Is sobriety going to make you boring? Will you lose your edge if you quit drinking?
This fear keeps so many people stuck...I know it did for me. For years I thought alcohol gave me personality, toughness, even rebellion. But the truth? That “street cred” was manufactured, sold to me by billion-dollar industries and wrapped in a performance I didn’t even write.

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on:

• How Hollywood, music, and pop culture turned alcohol into shorthand for cool.

• Why the myth of “cred” sticks so hard — and why it feels like hypocrisy to walk away from it.

• The surprising roster of sober icons (from Eminem to Steve-O to Drew Barrymore) who prove you don’t lose your edge when you quit — you sharpen it.

• A reframe on rebellion, featuring a powerful Glennon Doyle quote.

• Practical tools for reclaiming your street cred, sober.

Spoiler: sobriety doesn’t ruin your street cred. It ruins the illusion that alcohol ever gave you any in the first place.

✨ Ready to go deeper? Join the Wayward Sober Collective — a 6-week group where we unpack the myths, share stories, and build tools for living with clarity and freedom.

And don’t forget to grab your free guide: 3 Radical Mind Shifts for the Sober Curious — also at waywardsober.com.

Quit Lit to get you started:

• Quit Like a Woman — Holly Whitaker

• We Are the Luckiest — Laura McKowen

• This Naked Mind — Annie Grace

• The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober — Catherine Gray

• • The Recovering: Intoxication and it's Aftermath - Leslie Jamieson
  • The Biology of Desire — Marc Lewis