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Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#66. Active vs Passive Moderation Techniques“It's a change in who you are. It's a change in the way you think. It's a change in the way that you act, and, most importantly, it's a change in your belief system.”This week we're covering: 0:21 Active vs passive moderation0:46 Warning: Not suitable for people with AUD2:19 3 Es Framework3:52 What is active moderation?4:41 Setting the rules of active moderation5:34 Pros of active moderation7:30 Cons of ac...2025-02-2528 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#65. No Compromise with ZENO Alcohol-Liberated WinesJust past their two-year birthday, ZENO alcohol-liberated wines are a range of five (for now) hand-crafted wines, made “for wine enthusiasts when they choose to abstain”.In this week’s conversation, I talk to co-founder David Hodgson about his transition from 25 years in traditional wine to launching an alcohol-free wine brand amidst the uncertainty of COVID, Brexit & a fledgling category presented to an unforgiving market.We also touch on the inspirational philosophies behind the brand name, the growth of the non-alcoholic wine sector and ZENO’s plans for the development of both a new “serious” red wine and...2025-02-2055 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#61. Alcohol-Free Spirit-Forward Events with Third Place BarSam Bail is the founder and tastemaker of the Stateside non-alcoholic pop-up sensation Third Place Bar.And for the last two years, Sam has had her finger firmly on the pulse of the low/no drinks scene.Born in Germany, studied in Manchester (the one in England, that is), and currently based in New York, Sam is busy putting on events, teaching cocktail classes, and integrating all of these into both consumer and corporate locations.We cover everything from going to events alone to adult parallel play to the challenges of alcohol-free, spirit-forward...2025-02-0649 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#59. Plant-Powered AF Brewing: On BeerFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE FIRST HURDLES - START YOUR MINDFUL DRINKING JOURNEY IN JUST 3 DAYS======SHOW QUOTES“People look at plants and look at their garden and think, ah, just plants, but they're some of the most powerful things on the planet.”“So I get a fizzing on my chest, like that nice fizzing, and you feel nice and like buzzing.”======SHOW SUMMARY Chris Kazakeos is one-half of the founding team behind On Beer, the plant-powered, functional, alcohol-free beer brand. From...2025-01-3059 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#57. Why Non-Alc is Boring: Drink The PathfinderFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE FIRST HURDLES - START YOUR MINDFUL DRINKING JOURNEY IN JUST 3 DAY======SHOW QUOTES “I actually think non-alc is boring now.”“The UK is the most sophisticated non-alc market in the world!”======SHOW SUMMARY Rish Ravalia is the UK Manager for The Pathfinder. Rish Ravalia doesn’t pull any punches.In this interview, Rish tells me exactly why he thinks the non-alc category is boring and what his brand, The Pathfinder, is doing to change that.We talk...2025-01-2355 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#55. Rebels0.0: Launching Switzerland’s 1st Alcohol-Free BrandFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE FIRST HURDLES - START YOUR MINDFUL DRINKING JOURNEY IN JUST 3 DAYS ======SHOW QUOTES 'When we started three and a half years ago, there were a lot of question marks in everyone’s eyes; a lot of pushback from proud bartenders who said "No. I need to sell alcohol. I don't want to do alcohol-free!" And now, in these three and a half years, that's totally changed!" ======SHOW SUMMARY Christof Tremp is the co-founder behind Rebels 0.0 alcohol-free spirits...2025-01-1646 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#53. Creating A Household Legacy with Noughty AF Wines & Amanda ThomsonFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES======SHOW QUOTES “And so I doubled down on seeing if I could create the world's first good non-alcoholic wine. And when I say good, it was my definition of good, which it was quite nuanced.”“I always want a democratic price point and qualitative relationship […] I want it to be the household name that we all turn to when we want a good non-alcoholic wine.”======SHOW SUMMARY Amanda Thomson needs little introduction to the world of AF wines; sh...2025-01-0946 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#52. Is Drinking Low/No A Gateway? With Damian McKinney (Mash Gang/Dionilife)FREE COURSE - STARTING YOUR MINDFUL DRINKING JOURNEY: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ======SHOW QUOTES “I’m not anti-alcohol. I’m a really big believer in inclusivity and I’m a real believer in moderation.” “I feel like I’m going from Blackberry to iPhone. There is massive change going on here, and the consumer is driving it.”