This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari speaks on the power of meditation. He discusses the science of meditation and the benefits it will have on your health, such as lowering your blood pressure, strengthening your immune system and decreasing inflammation in the body. Meditation is so powerful and it causes massive shifts in our awareness. As you will hear in this episode, the practice of meditation helped him gain the awareness that his life was not fulfilling. In fact, Ruari credits...
Jul 11, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 19
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Jen welcomes Michelle Sabourin, one of the latest additions to the OYNB coaching team to the show. They discuss Michelle’s background before she got into coaching and how her journey started by doing yoga after having her second child as a way to relax. After finding a real love for the practice, Michelle later went on to teach yoga and meditation. After some time, she realised that what she actually liked most was helping people holistically, so she dec...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 18
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Jen teaches us why you should consider getting a coach. Jen shares the story of her life before finding someone to help develop and push her towards peak performance, and that experience actually led to her deciding to become a coach herself. As Jen shares in this episode, the first coach you find may not be exactly the right one for you, you may have to look around to find the right person. Jen outlines the basic principle of coaching - which is to unde...
Jun 27, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 17
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari speaks on the many benefits of fasting. Fasting can be a great tool for weight loss, fighting insulin resistance, and changing up your eating habits. Fasting has been shown to reduce insulin resistance, which means your body will be more able to use the fat you already have stored for energy. Insulin resistance is a condition where your body has trouble using insulin correctly. Insulin resistance is a precursor to type 2 diabetes, which can happen ...
Jun 20, 2022•22 min•Season 2Ep. 16
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari welcomes his brother Stuart back on to the show. They discuss Stuart's work on a conservation site in South Africa and why he started doing 1 to 1 coaching. He has now decided that joining One Year No Beer as a coach is the best next step for him. He is on a mission to teach people how to change the whole of their life using coaching. Stuart also speaks on the process of learning how to be a better coach by getting more training. In this episode yo...
Jun 13, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 15
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari welcomes his brother Stuart Fairbairns on to the show. They discuss what it was like to live on the island of Mull and Stuart shares his experiences of alcohol growing up in a rural area as well as his journey in alcohol reduction. Stuart speaks on his decision to move to south africa and start a life out there. Ruari and Stuart also go into detail about the difference between generations and how that affects their relationships with alcohol In thi...
Jun 07, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 14
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast you will hear content usually reserved exclusively for OYNB webinars as Ruari and Jen discuss the enormous power of finding your focus. They speak about how doing their very own One Year No Beer challenge benefitted them personally and how the experience spurred on the birth and subsequent growth of the globally impactful OYNB brand. They discuss the path Ruari took from being an oil broker to co-founding One Year No Beer and Jen shares the decisions she...
May 30, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 13
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari discusses the brand new Complete Control program that they’re testing out and launching Monday 6th June 2022. In this program, they will put together a private group of no more than 10 driven and successful business owners, entrepreneurs, and top professionals - persons who are also concerned about their alcohol consumption and are ready to take back control of their drinking in a discreet way that doesn't affect their business or reputation. They ...
May 26, 2022•13 min
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari discusses what his first-ever alcohol-free period was like and why it created the huge amount of life-affirming and life-altering changes that he gained from the experience. Ruari explains the massive power that he has witnessed from helping over 80,000 members undertake their own alcohol-free challenges and he breaks down why a one year period of alcohol abstinence creates so much positive impact on people. In the show, Ruari also reads out commen...
May 23, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 11
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari and Jen discuss this season of the show, sharing their top takeaways from the amazing stories that members of OYNB have shared this season. One Year No Beer is based on the idea of creating change for yourself for the better by focusing your mindset around your relationship with alcohol. Jen shares her reasons why she changed her relationship with alcohol. Ruari breaks down the journey of improving your attitude towards alcohol and seeing the many ...
May 16, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 10
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari and Jen welcome Rosalind Richardson to the show. This episode discusses a real transformation experience, not just in terms of health, but also in terms of life direction and purpose. Roz shares the mistakes she made because of her relationship with alcohol, and the effect that changing her relationship with alcohol had on her life. She says her children played an important role in her decision to stop drinking and smoking and she also shares many ...
