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Women Supporting Women in Recovery | Sober Girls Group Chat
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In this special Women’s History Month episode of Never Alone Live, the women of Sober Girls Group Chat join the conversation to share honest perspectives on sobriety, healing, friendship, and what it means to recover out loud. Together, they discuss the realities of addiction, rebuilding confidence, navigating life sober, and the importance of having a supportive community of women who truly understand the journey.
This episode highlights the strength found in vulnerability, connection, and women empowering one another through recovery.
Recovery is possible. You are never alone.
Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome everyone to Never Alone Live. Um, as usual, uh I'm joined by Krista and Johnny, and today we are in for a real treat. Today we have a litany of awesome people that are the sober girls group chat. And and you know, it is women's history month, so we're celebrating women and this group of ladies who who stay together, stay sober together, stay strong together, and keep each other going. I'm hoping that everybody hears it. Great stories of experience, strength, and hope today. Um, and uh, you know, we're gonna start off with introductions. We're gonna go around and introduce uh ourselves and uh so I'll start with you, Janine. Janine, and uh Janine, tell us who you are, where you're from, how long you've been sober, and then uh when you're done, I've got a question for you.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Um, so like I said, my name is Janine. I'm from Georgia, sort of, but I've been in LA and Southern California for a really long time. I, after 15 years of active addiction, the last five years I was homeless. I got arrested five times. My last rest was for strong arm robbery, and I was facing a strike and prison time in California. I've now been sober since January 15th, 2015. So I just celebrated 11 years in January, which is awesome. Um, I have a sobriety podcast called Chasing Heroine, heroin with an E, which I always have to say. Chasing heroine. And obviously some sober content creation. When I met all of these women kind of like by chance, we stumbled into this group that has expanded that side of what I'm able to do, which is awesome. And I'm also in fitness too, is like kind of like my day job. So I've taught spin and bar and reforma Pilates and done personal training for a really long time, like kind of in and out during my addiction, almost 18 years I've been teaching. So I also manage a spin studio, owned a spin studio with my husband that we sold. Um, and yeah, just so sober, sober lifestyle.
SPEAKER_01That's awesome. Congratulations on your 11 years, and uh that's tremendous. So, your big question, you get the big question since you're first. Okay what is the sober girls group chat?
SPEAKER_05The sober girls group chat is a group of nine women that met by chance through social media, which is like my favorite thing about social media. We met through TikTok, we met through Instagram, I was able to interview some of these women, we started making videos together, and then we went on Abby's birthday trip to uh New York, which I feel like kind of like cemented things. We collabed on some reels, we got a little bit bigger, we brought in Gabs, right, when she first got sober. And together we tried to create a visible culture of making sobriety look fun and a way to connect for women in particular, because women really struggle with sobriety, and that's sad, and it doesn't have to be that way. And I feel like we are living examples of that. We have a variety of sober times in the group, and we love each other, right? Like we love each other, we have our conflicts, but we love each other. And this group is probably the best thing that's ever happened to me, certainly in recent years. And so what we've tried to do is create, yeah, a visible culture online where women can connect, be honest with each other, and have fun together in sobriety and be there for each other in times of need as a support network.
SPEAKER_01That is tremendous, and everybody needs to go and follow everybody on this page, and they need to. So if you just do hashtag sober girls group chat, which is what I did, you're gonna laugh your ass off because there's so many you guys do so post so much. I thought it would find us hashtag because I just I just went to Instagram and put in Sober Girls Group Chat, and there it was, and and all the dancing videos and the just enjoying life. Uh, you just see it, you just see it, you see the joy in all your guys' faces. And uh there's one, and once I we get down to Abby, I want to know about the um LAX and the sign that you're holding, but we'll talk about that. Um, so let's go to Amanda, our friend Amanda. What's happening? How you doing?
SPEAKER_11Hello, I'm so excited to be here. So, my name is Amanda, I'm a Jersey girl, but I live in Orange County, California right now. And my sobriety date is September 10th, 2014. So I've been sober for like 11 and a half years.
SPEAKER_01That's so awesome, Amanda, and you're so awesome. And love you, and love you, and thank you for helping set this whole thing up. We appreciate you.
SPEAKER_11Yes, I love you guys. We're so excited to be here.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so what here's your big fun question. Well, this one, these ones aren't the fun questions. We'll get to the fun questions, but what is the most important thing about fellowship?
SPEAKER_11Um, I think it's and what do you know about being on this podcast? It's just like not feeling alone, you know, and basically just being able to, you know, just with the girls constantly, you know, communicate things that are going on in my head, and then just being able to relate so much, and then also to just bounce like what I'm thinking in my head and for for that like reality check also of like what's real and what's not real, and then also a big thing that I know that it's about having fun with the fellowship and like friends and community, like and if I didn't like have that, you know, and have this group of people, I don't know like what sobriety would look like. It's just really important to have fellowship and definitely grateful to have it with these ladies.
SPEAKER_01That's so awesome. That's so awesome, Amanda. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_11Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Let's move down to Britt Bernard. Good afternoon, Britt.
SPEAKER_10Hi, I'm Britt. I've been sober for seven years.
SPEAKER_01Uh-oh. Technical difficulties with Britt.
SPEAKER_05We lost your friends.
SPEAKER_01Oh no.
SPEAKER_05We won't, we made fun of Jenna. We'll leave Britt alone.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah. It's beautiful though, by the way. I don't know if you heard me say that. It was like this. It was like so even though it didn't look good. Oh, Britt.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so Britt's having technical difficulties. So let's move over to Rachel Elizabeth. Oh no, hang on. We'll go to Rachel Elizabeth and then we'll come back to Britt once she is uh we've figured it out. So Rachel, go ahead.
SPEAKER_02Oh hi, I'm Rachel. I'm an addict. I'm an alcoholic. Um, I am coming up on eight years sober April 6th. So my sober date is April 6th, 2018. I am from New York originally, but I live in Austin because I came to rehab here and they have a pretty tight recovery community here. So I decided to stay. I'm a mom of two boys, and I'm a content creator, and I love all these girls in here. And my brain is on like three percent today, so I'm gonna pray that I can form words and stuff. So your three percent is better than most people's 90s, so that's good. Thank you, you're a liar, but thank you so much for saying that.
SPEAKER_01Krista and I were on a live stream for two hours this morning before this, so uh, so I am with you. So you feel yeah, we are we are pushing through, Rachel. We are pushing through because we're having fun today. Uh, so uh you're in Austin, Texas. A lot of people are in LA that we've met already, and but uh so my question is how often do you guys meet up? And is it virtual? Do you how many in-persons and things like that?
SPEAKER_02I mean, I feel like we're in our group chat texting, I feel like all the time. We try to see each other as much as possible. I feel like this is probably the longest we've gone, but they're gonna they're coming to Austin in like a week or two, and then we get to see each other again in April. So what I feel like once the summertime, we're gonna see each other. We see each other as much as we can.
SPEAKER_01That's so awesome. And I I'm saying I couldn't imagine that group chat. Oh my goodness, it's popping off all the time.
SPEAKER_02If I miss like five minutes, I'm I miss a lot. Let's let's hold myself count. I miss a lot in the group chat sometimes. But if you miss like five minutes, you can miss like 3,000 text messages.
SPEAKER_01What about like uh like social media stuff? Do you guys do Zoom meetings or anything like that?
SPEAKER_02Um, we there was a time, yeah. There was a time. We're all just really also like we're all really busy, you know what I mean? Like we're most of us are moms, we're working, we're doing a million things. Everyone, that's what I love about the group too, because everyone's involved in like their their own things, but we still somehow make time for each other, too.
SPEAKER_01That's amazing, that's super amazing. Uh well, thank you so much, Rachel. It's so good to meet you. You too. Let me let me jump over to Britt Bernard before she disappears on me again.
SPEAKER_10Can you hear me this time? We got you now. Hi, hi, I'm Britt. How are you?
SPEAKER_01We are fantastic.
SPEAKER_10I have been sober since June 26, 2018. So, God willing, coming up on eight years, and I'm from Philadelphia. Big deal.
SPEAKER_01From Philadelphia. Thank you, Britt Anna. And you're breaking up a little bit on us, so we're going quick on this one. Uh um, what do you see as the future of the sober girls group chat?
SPEAKER_10Oh, you got me with a loaded question. Um, I don't know. You were supposed to have the last one, but you know, I think we just want to keep creating content together and see what happens and take these kinds of opportunities where we get to do podcasts and you know other fun things together. We're going to Austin in a couple weeks for something super fun. So just taking the opportunities that come our way and trying to spread a message of you know, hope with women in recovery because it's hard to be a woman in recovery. So I think that's you know the goal.
SPEAKER_01Dude, that's so important and so big. And that's why this, this, this today we're so excited about it. Being Women's History Month and Women's Appreciation Day was uh was that Sunday? And uh, you know, and seeing all of you guys here and you know, the fellowship you guys have together is just so beautiful. And uh just we're really excited to have you guys here and to have this conversation. And um, so thank you, Britt. Britt from Philadelphia. So are you the furthest away? Uh Philadelphia?
SPEAKER_10Um yeah, probably.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I feel like we're all over the place. We're all over the country.
SPEAKER_10We all are over the all over the place. But from Amanda, I'm the furthest, yeah. And Abby, too, right? Abby's a little closer. Oh, okay. She's a little more west. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. Let me move over to uh from one Brit to a Britney. Brittany Jade. Good afternoon.
SPEAKER_09Hi, I'm Brittany. I'm an alcoholic. Uh, my sobriety date is February 9th, 2020. So I just celebrated six years last month, and I'm so happy to be here.
SPEAKER_01That's so awesome. So awesome. Congratulate and congratulations, everybody, on your time. This is so this is tremendous. This really is tremendous.
SPEAKER_12Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Uh, okay, so sober girls group chat. How does one join? How do you get more people in your uh in your in your community? Or nope, we're closed.
SPEAKER_09No one's no one, no one is invited. Just kidding. Um, we actually have a Facebook group with over, someone correct me, it's over 10k members. 11,000 now.
SPEAKER_05What is it? 11,000.
SPEAKER_09Okay, so 11,000 people. It's open. Anyone can join. So that's been kind of the the biggest area where we can stay connected and support other women in recovery.
SPEAKER_01That is amazing.
SPEAKER_05Women to Soberfest, to Camp Soberfest, which to me is probably my favorite thing that we've done so far, to be honest, because that was like a very real way to help somebody from within our community connect in sobriety in a tangible way. Like, obviously, the videos are fun and it's cool to show our sobriety dates and that we're friends and that it's possible. But like, I'm getting chills when I talk about it. The more of that kind of stuff we can do is what we would all love to do, like tangible, real ways, like help women connect to communities or treatment or whatever, you know, like however we can, you know.
SPEAKER_01This is amazing. Krista, what are you thinking about this? Krista is just stuck in like girl power mode right now.
SPEAKER_06I love it because a lot of you, I'm gonna cry. A lot of you are like big inspirations to me. I started posting my recovery stuff and during COVID, Brittany was one of the first ones, and um, my stuff kind of blew up, not as big as y'all's, but um, y'all are true inspirations. And um, I host a woman's Zoom meeting every week, and we kind of grew a group chat out of it. It's a little crazy. It's like 20 people now, but um I love that you you bring you you take the virtual to reality, you know, and I think it's beautiful and girl power all the way.
SPEAKER_09I know this is so awesome to meet you, like kind of in person, because I know we've been following each other for like six years, so yeah.
SPEAKER_06Uh it's you and congratulations on the baby!
SPEAKER_09Thank you.
SPEAKER_06Yes, it's got another sober girl, or no, it's a boy, but sober boy girl, but have another boy.
SPEAKER_01That's so amazing. So amazing. Let's talk to Gabby. Gabby, hi. Hi, how's it going? It's phenomenal. It's so nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Okay, so tell us about yourself.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so my name is Gabby. Um, I'm from Fayetteville, North Carolina, born and raised. I moved to Cincinnati about six years ago, and I've been living here ever since. Um my sobriety date is September 20th, 2024. I have 17 months over. And uh I'm a mom, I have four kids, um, I own a tie-eye job, I was like wrapping up in the donor community, which is how I got it in the tie-eye zone, I'm meeting that so it's uh kind of a funny situation. But um I've got all these crazy girls online, and I've been wrapped up in the Tobergroup ever since October Grove. And I'm a content creator, I do content on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram.
SPEAKER_01Gabby, you are having major tech difficulties. I hear every other word. Luckily for you, I can't, I understand. It's like I under Cincinnati. Okay, and uh we completely hear you, and uh and Gabby, we're so glad to have you here. And congratulations on on 17 months. That's tremendous. And she gone. And she's gone. She's gone. Uh let's drop down to Jenna. Jenna, what's happening?
SPEAKER_07Hi, friends. I can hear you now. I couldn't hear the first 10 minutes.
SPEAKER_01That first 10 minutes, I was talking most of it, so that's irrelevant.
SPEAKER_07It's a it's a but hi, thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. Uh introduce yourself.
