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

Hi, Kate.

How are you?

I'm doing well.

I want to answer some questions from our squad.

Okay.

Let's do that.

I have a bunch of questions saved.

I put it on our emails, from our podcast.

From the Instagram, you want to do email questions or

you want to do podcast questions. Let's do a mix of both. I'm going to start with our Instagram.

Okay. So should we read the names or not? I think we were before, but I don't know. I don't know now.

Guys, we don't know. Do you want to? Yeah, guys, we don't know. Okay, anyway. Okay. I'm moving and I'd like to

set myself up for sobriety success, but still make friends. Do you have any tips? That's hard.

Say it again. They're moving. Mm-hmm. Okay. And they want to set themselves up for

sobriety success. Good for you. Seeking out tools out tools well I found it easier when I moved

because you just present as a non-drinker yeah like I'm not around the same bars that I used to drink at

I'm surrounded by bars where I live but I don't again I don't have any memories at any of them. They don't romanticize

any of them. Again, that's just my personal experience. You also don't really have to prove anything

to anyone because you're just a stranger at this point. You're new. You could tell them you never drink.

I mean, not that you're going to do that, but I just feel like it's a clean start. No one will remember your drunken stories or anything like that seeing you have a reputation. Yeah, I feel like it's a great

time to hit reset. Totally. Like who do you even want to be? That's a good point. You can be anyone you

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