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268: Dealing with Boredom in Sobriety with Angela Pugh

Soberful

Veronica Valli

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8628 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

After bartending her way across Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Angela was in over her head with a drinking problem that was relentless. She got sober in 2006 and dedicated her life to helping others do the same. She joins Veronica to discuss how to deal with boredom in sobriety and how we need to take responsibility for our lives and experiences.

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0:00.0

I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting

0:10.1

their story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.

0:22.5

I could touch but never hold.

0:27.6

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Soberfall podcast.

0:31.0

And I am delighted that finally we have Angela Pew.

0:35.1

Am I saying that correctly?

0:36.5

Yes, ma'am, you did it. Joining us today. Angela is a,

0:41.2

well, you may have heard her from the Addiction Unlimited podcast. She has been working in addiction

0:47.3

recovery as an interventionist and trainer and now as a master's life coach, telling her story

0:53.5

and changing lives as she goes about it.

0:56.3

Now, okay, let's start here.

0:58.1

After bartending her way across Hollywood and Beverly Hills, tell me about that.

1:02.4

Oh, wow, what a life.

1:04.2

Yeah, that was my 20s.

1:05.2

So I lived full time in Los Angeles, all my 20s, and then I was still pretty much 50- L.A. Kansas City for another, I don't even

1:14.0

know how many 15 years probably till COVID. And yeah, I mean, I was a bartender. It was incredible.

1:20.6

You know, it was such a beautiful life. No responsibility. I made a ton of money. And partying was just my lifestyle. It's all I did, you know. I didn't have

1:31.7

the inconvenience of having to have a regular job and like get up and go to work like other people

1:37.0

did. So yeah, drinking was kind of my full-time job. So the hospitality industry has,

1:43.4

you know, people always tell me my industry has

1:45.6

all of the industries do, but hospitality in particular, bartending in particular, was it all

1:51.7

bartenders? I mean, like you finish it two or four. Like, how are you, are you drinking while

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