May 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 9
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari and Jen welcome OYNB member Claire Holiday. During the conversation, Claire discusses her relationship with alcohol and how she started on her journey toward changing it. She shares how people label themselves based on their drinking habits and how the wrong beliefs around drinking culture can have a huge impact on many areas of life. Claire, like many others, found herself in a cycle of working in a busy job as well as raising her family and findi...
May 02, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 8
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast, Ruari discusses how to carefully and effectively talk to a friend who you think is drinking too much. Ruari will share an appropriate way of approaching your friend or family member in your effort to help them change their relationship with alcohol. One of the members of OYNB shared recently that what was helpful for them in changing their relationship with alcohol was reading other people’s stories. Ruari points out that it is vital to building trust w...
Apr 25, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 7
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari and Jen welcome Julian Tittershill on to the show. Julian is someone who has an amazing, thought-provoking and empowering story to share. As a former rugby club captain and regular member of the local cricket club he is someone who grew up surrounded by drinking culture, so this episode sheds light on the impact of hobbies that accompany alcohol can have. Julian is a vital part in the OYNB community, as an active member and community moderator. The...
Apr 18, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 6
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari and Jen welcome Quirine Overeijnder on to the show. Their discussion revolves around how OYNB assisted Quirine in chasing a new level of achievement, happiness and clarity by going alcohol-free. Quirine shares her story of how she started consuming alcohol and realised that, what she considered to be normal levels of student drinking, was actually potentially detrimental to her overall well-being. These days, Quirine enjoys life without the influen...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 5
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast, Ruari welcomes Matt McCormick onto the show. Matt is a coach at OYNB. He shares how OYNB coaches and members mentored and motivated him to live an improved lifestyle after deciding that an alcohol-free lifestyle would give him more enjoyment, more time and more opportunities. In this episode you will learn: Living an alcohol-free life isn’t giving something up. “It wasn’t that I stopped drinking; it wasn’t about stopping, it was about starting. ” How th...
Apr 04, 2022•54 min•Season 2Ep. 4
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast, Ruari and Jen welcome Andy Garwood onto the show. Andy loves to motivate and encourage other members to keep trying no matter what it takes, and to believe that they, too, can achieve their goals. Along with his achievements, he shares the struggles and hardships that he withstood on his quest to live a life free of alcohol. Andy speaks about his experience of staying alcohol-free for 1,382 days in this episode, and teaches listeners about the kind of a...
Mar 28, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In this episode, Jen and Ruari discuss Gary's relationship with alcohol, how he started to discover it, and eventually how he got addicted. Born in 1972 in the West of Ireland into a farming background. Gary has 2 younger brothers. Things were sometimes a little tricky growing up because he was born with Spina Bifida which meant relatively frequent trips to the hospital, lots of rehabs, missed school etc. There were no “special” facilities in those days. Upon finishing school he did a degree in ...
Mar 21, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 2
This week on the One Year No Beer Podcast with Ruari and Jen, the new hosts discuss what’s going to be happening with this brand new season of the podcast and they share why this series is all about transformation. As they highlight in this episode, the focus of this new season of the show is about the amazing stories and journeys of the OYNB members - who you will be hearing from in person in this new format of the podcast. Some of the members you’ll be hearing from have dived so deeply into th...
Mar 14, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 1
In this brief 'pilot show', Ruari from One Year No Beer shares what's coming up in this series of the podcast! And in Season 2 we are turning the spotlight on the amazing OYNB members to share their incredible journeys to inspire listeners to go on their own mission of personal improvement! The One Year No Beer Podcast is the show created to inspire you to take the steps needed to Finally Transform Your Relationship With Alcohol. This podcast will help you to kick start your healthy habits and r...
Mar 14, 2022•6 min
The One Year No Beer Podcast is the show created to inspire you to take the steps needed to Finally Transform Your Relationship With Alcohol. This podcast will help you to kick start your healthy habits and reconnect with your true self by taking you on the journey of becoming the most productive, present and healthiest version of yourself. You’ll hear the inspiring, motivating and thought-provoking stories of some of the 80,000+ OYNB members who have changed their lives and now enjoy improved s...
