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

Hi, Jess. Hey, Kate. What are we doing today? Today we are going to interview Emily.

Yay. From The Temper. Yay. Yay. Say hi, Emily.

Hi. So how do we know Emily?

How did you mean Emily?

I met Emily at Bridge Club.

I guess that was a few months ago.

And then obviously, you know, we followed the temper and we've mentioned the temper on here a few times.

And then I tattooed her.

Yeah.

I tattooed a bunch of girls from the temper, which is really fun. And now here we are. So, Emily, do you want to, like, tell us, I guess, the Cliff Notes version or whatever of your story?

Yes. Let me try to remember everything. So, I guess to start, I've been sober a little over five years.

Yay. Yeah. I got sober when I was 23 after living in New York for just a year. So, and I was saying before how my last time drinking was in Hoboken.

But so basically what happened is when I was growing up, a lot of people in my family have issues with alcohol.

So drinking was never really fun for me, which is funny.

Like I feel like a lot of people are like, I used to be a party girl or a party person. And I

actually never really identified with that. I always kind of hated drinking. And I also always

felt very stressed out. And it just felt heavy to me always. Like, it never felt lighthearted and

like fun. It just felt like it came with a lot of baggage. So living in New York, my drinking

sort of accelerated pretty quickly. And I was getting to the point where I was blacking out

like three or four times a week. And it was like I couldn't control it. Like once I started drinking.

Are you in school at this point or out of school? I'm out of school. I'm

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