Maureen (00:02.618)
So today I am so excited to introduce my friend Maggie Claussens. Maggie is the founder and host of the Sober Summit, a free virtual event that brings together top authors, podcasters, experts and influencers in the sober community. This is quite an event. You guys don't want to miss it. Maggie and I were in the same gray area drinking certification course taught by Jolene Park. And I can personally attest to how passionate she is about spreading the benefits of
a sober lifestyle. Maggie is also a certified alcohol -free coach, supporting individuals through one -on -one coaching. She helps people change their relationship with alcohol and discover a life filled with greater meaning and purpose beyond sobriety. So welcome my friend Maggie.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (00:50.119)
my gosh, Maureen, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to do this and be here.
Maureen (00:55.098)
Yeah, I've been really looking forward to this conversation. let's, Maggie, let's just dive right in. Let's talk about, obviously first, your story, you know, how you came to the conclusion it was time to stop drinking and a little bit about how you did that. And then, and then you just took it like 10 steps further and said, well, I'm just going to make a summit and bring all these people together so, so I can help thousands of people. I think this is just incredible. So take it away, dive in and tell us how this all came about.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (01:21.568)
Yeah, well, the summit was an accident. I didn't mean to actually do it. So I'll get into that. It was definitely not something I intended to do, but it just kind of came out that way. But I think like many people, this was not something I decided overnight and happened overnight. This is something that was years in the making of me having, you know, just these this I like to call it this little tap on my shoulder that was like, hmm, are you sure you want to keep doing this?
Maureen (01:26.53)
Okay.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (01:50.412)
And it's funny, because my drinking habits evolved over time where I really felt like I was very sophisticated wine drinker, right? And I was better than everybody else because I wasn't drinking beer during the day. I wasn't doing shots at the bar anymore. That was past me. That was beyond where I was on my maturity level. So I really felt that I was...
Maureen (01:59.703)
yeah.
Maureen (02:11.287)
Right.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (02:16.482)
this sophisticated person, I loved learning about wine. I felt like it was part of who I was. My parents moved me, my senior year of high school from Michigan out to Washington state and they bought this beautiful house that had a vineyard. And we were out in Washington wine country. It was gorgeous, right? And so I really, my love of wine kind of started there of learning about wine. I took wine classes in college and I did.
Maureen (02:29.636)
Yeah.
Right.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (02:42.028)
graduate with a degree in hospitality business management, but it always said I wish I had gone into the wine industry because I loved it so much. Going to a wine store for me was like going to a really good bookstore. Just, I mean, I could sit there all day just looking at wine labels and learning and reading and trying new wines. And so it really felt like it was a part of who I was. And so the idea of giving it up was just beyond me, but I just
Maureen (03:03.428)
makes sense.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (03:09.738)
as I mentioned, had this continual tap on the shoulder of saying, are you sure this is benefiting you? Are you sure you want to continue to feel like this? Are you sure this is how you want to show up in the world? And I fell really hard into mommy wine culture. We are
Maureen (03:22.842)
Mm
Maureen (03:27.694)
Yeah, talk about that a little bit for people who don't know what that is.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (03:31.244)
Yeah, so mommy wine culture is just this idea that mommies need wine. So while the children have their juice, you've got your mommy wine glass that says mommy's juice on it, and you're wearing your rose all day t -shirt, right? And you're just glamorizing wine in the sense that you need it to parent. You deserve it because you are, right? And rightfully so. Parenting is hard.
And so you just feel like it's a very good reward at the end of the day to be able to have your wine. But everything revolves around it. Book clubs revolve around it. Play dates revolve around it. Any sort of holiday. I remember my children's baptism was always very boozy. We're here to celebrate this child and the adults are boozing. It gets a little out of control, but I very much fell into that I need it to parent.
I deserve it because I'm parenting. And when the pandemic happened, you know, I was able to get wine delivered to the house all of a sudden. so it just, for me, the pandemic, think people fall into two different categories, either the pandemic slowed down their drinking or it ramped it up. And for a lot of people, it ramped it up and I was one of those people. having wine delivered to my house, you know, I did slowly look at it and say, well, gosh, I just ordered that.
