The INCREDIBLE ways that sobriety improves your skin!
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Throwback Thursdays on Sober Awkward!
Every Thursday, we’re serving up a little slice of Sober Awkward history – a short, powerful clip from one of our most-loved past episodes.
Why? Because sometimes, the right words hit differently the second time around. Whether you’re new here or a long-time listener, these throwback moments are here to keep you company, remind you you’re not alone, and offer that little nudge of insight or encouragement just when you need it.
Think of it as a midweek check-in. Something bite-sized to walk with, laugh at, or quietly reflect on. And if the clip hits home? You can go back and listen to the full episode anytime – just follow the link in the show notes.
We know one episode a week isn’t always enough – so here’s your extra helping of honesty, humour, and a bit of awkwardness to get you through the week.
🎧 Listen to the full episode here → https://open.spotify.com/episode/01qerbGnoh2JTsdckkgpOW?si=_EWE-4L-RVa3v4SPwzlGiw
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| 0:00.0 | Now, you're probably wondering what I'm doing here on a lovely Thursday morning. |
| 0:07.8 | Well, it's Vic here, with your Thursday retrospective episode of Sober Awkward. |
| 0:13.7 | You might be thinking, hang on, haven't I heard this before? |
| 0:17.4 | And the answer is yes, yes, you have. |
| 0:19.3 | But like all good drinking stories and bad toilet humour, |
| 0:23.4 | they both get better with age, or at least less embarrassing the more times we tell them. |
| 0:29.1 | On Thursdays, we dust off our favourite episodes from the archives, |
| 0:34.1 | something you might have missed, loved or listened to at the start of your sober life. |
| 0:38.4 | Think of it as a journey back in time, or a jolly leftover, a bit like lasagna that tastes even |
| 0:44.3 | better on day two. So sit back, relax and enjoy this vintage slice of awkwardness. A retrospective |
| 0:52.1 | episode reheated and served right to your ears. |
| 0:59.6 | I think that any changes that you really need to make have to start on the inside, and that is |
| 1:05.7 | what quitting alcohol does. Your opinion on the skin care industry? That's the problem, |
| 1:10.2 | is that I do feel like I give into it, but how would you ever know if it's making it better? Exactly, my point. Unless you have a twin and you eat and drink exactly the same things and one of you uses the product and one of you doesn't. I don't have a twin. How can you prove that a cream makes you look younger or delays wrinkles? Yeah, it's's interesting we'd have to look that one up |
| 1:28.4 | same with babies yeah it'd be like you've got to use this baby shampoo because they're too young |
| 1:33.5 | or sensitive skin i'm like soap is on a baby for like two seconds in the bath how bad can it be yeah |
| 1:39.6 | yeah i don't know about yes we don't know it's like a car mechanic isn't it when you take your |
| 1:44.1 | car and they say this this, this is wrong. |
| 1:46.2 | And you have to go, okay, because I've got no idea. |
| 1:48.7 | So I'm going to pay you all the money to fix that car. |
| 1:50.5 | It's like a human body. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you go and see a Botox doctor. they're going to say, oh, you need a bit there and you need a bit there. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah. |
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