SPEAKER_07I am from LA, born and raised, lived there my whole life, live there now. Um, my sobriety date is in May of 2014, so I'll have 12 years this upcoming May. And I'm a single mom, have two beautiful children that I've had in my sobriety. It's probably my biggest gift is to be a sober present mother and give my children what I didn't have as a child. And I professionally I work in the behavioral health and treatment space. And um, outside of being a mom, you know, my time is dedicated to how I can help others.
SPEAKER_01Amazing, Jenna. Amazing. Okay, so your question is what have you learned most from hanging out with all these girls?
SPEAKER_07Um, what have I learned most? God I mean, I think that what I've learned most is like this congruency in what recovery brings, which is that like no matter where we came from or how we got here, there's a common solution and a common common piece of healing. And that, you know, again, regardless of how we got here, we all have this beautiful piece that we share together. And that like is like metaphorically translated into like the bigger community of recovery all over the world. And it's just like a beautiful thing to see like the bonding that comes out of like a group of such different people that can find like commonality together, and you know, again, like that I think like expands to this bigger picture of community and fellowship and healing.
SPEAKER_01That's amazing, Jenna. Jenna, I'm telling you, dude, this is this whole this whole thing has just been so awesome. And uh, so let's uh lastly, our last introduction, let's move to Abby.
SPEAKER_08Hi, can you hear me?
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_08All right, hello. My name is Abby. Um, my sobriety date is April 24th, 2018, so God willing, coming up on eight years here pretty soon. I am a single co-parenting mom. I have an 11-year-old daughter, and I am from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lived in uh California for a while. I always say I left a little bit of my heart there. So I'm back in Pittsburgh now raising my daughter in co-parenting, but I I'm out in I'm out on the West Coast as often as I can be. Um, it's funny, actually, before I got sober, I kind of it took me a little while to learn that wherever you go, there you are, right? So I jumped around, I'd make a mess in Pittsburgh and I would run to the West Coast, and then I'd make a mess on the West Coast and I would jump back to Pittsburgh. And I the first time I ever tried to get sober here in Pittsburgh, which was not by choice. It was just I lost the privileges, right? Nobody would fly me out. Um, I would always go to treatment out in California. And so this last time around, almost eight years ago now, I had no choice, I had no resources. Um, a lot of those privileges were taken away from me, and I had no choice but to go to treatment here in Pittsburgh, and lo and behold, I've been sober ever since.
SPEAKER_01This is this is amazing, and we've got so we got a bunch of people in our comments, right? A bunch of people in our comments, and there's so many women in here, and so many uh people commenting, and there's so much love. And uh, so that being said, uh, you're in front of uh a group of women, you're in front of people that you don't know. Who um what is what is something that you would say to women looking to get into recovery or are new in recovery?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I think one of the biggest things is whatever you're afraid to admit out loud, whether it be something that you've done that you know causes you to carry a lot of guilt, feelings that you're currently feeling whether you're in early sobriety, your biggest guilt piece that weighs you down the most, I promise you, we've heard it before, we've done it before, we've probably seen it. I mean, there is nothing I have done that I haven't talked to my sponsor about the things I was most terrified to admit out loud, which is when they lose their power, right? Expecting to be judged, expecting to get some crazy reaction, and then I hear, oh yeah, been there. You have no idea until you admit things out loud and you speak with other women how much the things that weigh you down the most and cause you the most shame or cause you to use or drink, right? Actually, so many people relate to. And I think that not being afraid to admit some of those things out loud and having those women that you trust and that you can be close with to just be honest about how you're really feeling is like really the start, right? Of like a new, a better life, a better way to live. So I would just say don't be afraid and don't be so hard on yourself. I promise you, we've been there, we've seen it, we've done it, and we most likely have a little bit of experience that we can share that could potentially help you. Um, so that would probably be the biggest thing.
SPEAKER_01This is so every Friday night, right? I do dinner with the boys, and a bunch of guys, we sit down, and between the eight or nine of us, there's probably 200 years of sobriety, right? And I get this same vibe because it's like we go and we sit down, and rarely do we talk about recovery. Usually we're talking about motorcycles or bullshitting about whatever. But then when something goes down, it's like boom, we're all on it, and we get into super serious mode, and we come in and help that next person is the is is what goes on next. And I get that vibe from you guys so much because you guys are so fun and you do what you do, and you're actually a tight-knit group like that, where it's uh fun, fun, fun. But when it goes down, shit goes down, boom, we're on it.
SPEAKER_08That's right. It's a great way to put it. Exactly right.
SPEAKER_10That's exactly what happened with Gabby. That's true. Gabby.
SPEAKER_01Gabby, can you Gabby? Can you actually talk?
SPEAKER_04I think so. I thought like I I thought I was fine in my car. I thought that would be my more quiet.
SPEAKER_01And then oh my goodness, we can hear every word now. We can hear every word.
SPEAKER_04Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_01Uh so along with lines. Tell us, uh, tell us, you're the you're kind of the baby of the group, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so I just turned 26 um at the beginning of this month, and I have the like least least time. Um I've known some of these girls for like quite a while. I've known Abby since 2020, and I've known Brittany Jade since like 2021. Um, so I've known a lot of these girls for a while, but I didn't really take my sobriety seriously until I went to the jail or went to jail for the second time. Um, and that really didn't even make me take it seriously. Um I like I kept drinking because I was like in denial that I ever even had a problem with alcohol. I I could have sworn that it was like every other issue that I was having in my life. It wasn't really me until I went on against all odds. I went on Rachel's podcast that she has with Oak Force Recovery. And she like took me to a surprise AA meeting. Like I had no idea. Like, I thought this was like a meeting for a podcast and or like something. She took me to a whole AA meeting. And like this lady who spoke, she literally like changed my entire perspective and the entire way that I was viewing myself and my life. And I was like, yeah, I gotta make the changes, like I gotta get sober, which is something that I like internally knew for a really long time. And so I went back from that trip. I went home from California and I just I didn't pick up a drink again, I didn't smoke anymore. Um, and I just kind of like made that commitment to myself, and now I'm here 17 months later, and my life looks completely different. I mean, my relationships look different, my friendships look different, uh, my relationship with my husband, he's sober now. Um, and so yeah, I mean, this has been it's been an incredible journey for me for sure.
