Episode 166: How to Get Sober and Live a Glorious Life with Laura McKowen, author of We Are The Luckiest

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Kate Northrup

Personalfinance, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Nervoussystemhealing, Education, Womensempowerment, Wellness, Pleasure, Metaphysics, Spirituality, Abundance, Embodiment, Productivity, Timemanagement, Business

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever had something about yourself that you don’t think is that big of deal, but when you share it, everyone else seems to think it is a big deal? That’s Mike and me with drinking. Or not drinking, as the case may be. Our most popular episode of The Kate & Mike Show of 2019 BY FAR was the one we did about Sobriety, Substances, and Choosing to Live Awake (episode 137) in which Mike shared his sordid journey with drugs and alcohol, and I shared mine (not so sordid but still worth mentioning). That’s why we’re kicking off 2020 with back-to-back episodes on sobriety. Last week we talked with Holly Whitaker about our culture’s f’d up relationship with alcohol and the ways in which the traditional, patriarchal structures of recovery don’t serve everyone. This week we’re back with an equally powerful episode with memoirist Laura McKowen about her journey with addiction, getting sober, and then falling deeply in love with her sober life. As Laura shares, she thought that sobriety was a sentence for a sad existence without fun or sex or truly living. Until her life required her to get sober and discover the truth: that sobriety is an invitation to a truer, more beautiful life, not a sentence. You don’t have to want to get sober in order to get the gold from this episode, though I would totally cheer you on if you do! In the episode you’ll hear: • What Laura did about the shame she was carrying from the things that happened while she was drinking • How we forgive ourselves for things we think are unforgivable • How to actually feel your feelings and why they won’t kill you (and what opportunities lie on the other side) • About the beauty and possibilities of a sober life • Laura’s story of getting a book deal (I always have to ask some business questions) I’m really excited for you to get to soak in the beauty and wisdom of Laura. She’s a gem. So are you. You can get your own copy of Do Less and still receive incredible bonuses at http://katenorthrup.com/book! Kate wants to hear from you, and you can post about your #DoLess experiences on Instagram, DM her (@katenorthrup) or email [email protected]. Would you, or a company you know, be a good fit to sponsor The Kate & Mike Show? If so, let’s talk! You can email [email protected] regarding current sponsorship opportunities. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at http://www.katenorthrup.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kate Northrop.
0:03.6	And I'm Mike Watts.
0:04.8	And we're partners in life, love, and business.
0:07.6	Welcome to the Kate and Mike show, where we share insights and interviews on entrepreneurship,
0:12.5	relationships, parenting, self-actualization, and making a life not just a living.
0:21.6	Hi, welcome to the Kate and Mike show. This is Kate. This is Mike.
0:25.4	We are so excited to be here with you for our first episode. This is our first official episode of
0:33.1	2020. Happy New Year. It is. Wow. Right? Right. It's exciting. Now, 2020 people. Last week, we had an amazing, so okay, let me back up. Our most listened to, our by far the most popular episode of the Kate and Mike show in 2019 was our episode on sobriety. And can we pull up to
0:58.8	tell what number episode that was, honey, is that possible? So because that was such a wildly
1:06.2	popular episode, we are bringing the topic back. And we brought it back last week with
1:14.4	Holly Whitaker. And this week, we have Laura McCowan. And she is talking about her new
1:22.5	memoir. We are the luckiest, the surprising magic of a sober life. It is an absolutely gorgeous
1:30.0	book and it's sort of a continuation of the conversation that we started last week with
1:36.6	Holly Whitaker. Holly and Laura are also dear friends. What was the title? By the way. Episode 137
1:43.2	was sobriety substances and choosing to live awake.
1:47.1	Yep.
1:47.6	So you can go back and listen to that one.
1:49.5	That was the one from 2019.
1:51.9	That was our most downloaded episode of 2019.
1:55.5	And so we decided to start off to end 2020.
1:59.5	I'm sorry, to end 2019 with sobriety and to start 2020 with sobriety.
2:04.1	Because I honestly have to say for us, while we hadn't talked about it that much before,
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