Ep 104: Finding Your Strength in Sobriety with Sally Magee

What if we focused on what we are doing RIGHT on this alcohol free journey? This is the question that my guest, Sally Magee and I explore on this podcast. The Clifton Strengths framework has existed as a way to help leaders build better teams; it’s also a way to explore self-leadership. Sally is doing something unique; she’s applying it to the alcohol-free journey.

We talk about:

  • How to move from Self-Awareness to Self-Appreciation
  • How your top 5 Strengths differentiate you from others
  • How Clifton Strengths can help you stop drinking with a custom approach
  • Which strengths lend themselves to ‘over-drinking’
  • Understanding that our strengths are also our weaknesses

Sally Magee is a Gallup-Certified Strengths coach, certified Sobriety Coach and founder of Magee Coaching Solutions. For more than a decade, she’s been coaching leaders and executives using the CliftonStrengths® assessment as the basis for cultivating leadership potential.

As a sobriety coach, she is building on her experience as a coach and workshop facilitator, along with her 25 years of experience in the engineering and construcion industry, to inspire authentic leadership through sobriety.

She provides a judgment-free zone for high-achieving professionals to Reach New Heights by removing alcohol from their life’s equation.

Sally lives in Palm Springs, California with her husband, Mike and their chocolate lab, Tucker.

To hear more inspirational stories like these, hit subscribe so you never miss out!

Latest Episodes

Coming to Our Senses – Alcohol-Free

Coming to Our Senses – Alcohol-Free

In Gretchen Rubin's book 'Life in Five Senses', she challenges the reader to heighten our senses and use our powers of perception to live fuller, richer lives—and, ultimately, how to move through the world with more vitality and love. While reading the book, I was...

My Big Sober Feelings

My Big Sober Feelings

  Oh boy, those big sober feelings! Big feelings can be a big challenge—especially in an alcohol-free life. Emotional maturity is a skill that takes a lifetime of practice. Both a challenge and an opportunity, leaving alcohol behind means we are going to have to...

Finding Focus Alcohol-Free with Michelle Houston

Finding Focus Alcohol-Free with Michelle Houston

One of the common justifications that I hear for drinking alcohol has to do with the desire to 'turn my brain off', or to simply relax. And, with over 40 million Americans with anxiety disorder and 32% of the population experiencing increased anxiety symptoms, it's no...

Emotions, Motivation and Alcohol

Emotions, Motivation and Alcohol

Emotions, motivation and alcohol. When it comes to emotions, we need to understand a few things about alcohol and the connection between our feelings and our motivations. There are four pillars of human motivation that overlap with emotions.  Avoid pain: our natural...

Encore: Not Drinking Tonight with Amanda E. White

Encore: Not Drinking Tonight with Amanda E. White

The most popular episode of The Sober Edge Podcast is a conversation I had with Amanda E. White. Amanda and I chatted in November 2021 and since that time Amanda has continued to be a strong advocate and voice for women to say no to drinking. I am sharing this encore...

Starting Over on Your Alcohol-free Journey

Starting Over on Your Alcohol-free Journey

  Getting a 'fresh start' or 'a new lease on life' might seem the perfect way to begin your alcohol-free journey. But, what if we have some time away from alcohol, and then we go back to drinking, first just the occasional glass of wine, or beer on a hot summer's day....

Straight Talk: Surgeon General’s Alcohol Warning

Straight Talk: Surgeon General’s Alcohol Warning

Straight Talk About Alcohol Warning Labels I woke up to the NY Times headline on Friday, January 3, 2025: Breaking news: Surgeon general calls for cancer warnings on alcohol. This headline generated a lot of messages and conversations with my family, clients and...

A Word to Live By for 2025

A Word to Live By for 2025

Happy 2025!  I love the energy of intention that comes with a new year. I no longer set resolutions, but I believe it is important to explore where we have been and what is ahead. I have been enjoying hearing from other thought leaders and some of my mentors about how...

My Christmas Wish

My Christmas Wish

My Christmas Wish for You Merry Christmas! This message will land in your inbox on Christmas Day (if you are in the Northern Hemisphere) and I wanted to take a moment and share my Christmas wish with all of you. My life changed profoundly in 2015 when I decided I...

Looking for more?

Let’s connect on Social Media!