S3 Trailer: "Loving Ourselves Together Through the Holidays"
Happy Fall, Sober Family, and huge thanks to all of you who joined the IKAGB community over the past few months during Season 2... Normally I have Owl by my side in the studio at home, but I’m recording this trailer for Season 3 just outside Jacksonville, Florida — I’m spending the bulk of October here training with my new PTSD service dog, Spruce, who decided to launch himself into my lap during the trailer! Shout out to www.k9sforwarriors.org, the phenomenal non-profit which has been providing military veterans like me with service dogs for over a decade — if you want to donate to a worthy cause and know your money will be put to good use, K9s For Warriors is a great option for your end-of-year giving. From November through January, I’m going to be interviewing more fascinating sober guests, including a former Marine and MMA fighter, an award-winning British actor/writer/producer, fellow sober podcast hosts, and many others, including the one and only Kayla Lyons, one of the OGs of the Instagram sober community and founder of both the 1000 Hours Dry movement and more recently the JoinSoberish organization. Reminder that all episodes are available on my YouTube channel of the same name — you'll get to see Spruce! Since this is the podcast for newly sober people learning to love ourselves instead of booze, the question every guest will get at the end of each episode in Season 3 is: “How do you love yourself in sobriety?” This is an especially important question during the holidays, because while we’re all trained to focus on everyone else’s needs with gifts and visits and other kinds of supposedly fun but all-too-often stressful stuff, we can easily be more hard-pressed than usual to find and make time for ourselves, let alone to figure out how to love ourselves. This is also when the “easy button” of alcohol likes to present itself as a solution to our problems, and so if we’re going to not only survive the 2022 holidays but thrive our way through them, we’re going to need each other, and I’m confident that my upcoming guests are going to encourage and inspire us toward self-love, which is the ultimate gift that we can give to ourselves — and to others, for that matter. Special shout-out to my OG subscribers to the IKAGB Premium plan — to learn more about the six perks you get for just $6/month, visit www.ikissedalcoholgoodbye.supercast.com. If you know anyone who might benefit like you have from IKAGB, please serve them by sending the show information their way — and please, if there is any way that I can serve you, then you’d better DM me on Instagram @IKAGB or email me at IKAGB@gmail.com. I’m planning on releasing Season 3, Episode 1 around the first of November, so until then, stay connected with your sober family, whoever they may be. Until then, Owl (and Spruce) and I send you our best sober vibes by saying “Goodbye Alcohol, and Hello Life!” Much love to you all, and peace. :-)
