Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Three different speakers each share on Steps 1-3, unlike many workshops where each speaker takes on one step, in this format each speaker speaks on all three. The 2nd annual New Freedom 12-Step Workshop is a half day event featuring four speaker panels focusing on the twelve steps. Part 1 of 4. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Adam G. is from Saint Paul and has been sober since 1985, he is speaking on the topic of Roadblocks to Recovery at The Firing Line Group in Saint Paul MN in January of 2009. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Mary D sober in 1974 followed by Charlie B sober in 1975 speaking at the 55th Connecticut State Convention in Sept 2013. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Betsey R. from Phoenix City Al is telling her story at the Eufaula Groups Alabama Saturday Night Speaker meeting in April of 2014.  Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

I ran a series on this topic just about a month ago and this is a quick 2 day workshop on the same topic to offer another perspective. This is part 2 of a 2 part workshop on the topic of Emotional Sobriety conducted by Polly P, she was 33 years sober at the time of this workshop. You might notice a slight audio artifact here and there, this had some sort of electronic feedback in much of the file. I got the majority of it out but there are a couple of remnants. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

I ran a series on this topic just about a month ago and this is a quick 2 day workshop on the same topic to offer another perspective. This is part 1 of a 2 part workshop on the topic of Emotional Sobriety conducted by Polly P, she was 33 years sober at the time of this workshop. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Sister Helen G, a drunk nun from Wichita KS got sober in Jan of 1974 and she tells us here story at an unknown event in 1980. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Dr. Paul O the author of the story Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict in the big book and Max O an Al-Anon member conduct this workshop conducted at an unknown event and time.  The topic is Communication in Sober Relationships. Max (Al_Anon) opens the workshop by telling a bit of her story, she is followed by her husband and AA member Dr Paul doing the same and then the floor is open to Q & A. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Speaker Potluck - I grabbed four random 15 min speakers from the Sunday Night speaker meeting in Seattle. Without listening to them in advance I created this audio. The result is speaker potluck, just like at a real meeting to dont know what you are going to get until you hear it.  These are all from 2015. (NSFW) Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

I was in a zoom meeting today, the speaker was unable to make it and the secretary suggested a quick group consensus about playing this recording at the meeting thinking it would make a good discussion topic. As it turned out it did. I did notice the part where Barry plays a recording of Bill W speaking on the 3rd tradition was muddy so I went back at it and managed to improve Bills audio quality enough I thought it worth a new upload. Barry L sober in 1945, speaking about the origin of the 3rd tradition at the 50th World Conference in Montreal in July 1985. He was (arguably) the first openly gay member of AA.  Tradition 3 - The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking. Barry passed away 3 weeks after this speak. Barry is the author of the book Living Sober and was a great friend of Bill W and his wife Lois. In 1978 Lois gave the original manuscript of the big book to Barry, and in 1979 Barry signed a notarized letter gifting the manuscript to A.A. World Services. In exchange, he asked only to be able to keep it in his possession until his death. Somewhere between 1979 and Barry's death in 1985, everyone at A.A. World Services apparently forgot about this arrangement. The whereabouts of the manuscript remained unknown until it reappeared at an auction house in 2004, sold by a “Joseph B.” for $1.5 million. It was auctioned again in 2007 to Alabama resident Ken Roberts for $992,000.  A few months later, according to court documents, A.A. World Services rediscovered Barry's notarized letter and tried to legally regain possession, they failed. In 2018 the manuscript was once again auctioned off, this time for $2.4 million. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com