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Browse hundreds of Alcoholics Anonymous speaker meetings from around the world — full-length recovery talks focused on the 12 Steps, spiritual awakening, and long-term sobriety.
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Sober Sunrise is a curated archive of full-length AA speaker meetings from around the world. Each recording features members of Alcoholics Anonymous sharing experience, strength, and hope through personal recovery stories that highlight the practical application of the 12 Steps.
This searchable library includes AA speaker tapes focused on the 12 Steps, step work and inventory, sponsorship, spiritual awakening, Big Book study, hitting bottom, and surrender and acceptance, along with long-term sobriety themes. Whether newly sober or decades into recovery, these Alcoholics Anonymous speaker recordings offer insight into living the principles of the program in everyday life.
New AA speaker meetings are added regularly, making this one of the most comprehensive online archives of recovery talks available. Browse by topic, search by keyword, or explore the latest episodes below to find experience, strength, and hope that speaks directly to your journey.
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51 MIN
More Than "Keep Coming Back" - AA Speaker - Chris R.
Chris R. explains why meetings and fellowship alone don't treat real alcoholism—the disease requires step work and spiritual experience to recover. He desc...
Jul 11, 2026
56 MIN
Big Book Will Travel - AA Speaker - Don B.
Don B. opens with the largely unknown origin story of AA in San Francisco and Akron—how Ted C. and Mrs. Orm sparked the first meetings, how Bill W. called ...
Jul 10, 2026
55 MIN
The Eight Minutes That Got Me Here - AA Speaker - Cliff R.
Cliff R. describes being a functioning alcoholic for 30+ years, building a championship speech team while secretly drinking, and discovering that the only re...
Jul 9, 2026
1 HR 2 MIN
The Miracle Is: I Was Ready - AA Speaker - Robi S.
Robi S., an AA speaker with 16+ years of sobriety, describes how she moved from active alcoholism and desperation to spiritual awakening through working the ...
Jul 8, 2026
59 MIN
God Interrupted My Death - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter M. describes hitting bottom on the streets of Manhattan and his spiritual experience of surrendering to God in a hallway, leading to his seventh and fi...
Jul 7, 2026
45 MIN
I Like the Effect Produced by the Steps - AA Speaker - Scott S.
Scott S., an AA speaker with 19 years of sobriety, shares his story of homelessness, jail, and the progressive nature of alcoholism, detailing how his belief...
Jul 6, 2026
1 HR 2 MIN
I Had One Relationship 20 Times - AA Speaker - Keith L.
Keith L., sober since 1973, describes how alcoholics often suffer from emotional immaturity that stops developing the day alcohol "works" for them, leaving t...
Jul 4, 2026
35 MIN
A Belly Full of Fear and a Head Full of AA - AA Speaker - Pat P.
Pat P. shares 34 years of sobriety, describing his descent from a promising apprentice to homelessness and repeated arrests, and his turning point when a spo...
Jul 3, 2026
2 HR 56 MIN
What You're Looking For, You're Looking With - AA Speaker - Ed M.
Ed M., an AA speaker with over 50 years of sobriety, discusses how the 12 steps must be applied to every area of life—not just alcohol—to prevent relapse...
Jul 2, 2026
1 HR 51 MIN
Out of Dirt Comes Flowers - AA Speaker - Vaughn Q.
Vaughn Q. is a Catholic priest and AA speaker who shares his story of getting sober in 1964 after a dramatic bottom, including 57 weeks in a psychiatric hosp...
Jun 30, 2026
1 HR 13 MIN
The Glee of This Moment - AA Speaker - Carla R.
Carla R. shares 37 years of sobriety beginning with a childhood marked by dysfunction, leading to years of homelessness, prostitution, and psychiatric hospit...
Jun 29, 2026
59 MIN
5,000 Meetings Before I Heard Step One - AA Speaker - Tom P.
AA speaker Tom P. describes attending 5,000 meetings over 17 years without grasping Step One, relying instead on meeting attendance and willpower until he re...
Jun 27, 2026
39 MIN
Don't Let Me Meet God With Alcohol on My Breath - AA Speaker - Grant P.
Grant P. describes his spiral from functional alcoholic to hitting a profound bottom while attending AA meetings but refusing to fully commit to the program,...
Jun 26, 2026
1 HR 7 MIN
At the Christening of AA - AA Speaker - Paul K.
Paul K., an AA pioneer with 46 years of sobriety, recounts the spiritual events that led to Alcoholics Anonymous, including Roland Hazard's encounter with a ...
Jun 25, 2026
1 HR 7 MIN
The Invisible Rowboat - AA Speaker - Arnor K.
