The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today on the Share Shed we have one confession and one question.
First up, a listener wakes up in Las Vegas with more than just a hangover… let’s just say Elvis may have been involved and somebody accidentally got married.
Then we tackle a question many people quietly ask themselves: if your hands shake the morning after drinking, is that a sign you’re an alcoholic?
The answer might surprise you.
Pour yourself a cuppa and join us for today’s Share Shed.
The Share Shed is where listeners send in their funniest, cringiest and most unbelievable drinking stories. It’s not about judgement, it’s about recognising how wild things could get when alcohol was in charge, and laughing about it now we’re on the other side.
But sometimes, it’s also a place for the harder stuff, the honest bits we don’t always say out loud.
If you’ve got a story you’d like to get off your chest, funny, awkward or something a bit more serious, you can send it to Vic at:
vic@soberawkward.com
Anonymous is absolutely fine. In fact, for legal reasons, probably preferable!!
📞 SUPPORT & RESOURCES
If anything in today’s Shame Shed felt familiar, or you’re worried about your drinking, there is support out there. You don’t have to do this on your own.
🇦🇺 Australia
National Alcohol & Other Drug Hotline
📞 1800 250 015 (24/7)
🌐 https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/alcohol-and-drug-information-service
Lifeline
📞 13 11 14 (24/7)
🌐 https://www.lifeline.org.au
Hello Sunday Morning / Daybreak
🌐 https://hellosundaymorning.org
🌐 https://daybreakapp.com.au
Clean Slate Clinic
🌐 https://www.cleanslateclinic.com
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Drinkline
📞 0300 123 1110
🌐 https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-advice/alcohol-support/
Alcohol Change UK
🌐 https://alcoholchange.org.uk
We Are With You
🌐 https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk
🌍 International
Alcoholics Anonymous
🌐 https://www.aa.org
SMART Recovery
🌐 https://www.smartrecovery.org
💬 A gentle reminder
If you’re drinking in the morning to cope, especially with anxiety or withdrawal symptoms, it’s really important to speak to a doctor or medical professional. Stopping suddenly can be unsafe for some people, and support can make a huge difference.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday and time to jump into the share shed of questions and confessions. |
| 0:14.5 | It's the bit of the week where we fling open the doors of the sober awkward humiliation |
| 0:18.5 | hut and let everything tumble out. This is where you |
| 0:22.1 | send me your awkward questions and your greatest drinking misdemeanors. The traffic cone on the head, |
| 0:28.4 | the one night stands, the questionable taxi journeys, falling in bushes, puking in bins, |
| 0:33.6 | and yes, the occasional running with the police. I believe nothing says growth like finally airing your dirty laundry. |
| 0:41.1 | I hope today we're going to laugh and wince and most importantly stop these tumultuous tales |
| 0:46.5 | lurking in your head like drunken ghosts from your pissed up past. |
| 0:50.7 | If you've got a moment that still pops up uninvited at 3am, a story you've never told anyone or a question you've been carrying around for years, this is your chance to offload it. |
| 1:02.1 | Let's get it off your hairy chest and tuck it safely away in the Sober Awkward shame shed where it can't hurt you anymore. |
| 1:09.2 | Email your questions, confessions and chaotic drinking stories to vick at Soberawkward.com. |
| 1:15.4 | Anonymous is encouraged, oversharing is welcome and judgment is most certainly banned. |
| 1:21.7 | We'll read them out, have a laugh, maybe a little cry, |
| 1:24.1 | and help you finally evict those embarrassing memories once and for all. |
| 1:29.3 | Kettle on, shame shed open, let's get a little bit awkward. |
| 1:37.4 | Hello, it's Thursday. That wonderful time of the week where we let all our deepest secrets out, |
| 1:45.7 | hopefully get a giggle from them, |
| 1:50.6 | and hopefully get rid of any shame that is still attached to them, here in the beautiful share shed, which of course is my son's bedroom. But I'm actually building a little podcast |
| 1:55.5 | studio in my house just behind the fridge. I should have done it bloody years ago, but there you go. My husband's |
| 2:02.1 | helping me sound insulate. Is that word insulate? Yes, probably is. But yeah, so that's exciting. |
| 2:07.6 | I won't be surrounded by pissy mattresses, bad drawings by my children. That's not a nice thing to |
| 2:14.7 | say. Very good drawings, but probably should be in the bin. |
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