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# Sober Sunrise

AA Speaker Podcast

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- [AA Speakers - Joe & Charlie - "Working the 4th Step" | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-step-4-resentments/) - Joe & Charlie break down Step 4 and the resentment inventory with clarity rarely heard in AA speaker meetings. Learn the exact method from the Big Book and why resentments block you from God.
- [The Book Hasn't Been Wrong Yet - AA Speaker - Bart R. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bart-r-big-book-recovery/) - AA speaker Bart R. shares his journey from childhood drinking to finding recovery through the Big Book. He walks through sponsorship, step work, and carrying the message to others in the program.
- [The Question Only AA Could Answer - AA Speaker - Jack K. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jack-k-disease-powerlessness-recovery/) - AA speaker Jack K. shares his 11-year sobriety story from a life of multiple arrests, chemical addiction, and relentless powerlessness to finding help through the program. A raw account of hitting bottom and surrender.
- [I've Been on This Cloud for 17 Years - AA Speaker - Perry W. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-perry-w-seventeen-years-sobriety/) - Perry W. shares 17 years sober after a shotgun incident with his brother-in-law sparked a spiritual awakening. An AA speaker tape on hitting bottom, finding a sponsor, and working the steps.
- [What Is the Price Tag? - AA Speaker - Freddie G. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-freddie-g-price-tag-sobriety/) - AA speaker Freddie G. shares 24 years of sobriety, from homelessness and six DWIs to recovery through the program. What does he owe Alcoholic Anonymous?
- [God's Giving Away Grace - AA Speaker - Mike P. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-p-gods-grace-recovery/) - AA speaker Mike P. shares his journey from violence and homelessness through detoxes and relapse to 30 years sober. A story about grace, sponsorship, and finding home.
- [Fewer Clipboards, More Trenches - AA Speaker - Myers R. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-myers-r-sponsorship-step-work/) - AA speaker Myers R. breaks down sponsorship, step work, and the purpose of AA—challenging myths about how long the work takes and why action matters more than talk.
- [No Obsession to Roll in Poison Ivy - AA Speaker - Brian B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-brian-b-powerlessness-first-step/) - AA speaker Brian B. breaks down Step 1 and the allergy to alcohol, comparing his inability to stay away from drinking to an allergic reaction he can't control despite knowing the danger.
- [More Than "Keep Coming Back" - AA Speaker - Chris R. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-r-big-book-steps-recovery/) - AA speaker Chris R. shares 21 years of sobriety built on working the steps, not just meetings. Why fellowship alone won't recover real alcoholics.
- [AA Speaker - Steve B. - Paramount, CA - 2001 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-steve-b-powerlessness-surrender-step-three/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Steve B. from Paramount, California got sober on May 25, 1979, after a lifetime of trying to control everything and everyone around him. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through what it means to truly surrender—not just once, but as
- [I Caught Alcoholism in AA Meetings - AA Speaker - Scott R. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scott-r-alcoholism-family-impact/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scott R. came into AA on April 22nd, 1985, and didn't yet understand what alcoholism actually was—or how deeply it had harmed his family. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the damage alcoholism inflicted on his wife and two young
- [AA Speaker - Sandy B. - Ellenton, FL - Part 4 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-sandy-b-spiritual-principles-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Sandy B. from Ellenton, FL is an AA speaker who has been carrying the message for decades, and in this talk he works through a series of written questions about spirituality, acceptance, and the relationship between surrender and taking action. Rather
- [AA Speaker - Don L. - Bend, OR - 2021 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-l-sponsorship-service/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don L. from Bend, OR got sober on September 16th, 1991, and in this AA speaker tape, he spends nearly three decades explaining why sponsorship and service work became the backbone of his recovery. Walking in on his second night of
- [AA Speaker - Cliff R. - Yosemite, CA - 2006 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-cliff-r-functioning-alcoholic-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Cliff R. from Oceanside, California was a high school teacher, debate coach, and surfer—a functioning alcoholic who drank daily while building a nationally-ranked speech team and destroying his family. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his five years of
- [Big Book Will Travel - AA Speaker - Don B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-b-big-book-history-recovery/) - AA speaker Don B. traces early AA history from San Francisco to Akron, then shares his journey from a life of deception and alcohol-fueled chaos to finding purpose through sponsorship and the Big Book.
