Title: Resilience and Real-Life ROI: Laura's 13-Month Alcohol-Free Milestone With Coach MattTitle: Resilience and Real-Life ROI: Laura's 13-Month Alcohol-Free Milestone With Coach Matt
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
High performer Laura talks with Coach Matt about reaching 13 months alcohol-free, sharing how she moved from mummy wine culture and nightly drinking to greater clarity, health and self-trust. The conversation covers coaching, community support, real-life tests and the tools she uses to handle anxiety without alcohol.
38:14•1 Apr 2026
High Performer, High Stakes: Laura’s 13 Months Alcohol-Free with Coach Matt
Episode Overview
- Alcohol can slowly shift from occasional relief to a daily coping tool, especially for high performers with perfectionist tendencies.
- Community coaching calls and breakout rooms help reduce isolation and provide encouragement, especially in the tough first 30 days.
- Testing alcohol-free skills in real situations – dinners, wine tastings, and holidays – builds self-trust and confidence.
- Affirmations, journaling, breathing exercises and nervous-system tools support dealing with underlying anxiety once alcohol is removed.
- Removing alcohol can improve physical health efficiency and deepen relationships with partners, children and personal faith.
“Take the leap… I can say that it’s 100% better than what I was doing before.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This candid conversation between Coach Matt and Laura Kay pulls back the curtain on what 13 months alcohol-free can really look like for a high achiever. Laura shares how a perfectionist streak shaped her life from university onwards: smashing grades, rising fast at work, 5 a.m. workouts – and using alcohol as her weekend and nightly escape.
She talks about how “every situation seemed to revolve around our social activity being drinking,” from mummy wine culture to wine tastings and holidays, and how that slow creep eventually left her feeling inflamed, foggy, and dull. Project 90 and the Alcohol-Free Lifestyle community became her turning point.
Laura describes joining with plenty of scepticism, then being surprised at how quickly she felt safe in the group calls: “Everyone is just so encouraging… I always felt better after being on a call.” She’s honest about the flat periods, the early tiredness, and having to force herself onto calls – and how she used that middle stretch to tackle real-life tests like dinners, wine tastings, and even a family trip to Hawaii without drinking.
You’ll hear how affirmations, journaling, breathing work and coaching helped her face the anxiety she’d been masking with wine, instead of running from it. She now notices her body “functioning so much more efficiently,” feels genuinely present with her husband and children, and loves being clear-headed for late-night calls with her daughter in Hawaii.
For anyone on the fence about investing in help, Laura’s message is simple: “Take the leap… I can say that it’s 100% better than what I was doing before.” If you’ve ever wished you could be that “take it or leave it” person around alcohol, could this story be the nudge you’ve been waiting for?
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