Florence Welch has one of the most recognizable voices in music. She also has one of the more honest answers to the question of why she stopped drinking.

She is, by her own description, all or nothing. Not the kind of person who has one glass of wine and calls it a night. The kind of person for whom one glass of wine is simply the beginning of a longer and less predictable evening.

Your first BACKSTAGE event is here in less than TWO HOURS. And we are not starting small.

Rufi Thorpe, the author of Margo’s Got Money Troubles, is joining us live for an intimate conversation inside the BACKSTAGE community. If you’ve been watching the Apple TV+ series (premiering April 15, one week before we meet), you already know why this matters. If you read the book when we first covered it in our Addiction Fiction section two years ago, you’ve been waiting for this moment.

This is not a panel. This is not a press junket. This is a small, private group conversation with the woman who created Margo, Jinx, Shyanne, and one of the most talked-about stories in pop culture right now.

We will talk about the book. The show. The characters. What it means to write addiction and recovery as just part of who a person is, instead of a plot device or a cautionary tale.

This event is exclusively for BACKSTAGE Founding Members.

I met Toni for the first time in person at the Amplify Sober Voices podcast convention in Orlando this past January — which is one of those very niche sentences that somehow also tells you everything you need to know about both of us. We were in a room full of sober podcasters, creators, advocates, and storytellers. The kind of room where people are building something bigger than themselves and are not especially interested in playing small.

If you’re looking for a recovery podcast that feels less like a clinical lecture and more like a chaotic (but somehow helpful) conversation at the back of an AA meeting, Sober Not Mature is your spot. Episode 214, “Jacob S. – Functional Medicine & Disfunctional Podcasters,” is a perfect example of why this show works.

You've got the stories. The opinions. A perspective shaped by lived experience and recovery. And yet, that podcast idea is still sitting in your Notes app collecting dust. We see you. We're holding space for people who've been dreaming about launching a podcast but don't know where to start, how to avoid burnout, or how to make it past episode three without losing steam. If that's you, you're in the right place. LEARN MORE HERE.

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