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Sobriety Uncensored

Episode 22

Sobriety Uncensored

Daniel Patterson

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

4.8666 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Daniel and Jenna welcome their first guest, Laura McKowen. Laura is the author of a bestselling memoir and founder of “The Luckiest Club”, a global sobriety support community. Laura tells her sober story, talks about what inspired her to start writing about recovery and start an online sober community, and discusses the main theme of her upcoming book “Push Off From Here” being released on March 7th.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. Happy Thursday, everybody. Welcome to episode 22 of sobriety uncensored. That feels like a nice

0:06.8

number and super grateful for our spin drift sponsorship. I can't believe it's real life. It's my

0:13.8

favorite drink, small company, but a big name. And they've been so kind and compassionate and

0:20.2

supportive. And in a world that is

0:23.3

pretty tough to navigate, I'm just going to say it's been refreshing, no pun intended, to

0:28.0

collaborate with a company that is just exactly who they say they are. So if you have a chance,

0:33.9

and we will still figure out how to get the um discount code discount code because

0:39.1

we don't do a uh a bio what are those things called jena show notes show notes show notes oh and like

0:47.1

jazz hands jazz hands we have our first guest i just insert myself i know but this is this means that you fit right in. We're already

0:57.4

off to a great start because, uh, not to make this too much of a big deal, but we've had a lot of

1:03.7

people asked to be a guest. And when people ask me if they can be a guest or somebody reaches out,

1:09.7

there's two questions I ask them,

1:11.0

which is, are you funny and do you swear? Did you ask me those? I mean, I probably

1:16.5

sweared right away. So I'm definitely not funny. You're like, fuck yeah, I'm funny. She's like,

1:21.9

fuck yeah, I'm funny. We have Laura McCallon with us. And Laura, can you just do your thing and introduce yourself?

1:29.7

Sure. Well, I'm so honored to be a chosen one since you rejected all those other people who weren't funny enough or swear enough. Yeah. Okay. I'm teasing. I'm teasing. No, I, I'm honored to be talking to you.

1:45.2

I just, uh, I'm an author and a founder of the luckiest club, which is a variety

1:50.9

support community.

1:52.1

I'm also a mom.

1:53.6

I've been sober for about eight and a half years.

1:56.9

Oh, twins.

1:57.6

And had an entire career before.

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