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Ever feel like you’re the only one who thinks this way? The Sober Friends Podcast is for people who are learning that recovery is about more than quitting drinking—it’s about learning how to live. Every week, Matt and Steve have honest conversations about the challenges that don’t disappear when alcohol does: anxiety, control, relationships, fear, loneliness, resentment, people-pleasing, and the ongoing work of emotional sobriety. Because getting sober doesn’t automatically make life easier. It just gives you the opportunity to face life differently. No gurus. No perfection. No pretending to have it all figured out. Just two friends with long-term sobriety sharing what they’ve learned, what they’re still learning, and how recovery continues to shape their lives years after their last drink. Whether you’re questioning your drinking, newly sober, or years into recovery, you’ll find practical ins
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Signup to Generate a PitchEver feel like you’re the only one who thinks this way? The Sober Friends Podcast is for people who are learning that recovery is about more than quitting drinking, it’s about learning how to live.
Sober Friends is hosted by Matt J. The show has published 317 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Why Am I Keeping Score?" (27 October 2026, 30 minutes), "I'm Starting to Resent Something I Care About" (20 October 2026, 32 minutes), and "I Can’t Handle One More Change of Plans" (6 October 2026, 36 minutes).
Sober Friends publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across 317 episodes.
Booking probability for Sober Friends is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Sober Friends requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Sober Friends's contact route on record: verified email.
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Matt J hosts Sober Friends, a health podcast with 317 episodes published.
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Episode #293
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the resentment starts with something real. You feel dismissed, unappreciated, overlooked, or like you’re carrying more than your share. But then the story starts growing. You keep score. You...
Episode #292
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever cared about something so much that you started to resent it? You keep showing up, taking responsibility, and doing what needs to be done. But when it feels like nobody else is putting in...
Episode #290
Send us Fan Mail You had a plan for the day. Now someone needs you to drop everything, another arrangement falls through, and you’re scrambling again. At some point, one more change feels like more than you can handle...
Episode #289
Send us Fan Mail What happens when you’ve stopped drinking, but your brain still wants guarantees? Matt and Steve talk about the need to research, plan, anticipate, and control what happens next — from work and money to...
Episode #288
Send us Fan Mail What if the problem isn’t that you haven’t figured out how to drink the right way? Suzanne Warye, host of The Sober Mom Life and author of The Sober Shift , joins Matt to talk about the exhausting work...
Episode #289
Send us Fan Mail What happens when something that helped save your life starts to raise questions? For many people in recovery, there can be an uncomfortable tension between gratitude and honesty. You can believe that...
Episode #288
Send us Fan Mail I’m doing what I’m supposed to do. I’m showing up. I’m putting in the work. So why does it still feel like I’m falling short? Matt and Steve talk about the nagging belief that you should always be doing...
Episode #287
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes something can hurt deeply even when nothing is wrong. After dropping his son Owen off at college, Matt expected the hard part to be worrying about whether he would be okay. Instead, the...
Episode #286
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes you solve the thing you were worried about and feel relieved for about five minutes. Then your brain finds something else that could go wrong. Matt and Steve talk about what uncertainty does...
Episode #285
Send us Fan Mail Why is it so hard to ask for help without immediately feeling like you need to apologize for it? Matt and Steve talk about the shame that can come with needing support, the belief that we should be able...
Episode #285
Send us Fan Mail You can spend a lot of time trying to fix the thing that seems to be causing your anxiety and still miss what’s actually underneath it. For Matt, the panic looked like money, college costs, and the fear...
Episode #285
Send us Fan Mail Being able to gut through pain can look like strength—until it becomes the reason you stay in a bad situation longer than you should. Matt talks about hitting a wall during a difficult medication taper...
Episode #284
Send us Fan Mail After travel, disrupted sleep, and a difficult medication taper, Matt feels depleted—and immediately starts questioning everything. Does his work matter? Is the podcast helping anyone? Is something...
Episode #284
Send us Fan Mail As long as Matt wasn’t drinking like his father—and Steve wasn’t as bad as the people he grew up around—they could tell themselves they weren’t really alcoholics. There was always someone who had lost...
Episode #282
Send us Fan Mail Success can make a drinking problem harder to see. When you are still working, earning, providing, and checking the outward boxes, it is easy to use those accomplishments as proof that nothing is...
Episode #281
Send us Fan Mail Sobriety can take away the drinking, but it does not automatically fix the part of us that avoids uncomfortable things. In this episode, Matt and Steve talk about the everyday tasks that can become...
Episode #280
Send us Fan Mail There’s a way many of us postpone our lives without even realizing it. We tell ourselves we’ll slow down later, appreciate it later, and be happy when things settle down. Then one day we look around and...
Episode #280
Send us Fan Mail Brooke Taylor looked successful from the outside. But behind the polished image was alcohol, pressure, and the exhausting feeling that nothing ever felt like enough. In this conversation, she shares...
Episode #279
Send us Fan Mail Most of us spend a lot of time worrying about things that haven't happened yet. We replay conversations, predict outcomes, and try to solve problems that may never arrive. In recovery, that kind of...
Episode #278
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Matt and Steve talk about the disease model of alcoholism—not as an excuse, but as a way to understand why alcohol affected them differently than it does other people. The conversation...
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author of The Sober Shift and host of The Sober Mom Life, @mykindofsweet/the sober mom life
addiction & mental health expert, Ignited Recovery
author of Wife Mother Drunk
Licensed Professional Counselor, Master Addiction Counselor, creator of Put the Shovel Down, Hope for Families Recovery Consultants
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