1000 Days Sober Podcast

Laure Boutrais-Lodge on Naturopathy

Laure is  from Normandy in France and has been living in Cardiff for over twenty years with her family. She draws inspiration from Yoga, running, music and nature. She wanted to understand her own body better following recurring bladder infection and skin condition issues, and decided to start a qualification in Naturopathic Nutrition at the School of Naturopathic Nutrition in Cardiff. The course enabled her to improve her health and stamina. She discovered how to make water kefir, a sparkling natural probiotic drink, which was regularly enjoyed by friends and family. This was the start of Absorb! She is now distributing her drinks to the wider community both locally and throughout Wales. Absorb was founded in July 2017, just as Laure qualified as a Naturopath with the School of Naturopathic Nutrition. Absorb is here to supply people and gatherings with homemade water kefir and other products aimed to help with optimal absorption of nutrients. Understanding how our environment, lifestyle and what we eat ( biodiversity) can impact on the micro biodiversity within us and how it can affect not only our digestion but our immunity, mental health or even our weight. I saw Laure doing a talk on gut health during an event in Cardiff, and loved her enthusiasm and knowledge instantly, and that’s why I asked her to come on the show. Website and Newsletter At 1000 Days Sober, we combine a world-class coaching program with the best support network in the business to help you hit the golden milestone of 1000 days free of alcohol. We call this experience ‘Strive,’ and we run four of them per year in Jan, Apr, Jul and Oct. If you want to join, then you need to sign-up to our weekly newsletter. https://bit.ly/2vVODmv Check out our website to learn more about 1000 Days Sober and Strive; as well as meet the founder, Lee Davy, and his extraordinary coaching team. https://bit.ly/39acr49 Social Media We don’t spread ourselves too thin, but we are on. Instagram if you want to pop in and say hi. https://bit.ly/382B4zT Say Hi If you want to say hello, then send Lee Davy an email at thetruthaboutalcohol@gmail.com.

Andrew Lassise: Self Made and Sober

Andrew Lassise is the host of the Self Made & Sober Podcast. Each episode features guests, people Andrew looks up to in sobriety, in business and life. They discuss the ups and downs of their lives, how they achieved sobriety and success in all its many forms. After one year of sobriety, Andrew built Rush Tech Support in his living room in 2014 into a multi-million dollar small business IT company. You can learn more about Andrew's work at Lassisecoaching.com. Website and Newsletter At 1000 Days Sober, we combine a world-class coaching program with the best support network in the business to help you hit the golden milestone of 1000 days free of alcohol. We call this experience ‘Strive,’ and we run four of them per year in Jan, Apr, Jul and Oct. If you want to join, then you need to sign-up to our weekly newsletter. https://bit.ly/2vVODmv Check out our website to learn more about 1000 Days Sober and Strive; as well as meet the founder, Lee Davy, and his extraordinary coaching team. https://bit.ly/39acr49 Social Media We don’t spread ourselves too thin, but we are on. Instagram if you want to pop in and say hi. https://bit.ly/382B4zT Say Hi If you want to say hello, then send Lee Davy an email at thetruthaboutalcohol@gmail.com.

Melanie Joy on How Her Personal Battle Against Oppression Began

Melanie Joy, PhD, EdM, is a Harvard-educated psychologist, international speaker, and organizational and relationship coach. She is the author of four other books, including the award-winning Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism and Getting Relationships Right: How to Build Resilience and Thrive in Life, Love, and Work.  Dr Joy was a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, for 11 years, where she taught courses on privilege and oppression, feminist psychology, and animal rights. She has given talks and training on six continents and in over 50 countries, and her work has been featured in major media outlets around the world.  She is the eighth recipient of the Ahimsa Award – previously given to the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela – for her work on global nonviolence.  Dr Joy is also the founding president of the charitable organization Beyond Carnism and the co-founder of ProVeg International. You can learn more about her work at carnism.org and powerarchy.org.

Strive Inspirations: Janey Lee Grace

Janey Lee Grace is an Amazon No 1 Best-selling author, and co-presenter on the UK’s biggest radio show, BBC Radio 2’s  Steve Wright in the Afternoon.  Previously she was a backing singer with George Michael and Wham!, Kim Wilde, Boy George and reached Number 8 chart hit with 7 Ways to Love as Cola Boy.  Janey has written five books on Holistic living including the number One Amazon best seller Imperfectly Natural Woman and currently writes columns for many magazines, and offers PR and media training.    She hosts the annual Janey Loves Platinum Awards to recognise the best in natural and organic products and services and runs the recommendations blog imperfectlynatural.com    After ditching the booze in January 2018 Janey has launched a podcast ‘Alcohol-Free Life’ and runs The Sober Club focusing on sober self-care.  www.thesoberclub.com.

