{"podcast":{"title":"Becoming Your Best Version","slug":"becoming-your-best-version-3288450","podcast_index_feed_id":3288450,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/54765080/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.marialeonardolsen.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/14070400/14070400-1653618081522-158301d87ef86.jpg","author":"Maria Leonard Olsen","episode_count":271,"summary":"Award-winning podcast about living your best life, by Maria Leonard Olsen & her inspiring guests. Maria is a lawyer/journalist/author who seeks to amplify women's voices to share about their lives, work & life lessons. She graduated from Boston College & Univ. of Virginia Law. She served in the Clinton Justice Dept. and is a lawyer in Washington, D.C. Her latest book, 50 After 50--Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life, has helped thousands reinvigorate their lives. Maria is a two-time TEDx speaker and one of her Talks was chosen as a TEDx Editor’s Pick, a designation given to fewer than 1% of TEDx Talks. See MariaLeonardOlsen.com and follow @FiftyAfter50","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450"},"episode":{"title":"A Conversation with Sarah Rusbatch, Grey Area Drinking Coach and Bestselling Author","slug":"a-conversation-with-sarah-rusbatch-grey-area-drinking-coach-and-bestselling-author","published_at":"2025-12-12T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/a-conversation-with-sarah-rusbatch-grey-area-drinking-coach-and-bestselling-author","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maria-leonard-olsen/episodes/A-Conversation-with-Sarah-Rusbatch--Grey-Area-Drinking-Coach-and-Bestselling-Author-e37o8k4","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO5217717980.mp3","summary":"“The goal isn't to be sober, the goal is to love yourself so much you don't need to drink," Sarah Rusbatch says. Sarah is author of the bestselling book Beyond Booze, How to Create a Life You Love Alcohol Free, a multi-award-winning Health and Wellbeing Coach, an accredited Grey Area Drinking Coach, a menopause coach and a keynote speaker sharing her journey to sobriety and impact of alcohol on mental health to global audiences. Sarah works tirelessly to support women all over the world to create and live their best lives as they age. Sarah is originally from the UK and is now based in Western Australia. She has supported thousands of individuals (mostly women) to change their relationship with alcohol and, consequently, change their lives. Grey Area Drinking describes the place between "every now and again" drinking, and "rock bottom dependent" drinking. This type of drinking in women has increased over 80% in the last 30 years. After an article she wrote for Mamamia (you can read it HERE ), 8,000 women reached out to her within 24 hours for help with their drinking. In this episode we discuss: --Why Alcohol Use Disorder in Women has increased more than 80% in the last 30 years --Why ageing impacts a woman’s ability to metabolise alcohol and impact menopause symptoms, yet middle-aged women are drinking the most --The specific health risks to women of drinking at such a significant level --The normalization of everyday drinking --What needs to change in culture and society in order to change drinking patterns --What it takes to create a life you love without alcohol (the heart of her book) --Dispelling the myths that a life without alcohol is boring; and explaining what actually opens up for us when we take a break from alcohol --The peer press…","meta_description":"“The goal isn't to be sober, the goal is to love yourself so much you don't need to drink,\" Sarah Rusbatch says. Sarah is author of the bestselling b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1873,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/episodes/a-conversation-with-sarah-rusbatch-grey-area-drinking-coach-and-bestselling-author/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/a-conversation-with-sarah-rusbatch-grey-area-drinking-coach-and-bestselling-author.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}