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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
There Is No Door Number Three - AA Speaker - Chris S.
Chris used to know exactly where the serious AA people were, and he knew exactly how to avoid them. When he finally meant business, those “fanatics” were the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Wager Is Too High - AA Speaker - Scott L.
Scott could fly supersonic jets, but he could not outfly alcoholism. By the time AA found him, the dream job, the willpower, and the John Wayne act had all…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
God Came Crashing Into My Darkness - AA Speaker - Chris H.
Chris says treatment was only the discovery that a solution existed. The real change came when AA, sponsorship, and a God she could not yet name reached into…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Paid Half a Million Dollars for a Big Book - AA Speaker - Adam T.
Adam went through treatment 28 times before a sponsor cut through the badge of honor: it did not make him an alcoholic. It meant he had paid half a million…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
We Know the Way In and the Way Out - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter opens with silence, then challenges the room with a hard question: are we actually feeding the spirit, or just giving God a quick check-in on the way out…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Sponsor Knows, But Not This Part - AA Speaker - Kane T.
Kane kept parts of his life away from the program until prison, sponsorship, and a Fargo home group started showing him that every little thing had to come…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Sober Without a Solution - AA Speaker - Melanie S.
Melanie had treatment, meetings, chips, and even years without drinking, but the real turn came when someone finally showed her what it meant to have lost the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Wanted to Be Ordinary - AA Speaker - David B.
Dave was the first AA member in Quebec, but what finally reached him was simple: the Big Book described people who got sober, went to work, came home, and…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Lived the Twelve Steps Backwards - AA Speaker - Tarek K.
Tarek says he did not just resist AA. He lived the Twelve Steps backwards until alcohol stopped working and his life shrank to fear, isolation, and trying to…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Window I Broke Cannot Be Replaced - AA Speaker - Terri K.
Terri says prison is where she found God, but the harder truth came years later: some amends cannot replace what was broken. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode Archive…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Seven Years in AA Before I Tried the Program - AA Speaker - Chris R.
Chris kept coming back to AA for seven years, but nothing changed until one Big Book meeting showed him the difference between attending and recovering. ☀️…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
A Book, a Pound of Coffee, and a New AA Meeting- AA Speaker - Bud M.
Bud came to AA straight out of jail with a sentence hanging over him, a restitution bill he could not imagine paying, and nobody left who wanted his phone…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Where There’s Love, There’s Service - AA Speaker - Tom F.
Tom says AA service gets dangerous when alcoholics trade the fire line for paperwork and forget the one job that saves lives. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode Archive…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Was Stupid Enough to Follow the Instructions - AA Speaker - Ray M.
Ray came in young, separate, and sure he was smarter than the room, then found out AA worked best when he was finally willing to follow directions. ☀️ Sober…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Age of Miracles Is Still With Us - AA Speaker - Dick A.
Dick spent his life looking for the power he thought everyone else had, until a broken bottle, a phone booth, and Alcoholics Anonymous showed him where that…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Dark Past Became My Greatest Possession - AA Speaker - Mark B.
Mark spent years blaming war, prison, violence, and fear for the way he drank, until alcohol stopped working and AA showed him the problem had been deeper all…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Was in Prison Before I Ever Got to Prison - AA Speaker - Wallace B.
Wallace was in prison before he ever got to prison, and AA was where he finally learned the difference between being locked up and being free. ☀️ Sober Sunrise…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Sudden or Gradual, the Fruits Are the Same - AA Speaker - Jay S.
Jay had the kind of white-light experience AA people whisper about, then spent 20 years learning that the real test was not the vision but the fruit. ☀️ Sober…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Forgot the Inside Job After 12 Years Sober - AA Speaker - Wesley P.
Wesley had 12 years sober, a good business, money in the bank, and respect in AA, then started drifting because he thought the inside job was finished. ☀️…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Had a Huge Ego and No Self-Esteem - AA Speaker - Joe D.
Joe got the money, the condo, the business, and the attention, then found out none of it helped when he had to sit alone with himself. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
AA Was Almost Lost Before the Traditions Saved It - AA Speaker - James M.
James M. says AA did not survive because alcoholics got organized, it survived because they finally learned what could destroy them. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Great Gift of AA Is Being Wrong - AA Speaker - Keith L.
