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Season 8 Episode 5 with Jane Sproston

Welcome to season 8 Episode 5 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Bee Sober Book Club ambassador and sober coach, Jane Sproston.
Jane is a 52 year-old Mum of a 7 year old pocket rocket and got sober in 2017 after five years of trying and a long stint “moderating”. Jane previously had a drinking career of some 30 plus years. She survived student days, raving, and the ladette culture only to find herself using alcohol to cope and numb after lots of complicated trauma.
Jane’s journey has been full of highs, lows, twists and turns, including a period spent in The Priory, AA, an attempt at moderation, relapse and recovery.
Jane is now a qualified person-centred therapist (a journey which took 9 years instead of the usual 4) and a qualified sober coach and also volunteers as a counsellor for a Well woman’s centre.
Jane talks about her road to recovery, and how finding Bee Sober and becoming the book club ambassador finally helped her to find the connections she’d been missing.
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Season 8 Episode 4 with Fiona Orrell

Welcome to season 8 Episode 4 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Fiona Orrell.
Fiona has a passion for the outdoors and is currently grabbing life’s opportunities with both hands. She loves hiking, outdoor swimming, paddle boarding and camping in her van, but she’s always up for giving anything new a go! She squeezes in as many adventures as possible around being a mum and her other work. Fiona is an integral part of the Love Her Wild Community as an event and corporate fund raising manager and says she finds her work hugely rewarding. Fiona says the Love Her Wild Community and its members are really something special and she feels very fortunate to be a part of it. Perhaps that’s what drew us to her and the Love Her Wild Community
Find out more about Lover her Wild here: https://www.loveherwild.com/
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Season 8 Episode 3 With Carolyn Clark

Welcome to season 8 Episode 3 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Carolyn Clark.
Carolyn is a Bee Academy qualified Sober Coach and our North Wales Ambassador. She is absolutely amazing and this is an episode you do not want to miss.
You can follow Carolyn’s journey on Instagram https://instagram.com/soberhappysixty or check out her ambassador page https://instagram.com/beesobernorthwales
If you are interested in coaching with Carolyn, email her hello@carolynclarkcoaching.com
And check out her website here: www.carolynclarkcoaching.com
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Season 8 Episode 2 with Vicki Rebecca

Welcome to season 8 Episode 2 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Vicki Rebecca.
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses rape in significant detail
Vicki Rebecca has run a successful private Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming practice that includes one to one therapy, both in-person and online, classes, retreats, live-in intensives, books and products since 1999. Since 2003 that practice has included retreats all over the world including Egypt, India, Turkey, the sacred sites of Scotland and more.
She wrote her first book: ‘The Me I Want To Be: Simple Shifts To Authentic Wellbeing’ initially for the clients and students she’d worked with for over twenty years. It was also a way of pulling all her knowledge together, but most of all she wrote it for those who could not manage to go along to sessions or classes because of cost or distance. It had always been a source of frustration to Vicki that she could not help them too. To make her work accessible to a larger audience she wrote the book and recorded over ten hours of instruction and guided journeys to accompany it.
In response to “The Me I Want To Be” when she has opened up during public talks, informal chats, and most especially her own realisation that a huge part of her sadhana IS to share her story, Vicky has now written her autobiography, no holds barred:
“Naked Truth: Diary of a Glamour Model” is a time document ranging from 1956 to today. The true story of a young runaway who made her way through the seedy photo booths of Soho of the 1970s into a career as a page three girl and Monroe lookalike. A broken heart left her fluctuating between stardom, drugs and despair and when she hit rock bottom a spiritual experience changed her life.
Vicki Rebecca has certainly lived!
You can find out more at https://vickirebecca.com/
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Season 8 Episode 1 with Aodhan Benson

Welcome to season 8, episode 1 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Aodhan Benson.
A 25-year old who could be described as in somewhat of a quarter life crisis. After 12 years of masking the effects that the continuous partying/excessive drinking was having with overachieving and aiming to appear to have everything under control he couldn’t continue on the constant cycle of drinking - doing something stupid - feeling anxious and fearful only to do it all over again the following Friday. Aodhan had to step off the hamster wheel because he knew there was better out there and he wanted better for himself. He had moved abroad with hopes of starting afresh only for the problems with alcohol to soon reappear Aodhan had to say enough is enough and for once try and discover who he is behind the hangovers
https://www.instagram.com/aodhanwithoutalcohol/
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Season 7 Episode 5 with Melissa Kelly

