About this episode

Millie Gooch shares her journey from binge drinking to founding the Sober Girl Society and discusses the evolution of her sobriety.

Millie Gooch is the founder of Sober Girl Society, author of The Sober Girl Society Handbook, and one of the loudest voices in the UK sober community for women in their twenties. But four years ago she was a blackout drinker. She didn't drink at all until 18, then went to uni, took three bar jobs, got paid in alcohol, and came out the other side a four-or-five-night-a-week binge drinker. PR and journalism after that. Free Bar Fridays. Ending up in Dover at 4am because she'd fallen asleep on the train. Three weeks in Thailand spent almost entirely drunk or hungover. A six-year relationship breakup at 24 that sent her head-first into another year of going out and getting hammered. She read a Stylist magazine interview with Catherine Gray on the tube one hungover morning. Took a photo of the article. Did nothing about it. Then in February 2018, after a night she couldn't remember at all, she downloaded the audiobook and listened to it for eight straight hours on the worst hangover of her life. That was her last drink. In this episode she walks through how Sober Girl Society started by accident, the trap of becoming "the sober person" instead of just a person, and what changes…

People in this episode

Host: David Wilson

Guest: Millie Gooch

Topics covered

• sober living
• alcohol addiction
• personal transformation
• community support
• mental health
• young women

Keywords

• sober
• drinking
• binge drinking
• sober community
• personal story
• mental health
• young women
• transformation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sober Girl Society

Books & works: The Sober Girl Society Handbook

Places: UK, Dover

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