 2020, Rightside Brewing and Emree have been on an incredible journey, sharing their NA beer at festivals, Atlanta's first pop-up NA bar and throughout the South East. Rightside Brewing is a true labor of love for Emree and her team and her passion for her craft and her mission are evident in this interview. I enjoyed hearing about her inspiration for Rightside, the origin of the name, and how she is proud of the example she is setting for her two small children.

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Week 4 of the Coaches Series:

Debi Talbert is a Tiny Habits coach as well as a This Naked Mind Senior coach who specializes in helping us understand more about the connection between our thoughts, emotions and behavior. We had so much fun talking about habit 'recipes', how to troubleshoot when a habit is not working and we even created a habit recipe around drinking more water! She also answers questions from listeners about how many habits can we tackle at once, and why are some people better at creating habits than others?

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In our 3rd episode of Coaches Series, Teri talks with fellow This Naked Mind Coach Ruby Williams. Ruby has newly certified as a Sleep Coach and they share a fascinating conversation about the impact of alcohol on sleep, the importance of sleep hygiene and the all important question: "When will I start sleeping again?"

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