Awards & Interviews
Is there such a thing or are they meaningless buzzwords? We sat down with Rebecca Hopkins to find out. Hopkins is a PR and communication specialist who has worked in wine for nearly 30 years. In 2018, she founded and launched A Balanced Glass, an online community providing tools to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in the beverage industry.
Rebecca Hopkins is one of the wine industry’s best-known and most experienced wine communications strategists, who has worked with some of the world’s most notable fine wine brands.
Grounding Ourselves with
a Balanced Glass
Nov 15, 2022
In this week's episode, Sarah sits down with fellow Aussie and the founder of A Balanced Glass, a company that provides education and resources to wine industry colleagues to help maintain health and wellbeing, Rebecca Hopkins, to discuss the toll that working in the alcohol industry can take on people’s physical and mental health.
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A Table for two
Rebecca founded and launched A Balanced Glass in 2018 with a mission to provide education and resources to wine industry colleagues to help maintain health and wellbeing while working in the beverage alcohol industry.
Fine Wine, Health and Wellbeing –
In Conversation with Rebecca Hopkins
January 12, 2022
Concerned about wine professionals who were struggling to balance their work-related food and wine consumption with their health, Rebecca Hopkins founded A Balanced Glass in 2018. It’s a web forum dedicated to the health and wellbeing of wine professionals, and offers insights, tips, and support.
EP. 96: Battling Burnout while working in wine
FRIDAY OCTOBER 22, 2021
What could possibly be stressful about working with wine? It turns out that a career centered around other peoples’ enjoyment and leisure is anything but relaxing.
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The Connected
Table Live
Wine industry pros Rebecca Hopkins (founder) and Cathy Huyghe (co-curator) discuss A Balanced Glass, a supportive forum to promote self-care in the beverage alcohol community.
Ep. 283 LOCKDOWN SERIES | Gill Gordon Smith And Rebecca Hopkins
Monty Waldin hands the keys to Gill and Rebecca for an update from Australia.
Ep 06 - Finding Balance
As members of the wine trade, it’s often hard to maintain healthy habits while being surrounded by such abundance. Our culture can lead directly to over consumption of alcohol, overindulgence of rich foods, and lack of sleep. These can all effect physical and mental health. In today’s episode, we discuss maintaining wellness and balance in the beverage biz with the co-founder of a Balanced Glass, and online community focused on these subjects.
Women in Wine Podcast #5 - Rebecca Hopkins
Rebecca Hopkins is a wine communication guru. She has over 25 years of experience working in the wine industry and extremely open in sharing the wisdom she has learned along the way. She is one of the most well-connected people and has an even bigger heart.
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#1: Rebecca Hopkins, A Balanced Glass
Today’s episode is an interview with all round bloody legend, Rebecca Hopkins. A brilliant wine communicator, strategist, speaker, moderator, host, and writer she boasts an incredible career in the wine business in both Australia and the US.
Ep. 51
Rebecca Hopkins | Cathy Huyghe | Hannah Wallace
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 04, 2018
Episode 51 is all about exploding stereotypes and promoting health for food and beverage professionals. Due to recent well-publicized struggles among celebrity chefs, conversations have sparked about mental health in the food and beverage industry.
5th Annual ED Talks presented by EatDenver, sponsored by Tundra Restaurant Supply, Seattle Fish Company, American Lamb Board, and MSU Denver School of Hospit...
Italian Wine Podcast #iobevoacasa - LOCKDOWN SERIES Pilot: Rebecca Hopkins interviewed by Gill Gordon Smith Learn a 5-minute yoga stretch exercise during loc...
Mental Health Resources for You and Your Employees: The challenges of the last few months are unprecedented, and many in the hospitality industry are facing ...
Media Coverage
How to Stay Healthy When You Drink for a Living
A Balanced Glass co-founder Rebecca Hopkins wants to recalibrate the wine industry into a healthier, happier place to work.
Drinking Mindfully Into The New Year
GIANT glass of water on arrival before accepting any wine to satiate any thirst, then 1:1 glasses (if not, at least sips) water to wine; keep a water glass nearby. Only take wine with food to slow down BAC absorption and never liquor after dinner – it spikes blood sugar and alcohol. —Rebecca Hopkins, founder, A Balanced Glass, San Francisco
Industry Pros Weigh in on Dry January
We start with wine importer Rebecca Hopkins, she’s also the founder of A Balanced Glass, an organization dedicated to personal wellness for anyone who works “with or around alcohol” so you might think she’d participate in Dry January, but she doesn’t.
Seven Drinks Pros Launch Side Gigs in the Health Space
How forward-thinking industry veterans are bringing wellness—from a health podcast to mindfulness training, yoga, and gardening therapy—to the forefront.
Meet the Brilliant Rebecca Hopkins, Vice President of Communications at Folio Fine Wine and Founder of A Balanced Glass
In 2018, Rebecca founded and launched A Balanced Glass, an online community providing tools to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in the beverage industry.
Wine industry leaders 2020
Every year, Wine Business Monthly sets out to honor those who shape the way the wine industry operates or how people drink wine.
What The Pros Learned About Dry January
It started as a public health campaign by the British government five years ago, but now Dry January has morphed into a worldwide event, challenging people to go on the wagon for a month.
A Mental Health Guide for Beverage and Hospitality Professionals
Strategies for maintaining mental health during the coronavirus pandemic in an industry already prone to anxiety, depression, and substance abuse.
A Balanced Glass: Keeping Alcohol and Health on the Level in the Workplace
With high consumer demand for alcohol in both strong and weak economic times, the wine industry specifically is a key engine for growth and opportunity in the U.S. economy. But it also has its downsides.
How to Redefine 'Great Leadership,' Starting With the Ego
What are the first adjectives that come to mind when you think about "best leadership," or the icons of business leaders today that receive so much media attention?
How Wine Professionals Use Yoga to Balance Life
Whether you are an importer, producer or sommelier, the demands of the wine industry can include travel, daylong tastings, long evenings and an excess of wine. With late nights followed by early mornings, days can blur together. Managing exhaustion, posture, diet and drinking with exercise is a challenge.
The Challenges of Working with Wine by Rebecca Hopkins
Rebecca Hopkins discusses the challenges of working with wine.