Maureen (04:44.378)
Mm
Maggie - The Sober Summit (04:55.374)
case of wine and it's almost gone. got to order another one. And then I started ordering two cases at a time. And so this idea of more convenient and this idea of, you know, am I drinking too much? Like am I paying to it? Like the idea too of like how much I was spending on wine came out of it too. I'm like, I'm spending quite a bit of money because I was so sophisticated. I was spending a lot more on my bottles of wine than I was when I was in college, right?
Maureen (05:01.006)
Yeah, more convenient.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (05:24.366)
I'm not talking about the yellowtail wine. I had now upped it to $30, $40 bottles of wine because I was sophisticated wine drinker. So it was a very expensive habit and it didn't make me feel great. And it wasn't until I kind of noticed my oldest daughter looking at me or just recognizing that I was drinking every night and or, you
Maureen (05:32.122)
sophisticated.
Maureen (05:46.98)
So was that the tap on the shoulder? Was that the final?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (05:50.156)
Another tap on the shoulder. wasn't the final tap, but I started noticing that she was four or five at the time, that she knew what wine was. And I'm going, ooh, that's not a great sign that my four or five year old knows what wine is. The ultimate thing that happened that really was the biggest slugger into the shoulder was one night I was bathing the kids upstairs and my husband, who's so gracious and cooks dinner for us, he was downstairs and I could hear the
the wine bottle pop open and I could hear the jug jug jug of the wine going into his glass and I thought, my gosh, he opened. He started without me. And I started to get really anxious and I started to get really short with the kids. Like we gotta hurry up, right? Come on, we're done, we're done. Get your PJs on, let's go. Because I wanted to be downstairs drinking wine with him and I didn't want him to drink more than like his fair share. I wanted to make sure.
Maureen (06:47.098)
Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (06:48.47)
I got my half of the bottle and all of a sudden I just kind of froze and thought that is not a healthy relationship with alcohol. But again, it just took time. It wasn't like that was the end all be all. It was, that was what started my curiosity of sobriety and finding all these quit lit books and podcasts. And then it was a couple of years down the road of multiple times trying before it actually happened.
I talk about a lot in my story about doing kind the homework. It was listening to those podcasts and reading those books that constant messaging of how amazing sobriety is that actually gave me the courage to say, I'm done. I want to give this a real go.
Maureen (07:27.0)
Yes.
Maureen (07:33.774)
Yeah. You bring up a really important thing because it's so important to start hearing something different than what our alcohol saturated society is constantly telling us and what's being reinforced with marketing. So you bring up a really important point that this whole world of quit literature and these podcasts are out there to introduce a different way of thinking.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (07:56.416)
Exactly, because you think what's wrong with me. And then you realize, wait a second, there's a whole group of people out there that feel the same way I do, that feel stuck in life the same way I do. But they don't identify with being an alcoholic. They don't identify with hitting rock bottom. And so this sober curious movement was just, I came in at the right time of having people who gone before me who had written the books and started those podcasts, because I just feel so grateful that that existed.
Maureen (08:22.351)
Right.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (08:24.512)
at the time where I was ready for it. yeah, hearing those messages allowed me to say, get excited about it. It was something I was actually excited to do and to try. And so I actually didn't go into it thinking I was going to give up alcohol forever. I did a hundred day challenge and that was it. That was my goal was a hundred days.
Maureen (08:34.041)
Yes.
Maureen (08:42.894)
And what was your goal at that time? Like what were you thinking? Like I'll learn to moderate?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (08:48.206)
I don't think that I necessarily had a, just was gonna do a hundred days and yeah, see what happened, right? And at the, yeah, and at the end of the hundred days, my husband says, well, now what are you gonna do? And I go, I feel so amazing. I'm gonna do another hundred and I gotta tell people about this because now I feel like all those marketing messages I'd received as a mom needing wine, I now felt like I had a superpower that all moms needed to know about, right? Like this is,
Maureen (08:53.988)
Detox.
