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Millie Gooch

Millie Gooch helps organisations build healthier, more inclusive cultures around alcohol and mental health. Founder of Sober Girl Society and a 2024 bCreator Changemaker of the Year nominee, she has partnered with Tinder, Anthropologie, and Microsoft.

Trusted by Charlotte Tilbury, ASOS, Barclays, Tinder, Anthropologie, Microsoft

Millie Gooch, Speaker | Author, Alcohol Change UK Ambassador
Millie Gooch

Millie Gooch

London, United Kingdom

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Millie Gooch's biography

At a glance

  • Founder of Sober Girl Society
  • Alcohol Change UK ambassador
  • 620k+ followers, 8% engagement rate

Millie Gooch is a writer, speaker, and the founder of Sober Girl Society, the sobriety movement she built into one of the UK's largest alcohol-free communities.


She is the author of The Sober Girl Society Handbook, described by the Evening Standard as "an empowering survival guide," and Hangxiety: How Alcohol Messes with Your Mind. She is a proud ambassador for Alcohol Change UK and was nominated for Changemaker of the Year at the 2024 bCreator Awards.


Since founding Sober Girl Society in 2018, Millie has grown a community of over 219,000 members and a wider online following of 620,000 people, with an 8 percent engagement rate. Her work with organisations including Tinder, Anthropologie, and Microsoft shows how she turns a personal story into practical guidance for supporting healthier relationships with alcohol.


Audiences leave with a clear way to talk about drinking culture at work, practical steps for supporting colleagues who choose to cut back or stop, and a fresh case for why sober curiosity benefits both wellbeing and productivity.


Book Millie to bring a credible, lived-experience voice on alcohol, mental health, and workplace culture to your event.

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Topics, sessions and talks

An Introduction To Sober Curiosity

Millie Gooch explores what it means to be sober curious in a culture that treats drinking as the default social currency. Drawing on her own decision to stop drinking and the community she built through Sober Girl Society, she unpacks the pressures that keep people drinking out of habit rather than choice, and the space that opens up when they don't. This session leaves audiences with a clearer, more curious way to think about their own relationship with alcohol.

Making Your Workplace Culture More Sober Curious

Millie Gooch shows managers and Diversity and Inclusion teams how to build a workplace culture that is genuinely sober inclusive. Drawing on her experience founding Sober Girl Society and working with organisations including Tinder, Anthropologie, and Microsoft, she covers why drinking culture at work can quietly exclude colleagues and what a more inclusive alternative looks like in practice. The session gives attendees concrete language for talking about alcohol at work and a stronger business case for taking sober inclusion seriously.

Why we recommend booking Millie

Millie Gooch's story and the community she has built at Sober Girl Society give her a credible voice on drinking culture, mental health, and workplace wellbeing. She helps teams talk about alcohol openly and supports healthier choices at work.

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Trusted by Charlotte Tilbury, ASOS, Barclays, Tinder, Anthropologie, Microsoft

Testimonials

At Charlotte Tilbury, our mission is to ensure that everyone, everywhere feels and looks like the best versions of themselves, and our internal dream teams have found Millie's inspiring and engaging talks have had a real positive impact. As a business, we know that by equipping and empowering our people with the right tools, the possibilities are endless. Millie's talks have offered an abundance of advice and practical tips that help anyone looking to better understand their relationship with drink, or to find the joy in living a more hangover free life. Our dream teams have found her open and optimistic manner a delight, as she shares her experiences in a way that feels like a chat with an old friend!

Charlotte Tilbury

Millie delivered an informative and insightful session filled with energy and wisdom as part of our employee learning and development event. Millie was so professional and great to work with. Thank you Millie for sharing your story and journey.

ASOS

Huge thanks from the Barclays' Let's Talk Alcohol team to Millie Gooch who was the guest speaker at a virtual session held as part of Alcohol Awareness week. Millie gave a brilliant presentation sharing tips, advice and knowledge for those looking to reconsider their relationship with alcohol, what it means to be sober curious, and some great tips on how to navigate many situations once the decision has been made to go sober, all backed up with some interesting facts and figures around alcohol. It generated a lot of great conversations and really helped in our agenda in raising awareness about alcohol and wellbeing in the workplace. Great feedback from many colleagues, some who have been inspired to start their Day Ones!

Barclays

Featured Projects

Millie Gooch - The Sober Girl Society Handbook book cover
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Millie Gooch structures her sessions around her own experience of stopping drinking and founding Sober Girl Society, using that personal narrative as a frame for delivering practical guidance — concrete language, business cases, and actionable steps — that audiences and organisations can apply directly.

What topics does Millie Gooch specialise in?

Millie Gooch speaks on sober curiosity, workplace inclusion around drinking culture, and the social pressures that sustain habitual alcohol consumption. She is the founder of Sober Girl Society, a community of over 219,000 members, and the author of two books on alcohol and mental health, with corporate clients including Tinder, Anthropologie, and Microsoft.

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