EP #7 Jean McCarthy - The Bubble Hour & Tiny Bubbles Podcast Host/Producer, Award-Winning Author & Blogger (UnPickled)

I Have 12 Questions Podcast - Conversations About the Sober Life

Honestly, I can't believe who our guest is! As I always say I'm the luckiest person I know and I'm so grateful that she said yes. Jean McCarthy is a real trailblazer in the Alcohol-Free Community. She started the Unpickled Blog in 2011 and has authored several books; “Take Good Care” “Unpickled: Prepare to be Alcohol Free” and “The Ember Ever There.” She’s also the Producer and Host of The Bubble Hour Podcast and has just launched her new, shorter format podcast called Tiny Bubbles.

She started the Unpickled Blog in 2011 to anonymously document her journey to becoming alcohol free. Nowadays she recovers out loud and on camera in the hopes of inspiring still more people wanting an alcohol-free life. Over the years she has released books to offer even more tools. And she’s a musician...the intro song on The Bubble Hour is her own song and voice. Her contributions have helped people all over the spectrum from alcoholic/addicts at rock bottom to people who are sober curious to those who just got tired of their attachment to drinking and what it was blocking in their lives. She was doing this work way before it was "cool." The Bubble Hour Podcast is well-known and loved in the sober community. She joined the show as a co-host in Season 2 and became the sole host and producer in Season 5.

I've been clean and sober about the same amount of time her Podcast ran and I cannot tell you how many times these episodes saved my ass. The diversity of her guests and their approaches to being alcohol free has always appealed to me, but it also showed me that sobriety has little to do with drinking and more to do with how we think and live as well as our intentionality. And the TOOLS we have to actually APPLY to this new way of living. I'm so excited to get to interview the interviewer!

BLOG:

Unpickled Blog https://unpickledblog.com/

SOCIAL:

Instagram – @thebubblehour
PODCASTS:

The Bubble Hour Podcast https://jeanmccarthy.ca/the-bubble-hour/

Tiny Bubbles Podcast – A new spin off that is shorter format (15 minutes), but still big on impact (Tiny Bubbles is also @thebubblehour Instagram)

BOOKS:

Take Good Care: Recovery Readings Inspired by The Bubble Hour Podcast https://www.amazon.com/dp/1999299981/

Unpickled Prepare to be Alcohol Free: Insights and Tips to Ease the Transition https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V6GSJZ8/

The Ember Ever There: Poems on Change, Grief, Growth, Recovery, and Rediscovery https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08817HLJK/