Your host Ben Decker welcomes New York Times bestselling author, Holly Whitaker onto the show to discuss:
✨ Holly's journey from an accountant, to getting sober in 2013, to publishing a bestselling book, to becoming a CEO and raising capital, to selling the company, and now working on her next book and her Substack
✨ The impact Holly's book on quitting drinking had on culture being part of a major plot line on the popular show 'Sex and the City.'
✨ The relationship between addiction, recovery and capitalism.
✨The impact of TV show, 'The Last of Us', has had on both Ben and Holly
✨ Ben explains the difference between Mahayana, Vajrayana and Hinayana Buddhism.
Learn more about our guest here:
Holly Whitaker is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol. Her work has been featured in Vogue, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and many others. Holly's work focuses on understanding the intersections of systems, culture, and individual experience and identity through the lens of addiction and recovery. She lives in upstate New York.
Substack:
https://hollywhitaker.substack.com/
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