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Join Jimmy Thistle for After Hours — the brutally honest, funny and heartwarming podcast that dives deep into alcohol, addiction, and recovery.
Each week, Jimmy sits down with real people who’ve faced the highs, lows, and hangovers of drinking culture. Through unfiltered conversation, laughter, and raw honesty, they explore what happens when we start questioning our relationship with alcohol — and what life looks like on the other side.
Whether you’re sober, sober-curious, or just wondering if alcohol’s got too much of a grip, this show is for you. Expect real stories, a few laughs, and plenty of lightbulb moments from people who’ve been there.
Recorded in the UK and Isle of Man but shared worldwide, After Hours is here to prove that recovery can be real, relatable, and even a little bit funny.
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Send us Fan Mail Laura is the author of the bestselling memoir We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life and Push Off From Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Life (and Everything Else). Her work explores the intersection of addiction, recovery, emotional sobriety, and the complexities of relationships. She has written for The New York Times and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The TODAY Show, and more. In 2020, she founded T...
Send us Fan Mail Nikki is a sobriety coach and the voice behind @mommyissober, where she shares raw, honest insights about what it really looks like to change your relationship with alcohol. After years of struggling herself, Nikki realised that the problem wasn’t a lack of willpower, it was the need for relief. That understanding changed everything. Her work now focuses on helping women, especially mothers, gently break the evening drinking cycle by working with their nervous system, not a...
Send us Fan Mail Ashley Howard is a certified life and recovery coach with over 20 years of experience in the health and wellness industry. Now with over 3 years of sobriety, she works 1:1 with individuals to help them reduce or eliminate alcohol so they can live healthier, happier, and more aligned lives. Based in South Carolina, she is also a wife and mom of two young children, and brings a realistic, compassionate approach to sustainable change. You can find Ashley on Instagram at: h...
Send us Fan Mail “Retired party animal. Professional life-changer.” My name is Dawn, although these days, many people know me as ‘Sober Fish’. For most of my adult life, I lived the party lifestyle. On the outside it looked fun, but behind the scenes it was sleepless nights, extreme emotions, toxic relationshits, two-day hangovers and a growing sense that something wasn’t right. By 2016, I was overweight, my eczema was out of control, and I felt stuck in a loop that was slowly draining the...
Send us Fan Mail On June 15, 2022, Mikey got clean and sober after years of battling addiction and multiple attempts to take his own life. His journey to recovery came only after reaching a place of deep desperation, when enough had been taken from him that he finally found the strength to fight back. Through those darkest years, Mikey’s beautiful wife never left his side. She stood by him faithfully, even though watching him slowly destroy himself hurt her just as deeply as it hurt him. Her...
Send us Fan Mail Rachel’s story begins with neglect, resilience, and a whole lot of sadness. Her mother lost custody of her sister & her due to her own addiction, being raised by their father alone, A heartbreak that forced her to grow up fast. She lost her mom to an overdose at just sixteen, an even bigger heartbreak that forced her to grow up even faster. With a hardworking dad who was always trying to keep the family afloat and a younger sibling who depended on her, Rachel learned earl...
Send us Fan Mail Natalie is a sober mom devoted to recovery, spiritual awakening, and conscious healing. Through lived experience, deep self reflection, and radical honesty, she speaks about what it truly means to choose sobriety, face grief and loss, and rebuild a life rooted in self trust and inner peace. Her journey centers on surrender, resilience, and learning to live aligned with truth rather than survival. Natalie believes sobriety is not just the absence of substances, but the presenc...
Send us Fan Mail Ash’s relationship with alcohol began at sixteen, drinking Lambrini down the park with her friends. For many years, alcohol was her idea of fun. It led her into dangerous situations, and many of the negative experiences she carries would not have happened had she not been drinking. As she got older, her drinking evolved. Park benches turned into sophisticated nights out and glasses of Whispering Angel on the sofa. But alongside this shift, her hangovers grew heavier and more...
Send us Fan Mail Alex Leigh is a former international model turned sleep coach, mum of two, and midlife transformation advocate. After years of pushing through stress, burnout, and using alcohol as a coping mechanism, she reached a point where she knew something had to change. Choosing sobriety became the catalyst for everything - better sleep, better boundaries, stronger body, clearer mind. At 47, she is living proof that it’s never too late to rebuild your life from the ground up. Through...