Maureen (09:10.884)
Mm.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (09:16.874)
sobriety promises you everything that wine promised you in the marketing for parenting. And so it is just something I thought I got to go out there and help people and do something different. So I went back to school to become a coach and I had this idea of doing the summit and I pitched it to a few podcasters because I was nobody in this space, right? I hadn't written a book. I wasn't an influencer on Instagram.
Maureen (09:22.67)
Yes.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (09:45.036)
I hadn't even gone out to my social media people, my inner circle on socials and said I was doing this. And so they were so nice. They politely declined and said, we don't know what a summit is and we don't have time, but if you do it, we'll be a part of it. And so I thought, well, I can't do it again. I'm nobody in this space. And it's funny, because at that same time, I was listening to
that very podcast, it was over the influence that did it for me. And Sharon, the co -host of the podcast was talking about how she just ran a marathon in sobriety and that she would never, she wasn't a runner, she wouldn't have done it if sobriety hadn't have been there. And I kept thinking, well, if she can go run a marathon, not being a runner, maybe I could do something that I think I have zero qualification in doing, right? Maybe I can just do it.
And so I did, I said, okay, I'll try it. Yeah.
Maureen (10:44.962)
love that. Let me stop you there because I think that's really important. So are you saying, so once you became alcohol -free, you were developing this confidence through listening to other people who had done it before you and now you're thinking, if I can stop drinking, what else can I do? It sounds like.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (11:04.524)
yeah, and there's, you you hear people running marathons, you hear people climbing mountains, you hear people writing books, quitting their jobs and doing their dream job of what they've always wanted to do, all these things. And it doesn't have to be these really large things. It can be the small things too, right? Just something you've always thought you wanted to do or you, know what, you know what sobriety gave me? It was the idea of I want to do this and drinking, I'd say I want to do this and I would just never do it.
Maureen (11:12.41)
Yes.
Maureen (11:20.238)
Mm
Maureen (11:33.902)
then you drink.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (11:33.912)
But in sobriety, say, you're right, in sobriety, you say, I wanna do this and I'm gonna actually go do it. And that it just, that's what alcohol -free living gives you is you're right, that confidence to say, well, maybe I can do this and you know what, I'm gonna go try.
Maureen (11:43.023)
Yes.
Maureen (11:51.298)
I love that. Yeah, I feel the same way. So you're thinking, okay, I pitched it to other people, but everyone said, if you do it, I'll be involved. So what happened next?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (12:02.23)
Yeah, Sharon and Ben, we call her Shaz, Shaz and Ben from Over the Influence said yes, and I started pitching the idea to a few other people. And once people started saying yes, I had kind of them as ammo to say, well, these people are going to be a part of it. And all of a sudden, you know, the William Porter and Andy Ramages and Andy Graces of the world, like the big, big speakers and authors in the space started saying yes. And I'm going,
Maureen (12:18.554)
Brilliant.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (12:31.714)
morning I really was sweating at the time going, my gosh, now I have to do this. Like, what am I going to do? Now I have to do this. And so it very much was something that put me.
Maureen (12:40.398)
And was that your first summit that you got all those people? I'm sorry. Yeah, I just want to make sure that was your first summit. You got some of these big authors, big pioneers in the field say yes. That's incredible.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (12:44.472)
Yes.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (12:50.188)
Yes, it was amazing and I couldn't believe it myself, you know, and people say, how did you get them? I go, well, I just asked.
Maureen (12:58.298)
You asked. That's such an important lesson you just asked.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (13:02.542)
I just asked and people started saying yes and we put on this amazing summit. It's a three day summit. It's free for people who want to attend. And again, it's just hearing stories from 24 inspirational speakers and then topics around what they're qualified to talk about and providing tips and tools and resources to help other people either kickstart their journey in sobriety or to continue their journey. Because I feel like the work is never truly done.
Maureen (13:27.684)
Mm
Maggie - The Sober Summit (13:32.651)
you can constantly get that motivation and you know the momentum to keep going. You never want to get complacent in sobriety.
