Euphoric Alcohol-Free

Eight years ago, two women who had just gone alcohol-free pointed themselves at opposite walls of an apartment, clipped on lapel mics they could barely hear themselves through, and recorded the first episode of Euphoric the podcast.
I couldn't have told you then what this show would become.
348 episodes later, I wanted to sit down and talk about what all of these conversations have actually taught me about transformation. Because when you've watched hundreds of women go from one version of themselves to another, patterns start to emerge, and they're not what most people expect.
IN THIS EPISODE: 
The cringe origin story of episode one, and why I'm grateful it exists
What I've noticed about the guests who create the biggest shifts in the people listening
Why being alcohol-free might make you the most powerful force in the room, and what happens when you're surrounded by other women who are too
The neurological window that opens when you go alcohol-free and why most people don't know it's closing
What Carl Jung's concept of individuation has to do with why some people feel truly fulfilled by their work and others don't
Why the most fulfilling work on the planet might be the same work, no matter what industry you're in
An honest reflection on a year that has been both the hardest and most clarifying of my career
What's changing at Euphoric, and what's coming next

Do you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up?
An actress? An astronaut? A teacher?
As kids, we don't understand the career landscape. 
We build our first sense of "what I want to be when I grow up" out of a small handful of visible or memorable options, because that's all we've ever seen.
But we do subconsciously understand archetypes.
When a five-year-old says she wants to be an astronaut, it doesn't necessarily mean she wants to go to space. The real clue is underneath it: a love of adventure, discovery, being the one who goes first. The job title is a placeholder for a deeper desire we don't know how to express yet.
Once I understood that, I went back through my own list of what I REALLY WANTED to be when I grew up to see how it measured up to what I do today.
I was shocked.
Your childhood dreams are not naive. They're clues.
 
IN THIS EPISODE: 
Why what we wanted to be as children is more revealing than we think, even when the career itself makes no sense anymore
The four childhood dreams I had and what the deeper archetype underneath each one was pointing toward
The four childhood dreams I had and what closed the door for each one at the time
What my sister told me at 7 that made me give up on this love 
Why picking a career at 18 with almost no understanding of what's possible is one of the strangest things we ask young people to do
How the career I have today didn't exist when I was a teenager trying to decide what to do with my life
How to look at your own childhood dreams for the deeper archetypes underneath 
 
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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, meaningful monthly challenges, weekly coaching and more. 
Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.
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. 
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My mind has been completely consumed with book writing lately, and I wanted to sit down and share something I keep seeing over and over again in my community: so many women who have gone alcohol-free, suddenly feel this surge of creativity and a pull toward writing. 
If that's you, this episode is for you.
I'm sharing five telltale signs that you have a bestselling book inside of you, and they might not be what you expect. This isn't about whether you think you're a writer, whether you've written anything since college, or whether you have time. 
It's about something much more fundamental than any of that.
Be sure to join me for a three-part workshop, The Story Only You Can Tell, happening September 16, 17, and 18, where I'll be sharing the path from "someday I'll write a book" to published author. It's only $1 to join. 
 
IN THIS EPISODE: 
The 5 signs you have a bestselling book inside you
The surprising connection between going alcohol-free and creativity
Why the most important thing you have to say is probably the thing that scares you most to say out loud
The past life vs present life tension that needs to be expressed 
The one question to ask yourself when you keep putting the book off 
What Elizabeth Gilbert believes happens to an idea when you ignore it long enough
What your algorithm fatigue is actually trying to tell you
What we're doing together inside The Story Only You Can Tell, and why it starts at $1

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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. 
If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, apply now 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. 
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, meaningful monthly challenges, weekly coaching and more. 
Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.
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. 
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I submitted my second book proposal to my agent yesterday, and I am on cloud nine.
This book has been living in my head for years. But the truth is, I didn't make real traction on it until this summer, which also happened to be the hardest summer I've had in a long time. 
Huxley passed at the end of May. The ocean swells in Southern California were so dangerous I couldn't even get in the water, which is my favorite thing in the world. My house felt empty in a way it never had before. And so, I found myself in cafes facing the ocean, writing for days on end. 
Writing this book became the salvation I didn't know I needed.
Why is it that so many of us who step away from alcohol feel pulled toward writing? 82% of Americans want to write a book. If you're one of them, this episode is for you.
I'm also inviting you to a three-part workshop, The Story Only You Can Tell, happening September 16, 17, and 18, where I'm going to help you take your idea and lay the foundation for a bestseller. I'll be sharing all my know-how of becoming a published author. 
 
IN THIS EPISODE: 
The moment I hit send on my book proposal and what came up that I completely didn't expect
Why the worst thing that happened to me this summer became the reason this book finally got written
The strange chain of events that kept me out of the ocean and put me exactly where I needed to be
What most people get completely wrong about writing a book before they even start
The one deadline I missed on purpose, and what I chose instead
The real reason 82% of people want to write a book, and why it has nothing to do with being an author
What a book can open for your career that years of content never will
The package that arrived at my door this week that got me teary-eyed
What a book proposal actually is versus a book and why you need one
What Emboldened is actually about, and why I couldn't have written it even three years ago
Join me at THE STORY ONLY YOU CAN TELL so you can uncover your bestselling story and take the path from "one day I'll write a book" to published author. 
I'm celebrating my client's published book! Pick up a copy of Life Beyond The Binge: A Commercial Fisherwoman's Journey Home by Colleen Clifford

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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. 
If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, apply now 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. 
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, meaningful monthly challenges, weekly coaching and more. 
Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.
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. 
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I just got back from five weeks in Europe with my parents, and I want to take you behind the scenes. 
My parents are in their 80s. My dad has been through two bouts of stage four cancer and is in remission. My mom, knock on wood, is healthy. How long will that last? How much longer can I see the world with them?
This trip happened in the shadow of losing Huxley, my soul dog, which meant I went into it already cracked open, already thinking about mortality and time and what we do with the moments we have. And it turned out to be one of the most meaningful experiences of my life.
We started in Warsaw, flew to Madrid, drove through Costa Brava and the French Riviera and the Italian Riviera in an SUV packed with carry-on luggage only, watched Spain win the World Cup in a medieval town on the Catalan coast, swam in alpine lakes in Slovenia, and ended back in Warsaw where my dad told me stories I'd never heard and my mom said it was all a fairy tale.
This episode is more than just a travel diary. It's about ancestry, about what we inherit from the people who came before us, about why now is the time to go do the things you've always wanted to do, and about what grief and presence and awe have been teaching me this year.
 
IN THIS EPISODE: 
How losing Huxley made me show up completely different this summer 
The hidden gem coastlines of Costa Brava and the Italian Riviera that barely any Americans know about
What it was like to watch Spain's World Cup Victory from the streets of a medieval Catalan town
The celebrity sighting we had in a sleepy Spanish fishing village while leaving our phones behind for an evening swim
What my parents said at the end of the trip that made every exhausting, hot, logistically complicated moment completely worth it
Living in the same Warsaw apartment building where my great-grandparents lived until 1970
The stories my parents told me about their lives and upbringings
Why being in Warsaw every year makes me feel the thin veil between the life I have and the parallel one I could have had
How this trip fed directly into the second book I'm writing, Emboldened
 
Join over 20,000 souls who tune into weekly newsletters on the competitive advantage you get alcohol-free. Get on the Euphoric newsletter.
Apply to be our next Thought Leader to master premium selling and thought leader positioning to publish your book and deliver your keynote onstage. 
If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, apply now 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. 
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, meaningful monthly challenges, weekly coaching and more. 
Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.
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. 
Please do rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide!