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40:05

Talk Club & Bristol Beer Factory on men's mental health

Club Soda Community Podcast ·

2022/04/15

When having work done on their house, Club Soda co-founder Dru Jaeger found themselves hotdesking in a cafe, ordering an alcohol-free beer. On the back of a bottle of their Clear Head 0.5% IPA was an advert from Talk Club, a talking and listening movement for men. Talk Club has collaborated with Bristol Beer Factory by providing space for meetings, collaborating together making beer, helping to raise awareness, and providing much-needed income for the charity to further its mental health awareness

33:19

Rapper Dax on his hit 'Dear Alcohol'

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2022/04/08

For Canadian rap artist Dax, his latest hit 'Dear Alcohol' started as a poem. It reflected his drinking habits once he moved to LA to become a full time music artist. With three or four boozy music events every night, the booze also became a full time habit. Using alcohol as a confidence tool on his first tour, the alcohol started to consume Dax's life. 'I just found myself being more social, and more confident. So then it became a thing where it was almost like I wish I could be

54:48

Why doesn't willpower work for me?

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2022/04/01

In this week's podcast episode, we are recapping a conversation that we had at our Global Mindful Drinking Festival in October last year about willpower. The topic of willpower is one that's brought up often in the Club Soda community, usually when people are in the early days of changing their drinking and wonder 'why doesn't willpower work for me?'. Club Soda founder, Laura Willoughby, invited a panel of mindful drinking experts to explore the topic of willpower, and how

54:17

Annemarie McAllister on the temperance movement

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2022/03/25

A few weeks back, Dru Jaeger caught up with Dr Annemarie McAllister, a cultural historian and leading researcher into the history and effects of the temperance movement. Annemarie is a senior research fellow in History at the University of Central Lancaster, and a nationally renowned expert on the history of temperance. Dru's conversation with Annemarie has been particularly interesting to us at Club Soda. Having had a lot of press coverage for our alcohol-free off-licence, where people have

67:04

Victoria Volk on grief and alcohol

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2022/03/18

This week's podcast is a collaborative effort between Dru Jaeger of Club Soda and Victoria Volk of Grieving Voices podcast. Victoria is a grief recovery specialist and hosts Grieving Voices. If you subscribe to her podcast as well, you'll get to hear this again. In this conversation, Dru and Victoria talk really frankly about their experiences of childhood bereavement and the ways in which they've lived with grief and how alcohol has played a role in that life. You might find some of

66:49

Chelsey Flood on alcohol and neurodiversity

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2022/03/11

It's true to say that alcohol and neurodiversity are not indivisible. Alcohol is often used as a coping mechanism in social situations. If you have autism, socialising can be extra daunting, and your intake of 'Dutch courage' can become excessive. In this week's podcast, Meet the Scholar host Claire Davey talks to our guest, author and speaker Chelsey Flood about alcohol and neurodiversity, and how a late diagnosis of autism affected her in changing her drinking. 'Looking

42:59

Madeleine Shaw on sobriety and social change

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2022/03/04

In this week's podcast episode, Club Soda founder Laura Willoughby, herself an advocate of social change, talks to Madeleine Shaw, a social entrepreneur from Vancouver, Canada. Madeleine talks candidly about how being a strong advocate for social change can also mean coming from an anti-authoritarian background. Being rebellious at a young age linked Madeleine with alcohol - "drinking was kind of a bad-ass thing that was bound up with rebellion". But as both Laura and Madeleine

57:54

Lu Blue on sober yoga and the importance of movement

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2022/02/25

Often when we think about change, it's very head-based. We think very hard about things. We forget that both our use of substances and some of the reasons that lead us to alcohol actually rooted in our bodies. So getting better acquainted with how we feel, can be a really important part of us changing. This week's podcast guest, Lu Blue, runs the yoga movement Sober Yoga. They are queer, non-binary, and in recovery. Lu's fascinated with how the body is such an integral part of healing

51:12

Monty Moncrieff on London Friend's 50th anniversary

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2022/02/18

Monty Moncrieff is chief executive of London Friend, an organisation that's been supporting the capital's LGBTQ+ community for the past fifty years. In this latest episode of the Club Soda podcast to celebrate the organisation's 50th anniversary, Monty chats to Dru Jaeger about his work, the organisation's history and what the future holds for queer people in London and beyond. They dive deep into the subject of LGBTQ+ identity formation, coming out and the sometimes damaging

65:21

Valerie Mason-John on mindfulness for LGBT History Month

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2022/02/11

February is LGBT History Month in the UK. It is also Black History Month in the US - we swap over in October. As it happens, we are featuring stories from the queer community about people and organizations that help people change their drinking in different ways. We are featuring a conversation that Club Soda co-founder Dru had back in October's Mindful Drinking Festival with the fabulous Dr Valerie Mason John. Valerie is an author, teacher, and mindfulness practitioner who happens to be both

66:58

Can you be queer and sober?

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2022/02/04

Can you be queer and sober? The answer, of course, is yes. You can be absolutely anything that you want to be. Perhaps a better question is: can you easily be queer and sober? As we learn from our panel discussion which was recorded during our Mindful Drinking Festival in October 2021, being queer and being a drinker can be inextricably linked. Linking our drinking to such a crucial part of our identity can cause problems when we feel ready to ditch the booze. A really important branch of what we

37:25

Matt Steinberg on arts-focused addiction support with...

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2022/01/28

At Club Soda, we encourage a variety of tools and resources that helps people on their personal drinking journeys. Whether that's reading Quit Lit, listening to podcasts, taking courses, or joining sober communities online or in real life. But there are many ways of participating in addiction support services that can also help you to gain confidence, meet like-minded people, and gain a new sense of self beyond alcohol. Outside Edge Theatre Company is the UK's only participatory arts

49:09

Jamie Klingler on claiming your sobriety and Reclaim...

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2022/01/21

The act of making a change to our drinking habits can help us to reconnect with the things that are important to us. This week's podcast guest, the inspirational Jamie Klingler, started with addressing her discomfort with playing the party girl role. In actively avoiding numbing herself, Jamie found a clear head, an articulate voice, and a reignited passion to engage with her values and an ability to tackle issues that mean a lot to her. What resulted is Reclaim These Streets, a movement that

56:09

Mel Pegley on mindfulness, meditation, and support to...

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2022/01/14

It's the middle of January, and you may be feeling a bit flat after the exciting start of your month of change. If willpower and motivation are ebbing, then leaning into mindfulness can be the new tool that helps you to build the life that you want to live. There is good research and evidence out there that practising mindfulness can actually help us create and sustain change. Whether that's a formal practice, like sitting and meditating, or informal practice, like mindful walking,

59:34

More tips for a month off booze

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2022/01/07

Following on from last week's podcast which gave some expert advice on preparing to take a month off drinking, this podcast is all about giving you some valuable tools that you might need to sustain your month off booze. Now that we've reached the second week of January, it's easy to take a successful first week and tell ourselves it's all about willpower, or luck. But as Laura says, 'You don't need luck to change your drinking, as that implies that willpower and

58:24

Advice for taking a month off drinking this January

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2021/12/31

Tomorrow is 1 January, a time when we all start thinking about New Years' Resolutions. These might be smaller steps such as getting more fresh air or drinking more water. Your goals for 2022 might be focused on addressing bigger issues such as problem drinking. This is the time of year when people think about taking a month off drinking. And if you're thinking that this might be the plan for you, then at Club Soda, we're here for it. In the last podcast of 2021, Club Soda co-founders

56:53

Christmas with the Club Soda team

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2021/12/24

There's a whole team of people behind Club Soda, and in this Christmas Eve podcast episode, we're giving you a peek behind the curtain to introduce you to team members Ali, Nia, and Anja. All three Club Soda Elves have personal experiences with either sober Christmases or moderation during what is usually a booze-soaked time of year. This is a chance to get to know the Club Soda team and learn their tactics to navigate a successful hangover-free Christmas. If this is your first sober or

25:22

Club Soda opens London's first alcohol-free off-licence

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2021/12/17

When Club Soda founder Laura gets an idea in her head, it usually turns into something pretty wonderful. We know this because as this podcast goes live, London's first-ever alcohol-free off-licence will have been open for a week! Putting a little alcohol-free fun into the London Christmas shopping scene this December, Laura's big idea has caused quite a splash. Listen to Laura talk to Dru live from the shop and discuss the fantastic brands and excellent masterclasses that you can expect

71:42

Who am I if I'm not a drinker?

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2021/12/10

Whether we like it or not, if we've been drinking quite a lot for a long period of time, it's likely that drinking has become a part of who we are. But if we're not a drinker anymore, then who are we? That uncertainty regarding our identity without booze is a question many people who choose to go alcohol-free ask themselves. In this week's podcast, the discussion is chaired by Claire Davy, a PhD student at Canterbury Christ Church University. Claire's guests are researcher

63:30

The alcohol-free version isn't a non-drinker's only...

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2021/12/03

The low and no alcohol market has blossomed over the last few years, much to the delight of those of us who choose to cut down or quit the hard stuff. But the alcohol-free version of alcoholic drinks isn't for everyone. For some, the taste of the drinks they used to love is a real trigger and the sensory anxiety caused might be turning some non-drinkers off. The soft drinks industry has responded with a plethora of tongue-tingling beverages to entice those who aren't so keen on the

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