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Alcohol Freedom FindersLauri McGivern -from feeling powerless and overwhelmed to finding joy, freedom, and fulfillment in life! Ep. 25This week we’re joined by Lori McGiven, a fellow Alcohol Freedom coach from Vermont where shé also part of the medical examiners death investigation team. At 40, Lori realized she had an issue with her drinking and struggled to break free. Discover how she navigated her journey towards alcohol freedom. Lori shares the transformation from feeling powerless and overwhelmed to finding joy, freedom, and fulfillment in life. Watch to learn about the profound impact this had on her relationships, and the empowerment that comes from truly understanding and addressing your relationship with alcohol.Lauri McGivernhtt...
2026-01-3135 minAlcohol Freedom FindersTim Kelly – Everything was ok until it wasn’t…and then it really wasn’t Ep. 24In this episode we welcome fellow coach Tim Kelly. Tim shares his personal journey of overcoming alcohol addiction, the multiple attempts at various treatments, and eventually finding solace through Annie Grace’s 'This Naked Mind'. Tim discusses his moment of realization, the support from his fiancée, and the transformative 30-day alcohol-free experiment which marked a turning point in his life. Now, Tim aims to help others by working with employers to provide support programs for their employees. Learn about the key elements that made freedom from alcohol possible for Tim: the importance of self-awareness, being present, and the sig...
2026-01-1723 minAlcohol Freedom FindersSarah Callejo - Breaking free of drinking culture Ep. 23In this episode of Alcohol Freedom Finders, hosts Justine Clark and Barry Condon talk with Sarah Callejo, a fellow alcohol freedom coach from Spain, about her transformative journey to alcohol freedom. Sarah shares how she started drinking at 14, driven by a need to fit in and cope with feelings of being an outsider. She discusses the cultural pressures and how life as a writer amplified her alcohol consumption. Sarah's turning point came after an embarrassing incident involving her children, pushing her to seek help. Through resources like 'This Naked Mind,' she found the courage to become her authentic...
2025-12-2031 minAlcohol Freedom FindersFinding Clarity and True Reward with Jason Shutt Ep. 22This week, we explored Jason’s incredibly honest journey from being a committed social drinker to embracing full alcohol freedom. Here are the key takeaways from our conversation:The Insidious Nature of Habit: For many, the struggle with alcohol isn't a dramatic "rock bottom" moment, but rather the quiet, insidious habit that creeps up by stealth. Jason shares how easily consumption rises from a glass with dinner to a few glasses, turning into a cycle of drinking and recovery.The Delayed Epiphany: Jason reminds us that we shouldn't wait for a sudden, magical moment of cl...
2025-12-0627 minAlcohol Freedom FindersKarina Koplock – drinking wasn’t a problem until the reasons she drank began to change…Ep. 21This week we're joined by a fellow, this Naked Mind coach Corina, who didn't think she had a problem with alcohol at all. She was a working mother, highly successful and functioning well. Until she wasn't. When she hit her mid forties, she was hit by a double dose of stress.Her son was diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome and her mother with cancer. This moment of extreme vulnerability forced Corina to take a long, hard look at her drinking wasn't really the elixir that she was hoping it was, or was it preventing her from approaching this...
2025-11-0133 minAlcohol Freedom FindersSusan Stout shifts our perspective - Episode 20We often feel we should have things under control, especially when it comes to our relationship with alcohol. But what if it's not about being broken, but about shifting your perspective? Today, our guest, Susan Stout, opens up about reframing her relationship with alcohol and how it led to profound feelings of joy and confidence.Get ready to hear how small steps can lead to monumental change and how finding your true self is the ultimate freedom.Susan Stout:https://www.stoutconnectionscoaching.com https://www.instagram.com/stoutconnectionscoaching/https://www.facebook.com/p...
2025-05-3129 minAlcohol Freedom FindersDr. Michelle Lynch Puts drinking under the microscope and finds: Alcohol Freedom! Ep.19This week we are joined by a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, which is definitely a first for us. Dr. Michelle Lynch is an expert in the field of sustainability, and while her work focuses her attention on experimental research to improve the future for us all, it was when she put her own life under the microscope and applied the same curiosity and experimentation to her relationship with alcohol, that she improved the future for herself.Dr. Michelle Lynchhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/drmkl/https://www.instagram.com/michepreneur/O...