Send us Fan Mail Kaitlin is over three years sober and passionate about turning her past into purpose. Having experienced the challenges of addiction firsthand, she now uses her voice to bring hope to those who are still struggling. She believes that no one is too far gone for recovery and that sharing our stories is one of the most powerful ways to heal and connect. You can find Kaitlin on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/soberasamotherfocused and on Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@so...
Send us Fan Mail Cameron Kidd. 34 years young and grew up pretty normal, loving parents, big family, good mates. Nothing dramatic. A few run ins at school, few family arguments, a tiny bit of abuse. But nothing that screamed, “this lad’s gonna go completely off the rails.” At one point the biggest thing in my world was playing football with my mates. Then suddenly all I cared about was getting fucked up...drugs, booze, chaos, repeat. My weekends were basically measured in how smas...
Send us Fan Mail Anna Donaghey is a writer, coach, and host of the acclaimed podcast The Big Drink Rethink. A former advertising strategist, she brings insight, empathy, and humour to conversations about alcohol, identity, and intentional living. After quitting drinking after years of addiction, Anna set out to explore why so many capable, successful lives feel oddly undernourished, and how we reach for substitutes like alcohol when something deeper is missing. In her debut book, ‘What...
Send us Fan Mail Emily is a creative, a dreamer, a dog lover and very grateful to be sober from alcohol. From the UK originally she now lives and works by the beach in Melbourne Australia. You can find Emily on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/emchadbourne Russel Brand - Freedom from our Addictions: https://amzn.eu/d/7ZN5WVG Support the show My Instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy And you can find all my other links at: https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle Buy me a coffee...
Send us Fan Mail Musician Adrian Cox left home at the age of 15 to pursue a life of touring and making music as a profession. Not an easy task for anyone but as a 15 year old boy, Adrian easily fell into the trap of a life of drinking and drugs. Still living the dream at aged 42, things are very different now. Although still travelling the world, having carved out a career as one of the most respected jazz clarinetists Internationally, he is 2 months off of 12 years without a drink and...
Send us Fan Mail Amy is a sobriety mentor, breathwork specialist and founder of Devine Breath. A former drinker herself, she now holds the Sober Sisterhood Breathwork Community, supporting women to release alcohol and reconnect to themselves and each other through the breath. You can find Amy on Insta at: https://www.instagram.com/devine.breath Check out Any’s Website here: https://devinebreath.com Or you can find everything else on her LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/amydevine Caroline Knapp...
Send us Fan Mail Alicia Butler began drinking at 16, initially for confidence and belonging. What started as social drinking gradually became a way to switch off, manage stress, and escape her own thoughts. For years, alcohol felt like a relief, until it quietly became something she relied on more than she wanted to admit. After her mum died in 2011, Alicia tried repeatedly to cut back on drinking, knowing it was something her mum had hoped for her. Over the years, she set rules, took breaks...
Send us Fan Mail Jimmy was a rock bottom kind of drunk, vodka for breakfast was the way he started his days at the end and mostly before he'd even opened his eyes. Alcohol was his friend, his best friend and he would shun, push away or even be downright horrible to anyone that tried to get in the way of him getting a drink. He didn't want to be like this but he need the alcohol at the end and it became his medicine but he knew he had to get sober or it would kill him. So in 2020 in the middle...
Send us Fan Mail Even more amazing and incredible guests coming your way in 2026! From heartbreaking stories to triumphs and hope, you wont want to miss out! Get ready on New Year's Day 2026 for the first episode drop! Support the show My Instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy And you can find all my other links at: https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle Buy me a coffee… https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt Donate: https://motiv8.im/donate/ https://nacoa.org.uk/get-...
Send us Fan Mail Will Gordon is an emergency liver and kidney transplant survivor who spent 15 years as a middle and high school teacher, shaping young minds while quietly battling a secret that almost ended him: alcohol addiction that left him with just two weeks to live at age 35. Hiding bottles and spiraling into isolation, he lost friends, his job, and nearly everything. Until a miracle transplant gave him a raw second chance.That rock bottom became a turning point, where he learned that ...
Send us Fan Mail Beth began drinking as a teenager in the 1990s, using alcohol to ease the social anxiety she had felt for as long as she could remember. What started as a way to feel confident and connected quickly became a pattern that followed her into adulthood. After her mother died when she was 17, her drinking escalated, and by university she had become known as the party girl, hiding behind a confident exterior that masked deep insecurity. As the years went on, her relationship with...
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