Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast

He Didn't Make Me Famous. He Made Me Anonymous - AA Speaker - Paul O.

Paul expected God to make him famous enough to win a Nobel Prize. Instead, AA made him anonymous and taught a doctor who entered through the hospital psychiatric ward how

Hopelessness Made the Big Book Exciting - AA Speaker - Lee Y.

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 before his arrest. Hopeles

The Party Was Over, But I Kept Trying to Restart It - AA Speaker - Bob D.

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 bought the whole pack

When I Got Sober, I Could Finally See the Waltz - AA Speaker - Charlie C.

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 that same grace without

The Shattered House Became the Promises - AA Speaker - David O.

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 once been a shattere

The Traditions Made My Steps Come Alive Again - AA Speaker - Wesley P.

After years sober, Wesley watched complacency and self-importance drain the life from his AA program until practicing the Twelve Traditions personally made his Steps, his

Two Years Sober and Still a Two-Stepper - AA Speaker - Jack H.

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 point came two years

Help Somebody Before Four O'Clock - AA Speaker - Sarah L.

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 service was still the

Sit Down, Cowboy - AA Speaker - Chris R.

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 finger in his belt and

You're Right and You're Dead - AA Speaker - Scott R.

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 right about a resentme

I Caught Fire at Seventeen Years Sober - AA Speaker - Charlie P.

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 showed him that he h

I Went Back to My Neighbor Instead of the Store - AA Speaker - Carla R.

Carla’s first real turn toward AA came when she went back to her sober neighbor instead of the store and began learning how to live with the head she had to take home. ☀

55 Years Sober, 10 Minutes Emotionally Sober - AA Speaker - Mel B.

After 55 years sober, Mel brings rare firsthand AA history, hard-earned recovery wisdom, and one of the funniest definitions of emotional sobriety you’ll ever hear. ☀️ S

I Called AAA Looking for Alcoholics Anonymous - AA Speaker - Martin S.

After nineteen days alone in a motel, Martin calls for AA help, accidentally reaches AAA, and realizes that tomorrow is too late—he needs the Alcoholics Anonymous solutio

The 12 Steps Were Numbered for Screwballs Like Me - AA Speaker - Wesley P.

With 32 years sober, Wesley explains why AA’s Twelve Steps must become an everyday way of life—and how success, ego, and complacency can quietly lead an alcoholic back to

I Asked for a Sponsor and Never Drank Again - AA Speaker - Sean C.

After eight months of repeatedly restarting his sobriety date, Sean asks another man to sponsor him and begins following the Big Book directions that finally make AA a wa

I Get to Have Another Day - AA Speaker - Reid M.

After believing his life was over, Reid finds hope in Alcoholics Anonymous and discovers why working with other alcoholics is essential to his own recovery. ☀️ Sober Sun

It’s an Inside Job - AA Speaker - David M.

After years of anger, isolation, and drinking, David discovers that lasting recovery begins with finding peace within through the Steps, fellowship, and service. ☀️ Sobe

I Was Out of Plans - AA Speaker - Scott R.

A former Broadway actor and television director explains how running out of plans opened the door to surrender—and helped him rebuild the family alcoholism had nearly des

I Wanted to Know How You Stopped Starting - AA Speaker - Jeff W.

One of AA’s original members recalls how a living example showed him the difference between being forced to stop drinking and finally learning how to stop taking the firs