Feb 25, 2022•2 min
Do you ever get hung up on perfection, black and white thinking, and the feeling that you must choose between all and nothing? That’s the kind of thing that today’s guest deals with on a regular basis. Listen in to Jessica Seeley Jennings to find out about her work with wellpower and accepting yourself. Jessica is the wife of Jeff Jennings, of Relationship Remastery. You can hear his interview in an earlier episode. In today’s episode of One Year No Beer, Jessica discusses some of the things tha...
Feb 08, 2021•41 min
Changing your relationship with alcohol is a huge and important journey. But humans are complex, and they can go through more than one huge and important journey in their lives, and maybe even during the same time period. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Seth Staggs about his childhood in the Bible Belt of America, coming out as a member of the LGBT community, and making his OYNB journey. As of this recording, Seth Staggs is on day 388 with no alcohol, making him a OYNB success story. Seth h...
Feb 01, 2021•54 min
One Year No Beer is about something much bigger than changing an individual’s relationship with alcohol. It’s about changing society’s relationship with alcohol. And often, when one person makes a significant change, they find a way to share that change with a broader group of people. That’s what today’s guest did. In today’s episode, Johnny Johnson discusses the drinking culture that he was a part of. He didn’t consider himself an alcoholic or think of his drinking as anything over the top – it...
Dec 08, 2020•47 min
Sometimes, in the wake of a tragedy or difficult life event, people find themselves turning to alcohol to numb the pain. But today’s guest is proof that it’s possible to overcome tragedy and difficult life circumstances and to give up alcohol. It takes work and commitment, but it can be done. Chris Hemming is a man with a dramatic life story. In today’s episode, he frankly discusses how his little brother began experimenting with alcohol, and how that experimentation culminated in a fatal car cr...
Nov 30, 2020•45 min
Dr. Alan Desmond is a returning guest to the One Year No Beer podcast. Alan is a gastroenterologist and a passionate advocate of plant-based diets. In today’s episode, Alan discusses his own One Year No Beer journey. He talks about how he would give up drinking when he was training for Spartan races and why he finally decided to give up alcohol for good. He was training for a Spartan Ultra, and he decided to begin a challenge 90 days before a race. Like many people who try the One Year No Beer c...
Nov 18, 2020•36 min
The One Year No Beer Podcast has a new co-host! Kristine Laping will be joining host Chris Laping to bring you guests, stories, and insights on the One Year No Beer Podcast. In today’s episode, Chris and Kristine talk with Rakale Hannah. Rakale is a one-to-one coach in the ONYB community, but that’s not her only important role. Rakale is also a gifted musician who has just released an album entitled Other Side of Blue. Rakale has a moving personal story to share, and in today’s episode, she disc...
Nov 06, 2020•51 min
Over the past few weeks, the One Year No Beer Podcast has had several great guests who have discussed things like how relationships change when you stop drinking, the importance of finding self-love and self-worth, and the exhilaration of taking a major leap, like quitting a day job to follow your passion. Today’s episode combines elements from all of those themes in one show. In today’s podcast, you’ll hear from host Chris Laping and his wife Kristine Laping about their experiences with giving ...
Oct 23, 2020•39 min
Does making one big change make other changes easier to make? For example, can changing your relationship with alcohol also make it easier to make other healthy lifestyle choices? Can it give you the confidence to follow your passions professionally or personally? In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Clare Freeman. Clare has reached 775 days entirely without alcohol at the time of this podcast recording. She’s also built a successful business and hosts a popular podcast of her own. In today’s in...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 5 min
One Year No Beer is all about changing your relationship with alcohol. But when you do that, you might find yourself dealing with changes in your other relationships as well. How do you maintain a relationship with a friend when the foundation of that relationship is meeting up for drinks – and you’ve stopped drinking? What about your romantic relationships? Is your relationship with a spouse or partner doomed if you stop drinking and they don’t? What’s the best way to get your partner to suppor...
Oct 05, 2020•57 min
