Episode 571: Habits, Resolutions, and Dry January with Casey McGuire Davidson

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Are you hoping to start a new habit or even quit drinking in the coming year? This episode explores the transformative power of habits and the sober-curious lifestyle, featuring Casey McGuire Davidson, a Life & Sobriety Coach and the host of The Hello Someday Podcast for Sober Curious Women. Casey, with her background in helping high-achieving women break free from alcohol's hold, shares insights applicable to any habit or behavior change. We discuss resolutions to positively impact health and explore best practices for sustaining motivation when that initial drive fades. Dry January takes center stage in our conversation, with Casey emphasizing that the act of abstaining from alcohol goes beyond a temporary trend – it's a gateway to understanding the difference one can feel. Listen to hear ideas that can be a catalyst for positive change in various aspects of your life. In this episode, you’ll hear about: Some resolutions that can improve your health (4:39) Best practices that can keep people going after the initial motivation fades (9:05) Dry January - it’s not just about quitting drinking. (15:07) Casey answers, “Why is quitting drinking a change more and more people are interested in making?” (21:54) “Once you stop drinking for a period of time, you can’t unknow the difference you feel.” (30:58) Casey McGuire Davidson is a Life & Sobriety Coach and the host of the Top 100 Mental Health Podcast, The Hello Someday Podcast for Sober Curious Women. As an ex-red wine girl who spent 20 years climbing the corporate ladder while holding on tightly to her love of wine, Casey’s passionate about helping busy women stop drinking and create lives they love without alcohol. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News and over 70 sobriety, motherhood, mental health and wellness podcasts and publications. Resources from this episode: 1:1 Coaching with Andrea Daring Way™ Coaching with Andrea Casey’s website Casey on Instagram Atomic Habits, James Clear Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke Book recommendations: I love a good personal development book, and you do too, right? I’ve compiled a list of book recommendations, as mentioned in past episodes. Check out these amazing book recommendations here. Happy reading! MSN is supported by: We love the sponsors that make our show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: andreaowen.com/sponsors/ Show link: http://andreaowen.com/571 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	New Year's resolutions, again, they're sort of a double-edged sword. But with quitting,
0:35.0	drinking or anything else, I find that the hardest part is drawing a line in the sand.
0:40.2	Picking a start date that you don't continually say, oh, I'll start on Monday.
0:46.5	Just begin.
0:48.1	And anything that helps you begin is great with an area of your life you feel will improve you for the new year. Find some people
0:56.7	who are doing the same thing and start small. You're listening to Makes a Noise podcast,
1:03.8	episode number 571 with guest Casey Davidson-Maguire. Davidson McGuire.
1:22.0	Welcome to Make Some Noise podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.
1:29.4	I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur, life coach since 2007, an author of three books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries.
1:35.1	Each week, I'll bring you a guest or a lesson that will help you maximize unshakable
1:39.7	confidence, master resilience, and make some noise in your life. You ready? Let's go.
1:49.4	Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm so glad that you're here.
1:54.1	Holiday season is upon us. And I have someone on today to talk about habits. More specifically, we do spend a decent time talking
2:03.0	about quitting drinking, if that is your thing, even if you are a sober person, or maybe you're
2:09.6	just thinking about quitting for January. This is going to be your episode or the episode that
2:14.5	you send to somebody who's maybe been tossing it around,
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