Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHopelessness Made the Big Book Exciting - AA Speaker - Lee Y.
Episode 459
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 befor…
1 week, 5 days ago
The Party Was Over, But I Kept Trying to Restart It - AA Speaker - Bob D.
Episode 458
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 …
1 week, 6 days ago
When I Got Sober, I Could Finally See the Waltz - AA Speaker - Charlie C.
Episode 457
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 th…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
The Shattered House Became the Promises - AA Speaker - David O.
Episode 456
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…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Traditions Made My Steps Come Alive Again - AA Speaker - Wesley P.
Episode 455
After years sober, Wesley watched complacency and self-importance drain the life from his AA program until practicing the Twelve Traditions personall…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Two Years Sober and Still a Two-Stepper - AA Speaker - Jack H.
Episode 454
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 …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Help Somebody Before Four O'Clock - AA Speaker - Sarah L.
Episode 453
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 s…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Sit Down, Cowboy - AA Speaker - Chris R.
Episode 452
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 fi…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
You're Right and You're Dead - AA Speaker - Scott R.
Episode 451
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 r…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
I Caught Fire at Seventeen Years Sober - AA Speaker - Charlie P.
Episode 450
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…
3 weeks, 2 days ago