We Recover Loudly – Personal Recovery and Mental Health Stories · Shell Righini

S3 Episode 04 Chloe: Recovering Loudly … Chaos, Creativity, and the Courage to Start Again

·1 hr 19 min·5 clips

Chloe says she believed her children would do better without her and that she was a literal danger to them.

1. We Recover Loudly follows Chloe Bell-Porter’s recovery story through a rerecorded conversation about her jewellery business, Olivia Danger, and her shift into silversmithing. 2. Shell hosts the episode and speaks with Chloe Bell-Porter, a friend, jewellery maker, and recovery contact who matters because her business and sobriety changes drive the rerun. 3. The episode asks what happens when recovery, class shame, ADHD, and burnout force a person to rebuild both identity and work. 4. Chloe says she grew up in Los Angeles private-school circles where “private jets” and Dolce & Gabbana at ninth-grade dances were normalised. 5. She contrasts that wealth with not having a brand-new BMW at 16 and with feeling like the “porkhead” in her peer group. 6. Shell and Chloe compare that environment with British school uniforms, bursaries, and how visible class markers still create shame. 7. Chloe describes getting the wrong school bag, the wrong skirt length, and the wrong shoes, and says those details still live in her body. 8. She says alcohol first worked like medicine because one sip made fear, insecurity, and anxiety disappear. 9. Chloe links that first relief to “water bottles full of vodka” and the rapid slide from one drink into constant relapse patterns. 10. She says alcohol let her feel grittier, louder, and less afraid, even while the behaviour became messy and self-destructive. 11. Chloe says late understanding of ADHD made sense of obsessive thinking, difficulty hearing instructions, and intense focus on boys. 12. She connects her child’s school experience, including missed instructions, to her own memory of SATs and cramming under pressure. 13. Chloe says she once took SATs drunk and still did “an all right” result, which she uses to show how much anxiety shaped her performance. 14. The conversation turns to her son’s SATs and the frustration of a school not giving agreed provisions after a three-year evaluation. 15. Chloe says handling that meeting sober mattered because she could walk in, be concise, and use the word “disappointed” without spiralling. 16. She contrasts that with being too hungover in earlier years to attend school events, parent sessions, or early childhood milestones. 17. The episode’s tone is direct, chatty, and self-aware, with Shell and Chloe interrupting themselves, joking, and correcting each other in real time. 18. The format moves between biography, recovery reflection, parenting, and career change rather than following a rigid interview script. 19. People interested in recovery, ADHD, burnout, and parent advocacy will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a light celebrity chat or a purely business-focused interview may skip it.

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A plainspoken recovery conversation about alcohol culture, motherhood, and getting clear.

Shell sits down with Chloe Bell-Porter for a recovery conversation that keeps its feet on the ground. It follows the shifts in Chloe's business, the wine jokes around the mom set, the missed cries in the night, the hungover mornings, and the strain of breastfeeding while…

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For when you want recovery talk that calls out wine-mum culture without sugarcoating the fallout.

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