Today's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is Real Housewives of Orange County star, Braunwyn Windham-Burke.

During the season 15 premiere of RHOC in fall 2020, Braunwyn revealed in a confessional that she was an alcoholic. The show then followed her journey as she openly showed the ups and downs and spoke about being part of a program of recovery.

I was so happy for Braunwyn and wanted to learn about why she decided to make her recovery so public and how she talks about it with her children.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Braunwyn.

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Today's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is Brendan Leonard, an adventure writer, award-winning filmmaker, speaker, and creator of Semi-Rad.com. 

Drinking landed Brendan in rehab at age 23 and since then he’s gone on to get a master’s degree, live out of a van for three years, spend weeks below the rim of the Grand Canyon, climb the Grand Teton in a day, bicycled across America, and much more. Brendan wrote "Sixty Meters to Anywhere" about his journey to sobriety and beyond.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Brendan.

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Today's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is...me!

I thought I'd do a short and sweet episode to celebrate reaching a huge personal milestone of 10,000 downloads of the podcast and 20 episodes so far. 

Spoiler alert: I get a bit.....emotional. More than once. Sorry!

Thanks for your support in this passion project of mine- it's a wonderful feeling to be able to speak freely and openly about a stigmatized subject you kept hidden for so long!

xo
B

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This week's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is Ken Seeley.

You might know Ken from his work as an interventionist on the tv show "Intervention", but Ken himself has a wonderful story of recovery. We talk about his journey to getting sober as well as what he's discovered during his many years of sobriety.  Ken has done an incredible amount of on himself through his years of sobriety and he talks about getting back to the basics: getting comfortable and happy in your own skin before you can do anything else.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Ken.

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Today's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is Canadian singer-songwriter Damhnait Doyle. Damhnait was a member of Atlantic Canadian band Shaye from 2003–2009.

Damhnait wrote an op-ed which appeared in the Toronto Star in 2019 about how the music industry needs to better support musicians who don't drink. I wanted to chat with her about her decision to stop drinking, how difficult that is as a musician, and how things have changed since she wrote the article.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Damhnait.

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Today's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is former NBA player Chris Herren.

Chris has an incredible story of addiction to recovery. He was drafted by the Denver Nuggets in 1999 before being traded to his hometown team, the Boston Celtics in 2000 before substance abuse short-circuited his NBA career. 

What he has done since getting sober is inspirational and nothing short of beautiful.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Chris.

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This week's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is writer and comedian Amanda Brooke Perrin.

Amanda openly speaks about her alcoholism and recovery on her Twitter, which is how I came across her in early 2021.  I loved that she was so open about it and I was curious to hear about what brought her to that realization and what life in Los Angeles is like sober.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Amanda.

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This week's episode of the Unashamed Alcoholic features guest Dr. Adam Hill. Dr. Hill is a US pediatric palliative care physician and recovering alcoholic. 

Dr. Hill openly shares his own story of depression, suicidal thoughts and alcoholism while working in the field of medicine to help other individuals still suffering. He wrote "Long Walk Out of the Woods" in which he shares his story and lifts the veil of secrecy regarding caregiver mental health.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Dr. Hill.

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Today's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is Victoria Vanstone, a writer and blogger living in Australia.

Originally from the UK, Victoria has been writing about motherhood and her journey to sobriety for a number of years. She began writing the day she quit drinking alcohol, and has created her site to help others who are sober curious. I was looking forward to chatting with Victoria as having my kids was a big part of my realization of a drinking problem as well.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Victoria.

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This week's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is harm reduction advocate and inspirational speaker, Guy Felicella.

Guy grew up in a middle class home in Richmond but fell into addiction at a young age. He spent 30 years in the repeated cycle of gangs, addiction, treatment and jail and nearly 20 years residing in the two block radius in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver,  using many resources, including harm reduction, to keep himself alive.

Today, Guy is using his experience to change hearts and minds on the idea that recovery is harm reduction and harm reduction is recovery.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Guy.

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