Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine. Jess, are you listening to any good books?

Right now I'm actually listening to an Audible exclusive podcast.

Ooh. I'm listening to Blackout by Sarah Heppala.

Oh, I listened to that one back in the day.

Mm-hmm.

I mean, I'm a huge proponent of Audible.

I love listening to Quitlet or really any book.

But did you know, Squad, that you can use our discount code to get a free month of

Audible, meaning you get a free book if you sign up.

That's right. Just go to audible trial.com backslash Seltzer Squad and get a free month on us.

I actually just signed up myself using it.

Nat, welcome to the pod.

Kate, I'm so glad to be here.

I'm so excited to tell you about our new sponsors for the new year.

Who is it?

So we have brainwashed coffee and brainwashed coffee is amazing because 50% of all of the proceeds

support addiction recovery. One of my sober treats this year was an espresso machine. So I'm really

excited to use brainwashed coffee to make some lattes. Brainwashed has a 20% off discount when you use the

code Seltzer Squad at checkout. It's brainwashed coffeeco.com. Use the discount code at checkout. Get 20% off.

Let's all get caffeinated and crush our goals. Yeah. Stay caffeinated.

Hey, Kate. Hi, Jess. So this episode's a little different because we're partnering with Recover Alaska. And what's really cool is the state of Alaska recognizes March as sobriety awareness month. That's crazy. I think it's really, it gets a whole month. Yeah, it's crazy. Right. So basically, Recover Alaska reached out to us and wanted to do an episode with us and we are super down for it.

Shout out to Mary. We love you. Yeah, shout out to Mary. But basically what they do is like they're an action group and, you know, they're here to help basically do the same things as us, eliminate stigmas around sobriety and seeking help and just choosing like alcohol-free alternatives for basically any

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