Euphoric Alcohol-Free

Lisa Sykes calls herself the Beyonce of the birth world, and once you hear her talk, you understand exactly why. She's the number one business coach for doulas, midwives, and birth professionals worldwide, and she built that entire identity by refusing to do things the way everyone told her she had to.
Lisa spent 15 years as a doula after leaving a corporate career in IT following a redundancy and a moment of clarity that sounds a lot like the moment so many of us have around alcohol, a sudden, undeniable knowing that this isn't it anymore. She trained, she built a doula business that booked out in its first month, and eventually pivoted into coaching other doulas and midwives on the business-side of things. 
We get into what a doula actually is versus a midwife, why the birth world has historically undervalued itself, and how Lisa built a movement around the radical idea that supporting women through birth is not a lifestyle choice, it's a necessity, priced accordingly.
We also talk about her alcohol-free journey, which crept up on her gradually through marathon training in Dubai, and how stopping drinking unlocked a level of clarity and conviction that she says 10x'd overnight. Plus the real conversation about partner objections, and why Lisa thinks the "I need to ask my husband" conversation tells you everything you need to know about whether someone is the right client.
 
IN THIS EPISODE
Why Lisa believes pricing your work as a necessity instead of a luxury changes everything about how people respond
The marathon-training path that led Lisa to five years alcohol-free skyrocketing her business
How a redundancy and a moment of total clarity led Lisa out of corporate and into entrepreneurship
Why doulas and midwives have been historically underpaid, and how Lisa flipped that narrative completely
How to handle the "I need to talk to my partner" objection
The mantra Lisa and her husband have used through every big risk they've taken
 
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Find Lisa on instagram @lisasykesonline 
Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage. 
If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, be sure to get on the waitlist for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand. 
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Ashley Roberts graduated from the 5x Certification and has built something really beautiful since then, a feminine embodiment movement practice rooted in dance, somatic work, and helping women find their way back into their bodies after years of operating purely from logic and achievement.
In this episode, we get into what feminine embodiment actually means, because it gets thrown around so much online that it starts to lose its shape. Ashley breaks it down through Marion Woodman's work, through the masculine and feminine as water and mountains, and through her own story of feeling completely disconnected from her body until she went alcohol-free and found her way into a feminine embodiment workshop that changed her perspective. 
We talk about what it looks like when someone is operating too much in their masculine: the hyper independence, the need for control, the inability to receive help, and why that pattern almost always comes from a place that once needed safety. Ashley shares how dance became her way out of her head and into her body, what her Monday night movement classes actually look like, and how this work completely shifted her marriage, her confidence, and her relationship with her own sensuality.
We also get into the cyclical nature of feminine energy, how to know when softening is actually the right move versus when it's fear dressed up as surrender, and the very honest conversation about how alcohol was Ashley's old shortcut to the same thing dance gives her now, except one of them backfires and one of them doesn't.
 
INSIDE THIS EPISODE: 
What feminine embodiment actually means, and why it has nothing to do with gender roles
The signs that someone is stuck in hyper masculine mode, and why hyper independence is really about safety
Why dance is one of the fastest ways to get out of your head and into your body
How Ashley's marriage changed when she stopped trying to prove she was pulling her weight
The difference between healthy surrender and using softness as a mask for fear
How working with your cycle changes how you plan your energy across the month
Why alcohol numbs the exact thing feminine energy is built on, the ability to feel
 
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Apply to be our next Thought Leader to master premium selling and thought leader positioning to publish your book and deliver your keynote onstage. 
Find Ashley on instagram @sol_beginnings
Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage. 
If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, be sure to get on the waitlist for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand. 
Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.
Join over 20,000 souls who tune into weekly newsletters on the competitive advantage you get alcohol-free. Get on the Euphoric newsletter.
Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today or grab your free chapter here. 
 
Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram. 
And as always, rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide.

In honor of dry July, Karolina is debunking the most common myths and objections about going alcohol-free.
What if everything you believed about "normal drinking" was a lie?
Society puts "normal drinking" on a pedestal: the cultured person who enjoys just one glass of wine over a nice dinner. But is this achievable or even desirable? 
It turns out that 60% of regular drinkers overdrink, and it's also been proven that 40% to 50% of our drinking is underreported.
And drinking doesn't feel good - would you rather be someone who drinks normally and never gets the wake up call? Or would you rather be a person who gets the negative consequence, reevaluates alcohol, and wakes up to the life you were really supposed to live?
When you join Karolina's 22-day Dry Bootcamp, you'll learn how to relax and have fun without alcohol, build a sustainable, alcohol-free lifestyle, and discover your deeper why. Plus, you'll get all the guides, rituals, and meditations to help you connect to your higher self. We start August 6th. Sign up for just $59!