Maureen (13:39.674)
I agree. I feel like it's like peeling back the layers of an onion, you know, every year for me, like I'll be three years this September. I continue to uncover, yeah, new things about myself and discover things. And I'm, like you said, I'm ready to look at them or act on them. Whereas when I was drinking, I might think about it, but I never took action. And now I keep taking more action every year. So yeah, I think the work is never done, but it's all about growing and you're providing this platform.
to help people do it no matter where they are in their alcohol -free journey. So think that's incredible. So what does it mean to summit? you get these people and then what do you do? You what? Interview them?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (14:13.25)
Yeah, exactly.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (14:20.256)
Yeah, so they're all pre -recorded interviews. So the first half of the interview is really them telling their story about how they became sober. And I think that's really important because we can learn so much from other people's stories. even if you look at a speaker and you say, I don't think I would have anything in common with them, when you listen to anybody's story, you can resonate with one part of their story. I don't care what it is. You can find something that goes, my gosh, yes, I felt that same way. Or, my gosh, that part, that was me.
Maureen (14:38.649)
Yes.
Maureen (14:46.264)
Mm -hmm.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (14:48.672)
And so I think it's really important to hear other people's stories, especially from different walks of life. So even though I may listen to stories about people who did hit rock bottom or who did identify as being an alcoholic, I still learn from their stories, even though I don't identify as being where they were. So I think listening to other people's stories is really inspirational and motivational. And then the second half of the interview is them talking about a specific topic.
Anywhere from tools to have in your sober toolbox, what I call it, tools to have on how to socialize, how to regulate your emotions, how to regulate your nervous system, the psychology behind drinking, what it does to your brain, what does to your body, your emotional health, your mental health. We've talked about anxiety, like the whole idea of anxiety and alcohol.
Maureen (15:23.108)
Yeah, me too.
Maureen (15:33.316)
Yes.
Maureen (15:42.191)
Mm
Maggie - The Sober Summit (15:44.13)
We dive into so many topics and it's really fun. it's been a learning for me because not only do I get to interview these people that I'm in awe of, right? And I've learned so much from, I'm usually fan girl, so I'm usually sweating doing the interviews, but it's been great for me because it's me continuing my journey. I'm learning from them every time I interview them.
Maureen (15:56.527)
Yes.
Maureen (16:01.636)
Ha ha ha.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (16:12.254)
and I'm asking questions that I feel like I, you know, I myself am asking as a sober curious person. So it's really fun.
Maureen (16:17.402)
Mm
Yeah, I think the reinforcement is so important. as you said, continuing to learn from all different kinds of stories. And these are people from all over the world, which I think is so fascinating too. When I started doing this and joined a coaching group and people from all over the world, I really felt like, wow, I am not alone. This thing I've been keeping to myself, so many other people feel it too. And that is such freedom right there, just starting to see that you're not alone. So this workshop, this summit,
This free toolbox you're providing is incredible.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (16:53.196)
Yeah, it's been really fun. And you're right, it's from all over the world. And so here, I thought kicking this whole thing off, I was like, I hope it's not just my mom who shows up. And you do, you get people from all over the world. We had people from Australia and the UK and Spain and Africa. I mean, it was just incredible. And getting people's responses from all over the world of like, hey, you've helped me in a time I really needed help was just...
Maureen (16:56.836)
Mm
Maureen (17:02.808)
Ha ha ha.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (17:20.71)
has meant so much to me and the reason why I go, I got to do another one. I got to do more. I got to do more of this because not only are we never done learning and growing, but more and more people are coming out to share their resources and share their stories. And I also want to give those people platform to do that and to get in front of an audience because
Maureen (17:33.166)
Yes.
Maureen (17:42.234)
Mm -hmm.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (17:43.244)
I think that's just as important. So this is both for attendees and for speakers to come together, collaborate and to keep this sober movement going forward because together if we can just keep talking about it, we'll continue to normalize it and people won't feel so alone.
