Oh, the kettle's boiled. Excellent timing. I'll just make myself a quick cupper, take a deep breath and pretend I know exactly what I'm doing.

Right, let's get started.

Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning with massive anxiety and said to yourself, I'm never drinking again,

only to find yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour. Do you ever wonder why everyone else

can stop at one while you end up at a dodgy after party holding hands with a weird bloke called

Disco Dave? If so, it might be time to take a closer look at your reliable social crutch alcohol.

On this podcast, I investigate my own deeply dysfunctional dealings with booze and find out what

it's really like navigating this alcohol-drenched world, one fizzy water at a time. I'm going to

open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories to help you understand why

waking up with one eyebrow missing and a kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be

negatively impacting your health. So what happens when you put down those cheeky pints and finally

let go of those rewarding mummy wines? I guess we're just going to have to wait and see. I'm Victoria

Vanstone and this is sober awkward. Right, just get my headphones on. I just got back from a

lovely walk with my beautiful friend Michelle and we went to a part of Kulham near where I live

where apparently you can sit up on the rocks and see turtles underneath swimming around. So he thought, yes, we'll get up early and we'll go and do that. Somebody even said there's like stingrays flying around in the water. What did I see? Fuck all. Typical, isn't it? I went to the one spot on the Sunshine Coast where it's supposed to be all these magical animals and all I

saw was some seaweed. So yeah, it was a lovely walk though. Always love spending time with my beautiful

friend Michelle. She's bloody gorgeous. Here I am in the Sober Awkward Studio and I've got an amazing

guest coming on today. She's written a memoir called I'll Try Anything Twice, and honestly, the title alone feels

very on brand for Sober Awkward, because if there's one thing former drinkers and party

animals have in common, it's that we've tried a lot of things in our quest to feel better,

or feel braver or feel happier, or just feel anything at all. Sometimes for me that looked like partying harder.

It also looked like chasing adventure. Sometimes it meant moving countries or careers or falling

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