SPEAKER_01That is amazing, and I'm telling you, so this past January, we did this event called Freedom Fest, right? It was in Charleston, and we brought all these friends from TikTok and we made this big, it was a big to-do, and so many people came together and lives were changed, right? And now we're gonna do another one in LA. I we haven't really announced this yet, so uh, you know, hopefully you guys aren't gonna tell anybody, right? We're live and we're gonna be the uh October in LA. We're gonna hold Freedom Fest LA, and uh, I want all you guys to be there, and even even the people from Pittsburgh. We'll even invite the people from Pittsburgh, whatever, you know. Everybody's welcome, you know. And uh, you know, so hopefully you guys will come. And can you imagine the panel that this would be? Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. Um, but you know, we're inviting the world, and you know, Krista said turning virtual into reality, you know, you know, you guys are ex the great examples of just that, you know, and this uh this you know, meeting online, getting together, it's it's it's so tremendous. Um okay, so you guys are ready for the fun part? The fun questions? This is gonna get I think this is gonna get allowed. This is gonna get allowed. So uh so if you're if your mic is off, because we need voting now. I'm gonna ask a question, and then uh you guys are gonna kind of yell and let us know what the answer is, and then uh whoever the answer was just has to kind of tell on themselves. So who is the craziest member of the sober girls group chat?
SPEAKER_05Crazy in what way?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, what way who's the craziest?
SPEAKER_05In a good way, Gabby, the best, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Probably Gabby, right?
SPEAKER_02In the best way, and I and I love and we love to see it.
SPEAKER_06Okay, so we have to know crazy in the bad way now.
SPEAKER_02I feel like we could all be, I feel like we could all be probably we all have our we can all be crazy and good and bad.
SPEAKER_10We take turns, yeah.
SPEAKER_07We take yes, because if you're talking about like crazy with like wild, weird shit they say online, then it's Rachel, like she's wearing wigs and talking about her bowel moves.
SPEAKER_10I was gonna say Rachel, to be honest. It could be me, it could be me.
SPEAKER_02I don't know.
SPEAKER_07Rachel's out here like Gabby, Gabby, Gabby, just to try to differ.
SPEAKER_01She did throw her under the bus real hard.
SPEAKER_02I feel like it depends in which way. I feel like we're all all of us are crazy on just different types. We all have our different shades of crazy 50 shades of crazy.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I feel like if you're talking about like freak bob crazy, like freaky crazy, like doing some weird stuff, it's Rachel. But if you're talking about like taking time bomb crazy, it would be me. So it depends on the crazy.
SPEAKER_02But I can crazy come out of every single one of these bitches. I'll say it can for sure. Not really Amanda. No, Amanda, Amanda's like our mom. She's like our recovery, spiritual recovery mom.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so we I need to we need to introduce you guys to our friend Judy. Judy was on here a couple weeks ago, and if you haven't seen the interview, she was uh she's a studio 54 uh drinker and user. So you want to tell us some wild stories? I'm telling you. Yeah, it was pretty funny. Um James Conn. Okay, James Conn. And uh she had a story about Sylvester Stallone, but we won't go into that. She did okay. If Sylvester Stallone, you're watching, we love you, brother.
SPEAKER_10Wait, what's Studio 54?
SPEAKER_01Studio 54 was a club in the studio 54.
SPEAKER_05It was in New York in the maybe. You don't, it was in the 70s, it was like the disco place. They had a big Coke spoon that came down from the ceiling. Really famous people went there in the 70s and the 80s a little bit.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Um I've never heard of that. It was an era.
SPEAKER_10It was interesting.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. Britt from Philly. I mean, I think she she's she's playing it off like she don't know about it. I don't know about that. She the way she's playing it off right now. What studio 50 play? I mean, she might have been born there. I don't even know.
SPEAKER_10Um listen, my mom liked to do Coke, so she maybe she might be watching this right now.
SPEAKER_01Brit's mom is watching this right now. Hi, Brit's mom. Good to see you. All right, so um, okay, so the craziest, I think we're going with Rachel. Rachel, what is uh Rachel? What are your feelings about um? Let's talk about feelings. How do you feel knowing that your group thinks you're the craziest?
SPEAKER_02I mean, I accept, I know I'm crazy as hell, so I feel like I accept that gladly, you know.
SPEAKER_01That's it. Own that shit. That's what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, all right.
SPEAKER_01So the next fun question I have, and uh you guys already kind of answered this, but who is the mom of the group?
SPEAKER_10Amanda. Amanda. Amanda.
SPEAKER_11It's like sometimes it's just like you, you know what I mean? But but also no, it's because I'm just bringing them back down.
SPEAKER_02Like, come on, she's just a recovered, she's just a recovered girl. Sure, she's just a very spiritual, chill, recovered girl. Uh she's always just like, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_11So that that's how it goes.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so I so how how do you mom such a big group, Amanda?
SPEAKER_11Oh my god. God bless her. But just a lot of like just redirecting, redirect, bringing it back, gentle parenting.
SPEAKER_10She definitely does gentle parent us. She does the reading. She's getting us here today.
SPEAKER_01She was like, Okay, so so Krista does these battles on the tiki-talkie, right? And uh, she found this guy in Pakistan who she's become great friends with. And watching Krista and this guy, it's hysterical. But uh, what's his name? Hamid. Hamid, Hamid, right? And he has become part of the group.
SPEAKER_06He gave me a water buffalo. Oh, I love that.
SPEAKER_01Well, not not not yet. She hasn't had it delivered yet, but uh, he uh he liked he's like I said, he's become part of the group, and uh he's so funny, and uh he's calling me sober dad now.
SPEAKER_06So we're sober sober family because everyone's got like sober in their name or recovery in their name, sober family. He doesn't even know what sober means.
SPEAKER_07You should you should own that.
SPEAKER_05We love we love a good sober daddy, so wait, I should have an unofficial sober daddy for like we gotta pick one.
SPEAKER_01Oh, the why to watch out if I can out of the group. Let me know where to send in my application. Um what is happening right now? Okay, so next question. Next question. Who starts the group chats? Who is the most and now this is a kind of a a so there's two questions because the who starts the group chat is the one who's usually going through the most drama and said, Oh my god, I can't even believe this person right now. So who is the dramatic chat starter? Abigail.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, it's Abby, Abby or Brit. Yeah, Abby. No, let me say this. No, hold on.
SPEAKER_08Mine's not drama. I say this. I bring the most tea from my life.
SPEAKER_02She does.
SPEAKER_08Like I come in and I give the 10-minute voice memos on the date I just went. Like, I'm single, I'm dating. Like, I just have like tea that is worth hearing or venting about. Uh, but drama, I don't know if I'd say drama. Maybe I don't know. It's like a podcast.
SPEAKER_04She'll drop that voice note and I'm like, I'm sad. Like, I didn't see it. I'm like seven businesses.
SPEAKER_06One of y'all made a video about that. Yeah, Gabby made a video about that.
SPEAKER_08I still I listen, I keep it entertained, I like to say. It can be quiet.
SPEAKER_05But I love being able to hold that space for you, especially right now. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_10I enjoy the the voice memos.
SPEAKER_08It's it's I love long voice memos. I really am because I'll send one and then I'll go. You don't have to listen to that, or I'll go shit. I didn't mean for that to be 10 minutes.