======SHOW SUMMARY DioniLife is a new low/no beverage firm ready to shake up the marketplace. Working with Mash Gang AF beers as their first partn...2025-01-0249 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#50 Eisberg Wine: Dealcoholisation & Doubling CapacityFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES======SHOW QUOTES “If we wanted to introduce a new variety, we can’t just make a bit in a barrel. We need thousands of bottles just to see if it works. So it’s not a very easy category to […] play around with.”======SHOW SUMMARY Alcohol Change UK describes Eisberg Wine as the ‘Grandaddy of alcohol-free wine”. That’s quite a moniker to live up to. In this week’s conversation, I speak to UK Manager Dan Harwood about th...2024-12-2041 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#49. San Francisco’s Ocean Beach CafeFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES======SHOW SUMMARY Ocean Beach Café is San Francisco’s leading alcohol-free spot. In this episode, founder Joshua James takes me on the journey from unexpected inspiration found walking into a failing deli to creating a space where once seen, the wonders of his AF bar, cannot be forgotten.======WE CHAT ABOUT0:00 Coming up... 2:40 Joshua's story9:30 Other US venues12:36 The vibe inside?...2024-12-1354 min
Reversing Hashimoto'sHow I Reversed Hashimoto's Naturally – Real Patient Success with Dr Anshul Gupta!Can Hashimoto’s be reversed? Discover the inspiring story of a patient who successfully managed and reversed their Hashimoto's disease with functional medicine. Learn about the challenges, proven strategies, and secrets that can help you take control of your thyroid health.In this video, you’ll learn:- What is Hashimoto’s Disease?- Why traditional medicines might not always work- Key lifestyle changes and strategies to reverse Hashimoto’s- Functional Medicine's unique approach- Insights from the book Reverse Hashimoto’s- Real success story with proven resultsI...2024-12-0622 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#48. Wild Idol: Naturally Alcohol-Free, Premium, Sparkling WineFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES======SHOW QUOTES “You cannot buy premiumisation, in my view.”“Out of the 95 sommeliers I think we tasted in the first six months, 85/86 are still working with us today.”======SHOW SUMMARY Wild Idol is a premium alcohol-free sparkling wine found in prestigious locations such as Selfridges, Harrods, and numerous fine-dining restaurants. In this episode, CEO Paul Beavis discusses in detail the process of producing a drink intended to be the best in the world, how premiumisat...2024-12-0559 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#47. Psychotropic-Curious with High & Dry Founder Daniel RowntreeFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES ======SHOW QUOTES “I think we're in a second phase of moderation. The first phase was all about mimicking the taste of alcohol. Now it's about mimicking the whole experience of alcohol: depth of flavour, complexity, mouthfeel and, of course, mood.” ====== SHOW NOTES CBD, THC, micro-dosing, nootropics, adaptogens… there is a whole sub-category of ingredients making their way into the non-alc space, and in this episode, I speak to the founder of the High & Dry agency and co-author of a new report...2024-11-2949 min
From The Skinside OutHow Birth Control Affects Women's Body and How to Safely Transition Off it With Registered Dietician, Taylor LechnerJoin us as we have our first guest Taylor Lechner a Registered Dietician & founder of Nourished By Taylor. Taylor specializes in helping women safely transition off birth control, symptom free and deeply heal their gut, skin, and hormones. She utilizes funtional testing and a whole body approach to identify and treat frustating symptoms like acne, missing periods, and PMS naturally. Taylor is offering to our listeners:A Free Breakup with Birth Control Masterclass: https://nourishedbytaylor.myflodesk.com/kqi2r0yataA 30 min consult call with Taylor, Birth Control + Hormone Dietitian: https://my.practicebetter.i...2024-11-2532 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#46. Double Dutch Mixers: Supporting Low/No Drinkers & Women in HospitalityFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES=============SHOW QUOTES “Our friends would bring like a really beautiful bottle, like a premium bottle of spirit, but we would make the mixes and soft drinks, and so our friends called us the Tonic Twins.”“I think we visited 120 accounts or something before someone said, ‘Okay, I'll buy one case’.”============SHOW NOTES Raissa & Joyce De Haas are the twin power behind Double Dutch Mixers & Tonics. In this episode, we go right back to the beginning, from watching their parents host tasting part...2024-11-2145 min
