Independence from the Sunday scaries

📖 The Fourth is here: fireworks, cookouts, and a long weekend with your name on it. It's Independence Day, so why not declare a little independence from the Sunday scaries too? Our full playbook keeps your weekend social and sharp, whether you're going full club soda or just pacing between rounds.

🍋‍🟩 New Club Soda Club app build coming tomorrow. If you have signed up for alpha testing, a new build will go live tomorrow packed with new features. For those of you on the waitlist, you will get access too. If you have an iPhone and want to be added to the next batch of testers, reply to this email.

⚽️ The Scottish have gone home (or to Disney World.) Their team never matched the fans' intensity, but the Tartan Army more than made up for it, leaving their mark on Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and everywhere in between. Here's what five days partying with them taught me.

🍺 Money is doing some of the work for us. Over a third of people drinking less in 2026 point to one reason: drinks just got too expensive. Wellness gets the headlines, but the bar tab is quietly the more persuasive argument and a key reason I believe the Club Soda Club app works. You actually see how much you’re saving in real time.

produced by Scott Nixon

Sis Cerino has been part of the Club Soda Club since January 2026. Her turning point? Realizing alcohol wasn't the social lubricant she thought it was — it caused more anxiety than it ever took away. She was tired of waking up wondering what she'd said the night before. Cutting back made it clear which friendships were really built on drinking, but going out never stopped — she and her husband still love trying local spots, and it's far less intimidating than she expected. Her at-home go-to: a tropical mojito with garden mint, pineapple, coconut, lime, and fresh Pellegrino. Her advice? Try one night out without it, keep your options stocked, and go from there.

Know someone who's thinking about it? There's no membership requirement.

Part-time members, full-time members, "I'm just curious" members. All welcome. So whether you've got a friend who's been saying "I should probably cut back" every Sunday morning for the last six months, or a friend who's already all-in on the alcohol-free life and just hasn't found their people yet — send them your link . They subscribe to the free newsletter, you both win. No pressure, no program, no weird pamphlets.

Basically, if they've ever ordered a club soda (or anything else non-alcoholic) and felt like they had to explain themselves... they're already one of us.

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