How a Sober Coach Built a Group Program That's Helped 4,000+ Women

So I know the first question coaches are, who are listening are going to have about this is tell me about your coaching niche and how you got into it.

How did you start, and what gave you this idea?

Yeah.

I got into this because I really struggled with alcohol.

I was always someone who drank too much, and by the end of my 20s, as I was looking for help, I really struggled to find anything out there that was a good fit for me because I wasn't this rock bottom drinker.

I wasn't a raging alcoholic like you see in the movies or on TV shows.

And when I looked around for support, it was either, okay, go to rehab, which I didn't have the thousands of pounds for, or go to AA meetings.

And I don't wanna throw any shade on AA, but I did go, and it wasn't a good fit for me.

And that really left me kind of on my own.

So to fast-forward through a very long story, I did stop drinking, and then I weirdly did an online course in something completely different.

And I had this idea, oh, why isn't anyone doing online courses for quitting drinking? Is it ...

This was back in 2013, and back then, online courses weren't really a thing.

And I had this idea, yeah, you could have a kind of video program and some kind of community and the opportunity to speak to a coach.

Wow, someone should do this.

And for ages, I thought someone else would do it.

And then, I don't know, I think the world works in mysterious ways, but I ended up applying for and winning a grant to get The Sober School started, and then I had to do it.

[laughs] And that's kind of how I've got to where I am today.

Oh my gosh.

Can I ask, where did the grant come from?

Yeah, the grant came from a, a UK-based funding body.

I think it's, it must be supported by the government.

And honestly, I was on this train, and I picked up the newspaper that someone had left on the seat next to me, 'cause it's back in the days when people did read newspapers, physical newspapers, and that's where I read this article about this funding body.

And they were giving out small grants to people who had an idea for a socially-minded business.

So not actually a s- social enterprise, but something that was gonna do some good.

And I thought, oh, well, my idea kind of fits that.