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Euphoric Alcohol-Free
by Karolina Rzadkowolska
Euphoric: where powerful women stop drinking and unleash their ENTREPRENEURIAL 🔥FIRE🔥. Why is it that successful people don't really drink? How can taking a break from alcohol 10x your life and business? Why is it that so many intuitive women step into their deeper purpose and ultimate fulfillment once they step out of the alcohol matrix? What happens when powerful women stop drinking and unleash their entrepreneurial fire?I believe you were born with a special purpose that alcohol blocked. I'm here to remind you of what that is so you can unleash your gift to the world and achieve your biggest dreams. Hosted by the bestselling author of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You, and leading alcohol-free empowerment expert, Karolina Rzadkowolska helps you build a vision that is so much bigger than a beverage and the audacity to go after it. Ranked in The Top 1% of podcasts globally by Listen Notes, the show helps women become confident in an alcohol-free lifest
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Episode 349: Six Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Started My Coaching Business
Eight years in, and I've been having some of the most honest conversations with my clients lately. The kind where you realize the things that held you back the longest were the things nobody ever just said plainly at the beginning. So that's what this episode is. Six truths I learned the hard…
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Episode 348: 8 Years of Euphoric: What 348 Conversations Taught Me About Transformation
Eight years ago, two women who had just gone alcohol-free pointed themselves at opposite walls of an apartment, clipped on lapel mics they could barely hear themselves through, and recorded the first episode of Euphoric the podcast. I couldn't have told you then what this show would become. 348...
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Episode 347: The Career Clues You Forgot About: Decoding Your Childhood Dreams
Do you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up? An actress? An astronaut? A teacher? As kids, we don't understand the career landscape. We build our first sense of "what I want to be when I grow up" out of a small handful of visible or memorable options, because that's all we've ever…
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Episode 346: Five Signs You Have a Bestselling Book Inside of You
My mind has been completely consumed with book writing lately, and I wanted to sit down and share something I keep seeing over and over again in my community: so many women who have gone alcohol-free, suddenly feel this surge of creativity and a pull toward writing. If that's you, this episode is...
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Episode 345: The Book That Saved Me: How Writing My Second Book Has Become the Healing I Didn't Know I Needed
I submitted my second book proposal to my agent yesterday, and I am on cloud nine. This book has been living in my head for years. But the truth is, I didn't make real traction on it until this summer, which also happened to be the hardest summer I've had in a long time. Huxley passed at the end…
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Episode 344: Traveling with Your Parents While You Still Can (What 5 Weeks In Europe Taught Me!)
I just got back from five weeks in Europe with my parents, and I want to take you behind the scenes. My parents are in their 80s. My dad has been through two bouts of stage four cancer and is in remission. My mom, knock on wood, is healthy. How long will that last? How much longer can I see the...
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Episode 343: Diagnosed with Leukemia and Given 10 Years to Live, He Went Into the Subconscious Instead: Peter McLaughlin on Hypnosis, Past Lives, and What Alcohol Does to Your Spirit
Peter McLaughlin was given a twin diagnosis 23 years ago: Lyme disease and leukemia on the same day. The doctors told him if he was lucky, he had 10 years. They didn't know what caused it and they didn't know how to cure it. So he went looking himself. What he found in the depths of his own…
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Episode 342: Baby Loss and Miscarriage, a Pandemic Move, and Three Marathons Later: Ellie White on Reinvention in Midlife and Going Alcohol-Free at 47
Ellie White's 40s did not go gently. A pandemic upended her life in London and moved her to the Sussex countryside. She fell in love with the idea of becoming a mother for the first time at 43, found out she was pregnant, and very sadly lost her son at 22 weeks. Less than a year later, she had a...
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Episode 341: Hit by a Ford Explorer at 40mph: Michael O'Brien on Presence, Mindfulness, and What Really Matters
Michael O'Brien was 33 years old, a father of two young daughters, a lifelong cyclist, and a corporate executive chasing the next version of success when a distracted driver in a Ford Explorer crossed into his lane and hit him head-on at 40 miles per hour in New Mexico. His trauma team had no…
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Episode 340: 10 Ironmans in 10 Days and What It Taught Him About Mental Fortitude, Discipline, and Going After the Impossible: with JD Tremblay
JD completed the Epic Deca, which is 10 Ironman triathlons in 10 days across all six Hawaiian islands, and became one of three people in the world to ever finish it. He sold his house to fund it. He came home to a storage unit because he couldn't afford anywhere else to live. And he says the...
