217: Questioning your relationship with alcohol? - Kari Schwear
ON AIR WITH ELLA | Women's Wellness
Ella Lucas-Averett
5.0 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
SHOW NOTES! Episode 217
Kari Schwear completely pivoted her life when she gave up alcohol at 49. Two years later, she learned about gray area drinking, and nothing was ever the same. Listen to what prompted Kari to leave her lucrative job, fight imposter syndrome and start a movement!
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- Ep# 185 - Gray Area Drinking
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, you're on air with Ella where we talk motivation, mindset, personal development, |
| 0:11.8 | basically everything you need to get more of what you want and less of what you don't. |
| 0:16.2 | Let's go. |
| 0:18.7 | Hey, you're on air with Ella. |
| 0:19.9 | And today I am joined by Carrie Schwer. And Carrie was a listener of the show, |
| 0:24.7 | but we have been on a journey together. And then she has been on quite a ride of her own for some time. |
| 0:30.0 | I cannot wait to have her tell you this story. Hi, Carrie. How are you? Hey, Ella. I'm doing great. |
| 0:35.6 | Where are you today? I am in Richmond, Virginia, where I live in my |
| 0:39.3 | home office. Yeah, like everybody else, right? I used to live in Richmond. Actually, for like over a |
| 0:47.2 | decade, I think. I love it there. Anyway, beautiful city. Okay. Carrie, can you tell everybody kind of who |
| 0:52.2 | you are and what you do? Yeah, so I am what I referred to as a |
| 0:56.5 | gray area coach or a discovery coach. And a little bit about me, I'm married for 31 years. I have two |
| 1:03.7 | grown sons, both very happy. And we are a non-drinking family, which we'll get into a little bit. |
| 1:11.5 | And yeah, life is fabulous. |
| 1:13.7 | I just, I don't understand how you could have been married for 31 years. |
| 1:16.9 | Like, I know, I got married when I was five, you know. |
| 1:20.2 | On every level. |
| 1:21.2 | I'm looking at you. |
| 1:22.1 | And I'm like, there's no way the woman has been married for 31 years. |
| 1:25.0 | And also 31 years is a very long time. |
| 1:29.1 | Congratulations. You get a very, very fat trophy. Oh, thank you. It wasn't all smooth. I will be honest. There was a little bit of a |
| 1:35.6 | rocky time in there. But, you know, with all good things and worth it, you persevere through. So, |
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