In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Colleen Freeland, a master certified life coach and emotional sobriety pioneer, shares her transformative journey from a high-functioning perfectionist grappling with a 20-year alcohol use disorder to becoming a founder of a thriving multi-seven figure business – all while managing the demands of parenting seven children. This conversation offers executive assistants critical lessons on managing stress, prioritizing self-care, and resisting burnout in high-pressure roles.
Leadership Quote
“A leader is focused on the solution, not the problem.”
About Colleen Freeland
Colleen Freeland is the founder Emotional Sobriety Coaching© and the host of the globally top-ranked It’s Not About the Alcohol podcast. Thousands of high achieving, professional women have used her holistic methodology to transform into the version of themselves who can genuinely “take it or leave it” when it comes to drinking. Emotional sobriety is a skills-based approach based on the science of mindfulness, nervous system regulation and self-directed neuroplasticity that allows you to retrain your brain to work for you, instead of against you.
Colleen secretly struggled as a high functioning, heavy daily drinker for over 20 years. She finally realized that her over-drinking wasn’t about weakness and self-indulgence. It was a symptom of chronic self-neglect fueled by the stress of being an anxious, hyper-productive perfectionist.
Colleen Freeland is an addiction and recovery-certified master life coach with an MSc in health coaching, a BS in biology and chemistry education and is certified as a women’s functional and integrative professional.