#32 | Life After Alcohol with Jess Dennis
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On this episode, Kim welcomes our first interview. Kim host Jess Dennis. Jess is a mom to three girls (14, 11 & 3) and a wife to her high school sweetheart of 15 years. She’s been an entrepreneur for the past 15 years, running companies from direct sales to bricks n mortar franchises. She views businesses as creative endeavors and loves bringing a concept to market and then helping it grow into a fully operational, successful business. In 2019 she wrote a book called: The Balanced Entrepreneur which highlights the life lessons she’s learned through entrepreneurship. Her latest passion project is around the sober curious movement with a newsletter called “Life After Alcohol”. The meat and potatoes of the episode is centered around a sober curious journey as Kim and Jess can relate on their journey. The episode talks about anxiety, depression, self-confidence, making big lifestyle changes, and of course, nutrition.

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EPISODE BITES

(1:52) Kim introduces you to Jess Dennis. Jess shares her journey including her most recent adventure, sobriety.

(8:31) Alcohol, depression and anxiety.

(10:44) Maybe she born with it maybe its... resilience.

(12:59) Self-confidence. Jess shares how she developed confidence during a journey with the belief of "why not me?"

(18:47) Jess shares a concept of using nutrition to help sobriety.

(24:23) Alcohol-free, body-image, and nutrition.

(28:39) The role of boundaries.

(31:45) Jess shares how her children responded to her sobriety.

(39:00) Jess shares her latest passion project around the sober curious movement with a newsletter called “Life After Alcohol”. This newsletter chronicles her own journey to stop drinking and offers honest, real talk about what it’s like to question the role alcohol plays in our lives and imagine a life on the other side. Grab the newsletter here).

SOMETHING TO CHEW ON

"Everything is figure-out-able." - Jess

"I know I can even if I don't know how. What is one step I can take?" - Jess

"What growth looks, and feels like for the person walking through it is a push-pull." - Jess

"It was all about alcohol when I was trying to avoid alcohol but then it flipped it and it had nothing to do with alcohol." - Jess

"Anger is a secondary emotion." - Jess

"The highlight reel is not what it seems." - Kim

"There is a threshold to taking in information." - Jess

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