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.

I went to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day in 3D with my son and cried in my glasses. Then I remembered the guy in the suit is sober, founded a non-alcoholic beer brand, and just dropped limited-edition Spidey cans sold at movie theaters. Your friendly neighborhood NA beer has arrived.

From joint comfort to faster recovery, here is why more competitive athletes are adding marine collagen to their training routine.

Nobody makes mixtapes anymore. So for our sixth anniversary, we made you one. Seven mini zines, printed on paper, nestled into a real cassette tape case, mailed to your door every month for six months. Volume 001 ships August 20.

In Drunk Daddy, Trixie Rose tells the story of growing up with an alcoholic father and the emotional survival strategies that followed her into adulthood. Amy Liz Harrison reviews this short, funny and quietly devastating addition to the Bad Memoir series.

Three days before her 30th birthday, an astrologer asked Patti Clark a question that made her whole body burn with shame. The movies had taught her that alcoholics were derelicts, weaklings, or doomed outlaws. Then she walked into her first AA meeting in Tucson and found out Hollywood had it wrong.

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.

A box of LEGO bricks may not look like a recovery tool, but the lessons are surprisingly familiar: follow the instructions, take it one piece at a time, stay present and make room for play. Tamar Routly explores what a plastic brick from Denmark can teach us about building a sober life that actually holds.

When Kim Bellas screened the TOX trailer for 40 women at her Sober White Party in New York City, the room went silent. The founder of Sober Is the New Cool on Kerri Lynn Miller’s 10-year journey to make a film about addiction, perfectionism, and the search for worthiness.

In Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, Bunnie Xo shares her journey through childhood trauma, sex work, meth addiction and survival—and the choices that helped her build a new life in sobriety. Sober Curator Contributor Carolyn Bunn reviews this candid memoir about recovery, resilience and proving that your past does not get to write your final chapter.

Monica Madrid once danced on Soul Train, chased a record deal that ultimately went to Tupac Shakur and spent decades working in the mortgage industry. After getting sober at 40, navigating grief and listening to an inner voice that told her to teach football, she created Football Is Sexy—and discovered an entirely new purpose.

Senior Sober Curator Contributor Tony Harte reviews Jason Mayo’s In Case of Emergency, Break Childhood, a brutally honest, darkly funny and deeply relatable memoir about childhood trauma, addiction, relationships and the slow loss of control. More than a retelling of one man’s downward spiral, the book invites readers inside the thoughts and emotions behind it.

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.

In the final installment of this Nashville series, Lane Kennedy looks at Seasons 5 and 6 through the lens of grief, recovery, nervous system collapse, and the long work of rebuilding a life. From Juliette Barnes’ treatment and spiritual searching to Will Lexington’s body dysmorphia, Deacon Claybourne’s physical consequences of alcoholism, and the emotional aftershock of Rayna Jaymes’ death, Lane explores how Nashville becomes less about fame and more about survival, identity, and staying emotionally alive after everything falls apart.

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.

Sober Curator Sports Contributor Justin Kinney started using kratom for energy, focus, and better workouts, but what looked like a legal performance edge became a dependence he never saw coming.

I saw “Union County” as a 15-minute short back in 2020, before Will Poulter and Noah Centineo ever signed on. Now it’s a Sundance feature opening August 14, and it still gets rural recovery right.

Somehow it took me years to find The Small Bow, A.J. Daulerio’s recovery newsletter, podcast, and daily meeting community. Or its crossover column with Oldster Magazine, “Ask a Sober Oldster,” now 35 installments deep. Consider this your formal introduction.

The ’80s brought us more than just big hair; it gave us movies that dared to show addiction without the glam. But did they really get it right? Dive into a sober rewatch and discover what these films missed.

A Machine Gun Kelly concert in Scranton reminded Julianne why sober community must be built with intention, compassion, and an open door for anyone curious enough to come.

Laurie Woolever spent fifteen-plus years as the right hand to two of food media’s most complicated men, Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain, while quietly falling apart behind the scenes. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, Care and Feeding, finally tells the story she couldn’t tell then. Closing in on nine years sober, she’s proof the most interesting thing about her was never the famous men on her resume.

In Part 2 of her Nashville series, Lane Kennedy examines Seasons 3 and 4 as the show moves beyond overt addiction storylines and into a deeper exploration of emotional capacity. Through Deacon’s long-term sobriety, Gunnar’s relationship patterns, Avery’s Al-Anon-like exhaustion, Juliette’s nervous system collapse, and the emotional weather surrounding Maddie and Daphne, Lane shows how Nashville captures the hidden cost of functioning long after the body and spirit have exceeded their limits.

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.

Stephen King has been sober for almost 40 years, and he still doesn’t remember writing an entire novel. Here’s the garbage bag intervention that started it, the fear that got proven wrong, and the 40-plus books that came after.

In Part 1 of her three-part series, Senior Sober Curator contributor Lane Kennedy revisits Nashville and discovers that the show was never simply about country music. Through Deacon Claybourne’s sobriety, Rayna Jaymes’ complicated love, Juliette Barnes’ family history, and the pressure cooker of the music industry, Lane explores how Nashville portrays addiction, relapse risk, inherited pain, recovery maintenance, and what happens when love is real but capacity is gone.

The original printer’s copy of Alcoholics Anonymous just sold at Christie’s for an estimated one to two million dollars. The Stepping Stones Foundation, the National Historic Landmark home of Bill and Lois Wilson in Katonah, New York, won the bid. It is going back to exactly where it belongs.

Sober Curator contributor Julianne Griffin, known as The Sober Swiftie, reflects on the emotional power of Taylor Swift’s “I Can See You” through the lens of recovery, visibility, and belonging. This piece explores what it means to feel seen, supported, and reminded that even when sobriety feels lonely, you do not stand in the hallway alone.

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