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Life after Abstinence - Coffee with Claudia
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Special Guest Claudia joins the boys, and they talk about life after abstinence and how to keep themselves on track. Awareness - paying attention to the "check engine light"By Mike R and Glenn H
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The value of the fellowship: Coffee with Claudia
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Popular guest Claudia joins the boys in the coffee shop once again to discuss the freedom of facing fear and the value of the fellowship.By Mike R and Glenn H
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Mike and Glenn discuss measuring sobriety through inventory, planning, execution, disciplines, and accountability through transparency. Pulling apart page 86 of the AA Big Book, they talk about life into action.By Mike R and Glenn H
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Glenn and Mike chat about expectations, people-pleasing, and managing resentments.By Mike R and Glenn H
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To Worry Less - NOW !! Session with Gigi Langer, Ph.D.
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Author Gigi Langer joins the boys to talk about her extraordinary book Worry Less NOW. Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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Seeking Truth: A Coffee with Dr. Jeff Herten
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Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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Inspired: Time with Allen Berger, Ph.D. Part 2
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Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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Baby Steps: Time with Allen Berger, Ph.D. Part 1
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Renowned Speaker and Author Allen Berger, Ph. D., joins Mike and Glenn in the coffee shop for a meaty, can-not-miss session. Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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Mike and Glenn check in on their 3 year anniversary of the podcast and talk sponsorship, service, prayer and forgiveness. Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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"The Session" -- Instagram LIVE -- March 2024
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The boys take their coffee LIVE through Instagram while Brian, engineer extraordinaire, captures it for replay. Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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"Connection" and other topics: 4 gals discussing Sobriety
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Four lovely ladies join Mike and Glenn in the coffee shop to talk about connection in recovery and share the strength that they have found in sobriety. Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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"Elation" and other topics: 6 guys discussing Sobriety
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Glenn and Mike spend time with 4 other guys, talking about elation and other things sobriety. Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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Glenn and Mike explore the most important time - the next 24. Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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"Rapid Fire" - 6'sh Sober Espresso Shots PART 2
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Mike and Glenn take on 6'sh sober shots in rapid-fire fashion. Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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Living Sorry - the importance of self-forgiveness
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Glenn and Mike take a hard look at self-forgiveness and Living Sorry. Sober.Coffee Website Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio Hosted on Transistor.fmBy Mike R and Glenn H
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Glenn shares the transformational evidences found in recovery with the assist from his favorite band Blue October.By Mike R and Glenn H
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Glenn and Mike take a look at the sad reality of active addiction in this moving episode.By Mike R and Glenn H
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Mike, Glenn and Sarah (sarahsandidge.com) chat about "what's next" -in life and in love.By Mike R and Glenn H
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From Pain to Pickleball - with special guest Elizabeth PART 2
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Elizabeth joins the boys for the second of a two-part series. Part two features the joys that the program brings.By Mike R and Glenn H
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From Pain to Pickleball - with special guest Elizabeth PART 1
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Sober pal Elizabeth joins Mike and Glenn in part one of a two-part series. Part one features her story - her experience, strength, and hope.By Mike R and Glenn H
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Mike and Glenn bust out the noise makers and streamers and talk about the year ahaed.By Mike R and Glenn H
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A look at Stoicism with Author Derek Castleman