2025-05-1033 minAlcohol Freedom FindersCourtney Peters shares the secrets of 1000 days of Alcohol Freedom - Episode 18This week we're joined by our friend Courtney, who was an average middle lane drinker, when she began to question whether alcohol was still serving her.? As many of you may be now... She began to realise it didn't fit with her otherwise healthy lifestyle and started to google the usual questions…Coach Courtneyhttps://www.pmacoaching.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/coach-courtney-peters/https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561354618192https://www.instagram.com/coachcourtney_ur_worthit/Our 30-day group programme:https://www.cleanlifecoaching.org/aff-groupThe po...
2025-04-2633 minAlcohol Freedom FindersCaroline Sherlock Used her very specific set of skills to get herself to Alcohol Freedom! Ep. 17This week we talk to Caroline Sherlock a Nutritional Therapist, a Functional Medicine Practitioner, and a lecturer on genetics and nutrigenomics So Caroline ( as Liam Neeson once said) has very particular set of skills acquired over a long career and it was actually this that made her own drinking feel progressively out of allignment with who she was professionally as well as who she wanted to be as a mother. Her particular set of skills did initially make her an expert in mitigating the effects of alcohol on the body - she used all manner of bio-hacks to avoid...
2025-04-1230 min
Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & BasketballBIG 10 SQUAD - Is Iowa Hawkeyes Offense STILL an Issue in 2025?Can the Purdue Boilermakers defy the odds in the Big Ten football landscape? With a win total set at just 3.5, the Boilermakers face a challenging season under new coach Barry Odom. This episode dives into bold predictions and hot takes, exploring whether Purdue can surpass expectations. The discussion also covers Ohio State's quarterback situation, with Julian Sayin poised to lead the Buckeyes, and Penn State's potential as Big Ten favorites. Spencer McLaughlin, Jacob Goins, Zach Anderson Yaksheimer, Trent Condon, and Jay Stevens bring their insights to the table, analyzing key players and strategies. Discover how teams like...
2025-04-0328 minAlcohol Freedom FindersCari Wolters - Curiosity killed the cat…astrophic anxiety…and released her to be a high achiever! Episode 16This week we talk to Cari Wolters from Michigan. Cari now is a seasoned coach helping high achieving women but she takes us back to 2020 when she was deep in the struggle of drinking every night and hangovers anxiety every day. With her relationships strained and self doubt about the kind of mother she was to her young kids, she used curiosity to find her way out - lets jump in and find out how!Cari Woltershttps://www.facebook.com/cari.wolters https://www.instagram.com/sobercuriouslife/https://www.sobercuriouslifecoaching.com/O...
2025-03-2928 minAlcohol Freedom FindersToni Will, Fresh from her Ted Talk! Talks Rebellion, Arrest, Power and Freedom! - Episode 15This week we speak to the amazing Tony Will, who joined us in the same week that her TED Talk went live! Tony is a trailblazer and a disruptor who has broken many glass ceilings for herself and for women in general. Speaking of general, she is the general manager and governor, uh, of the Kalamazoo Wings, a men's professional ice hockey team in Michigan. A world dominated by men and steeped in drinking culture. So how did she learn not only to thrive in an environment like that, but also to find alcohol freedom while doing it? We...
2025-03-1531 minAlcohol Freedom FindersJeannette Levitt & the 3 D's - Drinking, Divorce & Dating - Episode 14In this episode we meet Jeannette Levitt whose drinking became a problem in the aftermath of a painful divorce. On reentering the dating world she thought that drinking alcohol was the only way to appear confident, and sexy but when she found alcohol freedom herself, she realised she’d been wrong and as she puts it - there is actually nothing confident or sexy about being sloppy drunk. She’s now a coach who specializes in helping those navigating the same all too common challenges that she facedJeannette Levitthttps://www.levitylifecoaching.com/https://www...
2025-03-0127 minAlcohol Freedom FindersKate Nichols' COVID lockdown, family intervention that changed everything. Episode 13 In this episode, we meet coach Kate Nichols, a Brit living in Canada, who before finding freedom from alcohol and becoming a coach herself, saw herself as a happy social drinker. But that was before a family intervention during COVID lockdown made us see that swigging wine from a, from secretly stashed bottles in the closet wasn't quite as innocent as she'd been trying to make out to herself.Although the idea of not drinking terrified her at first, she quickly found the This Naked Mind methodology, and that changed her life, her relationships, and gave her the...
