Episode 190: Interview with Arlina Allen

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 517 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Happy New Year Ass-Kickers! Before we jump into today’s episode, a quick announcement: From today until January 9th, I’ll be giving $10 for every Amazon review about my new book, How To Stop Feeling Like Shit, to Best Buddies International, which is a charity close to my heart. Best Buddies helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. You can hear more about it and why it’s important to me in the episode. So, if you’ve read my book, please help me help them by leaving a review. Thank you in advance! Today is another recovery episode with guest Arlina Allen. Today she shares how her career aspirations eventually led to issues with alcohol, how everything came to a head for her at age 25 and then how she was introduced to a 12-step program paving the way for her recovery. Arlina has been clean and sober for 23 years and in her own journey, she was able to see the patterns that were holding her back. Along the way she’s discovered she wasn’t a victim and did indeed have the power to make the decisions that were best for her. Arlina now helps others as a host of her own podcast, The ODAAT Chat, and in this talk she reveals how she’s now able to pay it forward to help others battling addiction. Like the other episodes in this series, even if you’re not struggling with addiction or in recovery, you probably know someone who is. That’s what these stories are for; it’s about shining the light on addiction and recovery and telling our stories. You’ll find out why quitting drinking is just a small part of the equation though, and that sobriety and recovery are two very different things. http://yourkickasslife.com/190 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	This is your kickass life podcast episode number 190 with guest Arlena Allen.
0:36.5	This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen.
0:41.1	A no BS guides a self-help and bad assery.
0:44.9	Because ladies, let's face it, life's too short for it to not kick ass.
0:51.1	And here's your host, the girl who serves it up straight with a side of crazy.
0:56.1	Andrea Owen.
0:59.4	Happy New Year as kickers.
1:01.3	Happy freaking new year.
1:03.5	It's January 2nd.
1:05.4	I hope that you are recovering from any new years fun that you had.
1:10.1	I hope your holidays were amazing. Maybe you're back to work
1:13.0	this week. And guess what today is? It's January 2nd. Obviously, I know that most of you don't
1:18.7	listen to this podcast episode the day it comes out. But the day that it's dropping, January 2nd is
1:23.8	my book's birthday. Wow, it's been a long time coming, right? It's been a labor of love.
1:29.7	And I am really trying to lean into the joy and pride I have about this book,
1:36.0	How to Stop Feeling Like Shit, is officially in bookstores today, I should say. It's been
1:39.9	available for pre-order for a long time. I know some of you have gotten your copy already,
1:43.6	who ordered it online. If you jump into a Barnes & Noble today, it's on the front table. So I would
1:48.8	love for you to take a picture and tag me on Instagram or Facebook. It's very, very exciting.
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