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Author Derek Castleman joins Mike and Glenn at the coffee shop to explore the teachings of the Stoics.By Mike R and Glenn H
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The Gift of Hope - 2023 Christmas Session
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A Holiday Session, as only sober.coffee can deliver. Mike and Glenn share memories and talk about the true meaning of this special time of the year.By Mike R and Glenn H
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"Be the Masterpiece" with @carlyannmariereed
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@caelyannmariereed stops in to talk creativity, sharing her strength and hope. This episode drops simultaneous to her book launch. You can find her poetry at, of course,, AMAZON, Search "Human: behind the mask by Carly Reed"By Mike R and Glenn H
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Mike and Glenn chat about plans, expectations and getting and staying sober-healthy.By Mike R and Glenn H
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Glenn and Mike welcome in CJ, the professional restaurateur/ server extraordinaire who shares up his hope one post at a time.By Mike R and Glenn H
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Matt C joins Mike and Glenn at the coffee shop for this special pre-thanksgiving day chat.By Mike R and Glenn H
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"Begin Again" with special guest Gary Menkes
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Podcaster Gary Menkes joins Mike and Glenn at the coffee shop to talk about new beginnings and other topics related to sobriety.By Mike R and Glenn H
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"Normalizing Sobriety" with special Guest Jen Gilhoi
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Table for 3 - Jen in the room! Jen is sharing about sobriety in a big way - with Ted Talks. While the anonymity of AA serves us well in the very beginning of sobriety, Jen found her route to service wasn’t becoming a sponsor, it was becoming an advocate that sober life is pretty amazing once we accept and start living in it. She didn’t see that mes…
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"My Ego Is Not My Amigo" with special guest Matt C
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Table for 3! Matt C joins Mike & Glenn in the coffee shop to talk about ego. Does ego fuel alcohol consumption? Does alcohol consumption fuel ego? Listen in as Matt, Mike and Glenn each talk about the role ego played in their alcoholism and now in recovery. One thing for sure - the struggle with ego still exists on the other side of sobriety. For m…
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A Work Of Fiction - with Author Will Thatcher
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Author Will Thatcher is in the coffee shop today! Will writes addiction fiction. Unlike a lot of other books, this book is not is not intended to get people sober, it was written for entertainment purposes. While Will has written novels in his past, this novel came from needing a creative outlet in recovery. Sober for 5 1/2 years, Will always kept …
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Table for 3 today! Seamus is in the coffee shop. Truth be told, Seamus is an alias. Why anonymity, why use an alias? Seamus talks about the stigma attached to addiction. When he graduated college and started a career - he was already sober 5 years. They didn’t know him when he wasn’t sober, so what positive would come from talking about his alcohol…
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Chicago Director Eileen Tull joins Mike and Glenn, sharing her experience, strength, and Hope - for the artist in all of us. This bonus drop coincides with the world premiere of acclaimed Chicago playwright Mia's McCullough dark comedy about family secrets, shared holidays, and household spirits. The play information can be found online at https://…
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Mike and Glenn are back in the coffee shop today talking honesty, bullshit and chocolate chip cookies. As Glenn puts it: Honesty is a core foundational block to getting sober and living a healthy, new purposeful life. If you are bullshitting yourself and others, nothing changes. As Mike puts it: If you throw even a kernel of shat into that batch of…
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Finding Myself Sober - with Dean Anderson, Author
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Recovery is so much more than just ‘quit drinking’. You face the question “I’m not drinking, so now what?” In the coffee shop, Mike & Glenn are joined by Dean Anderson, author of the book “Finding Myself Sober”. Dean recounts the first 10 or more times he tried to get sober, going through the motions to quit drinking but not filling the hole with a…
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"Boiling the Frog" - What does Surrender look like?
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Following the recovery journey from the previous episode “Boiling the Frog - Anti-Surrender” Mike & Glenn are talking about the same gentleman, but later in his recovery journey when he discovers true surrender. What changed? He knew he was struggling, he had lost his rental house and was staying in extended stay, but in the last week: - Lost his j…
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"Boiling the Frog" - What does Anti-Surrender look like?
