Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.

Hi, Jess.

I'm so excited for today's episode.

Me too.

I feel like it's been a really long time since we've done a hot mess.

It has been a hot minute since we did a hot mess.

It has, right?

Okay. I'm just going to jump in.

Is that cool? All right. I'm going to start with sea. Okay. Yeah. All right. I was working in Paris at the time. So basically, it was my very first job. And so my very first Christmas party, I'm dealing with social anxiety and especially

when in a new environment, I get super shy and a bit awkward sometimes. My great technique was to drink a bit

to make me feel comfortable. I don't know. But of course, because it was an open bar and I had zero

moderation, I drank a lot. One of my colleagues told me the day after that I slapped him.

Oh my God. Can't recall. After having dinner, which I don't recall either. We went to this club

to dance all. She blacked out before dinner. We went to this club to dance all together. So we arrived

there and I was apparently dancing a lot with the big CEO of the company.

I like that big CEO is in all caps.

Not to mention I had a boyfriend.

It was fucking awkward in front of my new colleagues.

After another round of shots and drinks, I've decided to jump on the podium to dance with this girl.

Obviously, I fall over on my back badly. Basically, that put me out of my blackout, but I was

struggling to breathe and walk. Oh, no. So this guy I'm working with suggested taking the same

cab and helping me go back home. At the time, we could take a black cab without paying one million euros,

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