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Welcome to Real Women LIVE (formerly Sober Living Stories)
The most important stories of our lives are often the ones we keep hidden.
The divorce. The diagnosis. The addiction. The betrayal. The abuse. The grief. The quiet chapters we convince ourselves no one should ever know.
What if the very story you've spent years trying to hide is the one that changes everything?
Welcome to Real Women LIVE, formerly Sober Living Stories—a podcast built on one simple belief:
The stories we're most afraid to tell often become our greatest source of strength, purpose, and endless possibility.
Every Tuesday, host Jessica Stipanovic sits down with women who have lived through the moments that changed everything. Together, they explore what happened, what was learned, and what became possible when these women stopped performing, started telling the truth out loud, and owned every version of themselves.
These aren't polished success stories. They're honest accounts of loss, addiction, betrayal, trauma, grief, chronic illness, divorce, family hardship, recovery, and starting over. They are powerful conversations about what happens when we stop allowing our past to write the ending of our future.
For years, Jessica kept part of her own story out of view, believing the judgment of her past would somehow cloud her future. Instead, the opposite happened. After sharing publicly that she had been alcohol-free for more than twenty-one years, she discovered that people didn't run from her; they ran toward her.
A silent stigma she'd carried for most of her adult life disappeared. Her greatest vulnerability became her greatest visibility, opening doors for her she never imagined possible.
That realization became the foundation of this podcast and an authorial platform for her upcoming book, because when one woman dares to share her story, another woman discovers the possibility of changing hers.
Many of the women you'll meet here have gone on to write books, launch podcasts, build businesses, create nonprofits, lead communities, and discover purpose-driven platforms they never thought possible. Not because their stories were perfect, but because they weren't.
If you've ever believed your past disqualified you, you may discover it's the very thing that leads you to your greatest strength, deepest purpose, and wildest possibilities.
You're in the right place.
Share your story. Change your life.
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Real Women LIVE was formerly Sober Living Stories.
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