Why Do I Feel Like I Have No Control Over Food at Parties?

In this episode, Alana sits down with Evan Cudworth, who calls himself the world's first party coach, for an unscripted conversation about parties, food, alcohol, and what it actually takes to enjoy yourself in a room full of people. Alana tells a story from her mid-twenties she hasn't told on the show before: going to every event she was supposed to go to, then standing in the corner with her arms folded the entire night, eye-rolling, thinking this sucks, everyone sucks. Evan tells the story of a beach party at a low point in his life, and the stranger who put a hand on his shoulder and said one sentence that redirected everything after it.

Most women walk into a party believing the food and the drinks hold all the power. It's there, so I have to have it. Alana takes that sentence apart directly. Evan makes the case that the room itself is the arena where confidence, insecurity, connection, and escape all get practiced, and that what you're really there for was never the thing on the table. They also get into the part almost nobody names: what it costs to stop being the person who doesn't have fun, and why that identity is harder to put down than the food is.

This episode is for the woman who is composed and capable all week and then can't get through a wedding, a dinner party, or a work event without negotiating with herself the whole time. Who says no to things she'd genuinely like to go to. Who has done years of work on food and still comes home from a party either depleted or convinced she blew it. Alana and Evan get into what actually changes your experience of the room, and it is not more willpower at the table.

Guest Info:

Evan Cudworth is the world's first party coach. He works with people on how to access fun, connection, and their own version of sobriety inside party spaces, and his mission is to reconnect humanity through party culture. He is based in Chicago, where he currently runs group programs.

Website: partycoach.me

Instagram: @evan_cudworth

TikTok: @evan_cudworth

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