I recently lost one of the greatest loves of my life, my soul dog Huxley.

He passed really unexpectedly on Memorial Day.

He was 11 and a half. He was fine that morning. He ate breakfast, he cuddled with us, he sat in the sun while we were at the pool. By that evening, he was gone. He had massive internal bleeding and we had no idea anything was wrong until his gums went pale and we were racing across town to an emergency vet that Memorial Day night.

What followed was four hours of the most tender goodbyes I've ever experienced, and then one of the hardest weeks of my life.

I've been thinking a lot about what it means to grieve fully, to actually feel it instead of pushing it down and numbing it. I did that in my early 20s after a bad heartbreak, drowned myself in alcohol, and missed the whole thing. I shoved it down and it just kept showing up later as triggers and pain I hadn't processed. This time I felt all of it. The shock, the devastation, the beauty, the signs he's been sending us since.

I'm also sharing something I found in my journal from February, a few months before he died, where I had written about him without knowing what was coming. And what it made me realize about presence and about what being alcohol-free actually means at the deepest level.

IN THIS EPISODE

• How we lost Huxley and what those four hours of goodbye looked like
• The three things that determine how deep grief hits, and why losing a dog child can undo you completely
• What I did differently this time compared to grieving through alcohol in my early 20s, and what that cost me back then
• The signs Huxley has been sending us since he passed, and why I'm not calling any of them coincidences
• What I found in my journal from February that I wrote without knowing what was coming
• Why being alcohol-free is really just another way of saying you are awake to your life
• What alcohol actually takes from you, and why you feel the bad but miss all the good when you numb

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Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage.

If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, be sure to get on the waitlist for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand.

Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.

Join over 20,000 souls who tune into weekly newsletters on the competitive advantage you get alcohol-free. Get on the Euphoric newsletter.

Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today or grab your free chapter here.

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Is drinking really tied to our cultural roots, or is it a habit we can choose to reshape?

Since 2018, Karolina's been crisscrossing the globe, proving that you can experience the vibrant charm of cities like Paris, Madrid, and Tokyo without a drop of alcohol.

Imagine enjoying the same joys of a wine country weekend or a sunset dinner on the patio without the next day fog.

Detaching from alcohol not only enriched Karolina's travel experiences, but propelled her to a path of radical fulfillment and empowerment.

If you're curious about redefining your drinking rituals without feeling left out, this episode is your guide to navigating an alcohol-free lifestyle, even while jetsetting across the globe and having all the cultural experiences.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• What makes drinking cultural? Karolina shares the two elements and how can we take the good and leave out the bad
• Inside the booming alcohol-free movement in Europe
• Karolina's candid reflections on shedding the subconscious need for alcohol during her global travels (and how it catalyzed profound personal growth!)
• Unpacking Spain's paradoxical position as both a nightlife haven and the world's largest consumer of alcohol-free beer
• How going alcohol-free will beautifully impact future generations and change the culture

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Karolina's book is available in hardcover, Kindle, and as an audiobook. When you get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today, you'll also unlock tons of resources to support you on your journey.

Loved the book? We'd be honored if you left a review!

Tune in to Episode 229: Have the Best Alcohol-Free Summer Ever

Check out some of Karolina's favorite alcohol-free beverages: Wild AF and Oddbird

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My first book came from 15-minute morning writing sprints in a notepad before I even brushed my teeth. This second one makes me cry almost every time I open it.

That's probably the best way I can explain why writing it has been so completely different, and why I wanted to bring you into that process right now, while I'm still in it.

I'm currently writing my second book. I have an agent, I have a deadline I gave myself, and I have a story I feel so much weight around that I can barely open the document without crying.

That's where I am right now, and I figured if 82% of Americans want to write a book, I might as well pull back the curtain on what this process actually looks like.

This episode is about how I'm actually making it work, what I've had to learn about deep work versus shallow work, why external accountability is the only reason any of my biggest goals have ever happened, and why this book, about my ancestors and what they survived so I could be here, feels like the most important thing I've ever tried to do.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why 82% of Americans want to write a book and almost none of them do
• The difference between the writing that runs your business and the deep work a book actually requires
• Tony Robbins' urgent versus important framework and how it explains exactly why your book keeps losing to your inbox
• Why I write my second book at 9:30pm after dinner instead of during work hours
• The Katyn massacre, my great uncle, and what I found in the historical research that confirmed stories I had heard my whole life
• Why I cry almost every single time I open this manuscript
• How to use force functions to finally make the thing happen that you keep saying you'll do someday
• What a book proposal actually is, and what the traditional publishing timeline really looks like

If you have a book on your heart that you keep putting off, this one is going to feel very familiar.

LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED

Apply to be our next Thought Leader to master premium selling and thought leader positioning to publish your book and deliver your keynote onstage.

Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage.

If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, be sure to get on the waitlist for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand.

Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.

Join over 20,000 souls who tune into weekly newsletters on the competitive advantage you get alcohol-free. Get on the Euphoric newsletter.

Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today or grab your free chapter here.

Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram.

And as always, rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide.

Rachel McElreath is 28 years old, graduated from the 5x Certification, and has already lived more lives than most people do in a lifetime.

She started drinking at 15, Halloween night in Atlanta, a bottle of Hennessy handed to her by a friend, parents in crisis at home, and spent the next decade building a life that looked fine from the outside and was quietly falling apart underneath. She held jobs, went to college, went to beauty school.

She also worked bottle service in Dallas, dated men who weren't available, and kept ignoring an inner voice that was getting louder by the year.

The thing that finally made her stop wasn't a gradual awakening. It was a phone call from her doctor in late 2023 telling her she was one stage away from cervical cancer.

That week, she left the relationship she was in. A few weeks later, she quit drinking and made the decision to be celibate, both at the same time. She spent 2024 meeting herself for the first time, rebuilding from almost nothing, and figuring out who she actually was without alcohol, without men, and without the nightlife identity she had built her entire social world around.

Now she coaches women through that same process, not just getting sober, but building a life they're actually excited to wake up to.

This conversation goes places a lot of podcast episodes don't. We talk about HPV and cervical cancer, three abortions in one year, sexual assault, trauma bonding, and what it actually feels like to realize that the shame you've been carrying isn't yours to keep. Rachel shares all of it without flinching, and that's exactly what makes her work so powerful.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Starting to drink at 15 when home didn't feel safe, and how that one decision shaped the next decade
• Working bottle service while her body was sending her signals she kept overriding
• The phone call from her doctor and what she decided in the weeks that followed
• Why she quit alcohol and went celibate at the same time, and what two and a half years of that has actually been like
• The loneliness of dissolving an entire identity and why 2024 was somehow still the best year of her life
• What she sees shifting in the younger generation around alcohol, and why she's genuinely excited about it

LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED

Follow Rachel on Instagram.

Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage.

If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, be sure to get on the waitlist for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand.

Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.

Join over 20,000 souls who tune into weekly newsletters on the competitive advantage you get alcohol-free. Get on the Euphoric newsletter.

Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today or grab your free chapter here.

Apply to be our next Thought Leader to master premium selling and thought leader positioning to publish your book and deliver your keynote onstage.

Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram.

And as always, rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide.

This week I'm doing something a little different. Just me sharing what's been on my heart after celebrating my mom's 80th birthday.

My husband spent four nights making 200 handmade pierogi from scratch to surprise her. I put together a slideshow of almost every photo that exists of her life, black and white photos of a little girl in postwar Warsaw, all the way through to the woman she is today, who still swims in the ocean every chance she gets and has more trips planned than I do.

And going through all of those photos, I just kept thinking about what it actually took for her to build this life.

My parents were born into a Poland that was still being rebuilt after World War II, where the Soviets came in as soon as the Nazis left, where my grandparents had a business the Communist party seized, took the profits, left them the debts. Where waiting ten years for your own apartment was just normal. Where people stood in ration lines for bread that wasn't there.

And somehow, in the middle of all of that, my mom had this quiet knowing that she would one day live in the United States. Even while communist propaganda was telling her how horrible it was. She just knew.

This episode is about her. But honestly, it ended up being about legacy: what our parents and ancestors carried so we could have the lives we have today.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• The moment Karolina's mom decided they weren't going back to Poland and how that decision changed our entire lives
• How my parents defected from Poland during Poland's martial law: where the government was at war with its own citizens.
• What the first years in the United States actually looked like: trying to find work, not speaking the language and the recessions that almost took them out
• The slide show that went through 80 years of my mom's life set to Polish classical music and what it felt like to watch it with her
• Why I think my mom is the visionary of our family, and what I've inherited from that

If you've ever thought about the shoulders you're standing on — this one is for you.

LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED

Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage.

If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, be sure to get on the waitlist for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand.

Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.

Join over 20,000 souls who tune into weekly newsletters on the competitive advantage you get alcohol-free. Get on the Euphoric newsletter.

Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today or grab your free chapter here.

Apply to be our next Thought Leader to master premium selling and thought leader positioning to publish your book and deliver your keynote onstage.

Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram.

And as always, rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide.

You're ambitious and driven. You show up. And yet something feels off. Fatigue, the brain fog that won't lift, the periods that wreck you, and constant overwhelm.

Your doctor told you everything looks fine. But you know it's not.

In this episode, Karolina sits down with Leslie Jackson, functional nutritionist and founder of the Becoming Her movement, to talk about what's actually happening in the bodies of high-performing women, why conventional medicine keeps missing it, and what it really takes to operate at your peak without burning your body to the ground.

Leslie went from panic attacks in Ubers, misdiagnosed ADHD, and propping herself up with IV drips just to function in enterprise sales…to becoming the wellness-obsessed sales rep who outperformed everyone in the room, then pivoting to build a functional nutrition practice dedicated to ambitious women who refuse to settle for feeling mediocre in their own bodies.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• The hormone nobody is testing for, and why it explains the gap
• Why you might be experiencing early menopause symptoms decades too soon
• The express lane past everyone who is still drinking (Leslie says it boldly)
• The three unsexy lifestyle non-negotiables that move the needle more than any supplement
• Why your gut health is secretly tanking your business performance
• How healing internal inflammation creates more capacity to hold your big external goals

If you've ever felt like your body is working against you instead of for you, this episode is for you.

LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED

Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage.

If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, be sure to get on the waitlist for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand.

Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.

Join over 20,000 souls who tune into weekly newsletters on the competitive advantage you get alcohol-free. Get on the Euphoric newsletter.

Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today.

Apply to be our next Thought Leader to master premium selling and thought leader positioning to publish your book and deliver your keynote onstage.

Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram.

And as always, rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide.

Are you holding back your story, your transformation, and your insights because you don't want to be too "salesy"?

Premium selling is one of the most underrated and important skills you can master, ESPECIALLY if you know you're meant to build something bigger than yourself.

And it doesn't have to have an ick factor or feel like bro marketing. When selling stops feeling uncomfortable, it can start feeling like leadership.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why you could be hiding a "cure for cancer" and what that actually means
• The difference between bro marketing funnels and real, relationship-based selling
• Why coaches hit a hidden ceiling when they never learn facilitation skills
• The concept of "soul contracts" and why some people are meant to work with you
• A story that will change how you think about a $3,000 coaching investment

LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED

If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, apply now for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand.

Watch new weekly videos and podcast episodes on my YouTube. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.

Euphoric the Club is the club where successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them) grow together. Get access to all of my alcohol-free programs and methodology as you lose the desire to drink for only $62.

Awarded the most empowering book in the sober curious genre, be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today and leave a review.

Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram. And as always, rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide.

Nervous system regulation is one of the hottest topics right now, and most successful women don't understand how it's showing up in their life.

Kat Cynewski and I are talking about how your body responds to pressure, growth, and visibility, and why even the things you want can feel super uncomfortable to hold.

We also get into the type of buzzy energy high performers use to show up on stages and lead at a high level, and why learning how to work with it changes your game.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• How sympathetic energy fuels high achievers who speak on stages
• Why entrepreneurs spiral into overworking, lowering prices, and chasing quick wins
• The exact RISE Regulation Method Kat teaches to interrupt nervous system patterns
• How not drinking transformed Kat's leadership, visibility, and standing out in a room
• The moment Amanda Frances declined a drink on Real Housewives

LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED

Learn more about Kat Cynewski on her website and check out her book, Wealthy & Well Woman.

If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, apply now for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand.

Watch new weekly videos and podcast episodes on my YouTube. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.

Euphoric the Club is the club where successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them) grow together. Get access to all of my alcohol-free programs and methodology as you lose the desire to drink for only $62.

Awarded the most empowering book in the sober curious genre, be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today and leave a review.

Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram. And as always, rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide.