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Millie Gooch
Mental Health
Workplace Wellbeing
Diversity and Inclusion
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.


Self Improvement
Mental Health Awareness
Founder
Author
Influencer
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.
Topics, sessions and talks
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.
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.
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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.
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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