Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchI Was Mr. AA on the Outside and Gasping for Air on the Inside - AA Speaker - Chris P.
Episode 338
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.
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I Was Everything in AA Except Working the Steps - AA Speaker - Jay P.
Episode 337
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 h…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sobriety Is a Doing Process Not a Learning Process - AA Speaker - Don M.
Episode 336
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 tol…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
AA Gives You Riches That Nobody Can Take Away - AA Speaker - Ken B.
Episode 335
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 p…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Things Got Worse Faster Than I Could Lower My Standards - AA Speaker - Tim W.
Episode 334
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…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
I Ran Out of Lies and All My Toughness Just Went Away - AA Speaker - Don P.
Episode 333
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'…
2 months ago
My Parakeet Died With Two Years Sobriety - AA Speaker - Jack H.
Episode 332
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…
2 months ago
I Can't Stay Sober on Yesterday's Spiritual Awakening - AA Speaker - Frank M.
Episode 331
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 …
2 months ago
My Sponsor Said I Might Be the Only Big Book Someone Ever Sees - AA Speaker - Jan E.
Episode 330
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 o…
2 months ago
The Steps Are the Diagnosis, the Prescription, and the Medicine - AA Speaker - David A.
Episode 329
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-sch…
2 months ago