SPEAKER_10Or you'll send one and then you don't give any other context for like five days. I'll give you that. That's facts. I'll give you that. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Okay, Abby, while we're on you, we won't pick on you too much. We won't pick on you, but uh so the video from the airport.
SPEAKER_08Yes.
SPEAKER_01Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it for those who haven't seen this. Go ahead, I'll let you play this one out.
SPEAKER_08I want to start by saying I was probably on three hours of sleep, not even. Um, and then a time change. I gained three hours going to the West Coast, and we were Amanda and I were getting ready to pick up Britney from the airport. And I just basically said to Amanda, like, we have to do something ridiculous, not only because it's who we are, but also because content, right? And um, one of the things I feel like in sobriety, like we're just kind of shamed. And so any way that we can turn sobriety into comedy in a way that's useful or helpful or just brings more eyes on us, um, will do. And so I don't know, Amanda, how I got the idea to put Welcome Home from Rehab, but Amanda and I went to like three drugstores trying to find a poster board, grabbed a couple markers, and on our way to LAX, I sat in a passenger seat and I wrote Welcome Home to Rehab as big as I could on both sides of the poster board. Amanda mom drove as I stuck my whole body out of the sunroof and held up a sign in LAX's pickup lane that said, Welcome home from rehab.
SPEAKER_10So welcome from the I really appreciated that, Bobby.
SPEAKER_01Dude, I was I was watching this video and I was crying laughing because I could so and I and now I uh so uh my my girlfriend lands in the air lands tomorrow, she'll be here tomorrow, and uh and I was the same sign. I was doing it, but she's in she's in here listening right now, so the surprise is kind of so I might have to think of something more creative, but uh and it didn't just say welcome home from rehab, I believe it said welcome home from rehab, bitch.
SPEAKER_10It did, yeah, it really did. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01If we're gonna get technical, let's uh let's get all the facts here.
SPEAKER_10Mind you, I had no idea they were doing that, and I just see Amanda's car rolling towards me and Abby out the top of the sunroof with the sign, and I was like, What the fuck does that sign say? I think it was bitches plural. It was then we it was because it was for both of us, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because then we went and got Britney Jade.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's so uh we are not a glum lot, man. We get sober and we get to live a good life and get to have fun and get to laugh and get to belly laugh. Yeah, I'm telling you, watching that video, I was belly laughing. I was like, yes, this is it.
SPEAKER_07Um you should you should have Gabby tell you about her arrival to her first sober girls group chat trip. The first time she went on a trip with us. You should have her tell that story.
SPEAKER_01Gabby, we gotta hear this story now.
SPEAKER_04I like I genuinely thought it might be like my last time actually going. Like, no lie. So I get there and somehow my flight gets delayed. So like I'm the last one getting there. I've only met Rachel and I think I had only met Rachel in person. Wait, who else?
SPEAKER_07Angenna, me.
SPEAKER_04Oh, Angenna. Sorry. So I had only met like a few of them. So I'm meeting like a lot of new people. I'm already stressed out. I'm getting there like at 10 o'clock at night. I can't fum in the house. Like I'm getting lost. I'm in like Hollywood Hills or wherever the hell we were. And I'm trying to fum in the house. Finally, I park, and Janine's the only one that comes out to like greet me. And so I'm like, okay, and then she's like, yeah, they're all like by the pool or something. And I'm like, okay. So I go in, I'm only bringing like a couple of my things in. And she's like, we walk into the house, and all of the girls have wigs on and they're around like this lit up bubble, and they're just like going in a circle. Nobody's acknowledging that like I'm there. Like they're just all going in circles around this like lit up bubble. And I'm like, and Janine's like, oh yeah, but don't worry about them. Like they're just doing a sober ritual or whatever. And I'm like, what? And she's like, let's go look at the pool. Like the pool's really nice. Like, and I'm just like, we're just gonna ignore this. Like they're like boom around this bubble. And I was like, I don't like, I'm really not like I just was so baffled. I couldn't even believe what I was even seeing. And then all of a sudden everybody just starts busting out laughing, and they're like, Welcome here, Gabby! And I was like, No, I seriously was about to pack it up and get a hotel because this is so weird, this is too weird for me. I was getting hazed, I was getting hazed into the group. We put it all on video.
SPEAKER_05It's on our Friday spell. We'll teach you tomorrow. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I love everything about that. That is awesome. Everything about that verse, that is great.
SPEAKER_04Um, all right, so I can't hear anybody but Amanda.
SPEAKER_01Uh-oh.
SPEAKER_04Really? Oh. That's so weird.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Um, uh do we hear everybody, Krista? Do you hear everybody? The everybody, the on the online growth is everybody. So everyone. Okay. So you can uh you can read lips.
SPEAKER_06Sorry, Danny. Did she leave?
SPEAKER_01She'll come back in.
SPEAKER_06She's probably she'll come back in. We're in every different time zone right now. So naturally.
SPEAKER_01Who is the the big book thumper of the group?
SPEAKER_02I feel like a lot. I I feel like all yeah.
SPEAKER_09Me? Well, I say that because she's my Brit's my sponsor. Yeah, so of course I was gonna say Amanda. Oh Amanda. But we all do it.
SPEAKER_02We all do it.
SPEAKER_10We all do, yeah.
SPEAKER_02We all do. We will all we will all get there.
SPEAKER_01Okay, I th I really thought that was gonna be a more fun question, but uh I guess not. Um they can't they can't seriously they can't all be winners. Okay, so here is let's go back to your high school yearbook days. Who would be voted most likely to succeed?
SPEAKER_09Gabby. Janine. Yeah, Janine. I got voted biggest slacker in my high school yearbook. Yeah, pretty big.
SPEAKER_04No, for real. I gotta Rachel. I get I guess Rachel. Me?
SPEAKER_07No, Rachel was using.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, I was a teen mom. Wait, are you saying now or in high school? Are you saying Rachel?
SPEAKER_01I'm saying I'm saying now. I'm saying now. I was going back to high school friendship.
SPEAKER_05That's why we say Gabby. I feel like at her young ass they would have voted this, or now our high school says now from your sober girl group chat now.
SPEAKER_02That's I think Gabby she is very successful just yeah in business entrepreneur. She's a boss at her young ass age with all these damn kids, and like I feel like that's I feel like she's someone we all look up to for stuff like that, you know.
SPEAKER_05Well, thank you. I thought you guys were that back then, and I was like, I will pull out my sat scores right now.
SPEAKER_01She's so badass with all these damn kids. I have to make a meme about that one. We're gonna have that one with all these and that's how I feel.
SPEAKER_02That's how I really feel amazing.