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Episode 339: Toppling Centuries of French Drinking Culture: Lorraine Vallery-Radot on Going Alcohol-Free in the Most Wine-Obsessed Country in the World
Imagine going alcohol-free in a country where wine is heritage, champagne is identity, and the only framework anyone has ever offered you is either you're an alcoholic or you're fine. That's the world Lorraine was living in when she started her Dry January four years ago in Paris, and decided…
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Episode 338: The Universe Slammed Me Into the Earth: How Jessa Frances De La Rosa Turned a Breakdown Into Shadow Work, Memoir Coaching, and a Career Nobody Had Ever Had in the AF Beverage World
It's our first in-studio podcast! Be sure to watch the version on the Euphoric youtube channel. Jessa Frances De La Rosa accidentally became one of the first alcohol-free beverage consultants in the country, helped launch one of the first non-alcoholic bottle shops in the South, and built an…
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Episode 337: What Alcohol Does to Your Psychic Ability with Psychic Medium Dallisa Hocking + Predictions for the Next Decade
Anytime I get to sit across from someone who works with energy and the spiritual world at this level, I go straight for the question I most want answered: how does alcohol affect spiritual insights? Dallisa is a psychic medium, intuition teacher, and founder of Spirit and Spark, and her answer to...
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Episode 336: 4 Things Helping Me Heal After Loss
Grief is a strange thing to show up for publicly when you're still right in the middle of it, and honestly, parts of what I'm going through right now feel so private and so deep that I'm not even sure I have the language for it yet. But I felt called to share, because some of this might help...
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Episode 335: Because She Stopped Drinking, She Became The Beyonce of the Birth World with Lisa Sykes
Lisa Sykes calls herself the Beyonce of the birth world, and once you hear her talk, you understand exactly why. She's the number one business coach for doulas, midwives, and birth professionals worldwide, and she built that entire identity by refusing to do things the way everyone told her she…
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Episode 334: Feminine Embodiment, Dance, and Why So Many High Achieving Women Are Stuck in Their Masculine: with Ashley Roberts
Ashley Roberts graduated from the 5x Certification and has built something really beautiful since then, a feminine embodiment movement practice rooted in dance, somatic work, and helping women find their way back into their bodies after years of operating purely from logic and achievement. In…
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Best of Euphoric: The Myth of Normal Drinking
In honor of dry July, Karolina is debunking the most common myths and objections about going alcohol-free. What if everything you believed about "normal drinking" was a lie? Society puts "normal drinking" on a pedestal: the cultured person who enjoys just one glass of wine over a nice dinner. But...
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Episode 332: Grief, Loss, and Why I'm So Grateful I Was Alcohol-Free for All of It: Losing My Soul Dog Huxley
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...
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Best of Euphoric: Isn't Drinking Cultural?!
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...
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Episode 330: My Writing Process What's Different from Book 2 Compared to Book 1
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...
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Episode 329: Nightlife, Situationships, and One Stage Away From Cervical Cancer with Rachel McElreath
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...
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Episode 328: The Legacy That Made Me: Honoring My Mom's 80th Birthday
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…
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Episode 327: The Hidden Root Cause of Burnout That High-Performing Women Keep Ignoring with Leslie Jackson
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...
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Episode 326: The Cure for Cancer is Hiding In Your Closet
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...
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Episode 325: The Truth About Nervous System Regulation with Kat Cynewski
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...
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Episode 324: Why Success Coaching Is So Powerful
So many people are chasing fancy promotions, titles, money, and milestones that look good on paper, but feel empty when they get there. You're told this is what success looks like, but no one really asks if it's what you ACTUALLY want. The way I see it, success coaching is so freaking powerful,...
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Episode 323: Nobody Told Me My Ambitions Would Get Embarrassingly Huge When I Quit Drinking
What happens when your ambitions outgrow your current life? A few months after going alcohol-free, I was sitting at a park, on my lunch break from my day job, reading a Jack Canfield book. All of a sudden I found myself writing down the most outrageous goals. Next fall I'll tour the US on my book...
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Episode 322: What Happens When Alcohol-Free Entrepreneurs Get in a Room Together
Picture this: You walk into a dinner party dressed as your 5-year future self. You're introducing yourself as a New York Times bestselling author, you're talking about your sold-out retreats, and your waitlist of clients. That's the magic of alcohol-free entrepreneurs getting in a room together...
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Episode 321: Dehypnotize Yourself and Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind for the Life You Actually Want
You have been hypnotized your entire life by your parents, teachers, friends, and the media you consume. And it's shaping far more of your emotions, feelings, and beliefs than you think. Inside this episode, I'm breaking down how subconscious programming actually works, how it gets installed...
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Episode 320: I Don't Have My Life Together: 5 Ways I Can't Adult
What if you don't wake up at 5AM, you work in sweats, and still build an incredible life? You don't have to have it all together to be successful, impactful, or inspiring. I went from being a drinker to someone who hasn't desired alcohol in eight years, and having writer's block for a decade to...
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Episode 319: The Alcohol-Free Brain Has Million-Dollar Ideas (Here's Why)
What if the biggest thing standing between you and your next million-dollar idea… is alcohol? After working with hundreds of alcohol-free women, I've noticed a fascinating pattern: once alcohol leaves their lives, their creativity explodes. Ideas start flowing, intuition sharpens, and visionary...
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Episode 318: Why You Need a Personal Brand in the Age of AI
AI isn't coming – it's HERE. 13% of jobs are already becoming obsolete by AI, from admin to HR to data analytics. So here's the real question. What makes you irreplaceable? This topic has been weighing heavy on my mind, so today, I want to talk about how to develop and position your personal…
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Episode 317: 8 Lessons I've Learned 8 Years Alcohol-Free
8 years ago, I stepped into the biggest initiation of my life. I made a decision to stop drinking, and it completely altered the trajectory of my ambition, my standards, and my identity. We're going to cover 8 things I've learned in the last 8 years being alcohol-free. You'll hear about the...
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Episode 316: Is Binge Drinking More Dangerous Than You Think? with Colleen Clifford
Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of alcohol-related suicide. Please listen with care. Colleen Clifford lost her husband to alcohol, but it took years and a handful of wild card moments for her to confront her own relationship with drinking. 95% of the time? She felt in control.…
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Episode 315: The Dirty Truth About Social Drinking: Why 'Everything in Moderation' Is BS with Hadley Sorensen
Hadley Sorensen didn't stop drinking four years ago because everything fell apart. She quit because something felt off, even though from the outside, her drinking looked completely normal. That intuitive hit led her to do what only 1% of people ever do – write the book she couldn't find: The…
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Episode 314: Red Flags Everywhere: Why Going Back to Alcohol After Dry January Is Like Texting Your Toxic Ex at 2 am
If you think about it, drinking again in February is kind of like texting your toxic ex at 2 am after you started dating a really good guy. Trust me, I've been there. I understand the weirdly tempting allure of alcohol and the fear of committing beyond Dry January… But why not keep dating this...
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Episode 313: Dry January Motivation: Successful People Don't Drink
David Goggins, Warren Buffett, Gretchen Rubin, Elizabeth Gilbert, Brene Brown: These wildly successful people all share ONE habit that completely contradicts the champagne-on-a-yacht fantasy we've been sold. I have been in so many rooms with high-achieving 7-8-figure entrepreneurs, leaders, and...
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Episode 312: When Your Partner Isn't Doing Dry January With You
You're doing Dry January … but your partner isn't…so that sucks. But what if that wasn't actually a problem? What if it could bring you closer? If drinking used to be how you connected, you don't have to feel like you're leaving your partner behind (after listening to this episode). Learn how to...
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Episode 311: What Actually Happens to Your Body in 31 Days Without Alcohol
What happens to your gut when you stop drinking? Your skin? Your liver, your heart, your blood pressure, your brain's gray matter? My personal hot take is that if pharmaceutical companies could bottle the effects of being alcohol-free, it would solve most diseases and chronic issues people have...
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Episode 310: Sugar Cravings, Boredom, and Other Weird Dry January Effects
Why does eliminating alcohol suddenly make you crave sugar like Cookie Monster, struggle with sleep (though everyone swears you'll snooze like a baby), or find yourself existentially bored? These aren't signs that Dry January "isn't working." They're signs that your nervous system, hormones, and...
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Episode 309: Dry January Success: 6 Mindset Shifts That Will Make or Break Your Month
Dry January isn't about deprivation for 31 days without alcohol. It's about gaining MORE: more energy, more sleep, more presence, more clarity, more motivation, more JOY. The dry january trend is huge, with upwards of 44% of the population trying it. But you don't want to approach it like an...
