EP 259: Naked Life Story - Alex & Lisa

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Best friends since they were 11 and 13 years old, Alex and Lisa spent almost 30 years drinking together. In fact, they did everything together -- from working as a dynamic duo behind the bar at Lisa’s family’s pub in the UK to … wait for it … quitting alcohol and, now, encouraging others to adopt a sober lifestyle as well. Through their company, The Sobriety Experiment, Alex and Lisa host a podcast, work with employers on Workplace Wellbeing, and so much more. Today, they share their story with Annie.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,
0:16.0	pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.0	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I'm here with Alex and Lisa, the
0:34.0	sub-er experiment. Hi guys. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. I'm excited. Where are you guys? We're just in the office actually. Yeah,
0:49.0	in Manchester, UK. So that's so cool. So this is so fun. Thanks for coming on. This is great. I am. You guys sent me your story,
1:01.0	which was just super cool and the things you're doing are amazing. So I'm so excited to share your story. So what I'd love to do is kind of just have you guys tell the story you sent over email,
1:11.0	like tell it to me live because it's so good.
1:16.0	So yeah, so I'm Alex and this is Lisa and we've been very best friends since we were 11 and 13. We met through our parents.
1:29.0	We had our fathers and well, it's Lisa's stepfather and my father actually met years and years and years ago. My dad was a club singer and a pub singer and Kerry Lisa's stepdad was just mad for music and just loved a good time.
1:44.0	And they spent their kind of 20s 30s and beyond. I think I'm not sure exactly when they met, but quite a long time before we were born.
1:53.0	Going out and partying and living the party scene and that was just the normal thing to do. So we came along at some point during that, I guess.
2:02.0	And we were introduced through our parents, following my mom's 40s birthday. And yeah, we just became great friends and we did everything together. Absolutely everything. And we still do to be fair.
2:14.0	Yeah, we do.
2:16.0	No, not really.
2:20.0	So, yeah, so I guess if we fast forward a little bit, we, Lisa's mum and stepdad owned a pub.
2:30.0	And I worked for them and we just became this unstoppable duo behind the bar.
2:35.0	And without blowing our own trumpet too much, everybody loved us. We loved them. And yeah, I guess everybody doing it was drunk or drinking.
2:44.0	We didn't realise that at the time though, you know, I was looking back now. I think we had the pub. So everybody we knew was a drinker.
2:53.0	And it wasn't literally until I stopped drinking. I thought, wow, yeah.
2:59.0	Yeah. And then yeah, we worked together and that we parted together. We played hard.
3:06.0	And before we knew it fast forward, we'd had children, we'd had families. And although we weren't going out together, we started to do this kind of thing over in like Skype.
3:17.0	And we'd have our wine in hands and we'd be having a good old moan about how stressed out we were with our lives and our children.
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