About Janey
Janey Lee Grace is the founder of The Sober Club, a qualified sober coach and sober coach trainer, author, broadcaster, and one of the UK’s leading voices on alcohol-free living.
Her early career was as a backing singer with George Michael, Wham, Kim Wilde, Boy George, and many others leading to her own top 10 hit with Cola Boy. She spent 25 years as a presenter on BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon – one of the UK’s most listened-to radio programmes, and as a Hay House Radio presenter interviewed hundreds of spiritual gurus about their lives, wellbeing, and personal transformations. Many of them spoke openly about sobriety long before it was fashionable to do so.
What she didn’t realise at the time was that she was quietly navigating her own relationship with alcohol. In January 2018, she quit drinking – initially for Dry January and never looked back. She describes sobriety as the most transformative decision of her life.
That journey from broadcasting to deep personal change is the foundation of everything Janey teaches today.
Qualifications & credentials
- Qualified Grey Area Drinking Coach trained with Jolene Park, the practitioner who coined and defined the concept of grey area drinking
- NLP Practitioner (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
- EFT Practitioner, Level 2 (Emotional Freedom Technique)
- Matrix Re-imprinting Practitioner
- Family Constellations Therapist
- Optimum Health & Wellbeing Coach
- Media Coach – over two decades of professional experience
Books
- Happy Healthy Sober – Janey’s definitive guide to alcohol-free living, covering mindset, nutrition, holistic wellbeing, and identity
- Imperfectly Natural Woman — Amazon No.1 Bestseller, a landmark book on natural, holistic living
- Stress to Calm in 7 Minutes — co-authored with Beverley Densham
- From Wham to Woo – A Life on the Mic – Janey’s memoir about her days as a singer and presenter
Media & public profile
- BBC Radio 2 presenter for over 25 years (Steve Wright in the Afternoon)
- TEDx speaker – Sobriety Rocks – Who Knew! (widely viewed and shared in the sobriety community)
- Podcast host – Alcohol Free Life from The Sober Club – ranking in the top 5 per cent of podcasts globally, over 450 episodes featuring leading experts in sobriety, wellbeing, nutrition, and mindset
- Regular contributor and commentator on alcohol-free living in UK media
The Sober Club
In 2019, Janey founded The Sober Club – a non judgemental online wellbeing community for the sober and sober curious, built around the principle that sobriety isn’t about deprivation, but about stepping into your most authentic, vibrant life.
The Sober Club is home to hundreds of members and a growing directory of Sober Club Accredited Coaches – all trained personally by Janey and all bringing their own lived experience of going alcohol-free and loving the freedom.
The Sober Club Coach Training
Janey trains and accredits sober life coaches through The Sober Club’s 8-week Accredited Sober Coach Training Programme. The training is designed for people who are alcohol-free themselves and want to support grey area drinkers and the sober curious – using a holistic, forward-focused coaching approach with no 12-step or clinical framework.
The training covers personal mastery and transformation alongside professional coaching skills, business development, marketing, and media confidence.
Janey’s approach
Janey’s coaching philosophy is holistic, non-judgemental, and forward-focused. She draws on her qualifications in NLP, EFT, Matrix Re-imprinting, and Family Constellations – alongside her deep knowledge of nutrition, naturopathy, and mindset – to work with the whole person, not just the drinking habit.
She works exclusively with grey area drinkers and the sober curious. Her coaching is not a clinical or addiction treatment service, and she does not use AA or 12-step principles.
“I believe that when you remove alcohol from your life, what’s revealed is the most authentic version of yourself. My job is to help people find that person – and fall in love with them.” Janey Lee Grace
Written by Janey Lee Grace – BBC Radio 2 broadcaster, Amazon No.1 author, qualified Grey Area Drinking Coach, Coach Trainer, NLP practitioner, and founder of The Sober Club.