For this episode Toni is joined by Yasmin Spark, the founder of Align Events, the UK’s first non-alcoholic mobile cocktail bar.

Yasmin founded Align in 2022, after 6 years of being sober, to provide safe and fun alcohol-free drinking spaces. 

She's passionate about stopping ‘sober shaming’ and creating inclusive spaces to centre and celebrate non-drinkers, as well as delicious drinks to keep us coming back.

She’s also an ambassador for Alcohol Change UK.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Yasmin used drink as a way to manage stress (and how she now manages her mental health without using booze)

  
  



• How friendships can change when we change our drinking

  
  



• Her physical and mental rock bottom

  
  



• How researching the effects of alcohol on the body and mind has motivated Yasmin to stay sober

  
  



• Why Yasmin founded Align and the alcohol-free trends she's seeing around the UK

  
  



• Why we shouldn't wait until our drinking is a real problem to tackle our drinking

  
  



• The importance of seeking out groups and community doing the same thing

  
  



• Her #1 alcohol-free cocktail on a night out 

  
  

PODCAST NOTES + LINKS:

• ⁠@align_events_ on Instagram


• Haus of Elixirs AF event - 2nd Feb, London


• Alcohol Change UK Website


• World Alcohol-Free Awards

• Sober Black Girls Club


• Club Soda Research

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠@shelfhelp.club on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠


• ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.shelfhelp.club⁠⁠⁠⁠


• ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the (free) Shelf Help Club community over on the Shelf Help Club App⁠⁠⁠⁠

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