ReversABLE125: How to Become Your Own Health Detective and Advocate for Yourself - with Dr. Mark Hyman Western medicine is broken, but you don't have to be stuck in that system. There's a new health care system that's taking over, and with it, you'll finally have the power to become your own health deteive, and advocate for yourself. You won't be at the mercy of doctors and pharmaceutical companies any longer - and this episode will tell you how to do that. Use this Function Health code to SKIP the 300,000 person waitlist (only 100 available): REVERSABLE100 This is Episode 4 of our 14 part Eudemonia Miniseries. Eudemonia is a br...2024-11-1915 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#45. 5 New Functional Spirits from Smiling WolfFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES=============SHOW QUOTES “I wanted to create something which was for non-drinkers obviously. But also for drinkers. For those people like me who could no longer go out five, six nights a week all the time and drink alcohol. Who wanted to zebra stripe or some days no, and some days yes.” “I didn't like that feeling when you're tired, and someone would say, “Come out.” And you wouldn't go out, not because you didn't want to see them, but because, “Oh gosh, I might have to drink”, and I...2024-11-1448 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#44. From Whole Foods To Harrods: Creating Diversity in Non-Alc Cocktails with SavyllFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES=============SHOW QUOTES “The bottle couldn't handle the carbonation in that neck, and we lost £20,000 pounds. I didn't have any product, but £20,000 pounds was gone!” “Availability and visibility are key in this category.”============SHOW NOTES Avnish Babla is the 1st time entrepreneur behind Savyll Cocktails, a sophisticated range of non-alc cocktails created with diversity in mind. In this talk, we cover everything from importing suspicious white powder to launching big and scaling back to the bottling disaster that...2024-11-0859 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#43. Inspiration & innovation with NON World Wine AlternativesFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES=============SHOW QUOTES “In the UK, it's 20 quid a bottle. I've always thought about it like some people get paid £20 quid an hour. So you know, if someone's going to give you an hour of their life, bloody, make it good if they're drinking your product, and I honestly believe in that.” “So you give them two tonnes of raspberry crumble because you're pulling out 90% of the water weight, but you've got 20 tons of flavour.”============SHOW NOTES All the way from...2024-11-0147 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#42. Behind the Scenes with the Co-Founders of The World Alcohol-Free AwardsFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES=============SHOW QUOTES“I get emails every week from people saying, oh, ‘I'd love to come and judge, I'd love to learn a bit more about these drinks’. Whilst we’re keen on educating and teaching people. they have to come to us already having some background and some proof that they are making an effort and learning and have experience with these drinks.” “Progression of the AF space is really interesting. I think if we'd done this competition even four years ago (if there were enough drinks...2024-10-251h 04
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#41. Session Gin: A 25% Gin for the Modern DrinkerFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLESSHOW QUOTES “We work with a 16th-generation distillery business. We said to them look, how low can we go before we start to lose the full taste experience? So the warm, the mouthfeel, the bite, everything else which you expect from a full-strength gin. And they said 25%.”“When we designed the product in the first instance, we wanted to go with taste, texture, and tenacity over anything else.”SHOW NOTESDirector of Session London Dry Gin from Spirit of Bermondsey, Brad Cro...2024-10-1859 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#39. Bolle: The Only Double-Fermented Alcohol-Free Sparkling Wine in the World!FREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLESSHOW QUOTES: “If you don't like wine, you may not like our product; in fact, you probably won't like our product.“You know we're not trying to preach; we're not trying to tell people not to drink alcohol. I drink alcohol, everybody in my company drinks alcohol, but there are times and there are places and there are people that can't, and it's about choice and inclusivity."