The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary
Hosted by Ben McAlary and Brooke McAlary · brooke & ben mcalary
4.8from 521 ratings
- 376
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 521
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary
Fast and slow. Young and old. Hard and soft. Open and closed. Real and fake. Hide and seek. Pleasure and pain… Life is full of dualities and extremes and pick-a-sides. But most of our days are spent in the messy middle. the tortoise and the hare is a weekly show from the crew who brought you The Slow Home Podcast (RIP). Each episode is a human-made, homegrown, perfectly imperfect conversation about the either/or of life and the vast grey area in between. Because we all contain multitudes. So let’s talk about them.
- Publisher
- brooke & ben mcalary
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 12 Apr 2015
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
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drunk & sober | the tortoise & the hare
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And five years without any alcohol. And even then I really struggled with the word sobriety for myself though because I think that Getting sober is a phrase that some people really earn and deserve because the challenges are immense. And while it was not easy and I really had to recalibrate my relationship with alcohol and myself and my self-worth and all of that sort of stuff, it wasn't an addiction in the sense that other people often battle with. And I think they deserve to claim sobriety. So I think I used the term a couple of times for myself and it didn't sit right. But also it felt very final. […]
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- 393 ratings
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