Sober Awkward

Victoria Vanstone

vicandhamish@soberawkward.com

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Booking Overview

This is a sobriety and alcohol-recovery interview podcast focused on quitting drinking, anxiety, social pressures, and life after alcohol, with occasional conversations featuring authors and people sharing practical recovery experience. Suitable pitches include sobriety authors, recovery advocates, addiction professionals, and experts with useful, relatable guidance; booking difficulty is likely low to medium for relevant emerging experts rather than high-profile celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 422

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 16.0k followers

Contact Information

vicandhamish@soberawkward.com

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Host

Victoria Vanstone - Award-winning podcaster and author known for candid, humorous discussions of motherhood, anxiety, destructive drinking, and sobriety. She is the author of the memoir A Thousand Wasted Sundays.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Authors, sobriety advocates, and accessible addiction or recovery professionals with practical expertise or credible lived experience of changing their relationship with alcohol.
Required Achievements:  
Published books on sobriety or alcohol-free living, Established expertise or public advocacy in addiction recovery

Recent Guest Discussions

Jean McCarthy - Preparing To Quit Drinking, Choosing A Personal Reason For Sobriety, Changing Household Routines, Managing Cravings, And Rebuilding Self-worth.

Recent Topics

Sobriety, Alcohol Recovery, Addiction, Mental Health, Women's Health

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Sober Awkward
:

The Share Shed: Writing Competition Entries

July 22, 2026

The Share Shed – Sober Awkward Writing Competition Specials - I didn’t realise it was a funeral - By SarahA huge congratulations to Sarah who was one of this years winners!!Every Thursday, we’re handing the story telling over to you.Over the next few months, Vic will be reading some of the incredible entries from this year’s Sober Awkward Writing Competition. Honest, funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, awkward and beautifully human, these stories come from people all over the world who have experi...

UnPickled - Prepare to be Alcohol-Free - with Jean McCarthy (Part 2)

July 19, 2026

Yes, the World Cup is on, everyone is drinking to celebrate and commiserate, so welcome to your safe little corner of the internet, where Vic promises to mention the legend Jude Bellingham only once… and then get back to what really matters, talking about sobriety and not trying to explain the offside rule.So apart from the Spain win, the other news is....You don’t have to wait until Day One to start building an alcohol-free life.In part two of my conversation with Jean McCarthy, author of Un...

The Share Shed: Writing Competition Entries

July 15, 2026

The Share Shed – Sober Awkward Writing Competition Specials - I scream... and she lets go - By Lisa Every Thursday, we’re handing the story telling over to you.Over the next few months, Vic will be reading some of the incredible entries from this year’s Sober Awkward Writing Competition. Honest, funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, awkward and beautifully human, these stories come from people all over the world who have experienced the ups and downs of changing their relationship with alcohol....

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