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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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1 HR 13 MIN
I Thought I Was Empty, but I Was Full of Me - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter M., an AA speaker with 18 years of sobriety, describes spiritual awakening as experiencing God through silence and presence rather than thinking. He em...
Aug 20, 2026
1 HR 8 MIN
5,200 Pages Before the Big Book Made Sense - AA Speaker - KC R.
KC R. describes her early sobriety and long-term treatment experience, explaining how reading 5,200 pages of the Big Book in treatment meant nothing until sh...
Aug 19, 2026
50 MIN
I Spent Seven Years in AA Without the Program - AA Speaker - Chris R.
Chris R., an AA speaker from Texas, describes his 7-year period of attending meetings without actually working the steps or engaging with the program. After ...
Aug 18, 2026
54 MIN
From Dirty Snow to Happy Destiny - AA Speaker - Ernie R.
Ernie R., a prominent criminal defense attorney, shares his story of high-functioning alcoholism that spiraled into losing his family, finances, and self-res...
Aug 15, 2026
1 HR 3 MIN
Stop Trying to Be So Cool - AA Speakers - Lindsey & Nate F.
Lindsey F. discusses her pattern of controlling her drinking and needing approval, including incidents where trying to manage situations led to harmful behav...
Aug 13, 2026
52 MIN
They Said Don't Come Back. You Said Keep Coming Back - AA Speaker - Don C.
Don C. describes his multiple attempts to stay sober before finally surrendering in 1978 and committing to AA with a sponsor who taught him the Big Book step...
Aug 12, 2026
48 MIN
The Woman I Didn't Like Became My Sponsor - AA Speaker - Liz Y.
Liz Y. describes her journey from teenage drinking and legal troubles to a devastating moment at work where an intervention gave her a choice: treatment or b...
Aug 11, 2026
2 HR 38 MIN
Bottom Is a Feeling, Not a Place - AA Speaker - Frank M.
In this AA speaker talk, Frank M. defines hitting bottom as an emotional state of hopelessness and surrender, not a physical circumstance like jail or treatm...
Aug 10, 2026
1 HR 11 MIN
What AA Gave My Mother Was Half a Quart of Milk - AA Speaker - Billy N.
Billy N., sober since January 5, 1990, describes growing up in a family that denied alcoholism despite generational addiction, violence, and chaos. He shares...
Aug 9, 2026
51 MIN
God Wrote Himself Into My Story - AA Speaker - Norma A.
Norma A. is an AA speaker who shares her 24-year recovery story, beginning with her bottom as a depressed young woman in Austin, progressing through early so...
Aug 7, 2026
1 HR 12 MIN
The Captain Who Had to Start From the Ground Up - AA Speaker - Lyle P.
Lyle P., a celebrated airline captain, was arrested after flying under the influence and faced federal charges, prison time, and the loss of his career, medi...
Aug 6, 2026
57 MIN
I Belonged in the Universe Again - AA Speaker - Michael B.
Michael B. describes his journey from a privileged childhood in the Andes to becoming a periodic alcoholic in the 1960s, with specific attention to his strug...
Aug 5, 2026
57 MIN
From a Hospital Bed to a Ph.D. - AA Speaker - Dave D.
Dave D. describes his journey from a 22-year-old alcoholic at death's door to a sober man with 14+ years in AA, a master's degree, and a PhD in engineering. ...
Aug 4, 2026
55 MIN
Match Calamity with Serenity - AA Speaker - Mary T.
Mary T., an AA speaker with 34 years of sobriety, shares how she moved through stages of recovery from early sobriety in California to a deeper spiritual awa...
Aug 3, 2026
44 MIN
The War Was Over. I Lost. Thank God. - AA Speaker - Rick M.
Rick M. describes hitting bottom while living in a tent at a campground in Gville, California, after years of drinking, drug use, and violent relationships. ...
Aug 1, 2026
1 HR 1 MIN
The Rottweilers That Kept Me in AA - AA Speaker - Don L.
