The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Awkward questions. Clumsy confessions. Zero judgement.
Welcome to The Share Shed, the corner of Sober Awkward where we fling open the doors, air out the embarrassing bits, and finally stop carrying the stories that have been rattling around in our heads for years.
These are your questions and confessions. The ones you’ve never said out loud. The nights you still cringe about in the shower. The moments that pop into your brain at 3am and make you want to crawl into the mattress. Traffic cones, family parties, one-night stands, run-ins with the police, bins, balconies, and that one thing everyone remembers even though you desperately wish they wouldn’t.
Some are funny. Some are painful. Most are both.
In The Share Shed, listeners write in anonymously to share their drinking stories, shame spirals, and “why am I still thinking about this?” moments. We read them out, laugh where we can, get honest where it hurts, and gently unpack how shame sticks around long after the booze has gone, and how to finally loosen its grip.
This isn’t about reliving the chaos.
It’s about letting it go.
Because shame thrives in silence, and nothing deflates it faster than saying, “This happened to me too.” Whether you’re sober, sober-curious, or just questioning your relationship with alcohol, this is a place where you don’t have to be polished, healed, or have it all figured out.
Just human.
If you’ve got a story you’re sick of carrying, a question you’re scared to ask, or a drunken ghost you’d quite like evicted from your brain, send it in. We’ll tuck it safely away in the Share Shed where it belongs, instead of letting it haunt you forever.
New Share Shed episodes drop Thursdays.
Come as you are.
Leave a little lighter.
Share your story to vic@soberawkward.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Thursday share shed of questions and confessions. The bit of the week where I'll |
| 0:11.3 | fling open the doors of sober awkward and let everything tumble out. If you've got a cringy moment |
| 0:17.5 | that still pops up uninvited at 3am. This is your chance to offload it. |
| 0:22.5 | Let's get it off your chest and stop these tumultuous tales lurking like the drunken ghosts |
| 0:27.6 | of your pissed up past. You can email your stories to vick at soberaawquad.com. Anonymous is |
| 0:34.6 | encouraged, oversharing is very welcome and judgment is most certainly banned. |
| 0:40.6 | So if you've ever worn a traffic cone on your head, had a weird one-night stand, |
| 0:45.5 | fallen asleep in a bush, puked in a bin, and yes, had the occasional running with the police, |
| 0:50.3 | or you just need to ask me a question about booze, then you're in the right place. |
| 0:54.9 | I believe nothing says growth like finally airing a bit of dirty laundry. |
| 1:00.4 | Let's evict those embarrassing memories once and for all. |
| 1:04.5 | Kettle on, share shed open, let's get a little bit awkward. |
| 1:15.6 | Thank you. let's get a little bit awkward. Now, before we get into this episode of The ShareShed, I had to read an email and it's an |
| 1:22.0 | update about Big Lassie. I don't know if anyone heard the episode two weeks ago where we |
| 1:27.4 | had a chat about the guy who woke up on a train in Wellington with a massive dog and he didn't know who's it belonged to and he called it Big Lassie. |
| 1:36.3 | Somebody had listened to that episode and has emailed me and says, I live in Wellington, New Zealand. |
| 1:42.3 | I just wanted to pass on a message to the poor person |
| 1:45.5 | who is haunted by Big Lassie. I want to say that dogs in NZ must be registered to an address |
| 1:52.4 | and microchipped, so owners can be contacted if their dog is found to reunite them. I hope that |
| 1:59.8 | helps to ease her burden. I think it was a bloke, |
| 2:03.3 | but yes, I think Leanne, thank you so much for sending that in. That is going to be a huge |
| 2:09.7 | shame shift for Anonymous Scott living near Wellington. You can rest assured that Big Lassie |
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