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Success in getting on the sober path is surrender. At the coffee shop, Mike & Glenn discuss what surrender and struggle look like when you don’t surrender, anti-surrender, and how it’s like boiling a frog. How do you boil a frog? ‘Boiling the frog’ is referring to the premise that if you stick a frog in boiling water, he jumps out immediately. Put …
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The spotlight is on Karen this week! Karen is on the Al-Anon journey while her husband Bruce is on the sober path journey with AA. Desperation brought Karen to Al-Anon and she tells us about changing her mindset from resentment because Bruce made this her problem, to realizing she had to switch the focus to herself, give up control because she coul…
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Table for 4 at the coffee shop today! Bruce is on the sober path journey with AA. Karen is on the Al-Anon journey. Married for 34 years, Bruce has been sober for the last 17 years. Bruce and Karen have gone through it. Listen to Bruce’s story today as he tells us about losing his soul to addiction and deciding he didn’t want to spread this disease …
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Ninety days is a habit driver - learning and practicing new coping, living skills and tools. So what does that look like? Join Mike & Glenn in the coffee shop as they talk about the most important things to know and what to expect in the first 90 days. In this episode: Previous podcast episode: Boiling The Frog: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/epi…
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In Julianna’s story of experience, strength and hope, she shares with Mike & Glenn the cracks and things she is repairing in her life - and she’s repairing them with beauty, much like the art of kintsugi. An ancient Japanese art for restoring ceramics, kintsugi highlights broken cracks with streams of gold and lacquer. Once repaired, it becomes a u…
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If you’re 10% listening and 90% thinking about what to say next, you’re not living in the moment. Join Mike & Glenn as they discuss what it means to live in the moment. It’s amazing the library of tools and references you can go back to if you stay present in the moment - focused, paying attention, listening, absorbing and inputting things into you…
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Dr. John is back! Talking about ISM in the coffee shop. What is ISM? Dr. John says it’s the Human Condition - we are the only creatures on the planet that have the capacity to introspect, to torment ourselves with regret for the past, fear for the future. How do you get out of that ISM? Dr. John proposes the key to sobriety is finding a way out wit…
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Table for three! Dr. John joins Mike & Glenn at the coffee shop to talk about honesty, expectations, reality, and what it means to work the program. Listen in as Dr. John shares about pivotal moments in his recovery journey, including what was said to him early in sobriety as he contemplated not continuing with AA that made him stick around and sta…
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Glenn rang the bell recently at 8 years sober! In the coffee shop with Mike he shares how his life is totally different today than it was 8 years ago, and it’s magnificent how life changed. Who was Glenn 8 years ago? Who is Glenn today? What led him to sobriety? Join us at the coffee shop to hear Glenn’s story of reflection, loss and triumph. In th…
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Coffee with a Twist: Introducing SillySips
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Kyle & Josh are in the coffee shop today talking Silly Sips Coffee! Friends since 7th grade, both Kyle and Josh are on their own journey to recovery. What does that have to do with coffee? When Kyle quit drinking, coffee became his go-to beverage of choice. With an opportunity to start a business with Josh, they chose coffee - and giving back. Sill…
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What is the 13th step of AA? It’s not a positive next step after #12, in fact it’s a bad rep for AA. Mike & Glenn discuss the 13th step, bad behavior in AA, and steps to avoid it starting with building a wall or a healthy boundary around your sober zone. For more about this podcast: Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee Sober.Coffee …
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Glenn B joins Mike & Glenn in the coffee shop sharing his story of experience, strength and hope. Glenn B relates that for him it was easy to put down the bottle - it’s easier to deal with life sober. Unfortunately, his sobriety came through legal action and the judge chose for him. His life changed completely in 10 days: got a dui, got out of jail…
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You can call it a slip…but that’s bullshit. It’s relapse. Mike and Glenn are in the coffee shop talking about relapse. While Mike has stayed on the recovery path, Glenn was known as the relapse king before he found AA. Listen in for real talk about a serious threat to recovery. For more about this podcast: Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.so…
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In the coffee shop with Sonia talking about connection. The need for connection during her sober journey led Sonia to EverBlume. As the founder, Sonia created a sobriety group and new way to get support by connecting in small online meetings with people matched to you. Listen in to learn more about Sonia and EverBlume - and find out what’s in Sonia…
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