{"podcast":{"title":"Rewired Sober","slug":"rewired-sober-7110186","podcast_index_feed_id":7110186,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/rewiredsober/","website_url":"https://rewiredsober.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/d80d3dd9-542a-4703-8bb3-d1a805b0d894/Rewired-Sober-3.jpg","author":"Kate Vitela","episode_count":80,"summary":"Rewired Sober is a sobriety and recovery podcast for women who are tired of surface-level self-help and ready for real change. Hosted by psychiatric nurse, addiction specialist, and recovery coach Kate Vitela, RN, this podcast explores the neuroscience of addiction, emotional sobriety, mindset change, and the messy, honest reality of rebuilding your life after quitting drinking. This is not a preachy recovery podcast full of toxic positivity or shame. It’s real conversations about: women and alcohol gray area drinking anxiety and emotional regulation perfectionism and people pleasing cravings and habit loops neuroplasticity and brain rewiring identity in midlife anger, grief, and healing creativity, fashion, and self-expression in recovery relationships, boundaries, and self-trust learning how to feel your feelings without numbing them Kate combines clinical insight, lived experience, humor, and a feminist lens to help women understand why they drink, not just how to stop. Whether you’re sober curious, newly alcohol-free, or years into recovery and wondering “now what?” — this podcast is designed to help you build a life that actually feels good to live. If you’re looking for a so…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-09T18:18:31.848618+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rewired-sober-7110186"},"episode":{"title":"EP 76: Shame Down the Drain: NYC, Julia Fox, Fashion & Cool Sober Friends","slug":"ep-76-shame-down-the-drain-nyc-julia-fox-fashion-cool-sober-friends","published_at":"2026-06-02T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rewired-sober-7110186/ep-76-shame-down-the-drain-nyc-julia-fox-fashion-cool-sober-friends","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rewired-sober-7110186","url":"https://rewiredsober.captivate.fm","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a97c952f-917b-423d-ad9c-063b72a57822.mp3","summary":"This episode is a little chaotic, deeply human, wildly funny, and honestly? exactly what recovery can start to feel like when you stop making sobriety synonymous with punishment. I’m taking you with me to New York City — from a sober social night at The Maze, to long walks through Central Park with women who are rebuilding themselves out loud. We talk about laughter, freedom, female friendship, feeling safe in your own skin again, and why sober people weirdly become the people partying at noon with popsicles in hand dancing in Central Park. I also share my experience going to Julia Fox Closet Sale after listening to Down the Drain by Julia Fox on audiobook — and why her story hit me harder than I expected. We get into: addiction, survival, and the messy realities women live through sex work, stigma, and the difference between judgment and understanding doing what you have to do to survive why “meeting people where they are” matters in recovery work the performance of being “good” versus being honest the complicated conversation around deprogramming from rigid recovery narratives how some women feel cracked open by recovery… and others feel trapped inside the language of it I also talk about a recent podcast episode that absolutely cracked me wide open and forced me to think differently about identity, healing, and who gets to author their own story. This isn’t a polished “10 steps to heal your life” episode. It’s an episode about women telling the truth. About recovery becoming bigger than not drinking. About creativity, connection, safety, style, humor, grief, rebellion, and learning how to live without abandoning yourself. Because maybe sobriety isn’t the end of your life. Maybe it’s the beginning of finally becoming interesting again. Rewired Sober 1:1 Coaching Spot…","meta_description":"This episode is a little chaotic, deeply human, wildly funny, and honestly? exactly what recovery can start to feel like when you stop making sobriety syn…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1827,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rewired-sober-7110186/episodes/ep-76-shame-down-the-drain-nyc-julia-fox-fashion-cool-sober-friends/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rewired-sober-7110186/ep-76-shame-down-the-drain-nyc-julia-fox-fashion-cool-sober-friends.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}