Podcast Features & Speaking Engagements

Colleen Clifford is a keynote speaker and author of Life Beyond the Binge, where she shares her personal journey through binge drinking, the challenges she faced, including losing her husband to alcohol-related suicide, and how she broke free from self-sabotaging patterns. A former commercial fisherwoman and binge drinking survivor, Colleen now empowers women and individuals to master cravings, break free from alcohol, and create lives fully aligned with their values, without shame, fear, or perfection.

Through honest storytelling, actionable strategies, and practical tools, Colleen helps audiences understand binge drinking, recognize emotional triggers, and take steps toward clarity, confidence, and choice-driven change. Her talks inspire hope, self-awareness, and the empowerment to live authentically and on your own terms, offering the mindset shifts and connection that transformed her life.

For speaking engagements, podcast interviews, or collaborations consider booking Colleen. 

• Colleen is a trusted podcast guest on binge drinking, sober living, and mental health, sharing her lived experience with compassion and depth.

She speaks openly about:

• The stories we believe about ourselves - how they form, how they influence our choices, and how they can be rewritten.
   
• The behaviors beneath the surface.  Binge drinking, emotional eating, perfectionism, overworking, people pleasing and other coping mechanisms that often make sense when we understand what is driving them.
   
• Healing after loss and post-traumatic growth - suicide ideation - 988 helpline - resilience after adversity and how people can move through grief, trauma, setbacks and life-altering experiences without being defined by them.
   
• Hope and transformation with the belief that lasting change doesn't come from becoming someone else; it comes from change the story you have been living.  Re-inventing ourselves after alcohol.
   

Her conversations leave listeners feeling seen, hopeful, and empowered to take action.

              -   Marianne Pestana KMET Radio Talk Show-   https://open.spotify.com/episode/0MLQC9PEarLc97fVSPflZ7?si=05ad57bcbc954550

• One Last Hit - Austin Rampt - https://open.spotify.com/episode/28H0Sy8HZbwKrgQW6vHfPC?si=dbd5c30a0f114aff
• Mishaps, Magic & Mayhem -   https://open.spotify.com/episode/7BHDhNbYD0ZfwdmRdtwPd8?si=5bb58637073148e4
• Tromody - Nancy Norton https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FBFEINKNjioqE7N9lDath?si=c64864c2e7994bea
• Positive Talk Radio - https://open.spotify.com/episode/39KF9ngBKYIrIID63GvduM?si=8ee41f76b1eb4e78
• Blue Hour - https://open.spotify.com/episode/72tU0Y8DEEx0yfpQchMQ7T?si=09e11e0f9685433e
• Sexual Empowerment for Women - Why Women Binge Drink: The Hidden Survival Pattern No One Talks About   
• Kickin’ It with KeKe - Life at Sea Changed Everything 
• Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation - High-Functioning but Hurting: Binge Drinking, Grief & Breaking Hidden Coping Patterns 
• Euphoric The Podcast - Is Binge Drinking More Dangerous Than You Think? with Colleen Clifford
• Clockedin Podcast — Seven Near-Deaths, One Decision To Live Alcohol-Free 
• Oh, My Health…. There is Hope!  — Colleen Clifford on the Dangers of Binge Drinking 
• HER Truth Revealed: Unraveling Our Midlife Era — Life Beyond the Binge, Midlife Transitions, and the Wild Card Moment That Changes Everything
• The Mindful Sobriety Podcast — When You Can’t Moderate anymore: A conversation about Binge Drinking
• The Sober Fix Podcast with Drew - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4NEJcxHdpr74WeQOAHmdIX?si=2df9343480c54375
• The Sober New Yorker — Beyond the Binge: Conversations Around, Life, Loss & Recovery
• Shine with Gina Kunadian — The Final Binge: How Colleen Clifford Broke Free and Reclaimed Her Life

                   Becoming Your Best Version Podcast - A Conversation with Colleen Clifford

                   Mindset Mastery -https://open.spotify.com/episode/6SdfnIIgtAC2IdwrFigQfC?si=u9L-GomMSaOly6mfNsoWmw

                   Mindset Medicine - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7fQv71dA7MpNkj54ikTbuf?si=2df9c0167d174438

• Addiction Medicine Made Easy - Dr. Casey Grover

                    https://open.spotify.com/episode/1pGaZyjAicTavHZpoZ3PSO?si=7d61010c66f344f6             

                   Warrior Forward the Podcast -  https://open.spotify.com/episode/4CFmpPshH1DXTPbf6omcbp?si=1d81eacca980400a

Colleen delivers impactful talks for conferences, retreats, wellness events, schools, recovery communities, and corporate audiences. Her warm, engaging style connects deeply, no matter the audience size.  You can reach her at Colleen@lifebeyondthebinge.com with an invitation.  She'd love the opportunity to get on your stage.

• Change Your Story, Change Your Life
   
• The Story Beneath the Coping Behavior- What is it and is it true?
   
• Life Beyond the Binge
   
• From Surviving to Thriving

• The Mask We Wear

• Increased self-awareness and confidence
   
• Practical tools to shift limiting behaviors
   
• They stop seeing themselves as the problem and understand the story beneath their struggle.   Most importantly, they leave believing they have the power to rewrite that story.
   
• Empowerment to live authentically and on their own terms