Keith L. thought AA was just going to teach him how to stop drinking, but it kept proving him wrong about almost everything else too. We just launched our new…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Cursed God at Port Authority and Found Him in a Hallway - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter cursed God outside Port Authority after seeing what he had become, then found himself in a Lower East Side hallway making the first honest plea of his…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Big Book Never Made a 12-Step Call - AA Speaker - Don C.
Don walked into a Cleveland AA meeting shaking too hard to sign a raffle ticket, until a man from the back of the room signed it for him and said the two words…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Didn't Have a Long Drinking History, I Had a Long Hell History - AA Speaker - Pasha R.
Pasha used to hide in a closet dreaming of Vermont because she thought God was there, then found out years later that the God she was looking for had been…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Do the Stitches and Leave the Patterns Up to God - AA Speaker - Tim H.
Tim left Louisville in 1966 as an all-state basketball player with a college scholarship, then came home four years later carrying a lie only his mother knew…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Fifth Step Is Not a Confession - AA Speaker - Chris S.
Chris thought his first Fifth Step meant reading someone every ugly thing he already knew about himself, until the Big Book showed him that inventory was…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Going to Meetings and Not Drinking Doesn't Treat Alcoholism - AA Speaker - Paul M.
Paul got sober in 1947, spent his first year convinced he had the program figured out, and then a friend told him he hadn't missed something in the program -…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Got Sober and Accidentally Became a Service Junkie - AA Speaker - Andrew W.
Andrew came into AA feeling awkward, young, and afraid of being seen, then found that service gave him a way to belong without having to become somebody else…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Book Gets Bigger Every Time I Read It - AA Speaker - Charlie P.
Charlie loved AA from the start, but eventually learned that meetings, friends, and fellowship could not replace the spiritual experience the book was pointing…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Borrowed My Sponsor's God Until I Found My Own - AA Speaker - Shelly S.
Shelly thought she had only handed God the drinking problem, until one long day in the steps showed her how much of her life she was still trying to manage…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
They Told Me I'd Never Feel Love - AA Proved Them Wrong - AA Speaker - Wayne B.
Wayne spent five years drinking his way through AA meetings before his sponsor casually mentioned the program works better if you don't drink - and what…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
From Eight Years of Warming a Chair to Finally Reading the Book - AA Speaker - Bart R.
Bart spent eight years in AA meetings without raising his hand once - until someone's sponsor made him so angry from the podium that he showed up at the guy's…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Admitting It Ain't the Same as Fully Conceding It - AA Speaker - Mickey B.
Mickey spent 40 years changing his perception of reality any way he could - starting as a kid in northwest London who took a dump in a confessional, and ending…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
From Nine Varsity Letters to Everything I Own in a Cardboard Box - AA Speaker - Frank J.
Frank quit drinking for 13 months without ever stepping foot in an AA meeting - by the end he was choking a stranger in an office and throwing groceries across…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Ego Wants Me Dead but Will Settle for Me Drunk - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter went through seven treatment centers, lived on the streets of Lower Manhattan, and cursed God with everything he had - then begged Him for help from the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
You Cannot Believe the Glory That's Available to You - AA Speaker - Frank M.
Frank is a recovered attorney with 30-plus years sober who still writes a full Fourth Step inventory every single year - and he brought his latest one to the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Was Mr. AA on the Outside and Gasping for Air on the Inside - AA Speaker - Chris P.
Chris walked out of a 28-day rehab with every reason in the world not to drink and didn't make it five minutes off the train before he was in a bar. We just…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Was Everything in AA Except Working the Steps - AA Speaker - Jay P.
Jay P. spent a year and a half making coffee, cleaning ashtrays, and giving speeches he stole from other people's meetings - until someone told him he was a…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Sobriety Is a Doing Process Not a Learning Process - AA Speaker - Don M.
Don went to 18 asylums and spent two years believing AA couldn't work because he was simultaneously too magnificent and too terrible — until they told him the…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
AA Gives You Riches That Nobody Can Take Away - AA Speaker - Ken B.
Ken spent 18 months going to AA meetings without believing he was an alcoholic — until a sponsor showed him that one drink meant he couldn't keep a promise to…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Things Got Worse Faster Than I Could Lower My Standards - AA Speaker - Tim W.