SPEAKER_01Um, so here's a fun one. Who is most likely to forget their phone in the bathroom?
SPEAKER_07Abby, Abby, Abby, Abby, Abby, Abby, Abby. Yeah, most likely to forget her phone anywhere.
SPEAKER_12Actually, we we uh defend yourself there.
SPEAKER_08Well, no, I was actually gonna contribute to it. We Amanda and I were at an event this weekend, and Amanda's like had to go and get my purse like 10 feet away because I just left my purse in the middle of an event full of hundreds.
SPEAKER_02I feel like that's a vibe for you. I feel like you did that at Sean's thing. Was that wasn't that you?
SPEAKER_08I think 100% I did at the bonfire. And did she like put it on a paper plate? It was like a no a man did that, and I still to this day I don't know. No, it was on a chair. This is kind of funny. We were at a bonfire recovery bonfire, and I put it was like a Louis bag, whatever. I put it on a chair so it wasn't on the ground, and then I was over talking to somebody, and the guys cleaned up, they're folding.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, Abby, is that a technical story? Man down, man down. My business partner and my oh she's back on a page concrete. Oh, there she is. And I appreciate whoever did that, but my business partner and the founder of Never Alone Recovery actually just walked into my office and broke something. So walked in and broke a glass.
SPEAKER_02Mercury is in Uranus. That's did he spill something too?
SPEAKER_00He walked in, he spilled something, and he broke a glass. I can totally hear you. My uh literally every planet could not be more line for me at this current moment.
SPEAKER_02Hey, I'd love to hear that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, 22 life path, baby. Let's go. Yeah, you ladies into that shit, you get down with that stuff.
SPEAKER_07Oh, we're so we're we're into it for sure.
SPEAKER_00I just did the most insane, like you'll think I'm unhinged. I wanted to prove God was real since I was a little kid. So um, I took basically everybody that's been involved in my life in a serious capacity for the businesses, just took their astrological chart, right? Just their birth data, because that's something that predates me. So I can't have any impact on that. Put all like 20 something people in it, dude. Statistical probability of these people meeting one in ten to the set fucking till. I don't even know what number that is. I don't think there's that many stars. What the fuck? I don't even know what number that is.
SPEAKER_09That's awesome.
SPEAKER_00Man, shout out. Respect. Amanda, your closet's to die for. I'm jealous.
SPEAKER_11Oh, thank you. Thank you. This whole thing. Shut the fuck up.
SPEAKER_07Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00I love these closes. Okay. So back to fun questions. Hold on. Does Amanda have a Shays Lounge in that closet? Do you have a Shaise Lounge in that closet?
SPEAKER_07I feel like she does. Amanda's house is unreal. What are you sitting on? Oh my makeup management.
SPEAKER_00Don't have a lounge in your closet. Like, I don't know, but just saying.
SPEAKER_11Okay, thank you. Noted.
SPEAKER_00It is a beautiful closet.
SPEAKER_01I love it. Okay, so uh this is a very, very important question. Who has the most shoes?
SPEAKER_10The most shoes? Amanda. Amanda? Not me. Probably not me.
SPEAKER_11So this is this is my clothes. I have a whole separate shoe closet.
SPEAKER_08I'd say either me or Amanda. Amanda, you probably have to show it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, Amanda with her shoe closet. It's definitely Amanda.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so I win that one. And I was really looking to make a friend. And because I uh I'm a big, I'm kind of a shoe guy.
SPEAKER_11Oh Leah, look at that. I forgot that that's your thing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Uh that was my way more than that. Way more than that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. My midlife crisis was uh I went and bought a bunch of Jordans. Some guys go and buy a Corvette. I bought you know 50 pairs of Jordans, whatever. Um, okay, so this is uh the last the last of my funny questions. Um, but uh who is voted most likely to run off with a sugar daddy?
SPEAKER_02Jenna! Did you come up with that? Jenna, Jenna, Jenna. Yeah, Jenna.
SPEAKER_09That's a good answer, Jenna.
SPEAKER_02Yes, you should.
SPEAKER_07I'm here for it. Yes. I'm not ashamed. That's fine.
SPEAKER_06I love acceptance is key.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I just want peace and serenity. Yeah, I knew this was a fun group, and I knew that we were gonna have uh some laughs. So yeah, I sat down and said, okay, what fun questions could I come up with? Even though I was really hoping for more of a shoe. Uh we could be talking about shoes for an hour, but nobody wants to talk about shoes with me.
SPEAKER_10I need shoes, to be honest.
SPEAKER_01I'm good with it. Uh so uh, so let's uh kind of direct this a little bit, but uh Janine, what's your favorite part about this whole thing, this experience with uh with the sober girls group chat?
SPEAKER_05My favorite thing is the confidence I've gotten from them. So, like I was actually talking to my husband about this the other day. Like when we went to New York, um, we were in Times Square, and Abby was like taking pictures and Rachel was taking pictures, and like the you know, the girls that have like a bigger following were taking pictures, and I was just kind of standing there, and I remember Sarah, who's not in here, was like, Do you want to take some pictures? And I was like, I don't know. And she was like, come on, do it. And I walked for like two seconds in Times Square, right? And she took a couple of pictures, and I was like, Okay, that's good, you know, and like put my phone away. And you their support of me has made me feel like this is something I could actually do. Like now I like I put myself out there a lot more. And I remember for my birthday last year, Rachel made that walk, like a bit like a video on her Instagram story on my birthday, and she was like, I saw that and I was like, that's a model. And it just made me feel like so much like better about myself, you know what I mean? And now I like add, I you know, I didn't used to do like the photo setup where I like add things to my Instagram and I like share a little bit more. And I know it sounds crazy because I did already have a social media presence, sort of, for like my podcast or whatever, but meeting them, they just saw me as that already. They saw me as like a big guy about my age all the time, and they're like, who fucking cares? The lot when we were at Rachel's last time, Britt was like, listen, Britt Bernard, you have a weird thing about your age and you need to embrace it because it's not a big deal and you look amazing. Do you remember that? You like no literally Benjamina? Benjamina Benjamina is the best in the world. And so my favorite thing is the confidence. My husband and I are playing this like marriage game where we ask each other, we've got like cards that we play on Sunday nights. It's really like goofy, but it's fun. It's from Esther Perel, that marriage uh care uh counselor. And it was what is a trip that changed your life? And I was seeing like Puerto Vallarta, where I went to with my husband and all this stuff, and I was like, you know what? The New York trip changed my life with Abby because like that's when I met those girls for her birthday. We did those videos. I didn't even want to climb on the scaffolding outside, but Rachel was like and so I did, and it literally took our life.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, like the kid. We have to make sure he has seen that video. We have to make sure you guys have seen that one because if you like our funny ones, that is a classic. And it just changed.
