The Unapologetic Woman Podcast

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Addiction doesn’t always walk into the workplace looking like a crisis.

Sometimes it looks like missed deadlines. Unexplained absences. A coworker quietly picking up someone else’s work. A high-performing executive who is still showing up, still producing, still smiling—and privately falling apart.

And sometimes, everyone can feel tha...

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What happens when you’re the woman everyone depends on—but privately, you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, drinking more than you want to, obsessing over your relationship, or simply thinking, I cannot keep doing this?

This episode is for the woman nobody is worried about.

You’re successful. Capable. Responsible. Maybe you’re le...

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Is it your intuition telling you something is wrong—or are anxiety, old relationship wounds, betrayal, addiction, or past experiences making you expect something bad to happen?

Okay, my spiritual girlies… we need to talk about this one.

Because sometimes the energy does change. Sometimes something feels off.

But sometimes? Your intuition is...

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What if you don’t have to hit rock bottom?

Maybe you still have the job. The marriage. The kids are taken care of. You’re showing up, getting things done, and from the outside, everyone thinks you’re fine.

But privately? You’re starting to wonder.

Is my drinking actually a problem?
Why do I keep saying I’m not going to d...

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Sometimes the hardest relationship truth isn't that you don't love them.

It's realizing love may not be the only reason you're staying.

Maybe you love them deeply.

But maybe you're also afraid of starting over. Afraid nobody else will want you. Afraid of losing the family you've built. Afraid of what people will think. Afraid of watching them move on.

Or...

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What if the “spark” you keep chasing isn’t chemistry at all?

Sometimes butterflies are attraction.

And sometimes… they’re your nervous system recognizing something painfully familiar.

In this episode, we’re talking about what happens when chaos feels like chemistry—and peace feels boring.

I’m getting perso...

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What is it really like to love—and build a life with—a woman in long-term recovery?

I asked my husband to sit down with me for a podcast. He thought we were going to talk about hockey. 😂

Instead, we had one of the most raw, unplanned conversations we've ever recorded.

No script. No polished answers. No trying to make our marriage look perfe...

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You’re sober. You’re showing up. You’re handling life.

And from the outside? You look completely fine.

But what happens when you’re quietly falling apart behind the version of you everyone else thinks is so strong?

In this episode, we’re getting honest about:

• The difference between looking strong and actually being suppo...

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Okay, but can we talk about the shit we swear we’ve let go of… yet we’re still having imaginary conversations about it in the shower three years later? 😂

Because sometimes the thing threatening your sobriety isn’t alcohol.

It’s the resentment. The betrayal. The apology you never got. The relationship you keep trying to f...

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Getting sober gave me my life back—but sobriety alone didn’t automatically teach me how to stop abandoning myself.

I could be sober and still say yes when I meant no. I could silence my needs, manage other people’s emotions, avoid uncomfortable truths, and become who I thought I needed to be to feel loved, accepted, or included.

Integ...

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In this raw and deeply personal episode, Gen explores one of recovery's most dangerous blind spots — the moment when helping others quietly crosses into self-abandonment. 

What You'll Hear:

• Codependency in recovery — how "being there for others" can become a disguise for running from your own healing journey 
• Letting go of cont...

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What if the real transformation isn’t found in more discipline, more restriction, or trying harder?

In this powerful conversation, Gen sits down with health and fitness coach Nikki O’Dea to explore the surprising parallels between recovery, body image, weight loss, and lasting personal growth. Together, they unpack why so many women find t...

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Your Love Life Is Your Business Strategy (Especially in Recovery)

[Trigger Warning: This episode discusses Sexual Assault.]

What if the patterns you learned to survive before sobriety are still shaping your relationships, leadership, and income today?

In this episode, Gen Stoney explores how intimacy, nervous system regulation, and emotional sobriety di...

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If you’ve been sober for a while—but you’re craving more aliveness, more softness, and more YOU in your sobriety—this episode is your sacred permission slip.

In today’s episode, we go beyond just “not drinking” and dive into what it really means to live a liberated, pleasure-filled, intuitive sober life. I&rsq...

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In this raw and honest episode, I’m sharing something I haven’t opened up about publicly until now—my personal journey of almost going on Ozempic during one of the most emotionally painful years of my life.

After experiencing deep grief, weight gain, and a growing sense of disconnection from my body, I found myself reaching f...

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💡 You’re doing all the right things in recovery, but deep down… you’re still feeling stuck.

You’re white-knuckling your way through sobriety, constantly doing—meetings, therapy, self-help books, endless routines—but something still isn’t clicking. Sobriety feels like work instead of the freedom you t...

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You’ve built a beautiful life. The career, the family, the home—on the outside, everything looks perfect. You’re disciplined, successful, and in control of every aspect of your world… except this one. No matter how hard you try, drinking keeps slipping through your fingers. Why? And more importantly—what can you do abou...

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Navigating difficult conversations is something we all face—whether in sobriety or everyday life. In this episode, we explore how to handle challenging interactions with grace, clarity, and confidence, even when the other person is resistant to change.

I share a recent experience that reminded me of my own mindset before sobriety—when I wa...

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Are you tired of trying to quit drinking only to find yourself stuck in the same cycle of frustration and shame? In this episode, host Gen Stoney shares why sobriety isn’t like any other goal you’ve tackled and why the traditional “willpower” approach just doesn’t work.

Discover the inside-out approach to sobriety, a tran...