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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
Stop Trying to Be So Cool - AA Speakers - Lindsey & Nate F.
Lindsey and Nate each came into AA trying to look cool and remain in control; recovery began when they became vulnerable enough to admit they were falling…
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They Said Don’t Come Back. You Said Keep Coming Back - AA Speaker - Don C.
Don’s family once took him to the edge of the reservation and told him never to return; years later, Alcoholics Anonymous said “keep coming back,” and he knew…
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The Woman I Didn’t Like Became My Sponsor - AA Speaker - Liz Y.
At ten months sober, Liz hated AA meetings, hated the happy people in them, and was close to giving up; then the woman she couldn’t stand became the sponsor…
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Bottom Is a Feeling, Not a Place - AA Speaker - Frank M.
In this AA workshop, Frank says bottom is not a jail cell, divorce court, treatment center, or empty bank account - it is the moment an alcoholic realizes, “I…
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What AA Gave My Mother Was Half a Quart of Milk - AA Speaker - Billy N.
Billy was told at 17 that he might be too cool to get sober; AA eventually carried him through jail and homelessness into Big Book service, family repair, and…
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God Wrote Himself Into My Story - AA Speaker - Norma A.
Norma says God wrote Himself into her AA story, turning three years of abstinence without the Steps into a life of surrender, service, and faith strong enough…
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The Captain Who Had to Start From the Ground Up - AA Speaker - Lyle P.
Lyle’s last drunk became national news, but the more remarkable AA story is what followed: treatment, federal prison, a repaired family, and an impossible…
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I Belonged in the Universe Again - AA Speaker - Michael B.
At his first AA meeting, Michael looked past seven older men in polyester plaid pants and recognized in their eyes the peace he had last known as a…
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From a Hospital Bed to a Ph.D. - AA Speaker - Dave D.
Dave returned to Alcoholics Anonymous at 22 from a hospital bed, unable to move and given little hope, then used the same AA actions that kept him sober to…
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Match Calamity with Serenity - AA Speaker - Mary T.
At 19 years sober, Mary realized she knew the Big Book well enough to keep everyone away from her, and AA asked her to trade a God of reason for a God she…
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The War Was Over. I Lost. Thank God. - AA Speaker - Rick M.
Rick reached Alcoholics Anonymous from a cable-equipped tent beside the Russian River, where even the town drunks had begun looking at him with pity, and…
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The Rottweilers That Kept Me in AA - AA Speaker - Don L.
At six months sober, Don had decided Alcoholics Anonymous did not work and was ready to quit; then two loose Rottweilers chased him down a hill, put him…
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After 46 Years, the Prison Still Smelled Like Fear - AA Speaker - Johnnie H.
Johnnie returned to the Folsom cell where he had lived 46 years earlier, then crossed the old mess hall to carry the Alcoholics Anonymous message to 300…
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I Don’t Drink Alcohol, I Drink Life - AA Speaker - Lila R.
Lila arrived at a basement meeting called the Hole in the Ground planning to stay for a few weeks; 25 years later, she is still learning that the hardest…
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Thank God It Didn’t All Happen in the First Year - AA Speaker - Pat L.
Pat’s recovery did not arrive as one tidy awakening. It unfolded through hard-won amends, fatherhood, sponsorship, 25 years of meetings, and a trip to Akron he…
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Your Misery Is Refunded at the Door - AA Speaker - Eileen F.
At 17, Eileen stood at the edge of AA waiting for someone to sell her on sobriety. The pitch never came. Instead, the people, the Big Book, and the work asked…
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The Fourth Step Is an Inventory of Who I’m Not - AA Speaker - Scott L.
Scott thought the Twelve Steps looked like punishment until a sponsor showed him that Step Four was not a life story or confession, but a way to lay down what…
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The Fellowship I Never Knew I Craved - AA Speaker - John S.
John came to AA expecting lessons in social drinking and discovered something far bigger: people who taught him how to live, stayed close when life became…
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The Fourth Dimension Is Love and Service - AA Speaker - Chris S.
Chris shares a fast, funny, and brutally honest AA talk about blackouts, fear, meetings, relapse, the Big Book, and what it actually means to be rocketed into…
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Whatever Time I Have, I Have This Program - AA Speaker - Dennis M.