Arnor K., an AA speaker from Iceland, breaks down carrying the message and sponsorship work, emphasizing that intensive work with other alcoholics is what ke...
Jun 24, 2026
52 MIN
The Dry Drunk Cometh - AA Speaker - Deandre M.
DeAndre M. is an AA speaker who emphasizes that sponsorship is essential to long-term recovery, not a suggestion. He details how his original sponsor recogni...
Jun 23, 2026
1 HR 51 MIN
Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Parts 9 & 10 - Steps 5-12 - AA Big Book Workshop
In this AA speaker workshop, Joe & Charlie provide a comprehensive breakdown of Steps 5-12, emphasizing that Step 5 requires taking your inventory to another...
Jun 23, 2026
1 HR 22 MIN
The Phoniest Man in Alcoholics Anonymous - AA Speaker - Lou F.
Lou F. shares his recovery journey from 1963 to present day, focusing on how the steps and the Big Book dismantled his false self and taught him to live with...
Jun 22, 2026
2 HR 44 MIN
Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 8 - Working the 4th Step - AA Big Book Workshop
This AA speaker workshop teaches Step 4's resentment inventory using the Big Book's exact instructions: filling out five columns to identify people you resen...
Jun 22, 2026
1 HR 46 MIN
Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Parts 6 & 7 - We Agnostics & How It Works - AA Big Book Workshop
Joe & Charlie, renowned AA speakers, teach the "We Agnostics" and "How It Works" chapters, focusing on how newcomers without faith can develop belief in a Hi...
Jun 21, 2026
59 MIN
I Was Stone Cold Sober and Stark Raving Mad - AA Speaker - Steve L.
Steve L. spent his first 100 days in AA physically sober but mentally unraveling, attending meetings daily without working the steps or getting a sponsor. Wh...
Jun 21, 2026
59 MIN
It Was Never the Lack of What I Am - AA Speaker - John V.
John V. shares his recovery story from homelessness and alcoholism to building a family and business through the principles of AA. This recovery speaker disc...
Jun 20, 2026
55 MIN
God Is Whatever Got You to Those People - AA Speaker - Karl M.
Karl M. recounts getting sober in the Navy after a DUI crash and treatment center, then discovering that working the steps with his sponsor revealed the sour...
Jun 19, 2026
47 MIN
Any Fool Can Quit Drinking - AA Speaker - Michael M.
Michael M., a recovered alcoholic with 18 years sober, spent his drinking years dealing drugs, crashing cars, breaking 39 bones, and spending 6.5 years in pr...
Jun 16, 2026
34 MIN
Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 5 - More About Alcoholism - AA Big Book Workshop
Joe & Charlie explain that alcoholic insanity means having an incomplete mind that cannot see the truth about alcohol, leading to beliefs like "I can drink i...
Jun 15, 2026
1 HR 4 MIN
This Is Where Dead People Come to Life - AA Speaker - Daniel E.
Daniel E. hit his bottom in jail after a three-day blackout, experiencing severe withdrawal and believing he was dead in hell, which led him to ask God for h...
Jun 15, 2026
54 MIN
Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 4 - There Is A Solution - AA Big Book Workshop
In this AA speaker Big Book workshop, Joe & Charlie explain that while the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous provides essential support and human connection...
Jun 14, 2026
1 HR 13 MIN
I'm Not a Has-Been, I'm a Never Was - AA Speaker - Jerome S.
Jerome S., an AA speaker, describes 15+ years of addiction marked by homelessness, psychiatric institutions, and repeated jailings before finding sobriety in...
Jun 14, 2026
52 MIN
Joe & Charlie - Part 3 - Bill's Story Explained - AA Big Book Workshop
Joe & Charlie explain Bill W.'s story from the Big Book, showing the progression of alcoholism from excitement and success through loss of control to drinkin...
Jun 13, 2026
58 MIN
Joe & Charlie - Part 2 - The Doctor's Opinion Explained - AA Big Book Workshop
Joe and Charlie explain Dr. Silkworth's theory of alcoholism as a twofold illness: a physical allergy (the phenomenon of craving that develops after drinking...
Jun 12, 2026
1 HR 12 MIN
Joe & Charlie - Part 1 - AA History - AA Big Book Workshop
Joe and Charlie trace AA's origins from Bill Wilson's spiritual experience in 1934 through his meeting with Dr. Bob Smith, explaining how understanding alcoh...
Jun 11, 2026
40 MIN
You're Working the Program on the Wrong Guy - AA Speaker - Geoff C.
Geoff C. tells the story of arriving at AA as a repeat offender, working intensely with his sponsor on the steps, and building a successful life over 19 year...
