Welcome to You Are Here, the podcast where we have conversations with people who have

courageously taken the road less traveled. I'm your host Rachel Ree and in each

episode we'll be exploring stories from people who have followed their own path and are living life on their own terms

Know that we're here to meet you where you are and where you'd like to be. This is you are here

Welcome back everyone.

Today I have Amanda Kuda on.

She is an alcohol-free life coach, accomplished author,

and someone who has really just gone through her own journey of being alcohol-free

and she wants to help you if you are curious about it with that journey as well.

I know that I have had my fair share of ups and downs with alcohol and I don't currently drink too much but there was once a time when I drank quite a bit and in this episode we talk about why we sometimes do that.

Sometimes it's not just to be quote unquote social,

and there are other reasons why we turn to alcohol in our lives.

She is a wealth of knowledge in this space,

so if you are at all curious about this topic,

just know that this episode was then meant for you. Let's just jump right into it.

Well, I am so excited to have you here and to talk through your journey in where you've been and also where you are now as a coach and all of the people that you support but before really getting into all

the wonderful things and exciting things that you're doing with the book with your

coaching with all the things I'd love to learn a little bit more about

your background because I always think that there is a backstory to how people got to

where they are so I'll let you kind of give a little bit more color to that.

Absolutely. Well, I grew up in a very small Midwestern rural area and definitely you know this is

before the time where we have a ton of access to internet. I feel like I'm telling like I'm ancient right now, but all that to be said is I had like a shelter of childhood and didn't have a lot of expansion into what was possible for my life.

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