Strive Inspirations: Spike Spencer

Spike Spencer is an internationally recognised, award winning voice actor, with hundreds of roles in film, TV, animation, video games, and Anime to his credit. He is a dynamic public speaker, and the world’s #1 Master Trainer on Relationship Sales Dynamics. He is the author of "FoodGame: A Man’s Ultimate Recipe For Dating Success", certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) coach, and a certified B.A.N.K. Trainer with BANKCODE, an entity that wants to help 10 million businesses and entrepreneurs get $10m in revenue within ten years. Spike has also featured in a Netflix docu-series called “Being Dad,” from the Chicken Soup for the Soul production company. https://www.spikespencer.com/ https://www.1000dayssober.com/

Alex Leclerc on Drinking, Parenting and Divorce

Alex is a 44 years old professional, working as a sales executive in a Global IT company, just beginning podcaster and has been sober for nearly 15 years. He learned his IT skills by himself as his drug and alcohol addiction interfered with his academic path. He is the father of 3 fantastic kids and the husband of a wonderful wife. As an addict in recovery, he started his podcast, named Cold Turkey, to discuss and share what makes someone make a 180 and turn their lives around. In this episode, we focus on the problems encountered when drinking, divorce and different parental philosophies clash. https://www.facebook.com/Podcastcoldturkey/ https://www.1000dayssober.com/

Strive Inspirations: Nick Littlehales

Nick is recognised as the world’s first and leading Elite Sport Sleep Coach, and regarded as a leading human recovery innovator. He has over 35 years’ experience within the sleep and sleeping product industry and over 22 years dedicated to elite sport. His unique, passionate and proven approach, is endorsed by leading sport science professionals, managers, coaches, organisations in sport and now business, health and education worldwide. In this episode of Strive Inspirations, Nick talks about moving through life from a teenage caddy to bending the ear of Sir Alex Ferguson. https://www.sportsleepcoach.com/

The Abstinence Myth With Dr. Adi Jaffe

Adi Jaffe, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized expert on mental health, addiction, relationships and shame. He was a UCLA lecturer in the Psychology department at UCLA for the better part of a decade and was the Executive-Director and Co-Founder of one of the most progressive mental health treatment facilities in the country - until he started IGNTD. Dr. Jaffe's work and research focus on changing the way Americans think about, and deal with mental health issues. He is passionate about the role of shame in destroying lives and aims to greatly reduce the stigma of mental health in this country. In this context, Dr. Jaffe has used his personal experience as an incredibly effective inspirational and motivational tool. Dr. Jaffe now writes a blog on Psychology Today, and several other online and print sources. His goal is to bring the latest knowledge about addiction to the people who could benefit from it most – those who are suffering because of it. His writing combines personal experience with a decade’s worth of fine-detail research regarding the mechanisms involved in the addictive process. To get a free copy of his book (you have to pay for shipping), then check out www.theabstinencemyth.com. If you want to learn more about the work we do at Strive then head to www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk.

Strive Inspirations - Kimberley Spencer

Kimberley Spencer is a born-n-raised Valley Girl, powered by green juice, Italian espresso, and gallons of glitter, I am proud to have helped hundreds of women (and a handful of men) breakthrough their body barriers, revolutionize their relationships, and rewrite their stories of self-sabotage into a story of success, in all areas of their life. Kimberley has done it all. She co-wrote the movie BRO starring Danny Trejo. She has competed in Miss CA USA and won Miss Congeniality. She learned acting in a prestigious London school. She has owned a Pilates Studio. Ran four marathons. More importantly. She overcame bulimia. And scrapped a script that read. • Not perfect enough.
 • Not smart enough.
 • Not working hard enough.
 • Not skinny enough.
 • Not lovable enough.
 Today she is a high-performance coach, bestselling writer, health junkie, freedom-lover, mother and wife, and unsinkable optimist.

Shanna Wan: helping People in the Australian Outback

Sober in the County (SITC) began as a few blog posts in 2014 by rural woman and newly (then recovering) alcoholic Shanna Whan after her own near-death experience from a twenty-year battle with what she calls 'invisible alcoholism.' ​ She decided to speak up and 'come out' with a simple goal of helping others in remote areas know they weren't alone. Shanna is now healthy, happy, and almost five years fully recovered. She has dedicated those years to being a volunteer one volunteer turned that one conversation into a national movement and is about to go to air nationally via Australian Story - and become a national charity - due to the incredible response and 'me too' movement it's created in the rural space. She is lighting the way for rural professionals and peers to safely come behind her and discuss the previously taboo topic of the outback alcohol culture. Everything she does is self-taught and straight from the heart.