SPEAKER_05Oh my god, like I have a group of girlfriends. I always wanted a group of girlfriends, you know. I've kind of like struggled with that for a while, and like I think the confidence that I've received personally as just like a person in the world is my favorite thing about this group. And we just changed what we do for for other women, obviously. Like the Camp Soberfest. I'm so proud that we were able to do that and like the group. But for me personally, like the confidence I've gotten from them seeing me in this life that I didn't see myself in is my favorite thing.
SPEAKER_01We uh we need to introduce all of you guys to our buddy Mike from Sober Hats. And you see the hat that I that I have. Krista's got one right behind her, too. I'm gonna get Mike to send all you guys uh you guys.
SPEAKER_07Oh, we love that.
SPEAKER_01And he does he does sober, he does clean. Um, we love him. I'm wearing uh this is you guys know who Skylar Ray is?
SPEAKER_02Skylar Ray was that sounds so familiar.
SPEAKER_01Skylar Ray, he's a musician, he's a recovery rapper. He performed at Freedom Fest, and this is one of his is we do recover, and you know, uh, and it kind of brings me to you know, kind of the finale question, and this is kind of gonna go around Rob. Okay, first, who is the biggest social content person? Who's got the most followers?
SPEAKER_10Gabby.
SPEAKER_04Rachel, who is it, Rachel?
SPEAKER_09I don't know. Gabby, I think it's Rachel.
unknownI've noticed.
SPEAKER_01Gabby or Rachel.
SPEAKER_09Rachel's got a lot on multiple like platforms. Gabby's definitely got the highest on TikTok. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so and I okay, so I'm gonna start with you guys, but uh how how how important is it recovering out loud on social media for you? I'll start with I'll start with Rachel because she's not on mute.
SPEAKER_02Um, I think it's very important. I probably overshare I probably go to the extreme other side of oversharing, like the most comedic now, things that were not comedic at the time that I've done and all of these things. I think every, you know, when I first started talking about it, I remember being, and I remember like every time I tried to get sober, I would always go on my Facebook and I would I I'll go back in my memories and I would see when I would celebrate like one week or like two weeks. And I could never get past like two weeks. The most I ever got in like well over a decade of active addiction is like 90 days. And then I went out and relapsed on 90 days. And it was, I remember always wanting to like talk about it, but being so ashamed. I'm like, nobody's gonna get this, people are not gonna understand me. Da-da-da-da. They're gonna judge me, they're gonna do this. And like I felt like that even in the beginning of this sobriety. And I also wish that when I was feeling like that, I would have seen other people talking about it so openly because that's how we get through that shame and how we actually recover is like knowing that we're not alone in all of the things that we feel and that we've done and that we feel like we can never come back from. It's like, no, like I have done the dirtiest of the dirt in my life. I have gone through all of these things, and every single time I will post like some of the most embarrassing, like craziest shit from my active addiction. Am I all that's a cuss on here? I'm sorry. I don't need to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_01No, we don't, we do not stand, we don't stand for that bullshit.
SPEAKER_02No, okay, okay, okay. But um I will always get messages from people like, thank you so much for saying that. Like, I thought I was alone, and thank you for like I try to put a humorous spin on a lot of my recovery stuff because I think it's also important to never take life so seriously. And recovery doesn't have to be like such a serious thing all the time. Like we can laugh. We can laugh. I will put I will post some like really traumatic stuff, but also put it in a funny way, and people are like, oh my God. And I'm like, no, but it's okay, we can laugh, you know, like we can laugh about it today because we made it through. So I think I think it's tremendously important to share openly, um, especially like for people in recovery, so that other people still suffering can see that they're not alone and they can make it out too.
SPEAKER_01I love it.
SPEAKER_06What I love about Rachel is I told my sister, who's not one of us, um, about this podcast what we were doing today, and I told her all the all of you that we're gonna be here. And she loves you, Rachel, so much because you helped bring the the like normalization to sobriety, you know, the normal. Yeah, you know, like you are bridging the gap with that, and I love it.
SPEAKER_02Thanks.
SPEAKER_01Thank you. And let's go. Uh Gabby, same question.
SPEAKER_04So I wouldn't consider my can you guys hear me?
SPEAKER_12Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Okay. So I wouldn't consider myself like a recovery um like creator. I definitely do share my like recovery, like recover outline, like I shared when I was getting sober and kind of like a little bit of my background. And I kind of just over the past like year of getting sober have started to open up about like more than I've struggled with. And it's insane because when you compare like Rachel, like who is I would consider her a recovery creator, and she's helped so many people and she's inspired me in so many ways. And I know she's like touched so many people's lives. You I can like see the impact from Rachel. And just from me sharing like on my platforms a little bit about my recovery, which is not even anything compared to like the things that Rachel has shared and the work that she's done. Um, I have people message me. I have people who come into my store, I have people in my day-to-day life who like I was at a cheer come up over the weekend and I had a girl come and sit down next to me and be like, your sobriety's really inspired me and like I'd like to connect with you. Do you have a community here in the area? Like, do you know of any online like Zoom meets and stuff? And so I literally just from sharing what I share on my on my social media, and I don't even share that much about recovery. I've seen like it helping people. And so I think that it's extremely important to share. Um, it's just getting over that fear of like embarrassment. And once you realize like you're helping more people than there are people that are judging you for it, that's the main thing that's important to me is like, yeah, I'm sure people might like try to clown on me or make fun of me or cast judgment on me for things that I've been through in my life, the decisions and choices that I've made, but that's irrelevant to the life that I'm living now and the people that I'm helping in my life now. So I just have to kind of bring myself back to that. That I'm sharing it for me and I'm sharing it for the people that need to hear it. And it might be somebody's wake-up call, just like that one meeting I went to, that one lady's story was my wake-up call, my story could be somebody else's. So I think it's extremely important for people to share it online.
SPEAKER_01You know, uh, so I'm a I'm a I'm a program guy, right? And my book tells me that my past is going to become my best asset. And once I get past that guilt, shame, remorse, you know, watching what you guys are doing right now and knowing, you know, how the women out there, you know, normies are watching your stuff and they're seeing this. And, you know, when you're vulnerable and when you're open, now I'm not saying that you know we should all be out there doing our fifth step on the tiki-talkie, that's no good. But being open, being vulnerable, you know, it helps people to say if they can do it, maybe I can. And you guys are such an inspiration to so many people. And and I just want to say I appreciate you. And on this women's appreciation day and month and all that jazz, you guys are appreciated. And uh, you know, and I you know, we want to let's do more. Let's do more. You know, I think we should so it's uh you guys are some of you guys are on the East Coast. We should take a group trip to New York and uh go in the the sober girls group chat. We should uh we'll go take over the New York Stock Exchange.
