In this episode of The Amazingly AF Mother Daughter Podcast, Jaime sits down with her friend and very first podcast guest, certified sobriety coach Paula Devine, founder of The Happiest Hour, a concierge sobriety practice supporting women who are ready to change their relationship with alcohol and step into an intentional, alcohol-free life.

Paula shares her honest story of growing up in South Florida, working in the alcohol industry, and slowly realizing that drinking no longer felt aligned — especially as her children got older. There was no dramatic rock bottom. Instead, it was the exhausting “miserable middle”: planning when to drink, negotiating limits, managing hangovers, and feeling quietly out of alignment.

Jaime and Paula talk about motherhood, shame, emotional sobriety, and why community is often the missing piece in lasting alcohol-free change.

If you’re sober curious, questioning your drinking, or craving more clarity and purpose, this episode will resonate.

In This Episode, We Cover:

• The “miserable middle” and constant mental negotiation around alcohol
• Drinking in motherhood and the shame many women carry
• Why you don’t need a rock bottom to quit
• The fear of stopping — and what’s on the other side
• Building community and finding women you relate to
• The difference between sobriety and emotional sobriety
• Tools that support long-term change: gratitude, journaling, spirituality, and honest self-check-ins

Paula’s message is simple:
How much longer do you want to feel like this?

Connect with Paula:
Instagram: @happiest_houraf
Website: www.happiestouraf.com

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Going into this episode, Jaime had a gut feeling something wasn’t right and she was right.

Her mom Jules was getting ready to return to Mexico, and Jaime felt anxious that old habits might be creeping back in. The conversation wasn’t planned. There was no agenda. And then, in real time, Jules shared something she hadn’t told anyone.

She had secretly taken GLP-1 weight loss injections in an attempt to lose weight before the trip. What followed was severe illness and, just as importantly, a return of shame, guilt, secrecy, and lying, patterns that felt painfully familiar from past struggles with alcohol, pills, and disordered eating.

This episode is an honest, unfiltered conversation about how old patterns can resurface in new ways, even when we’re doing “well.” It’s about the cost of hiding, the power of telling the truth, and why this moment became a wake-up call, not a failure.

This conversation was not prepared or rehearsed. It’s real, emotional, and deeply human.

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*Jules has a slight echo on this one but we will ensure this doesn't happen for future episodes

In this episode of The Amazingly AF Mother Daughter Podcast, Jaime and her mom Jules have an honest conversation about romanticizing alcohol and why our brains tend to remember the fun moments while forgetting the full reality.

They reflect on dive bars, date nights, TV shows, and celebrity drinking culture, and discuss how alcohol often hijacked entire days and weekends, led to poor sleep, emotional reactivity, and next-day regret.

Jaime and Jules also talk about what has replaced drinking in their lives, including better sleep, calmer mornings, intentional routines, and deeper connection. They share why playing the tape forward matters and how alcohol-free life brings more peace and clarity.

In This Episode, We Cover

• Romanticizing alcohol and selective memory
• Dive bars, date nights, and what those nights really looked like
• How alcohol derails entire days and weekends
• Fighting, forgetting arguments, and next-day regret
• TV and celebrity drinking culture
• Why the romance disappears quickly
• Replacing wine time with routines and rituals
• Morning and evening routines without alcohol
• Playing the tape forward
• Why alcohol-free life brings more peace and clarity

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