Drunk-ish - A Sobriety Podcast · Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

Alcohol Free Was Easy, Quitting Weed Was Not with Sara Kaufman Bradstreet

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Her drunk confessions: 'I think I'm an alcoholic.' His sober response: 'You're fine.'

Stephanie Wilder-Taylor opens with Sarah Kaufman Bradstreet. Sarah hosts No More Wasted Days and works as a sober mentor. The conversation skips the polite warmup and goes right to sobriety shorthand. Stephanie talks about the ridiculous math people do to keep drinking under control. One night becomes wine only. Another rule drops shots but keeps beer. Hard liquor gets treated like the only villain in the room. The bargain sounds clever for a while, then it starts breaking under its own weight. Stephanie points out the familiar move of calling that kind of drinking "not really drinking." Sarah answers with a quitting story that did not start in 12-step language. She tried a 30-day break first. It actually felt good. She read quitlit and started seeing the alcohol-free world as something bigger than her own head. By the time she got to 30 days, she knew she could not safely go back. She kept going to 60, and the conversation treats that stretch as a step toward more clarity and less bargaining. The talk also touches her YouTube vlog, One Foot Off the Grid, and the joking, real-life energy she and her husband bring to it. The whole thing feels like two people who know the recovery language well enough to skip the translation.

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A plainspoken sobriety conversation about drinking rules, quitlit, and a 30-day quit that becomes 60 days.

Stephanie Wilder-Taylor and Sarah Kaufman Bradstreet keep the focus on sobriety, alcohol-free living, and the rules people build to make drinking feel manageable.

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You want a sober conversation that gets how exhausting drinking-rule logic can be.

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