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Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Sober Sunrise brings you AA Speaker Tapes from around the world. Rather than an AA discussion podcast, Sober Sunrise brings you speakers who share step-work, workshops, and general fellowship discussion points.
We are not affiliated with AA in anyway.
Contact Sober Sunrise: podcast@sober-sunrise.com
Episodes
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
AA Threw Me a Lifeline. I Kept the Rock. - AA Speaker - Sandy Beach
Sandy nearly missed the liquor store because he couldn't get his shoes untied. He decided the solution was loafers. His AA story follows that same brilliant…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Spiritual Awakening Is Subtraction, Not Addition - AA Speaker - Peter M.
After years of Big Book study, Peter could recognize the page numbers behind other people's AA talks. A new round of step work raised a harder question: was he…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Big Book Was Just for Show - AA Speaker - Cookie S.
Three and a half years sober, Cookie had a Big Book on the table and Grapevines fanned out so everyone would know she was in AA. She was going to meetings…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Feet Went to a Meeting, My Heart Went to a Bar - AA Speaker - David N.
Seven trips to detox in one month, and David still couldn't believe the happy people in AA were really sober. A woman with a Big Book helped him question…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I'll Whisper Your Name in God's Ear - AA Speaker - Keith L.
More than 30 years sober, Keith leaves his best friend's hospice bedside to speak at an AA conference. Their friendship began with a cup of coffee and an…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
God Writes Straight With Crooked Lines - AA Speaker - Ralph W.
Ralph's two-year-old daughter caught him taking money from her piggy bank. Years later, a photo at her UCLA graduation shows him what AA has helped make…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
God Canceled My Flight for a Twelve-Step Call - AA Speaker - John A.
John's canceled flight put him beside a nervous AA member on her first sober trip away from home. A piece of needlepoint started the conversation, and the next…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Don't Let Anyone Read Your Big Book for You - AA Speaker - Mark H.
Mark's sponsor could take almost any complaint back to a page in the Big Book. But the daily work of AA's Steps Ten, Eleven, and Twelve was still Mark's…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
From Detox Patient to Detox Director - AA Speaker - Bobby M.
Bobby came to detox with everything he owned in a dirty white leather tennis bag. A woman washed his clothes, he began doing the same for other alcoholics, and…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
They Cared About Me Even When I Was Sober - AA Speaker - Derrick F.
On his first sober anniversary, Derrick was crying because he thought nobody cared. Then he came home to a surprise party and discovered that, in AA, he didn't…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Traditions Are Requests, Not Rules - AA Speaker - Brian H.
Brian put his strong opinions about local AA on his own website, then took it down and made amends. His approach to the Twelve Traditions asks what he's…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
5,000 Big Books, Two Orders - AA Speaker - Bill W.
AA co-founder Bill W. recalls spending their last $500 to promote the Big Book around a national radio appearance. They expected orders by the carload. They…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Half a Glass of Wine, Two Years of Relapse - AA Speaker - Samantha M.
Nearly seven years sober, Samantha picked up half a glass of wine and felt one thought rise from her gut: "Here we go." Her AA talk follows the two years that…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Sponsor Took Away My Big Book - AA Speaker - Dick S.
Dick was two weeks sober and making notes for the next edition of the Big Book. His sponsor took it away and sent him to AA meetings to listen ☀️ Sober Sunrise…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
A Beautiful Flower, a Garden Variety Drunk - AA Speaker - Roz B.
Roz's sponsor called her a beautiful flower and a garden variety drunk. After years of wanting to be anybody but herself, AA helped her find both self-respect…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Slept on the Big Book Like a Pillow - AA Speaker - Patti L.
Patti slept on the Big Book like a pillow in prison. The AA members who brought it never treated her like scum, and a sponsor later helped her build a sober…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
God, Human Folly, and Laughter - AA Speaker - Jay S.
Jay once lived in a Pinto and called it his "outdoorsman phase." In AA, inventory, amends, sponsorship, and laughter helped him become a man people call when…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Job, the Girl, and the Car Are an Illusion - AA Speaker - Myers R.
Seven years without a drink hadn't made Myers comfortable in his own life. His AA talk follows the Big Book work that changed everything while his wife…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Couldn't Even Manage a Fishbowl - AA Speaker - Jerry J.
