Who's behind this
About our founder, Thandokazi Ntshinga.
For twelve years, drinking was part of Thando's life, it started as curiosity, and slowly turned into binge drinking. She tried to quit more than once over the years, and each time, it didn't stick.
It came down to a choice: keep compromising her mental health for a few hours of forgetting, or actually be happy. The truth is, she wasn't even happy when she was drinking, she'd overthink, look back at her own life, and all she could do was cry, because she wasn't where she wanted to be. But she could see clearly what was standing in her way.
On 28 December 2024, she removed it. Everything changed.
She built Sober Woke because the 43,000 people who found her along the way kept asking for the same thing, somewhere to keep showing up for each other, built to last longer than a Facebook algorithm.
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The numbers
This isn't a small problem.
Numbers don't fix anything on their own. People showing up for each other does. That's what this is.