IN THIS EPISODE:
Why "normal drinking" is actually a myth and why what society views as normal is often an unhealthy illusion
The majority of people underreport their alcohol consumption by 40% to 50% (!), plus, what this means for your perceptions of "moderate" drinking
How intuition and listening to your body's signals will shift you into greater confidence, courage, and purpose
The REAL impact of even a single drink on your body (think disrupted sleep cycles and metabolic changes!)
A sneak peek into Karolina's 22-day Dry Bootcamp, which starts August 6th. Break free from alcohol and align with your highest self. 
 
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Dry Bootcamp starts August 6th! If you're ready for a life-changing break from alcohol, this program will inspire you to reevaluate alcohol through daily lessons and an immersive community. Sign up now for just $59!
Karolina's book is available in hardcover, Kindle, and as an audiobook. When you get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today, you'll also unlock tons of resources to support you on your journey. 
Loved the book? We'd be honored if you left a review! 
Tune in to Episode 132: Isn't Drinking Cultural?!
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I recently lost one of the greatest loves of my life, my soul dog Huxley. 
He passed really unexpectedly on Memorial Day.
He was 11 and a half. He was fine that morning. He ate breakfast, he cuddled with us, he sat in the sun while we were at the pool. By that evening, he was gone. He had massive internal bleeding and we had no idea anything was wrong until his gums went pale and we were racing across town to an emergency vet that Memorial Day night.
What followed was four hours of the most tender goodbyes I've ever experienced, and then one of the hardest weeks of my life.
I've been thinking a lot about what it means to grieve fully, to actually feel it instead of pushing it down and numbing it. I did that in my early 20s after a bad heartbreak, drowned myself in alcohol, and missed the whole thing. I shoved it down and it just kept showing up later as triggers and pain I hadn't processed. This time I felt all of it. The shock, the devastation, the beauty, the signs he's been sending us since. 
I'm also sharing something I found in my journal from February, a few months before he died, where I had written about him without knowing what was coming. And what it made me realize about presence and about what being alcohol-free actually means at the deepest level.
 
IN THIS EPISODE
How we lost Huxley and what those four hours of goodbye looked like
The three things that determine how deep grief hits, and why losing a dog child can undo you completely
What I did differently this time compared to grieving through alcohol in my early 20s, and what that cost me back then
The signs Huxley has been sending us since he passed, and why I'm not calling any of them coincidences
What I found in my journal from February that I wrote without knowing what was coming
Why being alcohol-free is really just another way of saying you are awake to your life
What alcohol actually takes from you, and why you feel the bad but miss all the good when you numb
 
LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED
Apply to be our next Thought Leader to master premium selling and thought leader positioning to publish your book and deliver your keynote onstage. 
Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage. 
If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, be sure to get on the waitlist for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand. 
Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.
Join over 20,000 souls who tune into weekly newsletters on the competitive advantage you get alcohol-free. Get on the Euphoric newsletter.
Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today or grab your free chapter here. 
 
Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram. 
And as always, rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide.

Is drinking really tied to our cultural roots, or is it a habit we can choose to reshape?
Since 2018, Karolina's been crisscrossing the globe, proving that you can experience the vibrant charm of cities like Paris, Madrid, and Tokyo without a drop of alcohol.
Imagine enjoying the same joys of a wine country weekend or a sunset dinner on the patio without the next day fog.
Detaching from alcohol not only enriched Karolina's travel experiences, but propelled her to a path of radical fulfillment and empowerment.
If you're curious about redefining your drinking rituals without feeling left out, this episode is your guide to navigating an alcohol-free lifestyle, even while jetsetting across the globe and having all the cultural experiences. 

IN THIS EPISODE:
What makes drinking cultural? Karolina shares the two elements and how can we take the good and leave out the bad
Inside the booming alcohol-free movement in Europe
Karolina's candid reflections on shedding the subconscious need for alcohol during her global travels (and how it catalyzed profound personal growth!)
Unpacking Spain's paradoxical position as both a nightlife haven and the world's largest consumer of alcohol-free beer
How going alcohol-free will beautifully impact future generations and change the culture
 
LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Karolina's book is available in hardcover, Kindle, and as an audiobook. When you get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today, you'll also unlock tons of resources to support you on your journey. 
Loved the book? We'd be honored if you left a review! 
Tune in to Episode 229: Have the Best Alcohol-Free Summer Ever
Check out some of Karolina's favorite alcohol-free beverages: Wild AF and Oddbird
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