Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Big Book Never Made a 12-Step Call - AA Speaker - Don C.
Episode 352
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…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
I Didn't Have a Long Drinking History, I Had a Long Hell History - AA Speaker - Pasha R.
Episode 351
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…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Do the Stitches and Leave the Patterns Up to God - AA Speaker - Tim H.
Episode 350
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 mot…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Fifth Step Is Not a Confession - AA Speaker - Chris S.
Episode 349
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…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Going to Meetings and Not Drinking Doesn't Treat Alcoholism - AA Speaker - Paul M.
Episode 348
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 p…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
I Got Sober and Accidentally Became a Service Junkie - AA Speaker - Andrew W.
Episode 347
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 someb…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Book Gets Bigger Every Time I Read It - AA Speaker - Charlie P.
Episode 346
Charlie loved AA from the start, but eventually learned that meetings, friends, and fellowship could not replace the spiritual experience the book wa…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
I Borrowed My Sponsor's God Until I Found My Own - AA Speaker - Shelly S.
Episode 345
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…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
They Told Me I'd Never Feel Love - AA Proved Them Wrong - AA Speaker - Wayne B.
Episode 344
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 w…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
From Eight Years of Warming a Chair to Finally Reading the Book - AA Speaker - Bart R.
Episode 343
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 …
4 months, 3 weeks ago