EP 200: Reader Question - How to avoid drinking at a boozy sales meeting?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The alcohol really flows at most annual sales meetings. But what if we don’t want to drink, yet we also aren’t ready to tell people we’ve given up drinking - for fear that they’ll think there was a problem? Annie opens up with advice from her own experiences and shares a variety of ways to gracefully get through these situations.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:29.0	Hi friends, this is Annie Grace and today I have a question from Jess, Jess writes and she says,
0:33.6	Hi Annie, I have a question I think I have some experience with. I'm meeting my colleagues
0:38.4	next week for two days, says, sales meeting and guess who's the only female. For the past two
0:43.0	years I've hung right in there with my male counterparts drinking and I'm not worried that I'm
0:48.8	going to want to join or feel tempted but my question is what do I tell the people I work with?
0:54.6	Should I say I'm like taking medication and can't drink? I have concerns because then what
0:58.9	happens when I see them in a few months and I'm still not drinking or what happens when somebody
1:03.4	buys me a drink and that will definitely happen. It generally does but the I don't want to tell the
1:09.5	truth because I don't want anybody at my job to know that I had any sort of problem with alcohol.
1:15.0	So much like you, there wasn't a defining moment of hitting rock bottom. I simply realized
1:19.6	all aspects of my life ended up suffering because of alcohol. My work was affected, my health and
1:23.9	weight weren't in good shape and I wasn't being the best mom I could be. So I really want to do
1:30.5	better in the sales meetings next week so I hope to hear from you soon. So Melissa, I think Jess that
1:38.0	the thing about this is this is tough because you know you're work all the time with people who
1:46.0	the truth of it is you're not going to really see or maintain relationships with once you leave
1:51.3	the job and I think this is always so surprising for us because these people who we see them and
1:56.0	interact with them probably more than anybody else on a day-to-day basis but then once we leave
2:00.7	that job they're not really in our lives. So we end up putting so much importance on what
2:05.0	colleagues think of us when really in terms of what we're doing to be true to ourselves
2:10.6	isn't necessarily shouldn't be you know dictated in terms of colleagues and I know you said you weren't
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