The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Share Shed — a judgement-free corner of Sober Awkward where we gently drag our most awkward drinking stories into the daylight and finally let them go.
This is the place for the questions you’ve never asked out loud and the moments you still remember at 3am when your brain decides to replay your greatest hits of humiliation. Family parties that went wildly off-piste. Traffic cones worn as hats. One night stands you wish had stayed one night. Messages sent. Bins vomited in. Questionable run-ins with the police. You know the ones.
Each week, listeners send in their awkward questions and clumsy confessions, anonymously if they like, and Vic reads them out, unpacks the shame, adds some perspective, and helps you understand why these memories stick around — and how to stop them haunting you.
This isn’t about glorifying drinking or wallowing in regret. It’s about understanding shame, normalising messy human behaviour, and reminding you that you are not broken, bad, or alone — you were just drinking in a culture that told you this was normal.
If you’ve ever wondered how to move past embarrassment, why certain memories still sting even years later, or whether anyone else has done something that bad (spoiler: yes), The Share Shed is for you.
Send your awkward questions and clumsy confessions to vic@soberawkward.com, and let’s tuck those drunken ghosts safely away — where they belong.
Kettle on. Share shed open. Let's get a little bit awkward....
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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. |
| 1:14.4 | Right. let's get a little bit awkward. Right, welcome to this week's confession in the share shed. |
| 1:18.8 | I posted about this yesterday and within minutes I've had five emails land in my inbox, five, yep, which tells me two things I think one we're absolutely not |
| 1:30.9 | alone any of us in our drinking stories and two there is a lot of unresolved pandemonium going on out |
| 1:37.7 | there in our little sober heads so yeah I've decided not to read all the emails instead I, I'm going to read it to you. I'm going |
| 1:46.2 | to open it in my inbox and read it directly from the email so that I can react to it at the |
| 1:51.1 | same time that you do. I thought that would be funnier. So here we go. Our first ever awkward |
| 1:57.0 | confession. Anonymous Scott, it says, New Zealand. Dear Vic, love the pod. Thank you. Anonymous Scott in New Zealand. I want to know how to get past some of the shame from my drinking past as it is killing me. Okay. First, I'm proudly sober. Well done. Two years now. so I no longer wake up wondering if I've committed a crime, which is a nice feeling, yes, I'm sure it is. |
| 2:25.0 | And yet, I'm still carrying around some absolute corkers from my past. |
| 2:29.6 | The cringing feels overwhelming sometimes. |
| 2:33.2 | I still feel my face go red when certain memories creep in. |
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