Maureen (17:58.542)
Yeah, I love the dual purpose of it. also, you you even said in your story, to go back to how important it is to hear people's stories, you hit a number of keywords that I identified with in your story. You you thought it was sophisticated and, you know, and then you got into comparison. Well, I don't drink like they do. And, you know, those people are worse than me and that comparison keeps us stuck, you know, and then also became your identity. So I think just you sharing that brief part of your story.
someone's gonna hear this and understand and someone who is growing up in the wine culture on vineyards or there are plenty of coaches who were former wine salespeople. So I think, you just, your story and I know you give us a small part, there are people that are gonna identify with that. So it's so important to hear other people's stories and realize you're not alone. So it's really beautiful what you're providing. So I wanna ask you, I know this is like your, I think this is the third one, right?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (18:50.391)
thank you.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (18:54.328)
This is the third one, yeah.
Maureen (18:56.002)
Incredible. So you're bringing together some amazing speakers and topics this year. Can you tell us a little bit about who and what? Are you allowed to reveal anything?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (19:06.798)
Yeah, I'm happy to. I knew you were going to ask this. I'm like, gosh, I've got 24 speakers and I can't pick which ones are my favorite. They're all so amazing. But some of the speakers that people might know, so we've got Dave Wilson, who's also known as Sober Dave. If you don't know him, you got to know him. He's in the UK. He's coming on to talk about turning trauma into triumph. Such an amazing conversation. I had so much fun interviewing him. Laura Cathcart Robbins, I read her book, Stash.
Maureen (19:08.514)
If I.
Maureen (19:21.711)
Yes.
Maureen (19:30.18)
Love that.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (19:35.498)
earlier this year. It's one of my favorite books I think I've ever read in the quit lit space. It reads like a movie. asked her, go, are you going to turn this into a movie? She said, maybe. But she's coming on to talk about a topic that I think is important in the fact that sobriety isn't just alcohol. She actually had an addiction to Ambien. And so I think that's important because oftentimes we remove alcohol and we turn to other things. Right? And I think it's
Maureen (20:02.958)
Yes.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (20:04.852)
sobriety to me is really being able to deal with life without turning to any sort of physically altering substance. So such a great conversation with her. Jolene Park, she's, you know Jolene, she's gonna be on here. She's talking about how to regulate your nervous system with alcohol. This, as you and I know, is such a part of being successful in your sobriety journey because
Maureen (20:17.924)
Yay. We love Jolene.
Maureen (20:26.02)
Yes.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (20:32.012)
While it's important to know your whys and your triggers, being able to regulate your nervous system is the foundation, right? It is just when you get those cravings and those triggers, you get this reaction in your body that you now have to get back to homeostasis. And so being able to do that using other things other than alcohol is, it's the foundation, I think.
Maureen (20:53.69)
I agree and I think that it's so important to address the physiology as well because if we don't address the physiology as you and I have learned, then when something stressful happens, we're going to go back to that tool we were relying on, but addressing the physiology, regulating the central nervous system, then we can become more resilient to stress and we have, as you said, all these other tools in our toolbox. So I can't wait to listen to all these, but Jolene, of course, I just think is fabulous.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (21:20.566)
It's amazing. And then a few things we're doing differently. again, I think in the sober community, there's more than just coaches, podcasters, authors. So we're tapping into a few different other resources this time around, which I love. So Nicole from After Magazine, she's the founder and editor of After Magazine. She's coming on to talk about life after alcohol, which I love. So getting her perspective. And then we've got the CEO of Cut Above.
Maureen (21:34.904)
Interesting.
Maureen (21:43.962)
Mm
Maggie - The Sober Summit (21:48.982)
non -alcoholic spirits coming on. Andrew Solis, who's talking about the future of non -alcoholic beverages. So that's a fun one. And then we have two mocktail experts coming on on day two and day three teaching us how to make some fun mocktail. we've Deb Podlogger coming on to talk about how to make a jammy jam mule. And Derek Santiago, who's coming on to talk about how to make a whiskey sidecar, both of which are delicious.
