Sober Curator Podcast

Sober Travel: Airport Hacks, Inflatable Walkers + Your Invite to Our First Retreat

July 29
45 mins

Episode Description

It starts in a hotel lobby in Orlando. It ends with an invitation to Scottsdale. In between: inflatable walkers, a steam-filled hotel bathroom, Dollywood in full Dolly drag, sumo suits bought in bulk, and every sober travel hack we actually use.

Alysse and Tamar are joined by ride-or-die Sober Curator Amy Liz Harrison (50+ articles, 8 kids, airline-executive husband, carry-on always over the weight limit) for a masterclass in traveling sober and loving it. Because here's the thing about sober travel: you remember everything. Including the reason you got kicked out.

In this episode:

  • The Golden Girls incident at PodFest Orlando, and how Amy steamed an entire hotel bathroom trying to inflate a walker (ADHD time blindness is real, friends)

  • Dressed as Dolly at Dollywood. You would think there would be more of us. You would be wrong.

  • The airport hack every sober traveler should know: asking the gate agent to page "a friend of Bill W." Tamar has done it three times. People showed up.

  • Amy's research on 26 airports with interfaith prayer rooms, meditation spaces, and sensory-friendly quiet rooms, born from wishing recovery had its own USO

  • Why wearing sober merch while traveling turns strangers into your people (it's a team jersey, and your team is sober)

  • Travel hacks: Amy's secret-compartment vest, Tamar's carry-on conversion, and the time we got kicked out of the Neon Museum gift shop with our arms full of merchandise

  • THE BIG ONE: Cover Story, The Sober Curator's first-ever retreat

Cover Story Retreat: October 15 to 18, 2026

You didn't get sober to sit in the back row. Four days and three nights at the brand-new Kimpton Miralina Resort & Villas in Paradise Valley (Scottsdale), Arizona, in partnership with Evolve Retreats. All meals and NA beverages included. A 30-minute on-location photo shoot with photographer Barbie Hull. B-roll captured for you all weekend. A costume outing (it's Sober October, we will deliver). A group-built Sober in Scottsdale city guide. A live podcast recording. Sound baths and hikes for the wellness people, shopping and art galleries for the rest of us.

$3,299 single / $2,700 double. Prices go up August 21. Small group, think dinner party, not conference.

➤ Details + booking: https://evolveretreats.co/cover-story

Sober Shots from this episode:

  • "I've never had so much fun traveling as I have as a sober person because, wait for it, I remember everything." (Alysse)

  • "What do we feel like doing today? Let's get in sumo costumes." (Amy)

  • "It's the same thing as wearing a jersey. It's just your team sober." (Amy)

  • "We don't need a lot of reason to do something dumb. Very little runway and we're taking off." (Alysse)

  • "You didn't get sober to sit in the back row." (Alysse)

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Music Credits: Positive Vibes, Artist: MoodMode - Storyblocks ⁠https://www.descript.com/terms-storyblocks⁠ 

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