Don L., an AA speaker with 32 years sober since September 1991, details how he spent six years trying to quit drinking on his own before surrendering to the ...
Jul 31, 2026
50 MIN
After 46 Years, the Prison Still Smelled Like Fear - AA Speaker - Johnnie H.
Johnnie H. shares 46 years of sobriety and describes returning to the prison where he was once locked in solitary confinement, drawing parallels between inst...
Jul 30, 2026
58 MIN
I Don't Drink Alcohol, I Drink Life - AA Speaker - Lila R.
Lila R., an AA speaker with 25 years of sobriety, discusses the spiritual foundation of long-term recovery and the difference between dry sobriety and genuin...
Jul 29, 2026
55 MIN
Thank God It Didn't All Happen in the First Year - AA Speaker - Pat L.
Pat L. is an AA speaker who details a lifetime of alcoholism beginning in childhood, shaped by growing up in an alcoholic family and experiencing trauma. He ...
Jul 28, 2026
55 MIN
Your Misery Is Refunded at the Door - AA Speaker - Eileen F.
Eileen F., an AA speaker with over 20 years sober, describes arriving at the program at 17 after arrests for drug dealing and alcohol-fueled behavior, then n...
Jul 27, 2026
1 HR 57 MIN
The Fourth Step Is an Inventory of Who I'm Not - AA Speaker - Scott L.
Scott L. presents the Fourth Step as a practical, structured inventory of resentments, fears, and sexual conduct using the Big Book directions. He explains t...
Jul 25, 2026
1 HR 8 MIN
The Fellowship I Never Knew I Craved - AA Speaker - John S.
John S. describes his drinking career, hitting bottom in a basement with suicidal thoughts, and what changed when he finally got to Alcoholics Anonymous. The...
Jul 23, 2026
59 MIN
The Fourth Dimension Is Love and Service - AA Speaker - Chris S.
Chris S. shares his story of early-onset alcoholism, decades of drinking and blackouts, a terrifying relapse near suicide, and his path to recovery through s...
Jul 22, 2026
36 MIN
Whatever Time I Have, I Have This Program - AA Speaker - Dennis M.
Dennis M. shares his recovery story from a childhood in rural Nevada where he hid his identity, through years of heavy drinking and drug use in Reno's bar sc...
Jul 21, 2026
56 MIN
The Book Hasn't Been Wrong Yet - AA Speaker - Bart R.
Bart R. shares his alcoholism story starting from childhood—drinking to fit in, multiple institutional placements, and years of relapse until finding a spo...
Jul 20, 2026
1 HR 15 MIN
The Question Only AA Could Answer - AA Speaker - Jack K.
Jack K. shares 11 years of sobriety after hitting bottom in jail at age 33, with a full account of progressive alcoholism beginning at 16 and the failure of ...
Jul 19, 2026
59 MIN
I've Been on This Cloud for 17 Years - AA Speaker - Perry W.
Perry W. was a chronic alcoholic and addict whose bottom came at age 30 when his brother-in-law held a shotgun to his head—a moment that triggered a spirit...
Jul 17, 2026
50 MIN
What Is the Price Tag? - AA Speaker - Freddie G.
Freddie G., sober 24+ years, shares his story from age 15 (first drink at a party) through his last drunk at age 30, when he finally cried out for help and w...
Jul 16, 2026
55 MIN
God's Giving Away Grace - AA Speaker - Mike P.
Mike P. shares 30 years of sobriety after hitting rock bottom as a homeless alcoholic who cycled through 11 detoxes and believed alcoholism would kill him. T...
Jul 15, 2026
43 MIN
Fewer Clipboards, More Trenches - AA Speaker - Myers R.
Myers R. explains that effective sponsorship is based on the Big Book, not on how sponsors were personally sponsored, and that working the steps can happen i...
Jul 14, 2026
36 MIN
No Obsession to Roll in Poison Ivy - AA Speaker - Brian B.
AA speaker Brian B. explores Step 1 powerlessness using the Big Book's definition of alcoholism as an allergy combined with an obsession of the mind. He expl...
Jul 13, 2026
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
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