2025-02-1530 minAlcohol Freedom FindersMichelle Nesbitt shakes off the shame and finds crazy fun in her freedom from alcohol - Episode 12In this episode, we talk to our friend Michelle, whose entire social life revolved around alcohol, which I think most of us can relate to. So, when she decided to make a change, she didn't know how to tell her friends, or even her close family. She was wracked with shame, and petrified of what people might think.Severe judgment of ourselves and underestimating the kindness and forgiveness and love of those around us seems to be hardwired into most of us. But Michelle's story will inspire you to lean into that discomfort and find genuine freedom on th...
2025-02-0124 minAlcohol Freedom FindersAuthor Amanda Foster speaks to the benefits of grieving alcohol free - Episode 11 In this episode, we talk to Amanda Foster from Zero Fierce, a digital marketing expert who's also a fellow This Naked Mind alcohol freedom coach, like Justine and myself. As you'll hear, Amanda is also an expert in grief and has written a fantastic book called Spirits and Sorrow that brilliantly and autobiographically takes our culture's understandable instinct to numb grief with alcohol and compares it to the alternative of facing grief alcohol free and processing the pain and sorrow instead of trying to forget that it's there. Amanda has tried both approaches and is very clear on wh...
2025-01-1824 minAlcohol Freedom FindersJudi Daigle finds alcohol freedom through Jesus! Episode 10 In this episode, we meet Judi who in her youth used weed, cocaine, amphetamines, uppers, downers, you name it. She took them all. But age 23 when the fun stopped, she quit them all without much effort. All that is except alcohol. She describes alcohol as her demon. Her story will knock your socks off.And if you're thinking demons require exorcism, priests, and God, you won't be disappointed. This is a story like no otherJudi Daiglehttps://www.thisnakedsoul.org/Our 30-day group programme:https://www.cleanlifecoaching.org/aff-group
2025-01-0528 min
Pep Talks for ArtistsEp 81: Elisabeth Condon Describes a Christina Ramberg RetrospectiveWelcome back, Elisabeth! This time I am very excited to be speaking to Artist, Elisabeth Condon, about one of my favorite Chicago Imagists: Christina Ramberg.
The Art Institute of Chicago recently mounted a retrospective of Ramberg's work and Elisabeth travelled to see the show this past summer. She spent time telling me about her favorite works, but also offered insight into Ramberg's personality and teaching style - as Elisabeth was her student in graduate school at SAIC in the late 80's.
Ramberg is known for her small but tightly-wound acrylic paintings of disembodied women: truncated...
2024-12-241h 24Alcohol Freedom FindersMargie Coltharp shows us it's never too late to change! Episode 9 In this episode, Margie tells us about the emotional moment she went from feeling alone and too old to change to finding a coach who gave her the belief that she actually could change. She felt firsthand the power of having a coach to guide you who's been in your shoes, faced what you're facing and found their own way to freedom. She now helps others find their way with our own successful coaching businessMargie Coltharphttps://bravespace.coach/https://www.instagram.com/bravespacecoach/Our 30-day group programme:https://ww...
2024-12-2131 minAlcohol Freedom FindersAyshea's unexpected Dry January success! Episode 8 In this episode, we catch up with Ayshea, an alumni of our first Alcohol Freedom Finders 30 day program. Aisha is a fantastic advert for our program's potential, because like so many people before she gave it a go She had never even considered a life without alcohol.Drinking had been part of her life for years and felt central to her friendships and had never been problematic. She just thought a Dry January supporting her friend Justine's new venture would be a fun chance to challenge herself to see if she could go 30 days without booze. But as...
2024-12-2130 minAlcohol Freedom FindersWhen Martha’s life circumstances changed her guardrails around drinking changed too.. - Episode 7In this episode, you'll meet Martha, whose life as an on call midwife kept her drinking under control. But when she retired, those guardrails evaporated. And when COVID lockdown hit, like so many other people, she found herself drinking more than she'd ever wanted to. Fed up with the cycle of frustration and shame, her journey to alcohol freedom began with an Instagram post about the science led, compassionate approach of the This Naked Mind methodology, in which Justine and I are both certified coaches.It was the promise that her situation wasn't her fault that gave h...