SPEAKER_12Uh how awesome would that be?
SPEAKER_01And you know, and uh we can do stuff like that and uh and just be present and be uh be bigger, right? Uh so this is awesome. And Krista, I know uh Krista, who did you follow who do you because I know you Krista was so Brittany Jade.
SPEAKER_06She Brittany, you had like no like barely any followers when I found you. And I'm like, this girl is shit. And I was losing my husband to addiction. I didn't know what to do. And I saw her just openly sharing her stuff. I made a TikTok, said please pray for my husband. I had an instant following overnight, and he got sober, and then I was like, Okay, I have a platform now. And I just I watched Brittany and we connected. We've we've been following each other for a while, and it's just really cool to see all of and I follow all of you girls, and you girls are all such just an inspiration, and it's the trickle effect, like um Rachel taking Gabby to the meeting, and then Gabby's out here now, you know, helping others, like it's the trickle effect, and it's so beautiful, and we gotta stick together. And um, girl power, John. You wouldn't know anything about it, you're missing out.
SPEAKER_01I don't, I don't, I don't, and uh, because I see the bond that you guys have and how powerful it is. And uh I'm gonna jump into the comments for two seconds because there's somebody named Kevin Bernard. Does anybody know Kevin Bernard?
SPEAKER_10That would be my dad.
SPEAKER_01He says Brittany says, uh Britt Bernard, love you.
SPEAKER_10Oh love you too, Dad.
SPEAKER_01You know, Dad is here. Dad, we love you too, and we're so uh we're so proud of your daughter. And uh does anybody have any dirt on Britney that they need to tell her dad now?
SPEAKER_10No, all of a sudden listen, my dad was a Philadelphia police officer my whole life, and um he could tell you some stories about me himself. So he's actually pulled me over before. So oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01Krista, did you see how quiet this group got? This group always went well.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, they they have each other's backs, Johnny. They're not trying to throw each other under the bus.
SPEAKER_01That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, Jenna, what do you want to tell uh young women just uh thinking about getting sober?
SPEAKER_07I want to tell them that like there's no way that you have to do it and to like be okay with like their own process. Um, I think that a lot of people feel like, oh, well, I'm unwilling to do this, that, or this, right? And it I think the reality is that like healing is not linear and that like there are people to meet you where you're at and just reach out for help, you know. And um I like I know this group at least. Any one of us will meet you right where you're at with no like pressure to do something a certain way.
SPEAKER_02Amen. Come on. A hundred percent.
SPEAKER_01I love that, love that. Um, and uh Abby, where do you where would do you want if you hit no sky was the limit, money was no object, could go anywhere, time, place, whatever. You could take this group anywhere in the world. Where would you want this group to go for just to hang out for a week?
SPEAKER_08Honestly, my uh Tokyo. I would choose Tokyo. Okay, I always want to go. I've always wanted to go to Tokyo. Well, first I was going to say Dubai, but I know not all these girls are like big shoppers. That's one of my personal dreams. But Tokyo, we would have a blast with the food, the culture, the content. Oh my god, we would yeah, Tokyo. That's my answer.
SPEAKER_01That's awesome.
SPEAKER_10I was not expecting that. No, that's too easy. I thought you should say we'll go to the Bahama.
SPEAKER_08No, we'll go somewhere like that soon. Tokyo, listen, if it's if it's unlimited like resources and fine, we're going somewhere big.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, you're right. Love that. Love that.
SPEAKER_01I knew I went to the right one for that answer. Amanda, Amanda, let's we're gonna we're gonna wrap this up in a minute. But Amanda, how great was this? This was great.
SPEAKER_11No, it's good. It's always so good to like bring us all together. Yes. Remind us. This is a hard thing to do.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it is all of us in one place.
SPEAKER_06I mentioned that it was gonna happen. I didn't know this was gonna be able to happen, but Amanda did it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I really did it. Love you, Sarah. And you want to if you watch this, Sarah, we love you. Yeah, we love you, Sarah. We love you, Sarah. All of us together.
SPEAKER_08She's working hard.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, our lawyer girl, she's got a real job. She's defending, yeah.
SPEAKER_10She's yeah, she's spending so much.
SPEAKER_11No, Kenzie. We're like so so grateful that you did this and like brought us all together. Truly, thank you. Thank you for having us. Yes, we appreciate it so much.
SPEAKER_06It was an honor to have you, ladies.
SPEAKER_03Seriously, oh it was an honor to be a part of it.
SPEAKER_01Just wait, wait until uh until LA when we're all together and you guys are on a panel together. This is now we're talking. That's gonna be a good time.
SPEAKER_02Do you guys have a date for that already?
SPEAKER_01Uh, I think the second week of October. I've already been thinking about my October.
SPEAKER_12Second week of October.
SPEAKER_01But uh, we're gonna we're we like I said, we're I'm just kind of announcing this to the world right now with you guys.
SPEAKER_10Okay, okay you heard it here first. Yeah, you heard it here first. That's right. I love that for us.
SPEAKER_01You heard it here first. You guys are the you guys are the beginning, and uh, and hopefully uh you guys are gonna be the the takeover. That's it. I love it.
SPEAKER_08We always say, yeah, go ahead, sorry.
SPEAKER_01Go ahead.
SPEAKER_08We always say I was just gonna say, no, no. Um, no matter where life takes us, this kind of stuff is where it all began, and this kind of stuff is the most important thing, right? Like, no matter what opportunities we get, what we get to do as a group, individually, as creators, or whatever we're doing, like this kind of stuff is the most important and the foundation of all of it. So, this stuff is I I think I can say on behalf of everybody what we are most grateful for and honored to be a part of, and we'll always prioritize truly.
SPEAKER_10A hundred percent. I agree with that.
SPEAKER_01This has been so great. You guys are so amazing. Uh, we'll do this again next week, and so see you all here. Um, this is this is really fantastic, and uh, I want to thank everybody who's watching, everybody who's going to watch this. You know, God loves you, and so do all of us. And just you guys, the the love here today. I mean, we're all in separate places all over the country, but you can just feel it, right? And you know, and I feel the way you guys feel about each other, and it's just beautiful. And uh, thank you all for being here. Thank you for being thank you for having us. Thank you for having us and positive role models and positive influences, and keep doing what you're doing because you guys are helping people, you guys are helping people all day, every day, whether you know it or not, you're a bunch of miracles, and uh and we'll uh we'll see everybody next week. And uh thank you, thank you, thank you.
SPEAKER_10Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_09Oh, we're actually hopping off. Okay.