Dennis shares a funny, honest, and deeply human AA story about drinking, drag, drugs, treatment, coming back to Alcoholics Anonymous, and finding a program he…
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The Book Hasn’t Been Wrong Yet - AA Speaker - Bart R.
Bart R. shares about getting past meetings alone and actually living the program: taking the Big Book seriously, working the steps, making amends, practicing…
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The Question Only AA Could Answer - AA Speaker - Jack K.
Jack K. shares the kind of AA story that starts long before the first drink: lonely, separate, different, angry, and afraid, then drinking like it was the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I've Been on This Cloud for 17 Years - AA Speaker - Perry W.
Perry shares a high-energy AA talk about early drinking, jail, desperation, sponsorship, working the Steps, and the joy of staying on the pink cloud for 17…
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What Is the Price Tag? - AA Speaker - Freddie G.
Freddie’s story looks at AA as a matter of life and death, and at the responsibility that comes with being given a life back. ☀️ Sober Sunrise App Listen to…
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God’s Giving Away Grace - AA Speaker - Mike P.
Iron Mike shares a raw and funny AA talk about prison, violence, relapse, oddballism, grace, and the Alcoholics Anonymous life that gave him a home, a family…
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Fewer Clipboards, More Trenches - AA Speaker - Myers R.
This sponsorship workshop looks at what it means to help another alcoholic without becoming their therapist, lawyer, doctor, guru, or Higher Power. ☀️ Sober…
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No Obsession to Roll in Poison Ivy - AA Speaker - Brian B.
This Step One talk looks at the difference between consequences, control, and the deeper problem of not being able to stay stopped. ☀️ Sober Sunrise App Listen…
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More Than “Keep Coming Back” - AA Speaker - Chris R.
Chris R. shares a direct and powerful AA talk about why meetings alone did not treat his alcoholism, how the Steps changed everything, and why newcomers need…
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Big Book Will Travel - AA Speaker - Don B.
Don’s sponsor handed him a card that said “Big Book Will Travel,” and that old AA spirit runs through the whole talk: show up, carry the message, and give away…
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The Eight Minutes That Got Me Here - AA Speaker - Cliff R.
Cliff says alcohol gave him eight minutes where the black rock in his belly went quiet, but AA taught him a different way out: service, laughter, and giving…
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The Miracle Is: I Was Ready - AA Speaker - Robi S.
Robi shares a funny, honest, and deeply moving AA talk about untreated alcoholism, the spiritual malady, amends, sponsorship, and the miracle of being ready…
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God Interrupted My Death - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter M. shares a powerful AA talk about being recovered, hitting the bitter end, and finding a solution far deeper than simply putting the plug in the jug. ☀️…
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I Like the Effect Produced by the Steps - AA Speaker - Scott S.
Scott says alcohol made life switch from black and white to color, but 19 years later the effect he keeps coming back for is his mother’s respect, his son’s…
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I Had One Relationship 20 Times - AA Speaker - Keith L.
Keith says he used to think he had 20 relationships, until he realized he had one relationship 20 times. ☀️ Sober Sunrise App Listen to Sober Sunrise AA…
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A Belly Full of Fear and a Head Full of AA - AA Speaker - Pat P.
Pat says his wife went back to work and told him they were going to build their lives stick by stick. In sobriety, that is exactly what happened. ☀️ Sober…
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What You’re Looking For, You’re Looking With - AA Speaker - Ed M.
Ed learned from Chuck C. that what we came to AA looking for, we were already looking with. ☀️ Sober Sunrise App Listen to Sober Sunrise AA speaker talks…
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Out of Dirt Comes Flowers - AA Speaker - Vaughn Q.
Father Vaughn says the dirt is beautiful, because out of the pain, wreckage, and defeat of alcoholism, something living can finally grow. ☀️ Sober Sunrise App…
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The Glee of This Moment - AA Speaker - Carla R.
After years of running, surviving, and trying to escape herself, Carla found something in AA she never expected: the ability to be awake in this moment. ☀️…
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5,000 Meetings Before I Heard Step One - AA Speaker - Tom P.
Tom had years in AA, thousands of meetings, and still drank again. Then one Big Book talk in treatment finally explained what he had missed. ☀️ Sober Sunrise…
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Don’t Let Me Meet God With Alcohol on My Breath - AA Speaker - Grant P.
