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Steve G, founder of Boiled Owl Coffee, joins Mike and Glenn to discuss sobriety and small-batch coffee bean roasting. Odd combination? Not so, as quality and consistency are present in both's success. The session ends with an offer to send listeners FREE beans, so jump in for a chance to get some quality coffee.…
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Author and Therapist Liz Kelly join Mike and Glenn for this session, where she shares thoughts based on her book "This book is cheaper than therapy - A no-nonsense guide to improving your mental health" and her private practice. Topics touched on include Self-assessment, Grief, and increasing self-compassion. Liz is a Licensed independent clinical …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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