Tim was 38, sleeping under a freeway bridge, and begging for wine money when his mom said she couldn't watch him die — today he runs the same central office…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Ran Out of Lies and All My Toughness Just Went Away - AA Speaker - Don P.
Don P. has been sober since 1967, served as a world trustee of AA, and says the greatest promise of the program isn't that you'll stop drinking — it's that…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Parakeet Died With Two Years Sobriety - AA Speaker - Jack H.
Jack H. has been sober since 1958, drank with a parakeet named Petey who learned poker language, and says he's still got every defect of character he was born…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Can't Stay Sober on Yesterday's Spiritual Awakening - AA Speaker - Frank M.
Frank was born in a mental hospital, drank for 23 years to silence the feeling that he was an intruder in every room he walked into, and one hot day in June…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Sponsor Said I Might Be the Only Big Book Someone Ever Sees - AA Speaker - Jan E.
Jan walked into AA court-ordered with spiky hair, told them she wasn't like them, and left — then came back when they were right. We just launched our new…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Steps Are the Diagnosis, the Prescription, and the Medicine - AA Speaker - David A.
David A. has been sober since 1967 and once fell into an open grave drunk at a funeral he was supposed to carry — this two-part step study is old-school AA at…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Called My Sponsor From the VIP Suite With a Beer in My Hand - AA Speaker - Ben H.
Ben built a 300-can beer shrine at age seven, called his sponsor from a snowmobile race with a beer in his hand, and walked past his own mother on the street…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
From 56 Pages of Chaos to a Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams - AA Speaker - Patti O.
She blacked out her past, faked her own death to escape charges, and faced 10 years in prison—yet what finally broke her wasn’t jail… it was the unbearable…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
From Waking Up in Random Cities to Never Wanting a Drink Again - AA Speaker - Chris B.
He wasn’t a failure—he was successful, respected, and “smart”… until alcohol slowly took everything, leaving him homeless, hopeless, and completely powerless…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Had Ten Meetings a Week and Was Completely Hollow Inside - AA Speaker - Mike L.
Mike was five years sober, going to 10 meetings a week, and completely hollow inside — until the man he disliked most in AA told him he'd missed the entire…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Said I'm Fine for 40 Years and Never Meant It Once - AA Speaker - David L.
David spent every Saturday planning how to drown himself and 22 years smiling and saying "I'm fine" — until a sponsor gave him two lines to say to his son and…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
My Brain Was the Problem, Not Just the Drinking - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter went through seven treatment centers, got drunk two days after the fifth one, and was dying in a hallway on the Lower East Side before he found a sponsor…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Put Beepers on My Beer Because I Kept Losing It - AA Speaker - Tami F.
Tami went to treatment to quit drugs but told her husband she'd leave the car at 65 mph if he suggested she quit drinking — then a tin cross, Psalm 23, and…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Save Me a Seat Were the Last Words I Said to My Sponsor - AA Speaker - Mike M.
Mike was a street drunk, a junior high dropout, and a petty criminal who once demanded 100 cheeseburgers at hammer-point — until a guy named Dan shook his…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The First Time I Told the Truth I Didn’t Catch Fire - AA Speaker - Tony K.
After years of drinking, hiding, and trying to outsmart alcoholism, Tony K. found hope through his sober brother, a first AA meeting he didn’t want to attend…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Loved Blackouts Because I Was Neither Dead Nor Really Alive - AA Speaker - Damon G.
Damon was a militant atheist who chased blackouts as his only escape from a life he didn't want — the steps didn't just get him sober, they sent him to…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
I Got Fired Twice From the Same Job in 24 Hours - AA Speaker - Josh H.
Josh got sober at 19 after a carbon monoxide attempt, a psych ward, and getting fired twice from the same job in 24 hours — and discovered that the same…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
The Bomb Went Off at 16 Years and the Only Thing Left Was the Meeting - AA Speaker - Steve B.
Steve B. never got one sober day before AA, tried his own plan of drinking three days and giving four to the program, and 28 years later still has a voice in…
- Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast
Seven Years of Walking Into AA for Cake and Walking Back Out - AA Speaker - Larry T.
Larry T. started drinking Four Rose Whiskey at 11, bounced around with lowriders, and spent seven years walking into AA for cake and walking back out — until a…