Sober On A Drunk Planet - The Podcast

Leon opens up about being raised in an Asian family in Sydney. He talks about how hard it was for him, at an all-white Catholic school being the only coloured kid who was also gay.  He describes how his drinking was very lonely and how his pop career came to a shattering halt when he moved to London to find that the record company had gone bust. Leon is celebrating 1 year sober today and uses LGBT specific groups for his recovery which has helped him find a new sense of self. He is loving his life and that was all from sobriety and the support of his husband.

Paul speaks about his time in the steel industry, heavy drinking from his twenties and how it all seemed very normal at the time. The story progresses when his drinking turns to morning drinking, the withdrawals he would have from alcohol if he didn't top up and how he got into recovery. Paul lost his brother to suicide in September 2019 and we both open up about our own times where suicide was an option and how we want more men to talk openly about when they are feeling shit. To be able to talk openly about your feelings is to start the road to recovery.

I have been following Craig on Instagram for a number of months, and you can see how much he is loving life at the moment now he is sober. That's what inspired me to have him on the show to talk about his own sober journey and help shed the light on the trials and tribulations of going sober in Dublin (or anywhere in the world for that matter). He lost his dad to heroin addiction and that wasn't enough to stop him drinking at the time, and Craig has completed turned his life around and now turns up daily for the people he loves. 

Tom speaks openly about his absent father growing up, moving to Australia where he got into using ICE (meth) and how sobriety has allowed him to be a better person, parent and colleague.  Tom discusses how he originally gave up alcohol but continued to use cocaine and pills for a further 8 months before finally realising he needed to give up the drugs after yet another late night of snorting cocaine around some random person house (as we have all done!).

I am joined by Cam who talks to us about his sober journey from Australia to the UK and how meditation kick-started his transformation from being a typical lad to becoming sober. We discuss in detail, the benefits of meditation and how it can be used to combat the emotions that come up in sobriety as well as heal emotions stored in the past. Cam is now a meditation teacher and his transformation is truly inspiring.

I have an in-depth chat with Sober Dave about his sober story, lad culture and his recovery. 

I have the privilege of speaking with Shannon who shares openly for the first time about his traumas and struggles growing up as a gay male in an adopted Southern Baptiste family. He speaks about how drugs and alcohol were his way of dealing with his trauma but he also shares the traumas that occurred as a result of drinking and drugging. Shannon highlights how difficult (and unfair) life can be, even during his sobriety he has had to overcome so many painful events in his life, how he stayed sober during this time is truly inspiring. He speaks about what sobriety has given him, the support he got from his husband and how he didn't go to AA but use an addiction counsellor to help him to become sobriety. I am literally inspiring to live my best life after listening to Shannon and he is an incredible human being.

I speak to Katie about her sober story, navigating life at 25 sober and how she has grown up with a parent in AA. It is a great insight into how sobriety is possible at 25, the benefits you get from going sober and the challenges that Katie has faced.

I speak to the amazing Moni, a yoga teacher based in Las Vegas. We discuss her sober story, living in Las Vegas sober and how yoga gave her the extra insight she needed in maintaining sobriety.

We also discuss yoga teacher training, breathing techniques and we also do a live breathing technique you can use when you need to calm the flight or fight system down :)

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I speak to the truly inspiring Hayley from @so.thirty on my IGTV series. She opens up about her diagnosis at a young age and how that contributed to her drinking heavily on nights out and using alcohol as a way to forget about the truth that she had to face. Hayley admits for the first time in this interview, the true impact that drinking had on her mental health and how this shielded her from actually facing up to her diagnosis of Charcote Marie Tooth condition (motor neuron condition).  Hayley has been inspiring my own sobriety and she was the very first sober account that I followed on Instagram, so thank you to Hayley for opening my eyes up to such a powerful community.