Shell Righini
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We Recover Loudly is a podcast for anyone reclaiming their identity after life’s toughest challenges. Whether that’s addiction, mental health struggles, chronic illness, burnout, or something else entirely. Hosted by Shell, each episode brings raw vulnerability, humour, and real-life stories that show recovery comes in many forms, and that you are never the only one to go through something challenging. From guests who have triumphed over addiction to those reclaiming themselves from burnout, anxiety, and more, we share candid conversations, personal insights, and practical tips to remind you that no matter what you’re recovering from, you’re not alone...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Shell turns candid recovery stories into specific conversations about behavior, identity, work, parenting, and the boundaries that help a life hold together.
We Recover Loudly builds each conversation around the practical aftermath of addiction: how people work, parent, relate, and rebuild once alcohol or drugs stop organizing the day.
A pub without booze and 'mummy gin time' give you plenty to question.
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A blunt take on recovery, workplace harm, and the systems that keep both going.
Laura Louise Green joins Shell on We Recover Loudly for a conversation about Healthy Poor, the Chicago organization she founded to improve workplace mental health and well-being.
An honest ADHD and recovery conversation that finds strength in the messy middle.
Rosie Turner's story lands in the overlap of ADHD, recovery, and a body that does not always cooperate. Shell keeps the conversation in motion, moving from the swings of extremes to the steadier clarity that comes through movement, and to the idea that hard experience can still…
A one-year milestone episode that pairs recovery gratitude with kitchen memories and the pull of immediate reward.
Shell's one-year milestone lands as a sober-anniversary episode shaped by gratitude for the people who have shared their stories. The discussion stays rooted in recovery, yet it also moves through work in kitchens, school memories, and the pull of immediate reward, giving the…
Sobriety, regret, and the uneasy pull of old chaos.
Tony Coast begins in restaurants, bussing tables for his mother at a dive bar before moving on to places like the Metropolitan Cafe and a decade with Michael Simon and his wife, Liz.
A candid recovery conversation about self-sabotage, rejection, perimenopause, and the hard work of self-love.
Caroline Kelf comes across as a person working through midlife, self-love, and recovery with clear-eyed candor. Shell keeps the talk moving through self-sabotage, rejection, abandonment, perimenopause, and the strain of seeming composed while things feel unsettled inside.
A human recovery talk about work, pain, and compulsive habits that hide in plain sight.
Yorkshire-born chef Al Roberto, the family hospitality backdrop, and the move to New York give the piece real texture. Shell keeps it conversational and a little rough around the edges, which helps the story feel lived in instead of polished.
A recovery chat that links taste, work, and identity without losing its human edge.
Shell and Glenn Rowe turn a music industry conversation into something a little steadier than nostalgia. It is really about how taste, work, and identity keep folding into one another.
Hospitality, recovery, and the difference between being kind and being nice.
Kieran Bailey brings more than three decades in hospitality to a recovery conversation that stays grounded in people, not slogans. It moves from selling and leadership into a firmer case for being kind rather than merely being nice, while also taking on the cost of dodging hard…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
At 9 years old, Karl became the parent while his mother fell into addiction.
Shell speaks with Yorkshire-born chef Al Roberto about the road from a family hospitality background to recovery.
Shell speaks with Ian Anderson, a comedian and writer whose one-man show Traumedy turns addiction, homelessness, and recovery into stage material.
Shell closes season three of We Recover Loudly with Dawn Komelitz, known online as Sober Fish, who says she got sober in 2016 after her drinking started around age 14 and escalated through her early 20s.
Shell sits down with Rosie Turner for a frank talk about ADHD and recovery.
Shell interviews Reed Amber, a sex worker, porn director, and co-host of Come Curious podcast, about her journey from corporate work to sex work and advocacy.
Steve Lawson describes a 10-year on-and-off addiction, depression, blackouts, hospital visits, and the moment he realised drinking could end in death.
At 14, a dishwashing job gave me family—mentors who believed in me when nobody else did.
We Recover Loudly hosts Shell and therapeutic coach Marilee Kammerling explore the psychological roots of burnout within hospitality and service industries.
Shell opens the conversation warm and a little chaotic, which matches the show's unfiltered recovery energy.
Shell sits down with Laura Louise Green for a conversation about work, recovery, and where the two collide.
Shell sits down with Glenn Rowe, founder of Kyoto, a music and arts management company built around giving artists time, space, and support.
Shell sits down with Shannon Michelle.
We Recover Loudly features DJ Flourish (Caroline Kelf) in a raw conversation about authenticity, recovery, and building a personal brand while protecting mental health.
Tony Coast, hospitality industry veteran and 8-year recovery advocate, discusses his journey from talented restaurant worker to struggling alcoholic to sober mentor.
Shell interviews Josh Gandy about his journey from lying his way into bartending to founding Historic Revelry, a content studio bridging hospitality and recovery culture.
We Recover Loudly Special Edition features Shell interviewing Ruth Tansey, who manages Essex Recovery Foundation.
In-depth interview between Shell (host, We Recover Loudly) and Mickey, 40-year hospitality veteran and co-founder of Ben's Friends, exploring how addiction became normalized in restaurant/bar culture and why standard recovery models fail hospitality workers.
Host Shell interviews chef Gabriel Rucker about his journey from addiction to sobriety, exploring how he navigated the restaurant industry's drinking culture.
For me, it was having kids. That's when I realized I had a five month old and I couldn't keep drinking the way that I was drinking before.
Shell talks with hospitality leader Kieran Bailey about recovery, leadership, and the very human mess of trying to do right by people.
Shell speaks with Anthony Hammond, an Aussie entrepreneur and second-generation publican behind Pub With No Booze, launched at the Victoria Hotel in Footscray in 2022 with non-alcoholic drinks replacing the usual taps.
Shell marks one year of We Recover Loudly and her own two years and eight months sober.
Shell welcomes Camille Vidal to We Recover Loudly.
Shell and Chloe Bell-Porter reopen a conversation three months after their first recording because Chloe’s jewellery business shifted into a new silversmithing project called Olivia Danger.
Ben Gibbs, the man behind Sober Boozers Club, says he stopped drinking in January 2022 and now documents alcohol-free beers on Instagram.
Shell speaks with Derek Brown, the author of Mindful Mixology and founder of Positive Damage, Inc., about moving from heavy bartending culture to no-and-low drinking.
Shell speaks with Neil Hudson-Basing of House of Happiness, Pause and Rewind, and Lono Drinker magazine about sobriety, people-pleasing, burnout, and neurodivergence.
Shell speaks with James Cummings, the co-creator, co-writer, and lead writer behind Boiling Point, about how the restaurant drama grew from a one-shot short filmed in 2018 into a film and BBC series.
Shell speaks with Jason Candid Knüsel, director of Healthy Hospo, about 15 years in hospitality, including the Savoy, the Nomad Hotel in London, and early work in Zurich.