Maureen (22:10.116)
Yum.
Maureen (22:15.96)
Yeah. I think that's so important to give people options and let them know there are fun mocktails to make, you know, that there are a lot of them that have adaptogens that have a healthy benefit to it. So that'll be really interesting to listen to. What else you got? Yeah.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (22:30.86)
It was fun. was like doing a cookie show. It was really fun. We're like in my kitchen, you know, doing a cooking show. was great. Yeah. And then we've got some other really important topics. So, you know, people you may not have heard of. And I think it's important to maybe tap into some people that you go, I don't I don't know that person, but I love that topic or that topic resonates with me. Martin Lockett is one that I I want to put him on center stage. He is one of the most incredible people I've ever met.
Maureen (22:36.513)
How fun is that?
Maureen (22:51.215)
Right.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (23:00.52)
He is he has such an amazing story. So he's coming on to talk about understanding shame and guilt. His story, he is by far the best person to come on to talk about this because of his story. And I don't want to give anything away. But his story is it'll give you goosebumps. It may make you cry. It is it is a very powerful story. And but he talks about, you know, shame and guilt are two emotions that we feel all the time.
Maureen (23:07.087)
Mmm.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (23:29.438)
especially if we fall, right? If we slip, if sobriety loses its priority and we take a sip, that shame and that guilt that can keep us stuck. And so he talks about how guilt we can use as a positive to kind of redirect us, right? We should use it as a way to direct us to where we want to go and where we need to go. And shame being the thing to not let us downward spiral.
Like we don't want to tap into shame and give it too much energy because that's what keeps us stuck. So really, really cool conversation with him.
Maureen (24:06.487)
That is so good because shame keeps so many people, including myself, that kept me in the drinking cycle because I'd feel so bad about what I did and I didn't really want to think about it. I would do it again. Yes, that's important. Well, I've already put myself on the wait list. because I want to hear all of this because I think it's so important, as you said, to keep reinforcing for ourselves. But this sounds amazing. So, you're incredible. I'm just listening to you putting all this together and
Maggie - The Sober Summit (24:16.418)
Yeah. Yeah.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (24:30.798)
It's it's
Maureen (24:34.893)
I just want to say you're very inspiring.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (24:37.98)
you're so sweet. It's so fun to do. yeah, it takes me a few months to put this all together, but it is. I think people need different avenues of digesting and getting this information. know, podcasts, books are great. And this is very much like a podcast, but it's just delivered in a different way that might be a little bit,
different than what people are looking for or needing at that time. So, you know, it's fun to put together and fun to see who attends and getting that feedback from people, the speakers too, both attendees and speakers. You know, it's fun to get their feedback.
Maureen (25:15.768)
Yeah. So when will this summit be?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (25:19.288)
So this summit, that's a great question. Thank you for asking that. So this summit is September 25th through 27th. I did it specifically for that time because a lot of people tap into Sober October and I thought, this is great. What if we did the summit right before October 1st and people can kind of get that inspiration, motivation they need to try it or to keep going, whatever it is, right? So it's not just for people who are sober curious, like I said, it's definitely for people who are well on their way into their sober journey and just want that, you know,
Maureen (25:30.042)
Mm
Maggie - The Sober Summit (25:49.71)
that motivation to keep going. So the 25th through the 27th, we're going to open the doors on September 9th and people can get their free ticket. I say free event, but I want to make it clear. So as a free event, each day we have eight speakers going live and you have 24 hours to listen to that day's speakers. And then the next day, you'll have access to the next day's eight speakers. if you want,
you know, extended access to all this, the interviews and bonuses from the speakers, which the speakers are so generous in putting all sorts of cool bonuses together. You can buy what's called the All Access Pass. So that gives you extended access to all the interviews. So you can go back and you don't have so much pressure to listen for eight hours a day. And you can kind of go back and listen to your favorites too, which I love.
