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    Alysse Bryson The Sober Curator

    Please enjoy my curated content below on all things sober lifestyle and pop culture. You can take the girl out of the party, but you will never take the party out of the girl. 

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    -AB *that’s me 

    Alysse Bryson, Founder & CEO The Sober Curator

    Host of The Sober Curator podcast

    Alysse Bryson, Founder + CEO of The Sober Curator and Magnetic Media Labs, is a strong woman in recovery, an innovative media maven, content creator, marketing guru, and gal about town. With 20+ years of consistent sobriety, this sober gal has a humorous outlook on life and a fierce determination to succeed. The back of Alysse’s baseball card highlights 25+ years of traditional media, with nearly a decade running Seattle Met magazine and six years at KING 5 NBC TV Station. She’s thrown 100s of parties in Seattle, rubbing elbows with local celebs and raising awareness for countless nonprofits. Alysse has one adult son, Jakob (29), and a 12-year-old Boston Terrier, Bella.

    Stop her before she volunteers again! Alysse currently serves on the following nonprofit boards: Recovery Café Network, King County Recovery Coalition, Washington Recovery Alliance, The Residency, Stand for Courage, and Ninety and Ninety Pictures. She battled emergency heart surgery at ten years sober (age 40) and beat cancer in 2018 (age 43). Despite life’s curveballs, Alysse is proud to recover out loud and show the world how much fun a sober lifestyle can be.  

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    🎤 Book Alysse Bryson to Speak Keynotes, panels, fireside chats, workshops, podcast guesting. Topics include modern sobriety, building a media brand, the funemployment transition, and women in media. Book Alysse → Or check out her work at magneticmedialabs.com 

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    Who is Alysse Bryson?

    Alysse Bryson is the founder and CEO of The Sober Curator, a media platform dedicated to sober pop culture, alcohol-free lifestyle, and recovery-informed living. She is a media executive, content creator, podcast host, and public speaker with more than 25 years of experience in traditional and digital media.

    Alysse Bryson is best known for founding The Sober Curator and helping define sober pop culture as a modern lifestyle category. She is recognized for her work in media, recovery advocacy, and creating culturally relevant content that shows how sobriety can be vibrant, stylish, and fully lived.

    Alysse Bryson spent nearly a decade running Seattle Met magazine and later worked at KING 5 NBC, building a career spanning more than 25 years in media, marketing, and event production. She has produced hundreds of events and worked with major media organizations, nonprofits, and cultural institutions.

    The Sober Curator is a digital media platform founded by Alysse Bryson that covers sober lifestyle, alcohol-free products, entertainment, travel, and cultural trends. The platform helps redefine sobriety as an aspirational lifestyle rooted in creativity, wellness, and community.

    Alysse Bryson’s sobriety date is 05/01/2006. Her personal recovery journey is central to her work and mission to change how sobriety is represented in media and culture.

    Alysse Bryson created The Sober Curator to change the narrative around sobriety and provide a space where sober and sober-curious individuals could see themselves reflected in modern media, entertainment, and lifestyle content. She saw a void in content for people in long-term recovery, with content curated specifically for those challenges. 

    Alysse Bryson speaks about sober pop culture, media, recovery, entrepreneurship, personal transformation, and building a meaningful life after addiction. She is also known for speaking about identity, reinvention, and cultural change. She has dubbed herself the Kevin Bacon of Recovery and President of Funemployment. 

    You can follow Alysse Bryson through The Sober Curator, her podcast, speaking engagements, and her personal website and social media platforms, where she shares insights on sober lifestyle, media, and culture.

    Alysse Bryson is widely regarded as a leading authority in sober pop culture for founding The Sober Curator and helping define sobriety as a modern cultural identity. Through her work in media, events, and storytelling, she has helped elevate sober lifestyle into mainstream cultural conversation. In November 2025, she received the inaugural Cultural Ambassador Award from Sans Bar—the first sober bar in the United States—at the annual Sans Bar Awards, recognizing her pioneering role in advancing sober culture and reshaping how sobriety is represented in media and entertainment.

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