In the fourth grade, Paulina Pinsky was cast as Miss Piggy on Ice. At eight, she was praying to Elvis before skating competitions. By her twenties, she was smoking weed every day and telling everyone it was medicine.
Now she’s almost five years sober, writes the Substack newsletters Newly Sober and Process Over Product, and she’s our newest Sober Curator contributor, bringing something we haven’t covered enough: marijuana addiction. Alysse and Tamar talk with her about Muppets, Graceland, and the rhetoric that kept her high.

Tana Mongeau is two years sober, and she says year two was harder than year one. On her Brand Safe podcast, she explains why quitting alcohol was only the start.

This week’s guest is Ben Coombes, founder of Soberski and our newest contributor. Ben worked ski seasons in the Alps, where the day-one rule is you can ski, work, or drink, but not all three. He always dropped the skiing. So he tried quitting drinking in the least likely place on earth, a ski resort in season, and figured if it worked there it would work anywhere. It did.

Lucy Hale is four and a half years sober, and on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose she gets honest about blackouts, choosing rehab over the Grand Ole Opry and the three-sentence advice she’d give anyone thinking about getting sober.

🎧 NEW EPISODE: Gray Area Drinking with the Hosts of Sober & Lit with Ruby Williams and Susan Larkin on RAIN meditation, reclaiming the word sober, mommy wine culture from the inside, the 13-ounce pour, the NA wines they bring to parties, and why the medical community has no grid for the space between fine and full-blown.

Amanda Chen built TOMONOTOMO, an agave spirit made the traditional way. No shortcuts, no extracts. Fire, copper, and patience. Contributor Kim Parsley reviewed the Tobalá in Happy Every Hour back in May and it is delicious. This week, Amanda told us how she got from behind the bar to behind the still.

We opened this one up to everybody. Members, readers, the sober curious, the person who found us through a Brad…

Emily and Lindsay Stetzer built Presently Bracelets so the thing your therapist told you is on your wrist when your brain goes blank. OCD, anxiety, sobriety.

Theo Von never set out to become a recovery podcaster, but some of the most honest conversations about addiction and sobriety keep happening on This Past Weekend. These standout episodes from the past two years deliver vulnerability, unexpected wisdom and plenty of gang-gang energy.

Chelsea Clinton’s health misinformation podcast takes on alcohol myths with Columbia epidemiologist Dr. Katherine Keyes. Spoiler: the red wine study does not survive, and the data on high-achieving women and drinking will stop you mid-scroll.

Panel scores, fulls and halves only: “Running Point” S2 got a 3.5, “Your Friends & Neighbors” S2 got a 4.5, “Imperfect Women” got a 3.5. Senior Contributor Lane Kennedy tried to file a 4.75 and is now on strike. Which one did we get wrong? Give us your Sobees score and one sentence of evidence.

Alysse Bryson and Tamar Routly take on the hazards of podcasting sober. No blackout excuse. “Radical honesty” was never supposed to mean unfiltered.

Sober Not Mature headed to Austin for a weekend of tacos, barbecue, bats and sober community — and came home with the Sans Bar Academy Award for Best Podcast. Bill shares the story behind the unexpected win and what comes next for the now award-winning show.

Rich Roll has spent 1,000+ episodes proving recovery conversations don’t have to be preachy. We pulled the 18 best addiction and recovery episodes from the last two years, from Spider-Man’s sobriety to Episode 1,000. Bookmark accordingly.

Eliza runs the National Recovery Friendly Workplace Institute, which certifies employers as recovery friendly. If you have heard the federal…

In a thought-provoking piece, Senior Sober Curator Contributor Lane Kennedy takes us on a journey through unspoken questions in sobriety. Can psychedelics like iboga fit into a sober lifestyle? Lane explores Rich Roll’s candid conversations about his experiences and invites us to ponder the complex intersections of recovery and psychedelic medicine. Dive into the full article to explore these intriguing questions.

Three memoirs came out this year from three people who could not be more different, and every one of them was writing about the same thing. We pulled the Sober Curator readers into a room and made them score it.

Hayden Panettiere died at 36. Brad Pitt says he’s drinking again. Two stories, one week, and a conversation the recovery community keeps getting wrong

In recent years, the conversation surrounding sobriety, addiction, and mental health has become more open and essential than ever before.…

Author Austin Rampt joins Bill and Mike on Sober Not Mature for a raw, funny and deeply honest conversation about addiction, multiple overdoses, life in Mexico, recovery and his memoir, *One Last Hit*. His story is proof that even after years of chaos, a completely different life is possible.

Sabyn Mayfield went three days without speaking and came home with the song of my summer. The Season 1 favorite is back to break down “WORTHY,” his new single with Callie, the black-and-white video that needed zero notes on the first cut, and why the best art gets made when you stop keeping score.

There’s a raccoon named Jimothy in this episode. There’s also a 10X business scale-up, the reason sober people make dangerous entrepreneurs, and the AI conversation everyone’s tiptoeing around. Episode 7 is the sober business owners episode. If you’ve done the hardest thing already, press play.

Sober travel is the upgrade, not the consolation prize. Episode 6 has the airport hacks, the costume trips, and your invite to Cover Story, our first-ever retreat in Scottsdale.

Comedian Stefanie Wilder-Taylor built a sobriety podcast that refuses to lecture. Alysse Bryson sat down with her this week. Here’s why Drunk-ish deserves a spot in your podcast rotation, and a few story hooks we’re not giving away.

A Notre Dame professor has spent six years asking his students one question: why do you drink like that? What he found didn’t come from the bar. It came from every movie and TV show we grew up watching. Ted Mandell joins us for a Backstage conversation that gets Sarah, Anne Marie, Tamar and me genuinely fired up, and you are going to want to hear all of it.

Alysse Bryson reviews Sunsets Are The New Happy Hour, Kristin Horstman’s weekly podcast on gray-area drinking and nervous-system regulation. A friend’s show, a fair read, and a recommendation for anyone curious, new, or bored at year twelve.

Alysse Bryson sits down with The Mindshift Podcast to talk about her 2006 sobriety moment, why “sober” does not automatically mean “present,” and how The Sober Curator became the home for people who are done with Day 1 content. Also featured: jelly Birkenstocks, a Muppet cameo debate, and one very memorable choir concert.

You know the feeling when you walk into a room and immediately know: these are my people. On Episode 3, I asked our contributors one simple question, why The Sober Curator, and what came back was funnier, messier, and more honest than I expected.

Most sober spaces ask you to show up and talk about the hard part. Backstage with The Sober Curator asks…

People started DMing Alysse after Season 1 saying they’d finally found a sober podcast that didn’t make them feel like…