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Episode 308: Steal My End of the Year and New Year Reflection Process
Before you set goals for 2026, there's one POWERFUL thing you can do to make sure you don't repeat the same patterns. Think about the previous year – the wins, the losses, the career moves, the travel, the adventure – and what it all means. What did you learn in 2025? And what are you bringing…
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Episode 307: Quantum Leap Your Career by Positioning Yourself as a Thought Leader
Becoming a thought leader is an amazing business move, no matter your industry – but how do you actually BECOME a thought leader? After leading powerful transformations and masterminds in Paris and LA, I'm doubling down on a truth that every ambitious woman needs to know: you don't need…
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Episode 306: How to Stop Being So Mean to Yourself with Samantha Calandri
Do you have an inner critic that won't quit, always insisting you'll never be enough? Samantha Calandri is a 5X certified coach who specializes in transforming harsh self-talk into self-compassion. Her journey with alcohol was the classic party girl story until blacking out, panic attacks, and a...
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Episode 305: How Her Near Death Experience Turned Her From a Professor to an Angel Communicator with Dr. Sheri Lake
Imagine losing everything you thought defined you – only to discover the most powerful version of yourself waiting on the other side. For most of her life, Dr. Sheri Lake lived for everyone else: a supermom juggling all the balls, exhausted, and numbing with alcohol to cope with the cognitive...
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Episode 304: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Healing After Alcohol with Kate Yoder
You'd think ditching alcohol automatically makes you feel amazing, but what happens when it doesn't? Kate Yoder quit drinking expecting glowy skin and more energy. Instead, she was slammed with mysterious symptoms like acne, bloating, fatigue, anxiety, nausea, and sleepless nights. Why was she...
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Episode 303: Are You Emotionally Outsourcing? The Real Reason You Feel Exhausted with Beatriz Victoria Albina
Do you ever feel like you can't fully relax until everyone else around you is okay? Like you're constantly scanning the room, the conversations, the energy – making sure no one is upset, disappointed, or uncomfortable… even if it means abandoning your own needs? I'm so excited to have family…
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Episode 302: My South African Adventure: Spider Attacks, Poisonous Snakes, and Safaris
I just went on an INCREDIBLE trip to South Africa … Earlier this year, a past client invited me to speak at her first retreat in Cape Town, which to me was an enormous opportunity to visit a continent I'd never been to before. So my husband and I made an adventure of it. We stopped in Istanbul on...
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Episode 301: Taking the Big Leap: From Amazon Leader to Alcohol-Free Trailblazer with Jaime Andersen
Have you ever looked around at your career – the meetings, the inbox, the constant striving, and thought, is this really it? This is exactly how Jaime Andersen felt. An alum of Euphoric's 5X certification program who transitioned from a top-ranking position at Amazon to an alcohol-free…
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Episode 300: She Knew She'd Write a Book Since Childhood — Here's How Re-evaluating Alcohol Made It Happen with Sarah Cassidy
If you have an idea nudging your soul and showing up in your daydreams and journal entries, THIS is your sign that you're meant to do it. Today's episode is a full-circle moment for me: Sarah Cassidy was a Euphoric client in 2020, and not only did I help her change her relationship with alcohol,...
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Euphoric: where powerful women stop drinking and unleash their ENTREPRENEURIAL 🔥FIRE🔥. Why is it that successful people don't really drink? How can taking a break from alcohol 10x your life and business? Why is it that so many intuitive women step into their deeper purpose and ultimate fulfillment once they step out of the alcohol matrix? What happens when powerful women stop drinking and unleash their entrepreneurial fire?I believe you were born with a special purpose that alcohol blocked. I'm here to remind you of what that is so you can unleash your gift to the world and achieve your biggest dreams. Hosted by the bestselling author of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You, and leading alcohol-free empowerment expert, Karolina Rzadkowolska helps you build a vision that is so much bigger than a beverage and the audacity to go after it. Ranked in The Top 1% of podcasts globally by Listen Notes, the show helps women become confident in an alcohol-free lifest
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Euphoric: where powerful women stop drinking and unleash their ENTREPRENEURIAL 🔥FIRE🔥. Why is it that successful people don't really drink? How can taking a break from alcohol 10x your life and business? Why is it that so many intuitive women step into their deeper purpose and ultimate...
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