Podcast Episodes

Courtney P. – Sober Since July 2014 (Encore Episode)

Courtney’s backstory is not dissimilar to those who grew up in tumultuous families in which alcoholism was present. The seeming frivolity and celebra…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Jimmy G. - Sober 7 Years

Episode 182

A "Man of the Cloth", Jimmy G.'s earliest aspirations were to be in service to the Episcopal Church. Though strict in many ways, when it came to drin…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Matt J. - Sober Since May 2014 (Encoore Episode)

Matt J. describes his family tree as “littered with problem drinkers”, of which he became one all too quickly. As an only child, Matt grew up in a ho…

6 months ago

Ron B. - Sober 43 Years

Episode 181

Today’s podcast is my interview is with Ron B., a man whom I’d just met  at a Friends of Bill W. meeting on an enormous cruise ship earlier this year…

6 months, 1 week ago

Ray O. - Sober Since April 2009 (Encore Episode)

Ray’s difficult road to sobriety was paved with many failed attempts to get sober over the years. Each attempt was thwarted by the belief that his si…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Justin M. - Sober Since June 2020 (Encore Episode)

[This is an encore of Episode 84 originally released June 29, 2022] Alcoholism nearly ended Justin’s marriage and his career as an airline pilot. The…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Nadia S. - Sober Since August 1980 (Encore Episode)

Nadia's personal story was published in the 4th Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous in 2001. She’s the first AA member I’ve interviewed whose backstory c…

7 months ago

Kristina C. - Sober Since August 2018 (Encore Episode)

Episode 182

By age 15, Kristina had already been in treatment for drug and alcohol abuse, self-harm, and a suicide attempt. It took another 14 years for her to f…

7 months, 1 week ago

Richard B. - Sober Two Years

Richard's life-long battle with alcoholism was abated for nearly two decades in AA. But he let up on his Program and ultimately relapsed on "thimbles…

7 months, 1 week ago

Ted O. - Sober 42 Years

Episode 180

Welcome back my friends to AA Recovery Interviews. I’m your host, Howard L. and I’m an alcoholic, sober since January 1, 1988, one day at a time. I’m…

7 months, 2 weeks ago