Welcome to season 7 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Dr Melissa Kelly.
Melissa Kelly, PhD is a psychologist and coach for sober women who want to make meaningful changes to their careers. Melissa is passionate about helping women define and design their own version of a meaningful life in sobriety. She is also the founder of Sober Girls Ireland - a community that hosts online and in person events for sober and sober curious women in Ireland.
Find Melissa here:
https://www.melissakellyphd.com
https://www.instagram.com/melissakelly.phd
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Season 7 Episode 4 with Lea Watson Aka Glow Sober

Welcome to season 7 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Lea Watson, founder of Glow Sober.
Originally an Instagram page to review alcohol-free drinks and literature, it has now evolved into working with organisations to support their employees by raising awareness of the impact of alcohol.
Lea has always had a complicated relationship with alcohol which escalated after the death of her only son, in 2018. She finally became alcohol free on 12 July 2020 and is committed to making profound and lasting change by promoting the positive benefits of sobriety and supporting those that wish to take a more mindful approach to their own alcohol consumption.
By working with employers, Lea’s aim is to remove the stigma from having conversations about drinking and encourage a non-judgemental, objective approach to the benefits of reducing one’s alcohol intake.
Lea’s son was killed in a road traffic collision when he got into a car with his friend who drunk. He crashed and Jack was left with catastrophic and fatal injuries. Lea works with a charity called Safe Drive Stay Alive and talks to teenagers of driving age about the dangers of driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Lea has a first-class degree in English, and is also PCET (DTLLS) trained. She also holds an MA in Lifelong Learning. Much of Lea’s working life had been in business development, and product management. She has written and developed many training courses on a variety of subjects and delivered presentations to corporate audiences on a regular basis. She is also a designated Recovery Coach Professional.
Lea relocated to Bournemouth from South Gloucestershire in 2021 where she and her partner have bought an old house with a sizeable garden to renovate. She says she can already feel the benefit of coastal living. Lea is a a keen runner and has completed several marathons, including New York.
Find Lea here:
https://www.facebook.com/glowsober
https://www.glowsober.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/glowsober/
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Season 7 Episode 3 with Kate Roe - Ham

Welcome to season 7 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Kate-Rowe Ham who is a Women’s Health Coach with a special interest in menopause fitness and nutrition.
Kate is also the founder of the Owning Your Menopause App. She is passionate about educating women on how to exercise at this time and how movement and diet go hand in hand in playing a fundamental role in managing many of the symptoms associated with menopause.
Qualifying as a level 3 Personal Trainer later in life, alongside raising her three children and experiencing her own issues with peri menopause has given Kate a unique insight into how midlife women's needs often fall by the wayside. Kate knows first-hand how hard it can be to regain body confidence especially after children and how many of the symptoms of menopause can leave women feeling overwhelmed, invisible, and anxious.
As a trusted expert in her field, Kate has become the ‘go-to’ Personal Trainer known for her specialised approach in making sure women are getting the correct evidence-based information on how to train effectively and nourish their bodies through menopause. She believes that so many women miss out on optimising their midlife and menopause experience due to not understanding how to adapt their lifestyle during this phase.
Find out more about Kate: www.owningyourmenopause.com
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Season 7 Episode 2 with Kate Baily

Welcome to season 7 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Love Sober’s Kate Baily all about their new book ‘Love your sober year’. Kate is a certified Sobriety and Wellbeing coach, specializing in behavioural change and addictive habits. Along with Mandy Manners she is a founder of the Love Sober podcast, and together they run online coaching courses and group coaching events, as well as facilitating training for The Coaching Academy.
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Season 7 Episode 1 with Alex And Lisa

We are back for season 7 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober and whilst there are some pretty meaty topics on the menu in this episode like peri-menopause, sober , moderating, and fantasising about alcohol, surely the biggest debate has to be about Alex’s dressing gown?
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Nacoa: https://www.nacoa.org.uk/
AA https://aa.org/
Al Anon https://al-anon.org/
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