Jerry thought he managed his law practice, his family, and his drinking. In AA, an aquarium full of fish that refused to follow his rules helped him see what…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
From Armed Robbery to a Purple Schwinn - AA Speaker - Jim B.
At 1 a.m., Jim rode his little sister's purple Schwinn to an AA member's house because meetings alone weren't quieting his head. A sandwich and an exchange of…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Didn't Know the Problem Was in My Hand - AA Speaker - Bob C.
Bob was holding a beer and asking what was wrong with his life. His AA story follows the answer through a family intervention, a sponsor who challenged "my…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Needed a Drink Long Before I Ever Got One - AA Speaker - Dustin B.
Dustin stayed sober on fear and meetings for more than a year, then relapsed harder than before. His AA recovery changed when a sponsor took him through the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The More I Tried to Stay Sober, the Sicker I Got - AA Speaker - Joseph G.
Joseph says the more he obsessed about staying sober, the sicker he became. His AA recovery changed when he stopped staring at the problem and committed…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Stoned to Death With Fridge Magnets - AA Speaker - Sean A.
Sean arrived at his first Hollywood AA meeting smelling like a gimlet and terrified of 400 friendly strangers, then felt something he had not experienced in…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Nobody Will Know. God Will Know. - AA Speaker - Pat R.
At fourteen months sober, Pat accidentally tasted vodka and thought nobody would know. The AA foundation built through meetings, sponsorship, service, and…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I've Been Around Airports for 50 Years. I Still Can't Fly - AA Speaker - Tom K.
Tom says being around AA is like spending fifty years around airports without learning to fly: recovery began only when he became willing to do absolutely…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Didn't Know AA Had a Skybox - AA Speaker - Charlie P.
Seventeen years sober, Charlie thought he had already experienced what AA could offer. Then deeper Big Book work showed him he had spent all those years in the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Pink Cloud Was Never Supposed to Turn Gray - AA Speaker - Chuck C.
Nearly twenty-one years sober, Chuck challenges an old AA assumption: the pink cloud is not supposed to fade when the Steps keep turning physical abstinence…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Martini Became a Coffee Cup - AA Speaker - Michael D.
Michael turns his AA recovery story into a slide show where the martini keeps reappearing, until a hospital death watch, the fellowship, and nearly fourteen…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
We Don't Want Change. We Want Relief. - AA Speaker - Bob B.
Bob got sober at twenty-four, but AA's harder lesson came years later: he did not really want transformation - he wanted relief without surrendering the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Higher Power Has a Substation in My Computer - AA Speaker - Paul O.
Paul says his Higher Power has a substation in his computer: after working AA's Twelve Steps for nearly thirty years, he types his problems to God until an…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
You Won't Stand Any Closer to God Than This - AA Speaker - Tom L.
A Methodist minister admits that his darkest years came after he first entered AA, then explains how Big Book sponsorship, family reconciliation, and service…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Have More Time Sober Than I Did Drunk - AA Speaker - Laila M.
At twenty-six, Laila has ten years sober after entering AA at sixteen, and she makes a fierce case that an alcoholic's seat is equally worthy whether they…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Sponsorship Is the Cake - AA Speaker - Chad B.
Chad arrived at his sponsor's door ready to skip straight to Step Four, but a coverless Big Book and the complete Twelve Steps showed him why sponsorship was…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Found AA in a State Mental Hospital - AA Speaker - Rachel L.
Rachel entered her first AA meeting in a state hospital furious that they had brought the father of a movie star, then one sentence about an alcoholic seeing…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
He Didn't Make Me Famous. He Made Me Anonymous - AA Speaker - Paul O.
Paul expected God to make him famous enough to win a Nobel Prize. Instead, AA made him anonymous and taught a doctor who entered through the hospital…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Hopelessness Made the Big Book Exciting - AA Speaker - Lee Y.
In an Orange County jail library, Lee found the Big Book directly in front of him and discovered on page 63 the same prayer he had been reading before his…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Party Was Over, But I Kept Trying to Restart It - AA Speaker - Bob D.
Bob spent his final three years drinking alone, trying to restart a party that had already ended. After seven and a half years around AA, he finally bought the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
When I Got Sober, I Could Finally See the Waltz - AA Speaker - Charlie C.
Alcohol once made Charlie feel as if ordinary life had broken into a waltz. Through sobriety, the Twelve Steps, and years in AA, he learned to see that same…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Shattered House Became the Promises - AA Speaker - David O.