2024-12-0730 minAlcohol Freedom FindersMark from Impossibrew has created beer with the buzz but not the alcohol! - Episode 6In this episode, we meet with Mark Wong, the founder of the Impossibrew Alcohol Free Brewing Company, who you may recognize from his appearance on Dragon's Den. , after hearing he had a liver condition that meant he could no longer drink alcohol, this beer loving Durham University philosophy student was so unimpressed with the lack of buzz he got from the alcohol free beers on the market that he set out to create his own alcohol alternative.With the help of a professor from the University's Bioscience Department, and inspired by a trip to Hong Kong, where...
2024-11-2337 minAlcohol Freedom FindersJessie realises alcohol isn't the answer to Shame, ADHD, Autism or Trauma - Episode 5 In this episode, we meet with Jessie from Boston, a trained sommelier and hard liquor aficionado who describes her family as having many generations of alcohol dependence. We'll hear how she herself has had to come to terms with both ADHD and autism, as well as childhood trauma. That trauma was triggered again during the COVID pandemic, where her alcohol use came to a head. Working 14 hour days in an essential service was tough enough, but being locked down also brought back the trauma of being trapped as a child. Jessie describes herself as a rebel down to t...
2024-11-0931 min
Dollar Bin BanditsChris CondonWriter Chris Condon broke onto the comics scene in a major way with the ongoing Image series That Texas Blood and its spinoff, The Enfield Gang Massacre, both with artist Jacob Phillips. He then adapted Barry Gifford's Night People for Oni Press and has moved into the big leagues with Marvel's Ultimate Wolverine and DC's Green Arrow. You can follow Chris on X @ChristophCondon._____________________Check out a video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/dollarbinbandits.
2024-11-0150 minAlcohol Freedom FindersMaria's painful flashback and her frustration with AA - Episode 4In this episode, we meet with Maria, whose husband's sudden death left her fending for herself and her young children. Like so many others in her situation, she tried to deal with her pain and sorrow by drinking. But she was able to hold things together for the sake of her kids.Although 15 years later, she's still haunted by one particular heart breaking occasion when her drinking meant that she let one of her daughters down.When the kids went away to college, Maria's drinking ramped up. And so she sought help through Alcoholics Anonymous...
2024-10-2634 minAlcohol Freedom FindersAdam blows the whistle on Big Alcohol - Episode 3After a career in advertising for big alcohol, our guest, Adam Murphy, blows the whistle on his former employers, comparing their methods for selling a known cancer causing agent to those of big tobacco. He describes how governments are powerless because they're also invested in the success of our alcohol companies.They sell a product they know kills consumers and we, the consumers are auto enrolled into a drinking culture that often feels inescapable. We'll also hear how Adam escaped his work with big alcohol and found alcohol freedom for himself.Adam Murphyhttps://w...
2024-10-2633 minAlcohol Freedom FindersStacey comes back from the brink - Episode 2In this episode, you'll hear about Stacey's many attempts to find alcohol freedom. Stints in rehab, trips to the ER, months of AA meetings, and a lonely Mother's Day weekend drinking champagne that left her fighting for her life. But then how it was a book that finally helped her become an alcohol freedom finder.Stacey Crescitellihttps://www.staceycrescitelli.com/https://www.instagram.com/stacey_crescitelli_coaching/Our 30-day group programme:https://www.cleanlifecoaching.org/aff-groupThe podcast home pagehttps://podcast.alcoholfreedomfinders.com/Justine Clark
2024-10-2626 minAlcohol Freedom FindersMeet your hosts! - Episode 1In this episode, you'll hear how Justin and Barry, 2 normal middle of the road drinkers found their freedom from alcohol. They also discuss how the perceived benefits of alcohol are illusions, how alcohol is the problem and not you. And how life can be a bit like the Truman show!Our 30-day group programme:https://www.cleanlifecoaching.org/aff-groupThe podcast home pagehttps://podcast.alcoholfreedomfinders.com/Justine Clarkhttps://justineclarktherapy.co.uk/https://www.instagram.com/wellwithjustine/ Barry Condonhttps://www.cleanlifecoaching.org/
2024-10-2635 min