I’m joined by the brilliant and hilarious Anna David, who’s (almost) at 25 years sober and has the receipts. We get into the infamous “Fix” headline fiasco, why community laughter can be medicine, and how she accidentally checked into the other Promises—think broken hoop, not Malibu tennis courts. Anna talks getting sober at 30, the power of 12-step, and how EMDR rewired her life. We also compare notes on early motherhood being… let’s say “not a spa day,” and celebrate her new gig co-hosting Sober Living and running Legacy Launchpad Publishing. 

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In this conversation with Rosebud Baker, we trace a line from grief to grace: a political-family childhood near D.C., the loss of her little sister, finding alcohol, and then finding a room where people spoke her language. We talk about the slow work of sitting with feelings, Al-Anon, the beginnings of stand-up and writing, sobriety since 2006, pregnancy loss, IVF, becoming a mom, and the memoir she’s written along the way, Fully Baked. It’s a hopeful map for anyone who needs community, laughter, and permission to start again.  

This week I sit down with Jonathan Todd Schwartz, who went from daily sports bets and a secret coke spiral to embezzeling money from his high profile musician clients like  Alanis Morissette. We talk parenting while living a double life, the polygraph that blew everything up, and how it all changed. It's riveting from start to finish.

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This week on Drunk-ish, I sit down with my friend Kate Anthony—author, divorce coach, and host of The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast. Kate opens up about how playdates with wine turned into nightly drinking, the shame spirals at 3am (“Holy fuck, I can’t believe I drove”  ), and the moment she realized alcohol was the problem, not her. We talk parenting, hitting that “I’m done” wall, what finally helped her quit, and how sobriety gave her the love, career, and life she never thought possible. Funny, heartfelt, and completely relatable, this conversation is one you don’t want to miss.

Find out all the info on Kate at her website KateAnthony.com

Her book is The D Word: Making the Ultimate Decision About Your Marriage
Her podcast is The Divorce Survival Guide

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This week on Drunk-ish I sit down with Brenda Wilhelmson, author of Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife. Brenda opens up about juggling motherhood, her years of trying to “look perfect on the outside” while feeling wrecked on the inside, and the rocky starts that came before lasting sobriety. We talk about vodka martinis with dissertation-writing cousins, accidentally lighting her hair on fire at an office Christmas party, and the judgment moms face when they admit they’re struggling. Brenda shares how she finally found recovery, what helped her stick with it, and how her life has changed today. 

Imagine getting sober before you could drive. That’s my guest this week, Robin Reiser, who checked into rehab at sixteen and never looked back. Well… not willingly, anyway. Robin tells me about being busted by her parents after they found her diary (rookie mistake), what it felt like to think alcohol was her best friend, and the surprisingly relatable “not today” trick she still uses to quiet that little voice saying, “Maybe you could handle it now.” We swap stories, laugh about our old drunk logic, and get real about parenting sober.

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Imagine getting sober before you could drive. That’s my guest this week, Robin Reiser, who checked into rehab at sixteen and never looked back. Well… not willingly, anyway. Robin tells me about being busted by her parents after they found her diary (rookie mistake), what it felt like to think alcohol was her best friend, and the surprisingly relatable “not today” trick she still uses to quiet that little voice saying, “Maybe you could handle it now.” We swap stories, laugh about our old drunk logic, and get real about parenting sober.

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Richard Taite is back for part two, and this time we go deep into what parents really need to know about kids and drugs today. Richard explains how fentanyl shows up in everything from fake Percocet to weed, and how to have the hard conversations with our kids. We also talk about parenting through addiction, whether sending a teen to rehab for weed is overkill, and why he believes early, honest talks can save lives. And because it’s Richard, we still manage to laugh while comparing rehab to choosing between the Four Seasons and Motel 6  .

Richard Taite might be the only guy who can tell me about running into Charlie Sheen in a crack-fueled hallway at 3 a.m., slam the door on his own intervention because “nobody gets sober on a Thursday,", and then casually mention founding one of the most successful rehabs in America. On this episode, Richard and I laugh (because sometimes you have to) about his six-month drug runs fueled by Big Macs, what it felt like to land in a top bunk in sober living, and how sobriety gave him back his kids. Spoiler: he’s still alive to tell it.

Kim Evey is here, and let me just say: when your sobriety story includes Bartles & Jaymes in a high school bathroom, 99¢ store wine tastings, and accidentally peeing in your suitcase on Ambien… you know it’s going to be a good episode. We laugh about the “math” we used to do to justify three martinis before driving home  , the art of hiding booze in the kitchen cabinets  , and how motherhood makes “just one glass” an absolute scam . This one’s equal parts hilarious and terrifying, which pretty much sums up the experience of getting sober.

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This week I sit down with my friend and working medium, Jane Morgan. Jane and I go way back to the days when she looked like the serene mom who had it all figured out… until she collapsed on the floor saying, “would someone take this baby? Because I’m freaking out." That’s when I knew we’d be friends for life. In this episode we talk about everything from family booze trees to postpartum meltdowns, driving drunk like “Starsky and Hutch” and why sobriety birthdays sometimes feel more important than the real ones . It’s messy, it’s funny, and it’s all very, very sober.

Jaime Hrobar is back, and this time we get into the relapse, the chaos, and the miracle of finding her way out. From salivating over a martini before the olive even hit the toothpick , to realizing beer at breakfast isn’t a marriage-saver , Jaime’s honesty about rock bottom is as sharp as it is funny. We talk Hot Tamales (yes, the candy that tried to kill her) , parenting through her son’s four-and-a-half-month hospital stay , and what it takes to surrender without giving up. Somehow, through the wreckage, she built a new life, complete with love, laughter, and a God bench.

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This week on Drunk-ish, I sat down with Jaime Hrobar, who has one of those “you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up” drinking stories that starts with champagne at age eight and somehow ends with guzzling vodka out of a Smurf mug. Jaime takes us through her wild ride from college bingeing to DUIs, marriages that didn’t survive the chaos, and the messy middle of trying to parent two kids—including a son with profound autism—while her drinking spun completely out of control. We laughed, we cried, we bonded over blackouts and bad decisions, and we found the thread of hope that keeps us all going: sobriety.

Find Jaime Hrobar at JaimeHrobar.com 
Look for her Facebook page Homebound and Healing

This week on Drunk-ish, I sit down with Sarah Rose Hyland — and no, not the one from Modern Family. (She’ll explain how that mix-up once scored her a year’s supply of whitening strips.) Sarah takes us from growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, feeling like she never fit at any cafeteria table, to finding her people in art, sports, and unfortunately, the party crowd . She shares her early drinking, a DUI that didn’t slow her down, and how she finally got sober at 23.

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This week on Drunk-ish I sit down with Vanderpump Robs podcaster Rob Schulte, who proves that sobriety stories come in all flavors. Rob grew up surrounded by bar culture in Missouri, lost his brother to alcohol, and still found himself drinking more in college instead of less. We talk about the long nights, the terrifying mornings, and the moment he realized he was about to throw away the biggest opportunity of his life. From parenting and relationships to lockdown drinking, rock-bottom wake-up calls, and finding his way back to himself, Rob’s story is funny, messy, and so easy to connect with.

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Also check out Rob's website RobShulte.com 

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I’m reunited with my old friend Greg Behrendt to talk alt-comedy nights, getting sober in the 90's, the curveball of cancer and pills, and the decidedly un-glamorous work of repairing family. Greg shares how opiate withdrawal felt “worse than the cancer,” why stand-up still keeps him sane, and what it’s like parenting now-grown kids while staying true to the comic inside. We also revisit the Sex and the City writers’ room and the “he’s just not that into you” moment that changed everything. Funny, bruised, hopeful—and very Greg.

Guess who’s back? Suzanne Warye returns to Drunk-ish—and this time she’s got a book to promote and a lot more stories to spill. We cover everything from college drinking disasters to the very classy illusion of mom-wine culture (spoiler: it’s not classy, it’s just boxed wine in stemware). Suzanne talks about the caution tape her husband once put around the living room, the night she blacked out with a baby in the house, and how she finally said goodbye to moderation. We laugh, we cringe, and we remind ourselves that sobriety doesn’t make you boring—it just makes the stories safer to tell.

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This week on Drunk-ish, I get to do something extra special: interview my own daughter, Elby Taylor. Elby’s about to start her senior year of college, which means she’s got plenty to say about high school parties, sorority events, hangovers, and yes—even the worst fake ID in human history (her words, not mine). We talk about what it’s like growing up with a sober mom, how open conversations helped her avoid the rebellion trap, and those moments in college when drinking crosses the line from “fun” to “never again.” It’s part parenting chat, part sobriety insight, and part comedy about the questionable decisions of 20-year-olds.

Kaila Yu has lived, okay? Like, seriously—bands, raves, modeling, drugs, pinup covers, and now… a book. She’s 11 years sober and somehow survived all of that without ending up in a Behind the Music cautionary tale. Her new book Fetishized is about the fetishization of Asian women, but our chat also hits on strict parents, terrible boyfriends, ecstasy that felt like God, and why cocaine basically turns you into an evil gremlin. We laughed a lot, we gasped a little, and we celebrated sobriety a whole bunch.

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The book: Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty out now

Meredith Lynch is back on Drunk‑ish—one of my OG guests! We talk about her three years sober, the “coming down the pike” debate (Mass Pike forever), and why watching reality TV hits different when you’re not drinking. We get into Love Island (Barbies behaving badly), The Valley’s brewery “apology,” Housewives culture around booze, the long DUI list, Kyle choosing not to drink, and the whole “California sober” conversation (hi, gummies). I share my own cautionary tale about driving high—spoiler: wrong-way street—not smart. Plus Meredith’s pop‑culture adventures, from Bezos‑wedding commentary to getting blocked by Lauren Sánchez. Follow her at @meredithmlynch while I count down to back‑to‑school.

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