Hello and welcome back to the Get Your Globe Out podcast. I'm joined today by the amazing

Millie Gooch, journalist, author and founder of Sober Girl's Society. In February 2018,

after years of partying and hangovers started taking a toll on her mental health, Millie gave up

alcohol and seven months later founded

the Sober Girl Society, a virtual and real life support space for sober women. Millie hosts

Sober Girl Society's signature boosters brunches and sober sweat classes across the country

and works with organisations including universities to encourage sober curiosity and spread the message

that being alcohol free is far from boring. On today's episode, we spoke all about her journey

to sobriety, some of the biggest misconceptions and why sobriety is on the rise and the unexpected

benefits of living alcohol free. I really love speaking with Millie and whether

you're a devoted booze, sober curious, and completely teetotal, there's a lot to learn from

this episode. So let's bring on the lovely Millie. Millie, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much

for having me. I'm so excited to be talking to me today because I feel like there's definitely a part of my life where I wish I had someone like you championing what you do.

But let's talk about your journey to sobriety because you're very young and often it's something that people do later in life but

what was the moment you realised life might be better sober yeah so my kind of like sober journey

i i mean in a nutshell started drinking a lot at uni had always been like a binge drinker party

girl kind of like towards the end of my drinking

career I was really suffering with poor mental health and that was only kind of exacerbated

by partying and hangovers so I was getting that beer fear or the fear that we've all come to know

and love but mine was lasting like two or three days and it was having like a lot

more of a long-term effect. So I hadn't really ever considered sobriety as a thing. I had always

tried to make my drinking work, whether that was, you know, counting my units, trying to stop

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