Eighteen months after entering Hazelden, David stood beside his AA sponsor and watched his smiling wife and daughter come up the driveway of what had once been…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Traditions Made My Steps Come Alive Again - AA Speaker - Wesley P.
After years sober, Wesley watched complacency and self-importance drain the life from his AA program until practicing the Twelve Traditions personally made his…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Two Years Sober and Still a Two-Stepper - AA Speaker - Jack H.
Jack stayed sober for 90 days because someone at his first AA meeting joked that he would save enough money for a good drunk, but the deeper turning point came…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Help Somebody Before Four O'Clock - AA Speaker - Sarah L.
Early in sobriety, Sarah's sponsor gave her one AA assignment: help somebody before four o'clock. When four arrived, Sarah had done nothing because service was…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Sit Down, Cowboy - AA Speaker - Chris R.
After seven years in and out of AA without losing the obsession, Chris tried to back out of one more meeting - until a 19-year-old member hooked a finger in…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
You're Right and You're Dead - AA Speaker - Scott R.
Scott turns the AA inventory from a one-time Fourth Step into a daily way of life, using the Big Book to explain why an alcoholic can be completely right about…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Caught Fire at Seventeen Years Sober - AA Speaker - Charlie P.
At seventeen years sober, Charlie thought he already knew what AA had to offer - until a nighttime plane crash and studying the Big Book line by line showed…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Went Back to My Neighbor Instead of the Store - AA Speaker - Carla R.
Carla’s first real turn toward AA came when she went back to her sober neighbor instead of the store and began learning how to live with the head she had to…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
55 Years Sober, 10 Minutes Emotionally Sober - AA Speaker - Mel B.
After 55 years sober, Mel brings rare firsthand AA history, hard-earned recovery wisdom, and one of the funniest definitions of emotional sobriety you’ll ever…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Called AAA Looking for Alcoholics Anonymous - AA Speaker - Martin S.
After nineteen days alone in a motel, Martin calls for AA help, accidentally reaches AAA, and realizes that tomorrow is too late—he needs the Alcoholics…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The 12 Steps Were Numbered for Screwballs Like Me - AA Speaker - Wesley P.
With 32 years sober, Wesley explains why AA’s Twelve Steps must become an everyday way of life—and how success, ego, and complacency can quietly lead an…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Asked for a Sponsor and Never Drank Again - AA Speaker - Sean C.
After eight months of repeatedly restarting his sobriety date, Sean asks another man to sponsor him and begins following the Big Book directions that finally…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Get to Have Another Day - AA Speaker - Reid M.
After believing his life was over, Reid finds hope in Alcoholics Anonymous and discovers why working with other alcoholics is essential to his own recovery. ☀️…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
It’s an Inside Job - AA Speaker - David M.
After years of anger, isolation, and drinking, David discovers that lasting recovery begins with finding peace within through the Steps, fellowship, and…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Was Out of Plans - AA Speaker - Scott R.
A former Broadway actor and television director explains how running out of plans opened the door to surrender—and helped him rebuild the family alcoholism had…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Wanted to Know How You Stopped Starting - AA Speaker - Jeff W.
One of AA’s original members recalls how a living example showed him the difference between being forced to stop drinking and finally learning how to stop…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Thought I Was Empty, but I Was Full of Me - AA Speaker - Peter M.
In this Big Book workshop on AA Steps 10, 11, and 12, Peter explains how inventory, prayer, meditation, and intensive work with other alcoholics replace the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
5,200 Pages Before the Big Book Made Sense - AA Speaker - KC R.
After getting sober at sixteen and reading thousands of Big Book pages in treatment, KC discovers why information alone could not relieve the obsession—and…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Spent Seven Years in AA Without the Program - AA Speaker - Chris R.
After seven years in and out of AA, Chris learns that attending meetings is not the same as working the Big Book, taking the Steps, and serving other…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Diamond Watch That Led Me to AA - AA Speaker - Stan G.
After losing an entrusted diamond watch during a blackout, Stan walks into his first AA meeting expecting lunch—and discovers the fellowship, sponsorship, and…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
From Dirty Snow to Happy Destiny - AA Speaker - Ernie R.
A veteran AA speaker shares how one desperate morning beneath the U.S. Capitol led him from broken promises and financial chaos into sponsorship, the Steps…