“Non-alcoholic wine it's a different product than normal wine, right? Just like non-alcoholic beer is a d...2024-10-0359 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#38. 80/20 Living with MoodyBrew Functional Adult DrinksFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLES================SHOW QUOTES “If 80% of your lifestyle is healthy, you can accommodate a 20% indulgence, which may be your cream cakes, it may be a glass of wine, it may be whatever. It's unfortunately when you tip it over and you suddenly think you'll do 20% healthy, and you expect a result because the body doesn't work that way.”“We do have stockists who really believe in what we’re trying to do. They share the same values and they like the drinks.”==============SHOW NOTES ...2024-09-2749 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#36. Launching A Brand New Non-Alcoholic Cider with Chance Clean CiderFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLESSHOW QUOTES“It's going to be cooler to buy a non-alcoholic drink than an alcoholic drink sooner rather than later.” “You know it's fascinating and I think that's why I cannot see this being anything other than the most important change to the drinks landscape in my lifetime, for sure.”SHOW NOTESPivoting from a successful consultancy career to launching a game-changing alcohol-free cider is no easy task, but that’s just what Chance Clean Cider founder John Logue has done.In this c...2024-09-1449 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#35. Reimagining Classic Cocktails with Talonmore Scottish AF SpiritFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLESQUOTES FROM THE SHOW“At every event we do, at least one person would be like “Non-alcoholic! What's the point?” Sometimes, they used to anger me. […] But I can understand where they're coming from. I mean, alcohol in Scotland is important.”NOTES FROM THE SHOWThis episode is a meeting of generations and a testament to what low/no-&-light does to bring people together in a whole new world of appreciation for a life less intoxicated. Lewis Kennedy, 26...2024-09-0747 min
The Keri Croft ShowSZN 3, EP-1. Founder & CEO of Luxe Brands, Lindsay Fork. We talk business, psychedelics, funtional medicine & SO much more!Send us a textWe're back, ya'll!I'm so excited to start SZN 3 with this little firecracker. Her name is Lindsay Fork. She's a mom, wife, successful business owner, and she recently won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. It took me about ten seconds to figure out that Lindsay doesn't half ass anything. It's obvious when you meet her and when you step foot into one of her stores. As the founder & CEO of Luxe Brands (La Jeune Marie, Luxe Redux, and The Ohio Bridal Outlet) she leaves no detail...2024-09-061h 06
Drumwell PodcastEpisode 7 - Prehab and Funtional movements - Sept 2024Welcome to Episode 7 of the Drumwell Podcast! I wanted to go somewhere a little different this month. I've heard the term "Prehab" being used a fair bit in recent times, and it got me thinking, what if we could target and strengthen areas of our body where repetitive movements cause injuries, well before the injury even has a chance to develop? The Funtional Movement Training course that I completed a couple of years back was excellent in that it was focussed on treating the cause rather than just the sypmtoms. But what if we could train our...2024-09-0639 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#34. Making 6% Red Wine with Co-Founder Russell LambFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLESJoining me this week is Russell Lamb, co-founder of 6PERCENT, a new mid-range wine company producing the first in its planned range of lighter wines, a 6% merlot-cabernet sauvignon blend with half the ABV but all of the flavour.Starting life as a lockdown wine-tasting company, Russ and his wife, Gabbi, soon came to realise that there was a demand from their clients for lower ABV wines that they were not able to meet with anything they could find and so they decided to solve the problem themselves....2024-08-3148 min
Mindful Drinking & Moderation in Midlife: Low No Drinker Podcast#33. GNISTA's 'Not' Spirits & 'Not' Red Wines with Erika OllénFREE COURSE: OVERCOMING THE HURDLESQUOTES FROM THE SHOW“I don't really care that wine is normally made from grapes or that a gin is made from, you know, distillates of xyz herbs.”“Do I think it's impossible? No, I don't think it's impossible, I think it takes time.”===========Bringing you more international insight from Low No Nation, in this week’s conversation, I’m chatting with GNISTA founder Erika Ollén about her unique range of ‘not’ wines and ‘not’ spirits. I love Erika’s story and...2024-08-2447 min