![]() We drink at baby showers and work events, brunch and book club, graduations and funerals. We live in a world obsessed with drinking. Formerly, she co-hosted the HOME podcast, which garnered a Webby Honorable Mention in 2017. She has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, and TechCrunch and was named in Inc’s 2019 Female Founders 100 List. Holly is a writer and bestselling author of Quit Like A Woman, a groundbreaking look at drinking culture and a road map to cutting out alcohol in order to live one’s best life without the crutch of intoxication. Today, Tempest has served thousands of individuals on their path to recovery through its various programs, educational courses, and online media publication. With years of experience in the field of healthcare and as a former director at a well known health-tech startup, Holly’s vision went wide and deep: to create an accessible, lower cost, digital program for anyone struggling with alcohol, and support for the 90 percent of people who misuse alcohol but are not considered “alcoholics,” either by diagnosis or self-definition. Holly Whitaker is the founder and CEO of Tempest, Inc., a company she founded when, in 2012, she was determined to deal with her drinking problem but found that the recovery program she needed did not yet exist. ![]() She tells us that as people in recovery, we can lead the way through the dark night of the soul, showing others not only how to survive, but to come out on the other side with a new level of self-awareness, empathy, and acceptance.ĭid you know how powerful you are? HOLLY WHITAKER Holly talks about her struggle with the desire to be numb and escape oneself. The current pandemic will force many of us to reevaluate how we think about ourselves and the world. We all will have that point of reckoning in our lives that will turn us inside out. ![]() It’s not just people in addiction recovery who hit a bottom. She was the co-host of the HOME podcast, the bestselling author of Quit Like a Woman, and the founder of Tempest, a holistic, evidence-based digital recovery platform Today we are excited to have Holly Whitaker on The SHAIR Podcast. ![]()
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