EP63: Guest Episode – Joe Carr (Find Your Mojo) | Nourishment, Not Punishment | Two Years Sober & the Life She No Longer Wants to Escape

EP63: Guest Episode – Joe Carr (Find Your Mojo) | Nourishment, Not Punishment | Two Years Sober & the Life She No Longer Wants to Escape

From Clean Break Chats by Andy Delderfield and Richard Casement

July 18, 2026 · 1h 15m · Episode 63

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Joe Carr shares her journey of overcoming addiction and finding purpose through running after years of struggle.

Joe Carr grew up in Wigan, worked in pubs and clubs, and drank in the way most people did in the late 90s and early noughties - constantly, and without much question. At 21, absolutely hammered and on her way out for the night, she got off a bus outside a local college where an open day was happening. A lecturer called Alan wouldn't let her walk past. She ended up on a business course, came out with a first class honours, became an accountant, met her husband at work, had two kids, and built a life that looked, by every external measure, like everything was fine. It wasn't fine. After having kids, Joe tried to get back to who she was before. But the version of herself before kids drank. A lot. Lockdown made it worse. And then she found running - which she threw herself into with exactly the same all-or-nothing energy she'd always brought to everything. By 2022 she was getting up at 3am to eat, running 20 miles at 4:30am before school drop-off and a full day of work, fuelling marathon training on 1200 to 1500 calories a day, and keeping all her race medals in a drawer because she was never happy with the times. She wasn't running towards anything. She was running away. Her last…

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Hosts: Andy Delderfield, Richard Casement

Guest: Joe Carr

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