Maureen (26:27.61)
Mm
Maureen (26:42.532)
Take your time, go back and listen to the ones that really resonated with you. Yeah, I love that. Do you mind sharing what that all excess long -term pass would be? The fee?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (26:52.59)
Yeah, it depends on when you actually buy into it. So when you get your ticket, you will get what's called a fast action price and you'll be able to get that right away. So there will be heavily discounted for when you, you act fast, you've got about 20 minutes. And then we have some standard pricing. So it's 47 for the fast action, 67 for the standard pricing. And then once the summit does start, it goes up to $97.
So, you know, yeah, it's I think it's a good deal. The amount of the amount of content and bonuses that the speakers bring to the table in this is just they're so generous courses and books. I mean, they're offering their books as a freebie and workshops and, you know, guides and all sorts of things. So it's it's a great way to kickstart your own sober journey, being able to tap into these resources.
Maureen (27:27.185)
yeah.
Maureen (27:52.206)
Yeah, this is a good deal people if you're listening, this is definitely a good deal. And you know, I love that you said it's also good for people who have stopped drinking. It's a validation, it's a reinforcement, it's what can I do next? And it's inspirational, motivational for that thing you might have been thinking of that you want to do. So this is just for everybody. It's incredible. Now, we also talked about you had past summits. And is there something in the future
Maggie - The Sober Summit (28:13.655)
Yeah.
Maureen (28:19.662)
some sort of community or something that's going to make it so people can even go back and listen to other ones. Is this in the works?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (28:26.028)
Yeah, so it is in the works. So I'm launching a community with this Sober Summit where people can, I'm actually really excited about this because I love meeting people in the Sober community. This is by far the best group of people I've ever met in my entire life. My husband's going, who are these people that you're meeting online? I'm like, they are the most amazing people I've ever met. They are just awesome. So this community is a community that I...
Maureen (28:44.089)
Right.
Maureen (28:49.498)
Yeah.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (28:54.082)
I wanted to build. There's a lot of communities out there and you kind of have to date around to find the community that works for you. But I wanted to launch one that provided the replays so you have access to the last two summits content. We'll have monthly workshops where we've got guest speakers coming on and providing new content. And then we have myself and my three other coaches that are part of
you know, launching this community that will be hosting Zoom calls for people each week. So you can hop on, connect with myself or one of the other coaches and connect with other people in the community. It's really casual. It's just meant to be a form of connection because really, you know, as they say, connection is the opposite of addiction and being able to meet like minded people and, you know, tell people this is what I'm struggling.
Maureen (29:36.399)
Yes.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (29:41.888)
struggling with or I have a win and I want to share it with people who understand this small win or big win, whatever it might be. So we'll have weekly zoom calls where people can connect as well. So I'm really excited. And I hope
Maureen (29:55.928)
Yeah, incredible. Yeah, and let me tell you guys, Maggie's being incredibly humble. She is a dynamo. So she's doing this and now starting this community, also has her coaching. She also has another thing that I am in called the sober hive, which is for coaches and kind of having the same community and validation and to share our wins and to share our challenges. So this is a well -rounded person right here.
that really thinks about so many people in the sober community and just really wanting to spread the word. So I just think this is incredible. I hope everybody will sign up for the sober summit. so how can they find out more information after this podcast? Say they're like, I want to read about it. Where do they go? What's your URL? What's your website?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (30:26.654)
you're so funny.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (30:47.414)
Yeah, so the best place to go is thesobersummit .com. So there you're going to actually be redirected to, I've kind of rebranded. I look at the Sober Summit as just a piece of my business in the sense that it's one event that happens once or twice a year. And I wanted to do more. So as we mentioned, you know, the community and coaching. so you'll notice when you go to thesobersummit .com, it drives you to a URL called Sober Life Collective.
And really this is my collection of resources for the community. So tapping into, you know, all of our offerings under this umbrella, both the Sober Summit, the challenge, the community, the coaching, and then we'll be launching a challenge as well. So, and the Sober Hive will live under there as well for coaches and entrepreneurs in this space. And so really kind of building out what does this look like under, you know, a bigger umbrella. So yeah, I'm really excited. My new
website's launching soon. yeah, it's been, it's such, this is, this was a passion project that has turned into my purpose. It has really given me so much joy and I wake up every morning excited to meet new people in this space, collaborate with people in this space, help people in this space and just spread the word about alcohol free living. And gosh, it just makes me really excited. I just love, I love this community.
