Drunk AF

Justin Kan is an American serial tech entrepreneur and investor who is most famous for the founding the massively popular streaming platform Twitch. He’s next most famous for live streaming every moment of his life, live to the internet for eight months in 2007 via a head mounted webcam.

In 2019 Justin announced his decision to quit drinking alcohol, which he said had been a big part of his identity since he was in high school, and also one of the ways he handled high-stress situations as a young start-up founder. He tells us about why he gave up, and what’s happened since.

Emily Schildt is the founder and CEO of Pop Up Grocer, which is a family of curated shops that feature new, better-for-you products. Emily and her team seek out really awesome, exciting, and beautifully presented new brands and products that you don’t usually find in the big grocery stores. They’re the grocery items that are right at the forefront of where food and drinks are going.

We talk to Emily not so much as someone who has a different relationship with alcohol herself, but someone who’s really seeing the growth and change in the non-alcoholic drinks category, from which she stocks lots of brands including our brand, AF.

Harry Jowsey is a star and the winner of reality TV shows Heartbreak Island and Too Hot to Handle, and a kind of professional smily hot guy internet sensation.

He was born in Australia, and did a year of high school in New Zealand where he was barred from attending his graduation dinner after removing his clothes and streaking through their sister school's prize-giving attended by the female pupils and their mothers. He was stood down for three days, and, well look who’s laughing now, Nelson College. He’s grown up to advise perhaps many of those exact female pupils on successful relationships via his Spotify show Dating Harry Jowsey.

He’s also an entrepreneur and investor, now living in LA, and he joins us fresh off an evening at the Grammy's.

Jordan Rondel, aka The Caker, turned a childhood passion of baking in Paris with her French grandparents into her life’s work. She’s a New Zealander who lives in LA making cakes and cake kits. She’s baked for Flea from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, collabed with Tezza, and had her ideas allegedly nicked by Chrissy Tiegen.

She talks to us about living a city where drinking is becoming less fashionable than eating cake.

Lotta Dann started drinking at age fifteen, trained as a journalist at age eighteen and spent the next twenty years perfecting both skills.

She built a successful career as a TV reporter, producer and director while simultaneously developing a remarkable aptitude for drinking a lot of alcohol.

Lotta became a household name when she confessed on national television in 2014 that she had a drinking problem. Her story on TVNZ’s Sunday programme struck a chord with thousands of women around the country.

She then literally wrote herself sober. Her blog, Mrs D is Going Without, began as a sort of personal diary but to her surprise people began commenting on it and telling her about their own struggles with alcohol.

And Lotta has never returned to drinking.