88 - Interview with Tawny Lara
Seltzer Squad - Staying Sober In The City
Kate Zander
4.9 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this episode Kate and Jes chat with Jackie-of-all-trades Tawny Lara, writer, podcaster and all around cool chick. Tawny discusses sober events she has organized, her podcast “Recovery Rocks”, her favorite support group “Road Recovery” and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine. |
| 0:19.1 | Hi, Jess. Hi, Kate. Hi, Tani. Welcome to the pod, Tani. Thank you for having me. This is like, we've been trying to do this for, I feel like 10 years now. Yeah. We were originally going to have like an in real life get together with her and then the pandemic hit. And then we were on a group chat and we all were in very different mental places. I was completely absent and you guys were sorting things out. And now we finally were able to get on a Zoom call to kind of like catch up and rehash things out. I will botch your |
| 0:55.3 | introduction because you do so many things. So I'll let you introduce yourself to everybody and |
| 1:00.1 | tag and hash and all the things that you want to link. Oh my gosh. That's I kind of want to hear |
| 1:06.1 | I kind of want to hear your botched introduction though. Well, I've known you for a really long time. |
| 1:10.8 | Like you were when I met you were yoga ladies. You're still. I kind of want to hear your botched introduction, though. Well, I've known you for a really long time. |
| 1:15.2 | Like, you were, when I met you were yoga, ladies, you're still yoga. |
| 1:18.1 | Then you were doing, then you were sober. Then it was writing. |
| 1:20.1 | It was blogging about sobriety. |
| 1:21.9 | Sobriety party. |
| 1:22.7 | Yep. |
| 1:23.2 | And then you moved. |
| 1:25.8 | And then you started a podcast. |
| 1:30.1 | And before that, you were hosting in person get-togethers so you just do a lot of things yeah we've gone to let's see so kate and i have |
| 1:36.3 | gone to the sobriety party yes one of your events i believe that's where we met if i'm not |
| 1:43.1 | mistaken where we finally met IRL. Yeah. |
| 1:46.2 | And then we did a road recovery session with you. And then the rest is history. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we've all, |
| 1:55.9 | we've all crossed paths so many times digitally and IRL. Like Jess and I have been at the same concert a |
| 2:02.8 | couple times before actually meeting and Kate and I have had tea. Yep. I had tea with Tani when |
| 2:10.6 | she had blue hair. I don't remember where we went. Did we go to TNJ? What is it Lackawana in Jersey |
| 2:16.5 | City? Yeah, yeah. I was going to say was it in J.C. |
| 2:19.5 | Yes. They're turmeric lattes. I, that was what my go-to place to write when I was still living in |
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