Jun 10, 2026
1 HR 3 MIN
There Is No Door Number Three - AA Speaker - Chris S.
Chris S. describes his progressive alcoholism from age 14, including multiple DUIs, a five-year prison sentence, and psychiatric hospitalization, before hitt...
Jun 9, 2026
1 HR 3 MIN
My Wager Is Too High - AA Speaker - Scott L.
Scott L. is an AA speaker who shares his story as a military pilot whose drinking escalated from college through his Air Force career, flying drunk and nearl...
Jun 8, 2026
46 MIN
God Came Crashing Into My Darkness - AA Speaker - Chris H.
Chris H. is an AA speaker with 22 years of sobriety who shares her descent from age 11 through 14 years of blackout drinking, crime, and loss, culminating in...
Jun 7, 2026
1 HR 11 MIN
I Paid Half a Million Dollars for a Big Book - AA Speaker - Adam T.
Adam T., an AA speaker, shares his experience cycling through 28 separate treatment centers before getting sober, explaining how he mistook the symptom (drin...
Jun 6, 2026
55 MIN
We Know the Way In and the Way Out - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter M., an experienced AA speaker, discusses Steps 10, 11, and 12, emphasizing the importance of daily written inventory, consistent prayer and meditation ...
Jun 5, 2026
41 MIN
My Sponsor Knows, But Not This Part - AA Speaker - Kane T.
Kane T. is an AA speaker who describes compartmentalizing his recovery, keeping secrets even from his sponsor, and how that pattern kept him miserable until ...
Jun 4, 2026
54 MIN
Sober Without a Solution - AA Speaker - Melanie S.
Melanie S. is a chronic relapser who drank from age 10 through her 30s, cycling in and out of AA meetings, treatment centers, and psychiatric hospitals witho...
Jun 3, 2026
51 MIN
I Wanted to Be Ordinary - AA Speaker - David B.
David B. shares 21 years of sobriety after becoming the first AA member in Quebec, tracing his path from early childhood fear and rebelliousness through esca...
Jun 2, 2026
56 MIN
I Lived the Twelve Steps Backwards - AA Speaker - Tarek K.
Tarek K., an AA speaker with 8 years sober, describes how he lived the Twelve Steps in complete reverse during his drinking—denying powerlessness, rejectin...
Jun 1, 2026
50 MIN
The Window I Broke Cannot Be Replaced - AA Speaker - Terri K.
Terri K. is an AA speaker who served 10 years in prison for killing a 14-year-old in a drunk-driving accident at age 28. She describes how a behavior modific...
May 31, 2026
57 MIN
Seven Years in AA Before I Tried the Program - AA Speaker - Chris R.
Chris R. spent seven years attending AA meetings without working the steps, repeatedly relapsing despite genuine desire to get sober, until a suicide attempt...
May 29, 2026
53 MIN
A Book, a Pound of Coffee, and a New AA Meeting- AA Speaker - Bud M.
Bud M., an ex-convict and recovering alcoholic, shares his 30-year sobriety story beginning with his release from jail and first AA meeting at the Hole in th...
May 28, 2026
47 MIN
Where There's Love, There's Service - AA Speaker - Tom F.
Tom F. argues that AA's primary service is one alcoholic helping another alcoholic, not committee meetings or administrative work. He emphasizes that strong ...
May 27, 2026
49 MIN
I Was Stupid Enough to Follow the Instructions - AA Speaker - Ray M.
Ray M., sober since 1996, shares how he worked the steps exactly as his sponsor instructed despite resistance and doubt, discovering that rigorous honesty in...
May 26, 2026
1 HR
The Age of Miracles Is Still With Us - AA Speaker - Dick A.
Dick A. shares his story of growing up in a decorated military family where he felt he didn't fit in, leading to a drinking career that took him from combat ...
May 25, 2026
1 HR 3 MIN
My Dark Past Became My Greatest Possession - AA Speaker - Mark B.
Mark B. is a combat veteran and former prisoner who found sobriety in AA in 1988 after years of violence, incarceration, and hitting bottom in a homeless she...
May 24, 2026
1 HR 9 MIN
I Was in Prison Before I Ever Got to Prison - AA Speaker - Wallace B.
Wallace B. describes his alcoholism from age 20 through a life sentence in Central Prison, detailing how he used alcohol to escape feelings of inadequacy and...
May 23, 2026
1 HR 3 MIN
Sudden or Gradual, the Fruits Are the Same - AA Speaker - Jay S.
Jay S., an AA speaker, examines William James' "The Varieties of Religious Experience" and its direct influence on AA's spiritual framework, showing how both...
May 21, 2026
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