Recovery Discovery by Show Up and Stay

This week, co-founder Craig Knighton takes the host seat to interview DeAnn to discuss recent shared non-alcoholic experiences. The conversation considers trauma, triggers, and recovery impact.   The…

Welcome to January and 2024.  This episode introduces the content dropping in January. We have FIVE great interviews coming this month, including an episode when Craig interviews DeAnn about a recent…

In this week's episode, we connect with Dr. Masica Jordan-Alston of Jordan Peer Recovery.  Dr. Jordan-Alston and her team have worked systematically to create change through diversity, equity, inclus…

On this week's episode of our Sober Positive Workplace Series, DeAnn speaks with Karolina Rzadkowolska, author of "Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You".  Karolina is a powe…

Host, DeAnn Knighton, and Janet Hadley, founder of Choose Sunrise (UK organization), review considerations for employers in building alcohol safety into their organizations 

Stigma and workplace. 7:37

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Welcome to the first official episode of the Sober Positive Workplace Series brought to you by Show Up and Stay and hosted by President and Co-Founder, DeAnn Knighton. This week is a quick background…

A quick update from the show about our podcast plans.  Thank you for your patience during this recent break. We will be coming back in September with episodes focused on our Sober Positive Workplace …

Today, DeAnn interviews Dr. Carl Erik Fisher, author of the "The Urge: Our History of Addiction".  This has been DeAnn's favorite recovery read of the past couple of years, so it was an honor to have…

Susie Streelman and Peggi Cooney of Zero Proof Experiences and This Side of Alcohol are back to join the Show Up and Stay conversation about the  "Sober Positive Workplace". 

• Peggi shares a story of a…

This week DeAnn is joined by two special guests that have made an impact in the alcohol free and/or sober curious movement.   These normalizers are working to show us that alcohol free does not have …

In this week's episode DeAnn digs into the conversation around the precipitating factors that causes debate around Psychology as a science.  She also discuss the role of science and spirituality as a…

DeAnn and Craig interview a very special guest.  Dr. Quyen Ngo is the Executive director of research at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.  They cover a lot of ground in 30 minutes: 

• trends in Substance …

This episode is about the fable of the "sour grapes" and how it is really a simplified version to help us with the concept of cognitive dissonance.    In this week's episode: 

• Fables, Aesop, "cautiona…

In part 2 of our workplace series, we discuss the things employers need to know to create a "sober positive" environment. 

• Michael Scott ("The Office") defines an intervention and educates his employe…

This week we tie up some loose ends on some previous episodes. 

• Update on School  in followup to  "the disappointment episode"
• Update on family life including bonus parents, step parents and "otherhood…

• Joy Intro 
• Foreboding Joy 
• Wine Mom Culture
• Gray Area Drinking 
• Why alcohol interferes with joy
• The neuroscience of joy
• The pink cloud and joy 
• A joy inspired music therapy session 

Guest Info:  Jen Butler s…

Today's episode is the first in a series we will be doing on what it means to build a "sober positive workplace".  For this first episode we focus on "what we wish our colleagues knew", especially as…

My guest today is Cassandra James-Weathersby of Black Women DO Heal. I started preparations for this episode, with the intention of diving deep into the topic of forgiveness.  However, nothing that I…

This is an episode I posted in 2021 and then took down. It is part two of the original episode I did with Ross in which we talk about how we met in recovery and built a relationship over zoom. I deci…