Grant hit the end of half-measures with one desperate thought: he didn’t want to meet God with alcohol on his breath. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode Archive More AA…
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At the Christening of AA - AA Speaker - Paul K.
Paul says he was not there at the birth of Alcoholics Anonymous, but he was there at the christening. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode Archive More AA speaker tapes…
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The Invisible Rowboat - AA Speaker - Arnor K.
Arnor says AA can feel like an invisible rowboat: it may not make sense at first, but you still have to get in and row. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode Archive More…
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The Dry Drunk Cometh - AA Speaker - Deandre M.
DeAndre thought he already knew enough about the first three steps. His sponsor heard two sentences and saw the dry drunk coming. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode…
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Parts 9 & 10 - Steps 5-12 - AA Big Book Workshop
In the finale of the Joe & Charlie Founders' Day series, the written inventory becomes admission, willingness, amends, daily practice, and a message carried to…
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The Phoniest Man in Alcoholics Anonymous - AA Speaker - Lou F.
Lou walked into his first AA meeting wearing one black shoe and one brown shoe, and heard something no one had told him in 28 years: “Welcome, you’re in the…
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 8 - Working the 4th Step - AA Big Book Workshop
In Part 8 of the Joe & Charlie Founders' Day series, Joe and Charlie slow down and make the Fourth Step practical instead of mysterious. ☀️ Sober Sunrise…
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I Was Stone Cold Sober and Stark Raving Mad - AA Speaker - Steve L.
Steve attended meetings almost every morning for 100 days, but without a sponsor or the Steps, he was stone cold sober and slowly losing his mind. ☀️ Sober…
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Parts 6 & 7 - We Agnostics & How It Works - AA Big Book Workshop
In Parts 6 and 7 of the Joe & Charlie Founders' Day series, willingness becomes action as We Agnostics leads directly into How It Works and the Twelve Steps…
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It Was Never the Lack of What I Am- AA Speaker - John V.
John spent years believing he was unwanted because he was Indigenous, uneducated, poor, and unable to speak the way other people did. AA taught him that none…
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God Is Whatever Got You to Those People - AA Speaker - Karl M.
Karl called his father, a minister and theologian, expecting him to explain God. His father gave him a much shorter answer: God is whatever got you to those…
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I Went to One Meeting Too Many - AA Speaker - Paul O.
Paul went to AA for seven months with no intention of becoming an alcoholic. Then he attended one meeting too many, caught himself laughing with everyone else…
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The Second Half of Step One - AA Speaker - Michael M.
Michael knew he was alcoholic for twelve years before AA, but the part that changed his life was learning what came after putting the drink down. ☀️ Sober…
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 5 - More About Alcoholism - AA Big Book Workshop
In Part 5 of the Joe & Charlie Founders' Day series, Joe and Charlie dig into the strange mental blank spot that makes the first drink possible again. ☀️ Sober…
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This Is Where Dead People Come to Life - AA Speaker - Daniel E.
Daniel says he spent his drinking years chasing the perfect level, but every time he found it, he flew right past it. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode Archive More AA…
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 4 - There Is A Solution - AA Big Book Workshop
In Part 4 of the Joe & Charlie Founders' Day series, Joe and Charlie explain the two powers in There Is A Solution: the fellowship that holds us and the…
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I’m Not a Has-Been, I’m a Never Was - AA Speaker - Jerome S.
Jerome says he was not a has-been, but a never-was, until AA gave him a design for living that took him from Skid Row and institutions to sobriety, family…
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 3 - Bill's Story Explained - AA Big Book Workshop
In Part 3 of the Joe & Charlie Founders’ Day series, Joe and Charlie walk through Bill’s Story as the first full example of alcoholism, identification, and…
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 2 - The Doctor’s Opinion Explained - AA Big Book Workshop
In Part 2 of the Joe & Charlie Founders’ Day series, Joe and Charlie explain why The Doctor’s Opinion is one of the keys to understanding alcoholism itself. ☀️…
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Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 1 - AA History - AA Big Book Workshop
In honor of AA’s 91st Founders’ Day, we’re sharing the legendary Joe & Charlie Big Book workshops in order, from AA history through the Steps, over the next 10…
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You’re Working the Program on the Wrong Guy - AA Speaker - Geoff C.
Geoff says his first sponsor warned him that until he shook hands with the real version of himself, he would be working the program on the wrong guy. ☀️ Sober…