On this episode of Young & Sober, Sydney sits down with her friend Jasmine to talk about the long road that finally led her to one year sober.

Jasmine’s story starts with severe anxiety and agoraphobia as a teenager, which led to a benzodiazepine prescription that quickly spiraled into addiction. What followed were years of alcohol, drugs, destructive relationships, psychosis, and repeated attempts to get sober that never quite stuck. She shares openly about losing custody of her daughter, surviving violent relationships, experiencing drug-induced psychosis, and relapsing just two weeks before reaching a year sober.

Now at 37, Jasmine has finally reached one full year of sobriety. This episode is about hitting bottom more than once, rebuilding a life from the ground up, and what finally changed when nothing else had worked before. Finally building a life worth living.

Sarah got sober at 22, but it wasn’t a straight line to get there.

In this episode, she shares how drinking started at 14 and immediately became more than “just partying.” What began as weekend fun slowly turned into blackouts, fights with friends, getting arrested in college, dropping out, detoxes, and three separate stays in rehab.

We talk about:

• The denial that followed every wake-up call

• Why jail didn’t make her stop

• Relapsing after 60 and 90 days

• Dating in early sobriety (and why that imploded)

• The difference between drinking for fun and drinking to disappear

• What finally clicked the third time around

Sarah opens up about probation, sober living, rebuilding trust with her parents, losing friendships, and what it’s like being a young woman trying to get sober in a world where alcohol is everywhere.

Her sobriety date is January 14, 2025. Today she’s back in college studying psychology and planning to work in recovery.

This episode is about what happens when you keep trying. Even when you keep falling short. And what it looks like when something finally sticks.

Young & Sober. for the sober, the sober curious, and the sober-ish.

In this episode of Young & Sober, I sit down with Evan, husband, father of two, real estate agent.

But that’s not where his story began.

What started as a “normal” high school introduction to weed and alcohol turned into pills, cocaine, stealing a teammate’s wallet, losing college baseball, and burning bridges with his family.

Evan shares what it was like to relapse after rehab, reset his sobriety date from two years to “one day,” and finally reach the point where he was done.

He talks about the moment he found out he was going to be a father, looked at himself in the rearview mirror, and prayed for the first time in sobriety.

We get into ego, amends, rebuilding trust, and what it actually looks like to start over at 24 from your parents’ house.

This isn’t a clean redemption arc. It’s about surrender. It’s about becoming the man your kids get to grow up with. It’s about giving up one thing and gaining everything.

Whether you're sober, sober-curious, or just questioning your relationship with alcohol this one is honest.