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I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary things,

and I get to share her story with you.

So let's go.

Buckle up as we're going to get real and dive into the shit nobody talks about.

Welcome to the Batty B Club.

Beautiful. Welcome to the Batty B Club. If you feel like you have a problem with alcohol, if you go out on a night and intend to have one or two drinks and you end up having six,

it's probably a good time to take a look at your drinking.

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. On today's episode, we have Emily Killeen, who is a spiritual yoga teacher, sobriety coach, and transformational retreat facilitator. Emily, through her own addiction of over 15 years and lots of failed attempts at recovery,

figured out the best way for herself to recover and ultimately is sharing that with a lot of people

today. And so what we're here to talk about is the impacts of addiction and how to find

your own way through sobriety. So Emily,

thank you so much for being here today. Oh my goodness, Brianna. Thank you so much for this

opportunity. I'm really grateful to be here talking about sobriety today. So why don't you tell

listeners a little bit more about yourself, where you're from and your background? I would love to.

So I am originally from the Madison, Wisconsin

area, which is a heavily partying state, especially the college campus, which I was very near to.

And now I actually live in northern Arizona off grid on a 20-acre ranch with my husband. And in between there, I lived in San

Diego, too, which is super awesome. But I had a problem with alcohol from the first time that I

started drinking at the age of 13. I was curious as to why my parents drank so much. And actually,

at my health class, they put on the beer goggles as they

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