Maureen (31:50.062)
Mm.
Maureen (32:06.2)
Yeah. You can tell listening to you, talking to you, I know from interacting with you. Yeah, you're, like I said, just very inspiring. And that's what we need because otherwise we're being hit every day with the big alcohol industry marketing and we're told this is what everybody does, but it's not what everybody's doing anymore. There are so many people coming awake and alive to, hey, I can choose something different. And like you said, they don't have to be at rock bottom. It can just be, this is no longer serving me.
and what else is out there. So this sober summit is one of the ways you can find out what else is out there. And I just, I think that's wonderful. So I want to ask you, Maggie, what do you do since this podcast is sober fit life, what do you do for your sober fit life? And that could be mentally, physically, spiritually, or all of them. What do you do?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (32:57.708)
It's a great question. And by the way, I love what you're doing with SoberFitCheck. And the answer to that question is I try not to ever become complacent. And what I mean by that is I look at, to your point, this is to me, I do this too. It's an onion that we're peeling back and removing alcohol is just this one layer. And then it opens up the door to so much. for me, it's turned into a personal growth and development journey.
Maureen (33:21.604)
Mm -hmm.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (33:27.982)
And how can I push myself to be outside my comfort zone? And how can I think about how I wanna wake up and start the day and who do I wanna show up as in this world? And it's given me that self -awareness to really understand my surroundings and how I'm living and alter what my actions, behaviors, thoughts, patterns, et cetera, to really show up how I want to. So for me, it's really...
about personal growth and development. And so I continue to listen to the podcast. I continue to read. And it might not be about early sobriety for me, but it's about other things, right? And I'm taking these tools that I'm learning from my sober journey and applying it to other areas of my life. So I really enjoy the learning process. And I think for me, that's whether it's about fitness, nutrition, sleep, you know, whatever it is.
Maureen (33:58.5)
Mm
Maggie - The Sober Summit (34:20.31)
regulating my nervous system, how to be a better parent, whatever it might be. It's just this constant curiosity. It's taught me to be curious about everything, about how I want to show up in this world. And that self -awareness piece has been the greatest gift, I feel.
Maureen (34:29.678)
Yeah.
Maureen (34:36.513)
It is the greatest gift and I always share it with my clients and it was this way for me too. Alcohol was the first big domino that we had to knock over and we couldn't look at all the other things and experience all the other things without removing that big obstacle, that big barrier. So you're just continuing as I am too to knock over all these dominoes but you knocked over the first big one and that's what you're helping other people do now too. So I just want to thank you for all that you do, all your inspiration and
You know, you're so authentic in your passion for this and it just comes out when you talk to Maggie. So I do hope everybody will look into the Sober Summit and check out. So it's go to the Sober Summit, but it'll take you to the Sober Life Collective. Say it again. What was it?
Maggie - The Sober Summit (35:11.561)
Maggie - The Sober Summit (35:21.89)
Yeah, so just go to thesobersummit .com and it'll take you to where you need to go. yeah, I hope you'll join us for the event and I'm excited. know, reach out to me too. Come say hello and you know, either on socials or you can find everything on the site, but either on socials or email me directly. And I love, love, love meeting new people in this space and hearing everyone's story. I feel like everybody, you all have a story to tell.
Maureen (35:26.68)
Okay, that's all you need to know.
Maureen (35:47.214)
Yes.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (35:47.68)
So start sharing it with others and I'd be happy to listen because I love hearing them.
Maureen (35:53.986)
I will of course put all of this in the show notes where you can find Maggie, where you can find the Sober Summit, the dates of the Sober Summit. So check it out. And again, thank you so much Maggie for coming on today on Your Sober Fit Life.
Maggie - The Sober Summit (36:06.35)
Thank you so much for having me Maureen