- [Clean Your Side of the Street | AA Speaker - Jerry J. - Melbourne Beach, FL | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jerry-j-clean-your-side-street-amends/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jerry J. from Melbourne Beach, FL spent years dominating people around him—his boss, his son, sales clerks, telephone operators—until he found Alcoholics Anonymous. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the later steps (8-12), explaining how making amends isn't about
- [Principles Before Personalities — AA Traditions Explained - AA Speaker - Richard E. - London, UK | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-richard-e-aa-traditions-principles-before-personalities/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Richard E., an AA speaker from London, UK, walks through all 12 AA Traditions in this workshop-style talk, showing how these principles keep groups strong and protect the message. Drawing on the history of the Washingtonians and Oxford Group, Richard explains
- [I Didn't Come to Get Sober — I Came to Be Changed - AA Speaker - Don P. - Camden, ME | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-p-spiritual-transformation-changed-not-just-sober/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don P. from Camden, Maine has been spiritually awake for 35 years in recovery, and in this AA speaker tape, he walks through what it means to move from sobriety into genuine spiritual transformation. Don doesn't talk about the obsession to
- [When Drinking Stopped Fixing Me - AA Speaker - Scott P. - Dallas, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scott-p-when-drinking-stopped-fixing-me/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scott P. from Dallas, TX started drinking at five years old because it made him feel like he belonged. For decades, alcohol was his solution to every problem—until it stopped working. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how hitting
- [Wet the Bed at 32 Years Old — That Was My Bottom | AA Speaker Dave B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dave-b-wet-bed-32-years-old-bottom-denver/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dave B. got sober on September 6th, 1992 — the morning after relapsing in a Denver hotel room. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the years leading up to that defining moment: a childhood marked by abandonment and his
- [Success, Ego & Collapse — Then Real Recovery: AA Speaker - Scotty G. - San Marcos, CA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scotty-g-relapse-recovery-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scotty G. from San Marcos, California got sober at 21 in 1985, built a successful business, and got completely lost in ego and money. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his collapse into a 12-year relapse, his mental breakdown,
- [Stay Until You Hear the Music: AA Speaker - Doug R. - Helena, MT | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-doug-r-stay-until-hear-music-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Doug R. from California spent eight months going to AA meetings while drinking every day—working no steps, having no sponsor, looking for loopholes in the Big Book. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the moment he hit his knees
- [Walking the Steps Off the Wall: AA Speaker - Diz T. - Tallahassee, FL | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-diz-t-walking-steps-off-wall-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Diz T. from Tallahassee, FL has 22 years of continuous sobriety and a deep commitment to working the steps the way they were written. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his early struggles with an "off-the-wall program," his breakthrough
- [Walking Hand in Hand: AA Speaker - Dave A. - Denton, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dave-a-walking-hand-in-hand-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dave A. from Denton, TX got sober on July 9, 1998, and has spent the past decade learning that sobriety is just the beginning. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how working the steps—especially Steps 5, 9, and 10—opens
- [From Hopeless to Free: AA Speaker - John K. - Fort Worth, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-k-big-book-thumper-fort-worth-tx/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John K. from Fort Worth, Texas got sober on September 4th, 1999, after 11 years of attempts, jail time, emergency rooms, and complete despair. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through Step 1 with surgical precision, using the Big Book
- [The Language of the Heart: AA Speaker - Burns B. - Houma, LA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-burns-b-language-of-heart-big-book-study/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Burns B. from Louisiana got sober in 1977 after attempting suicide while living with his wife, convinced he couldn't live without drinking, amphetamines, or other drugs. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through 30+ years of recovery—from those first terrifying
- [Sober at 15 — Still Standing Years Later: AA Speaker - Karl M. - New Orleans, LA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-karl-m-sober-at-15-new-orleans/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Karl M. from New Orleans, LA was 15 years old when he got sober on June 12, 1996. This AA speaker tape walks through how a teenager went from hitting the streets and facing juvenile jail time to finding his way
- [Laughter, Sobriety, and the Spiritual Life: AA Speaker - Paul O. - Laguna Niguel, CA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-paul-o-laughter-sobriety-spiritual-life-laguna-niguel/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Paul O. from Laguna Niguel, California spent years self-medicating with alcohol and pills to manage what he thought was a sleeping problem and neurosis—until he ended up in the psychiatric ward of the hospital where he worked. In this AA speaker
- [Give Up, Clean Up, Make Up, Grow Up: AA Speaker - James T. - Duluth, MN | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-james-t-give-up-clean-up-make-up-grow-up/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → James T. from Duluth, MN spent years using alcohol and marijuana to numb himself—until his sister invited him to AA as a visitor who didn't believe he was an alcoholic. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his entire journey
- [Untreated Sobriety Is Still Alcoholism: AA Speaker - Chris S. - Bernardsville, NJ | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-untreated-sobriety-bernardsville/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. from Bernardsville, New Jersey spent years in AA meetings staying sober but never recovering—until he discovered what the Big Book actually taught. In this AA speaker talk, he walks through his journey from a scared kid using alcohol to
- [Sobriety, Cancer, and Grace: AA Speaker - Jim S. - Lake Forest, CA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jim-s-sobriety-cancer-grace-lake-forest/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jim S. from Lake Forest, California got sober on January 31st, 1986, after 14 years of drinking and using that cost him nearly everything—relationships, family, career, and pieces of his soul. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his bottom,
- [Living in the Sunlight of the Spirit: AA Speaker - Paul M. - Bloomington, MN | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-paul-m-sunlight-spirit-step-work-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Paul M. from Bloomington, Minnesota grew up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, became a bartender in Rockaway Beach, and spent years drinking himself into hospitals, seizures, and despair. In this AA speaker tape, he tells how he came back three
- [The Last Room on the Last House on the Block: AA Speaker - Joe M. - San Antonio, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-m-last-room-last-house-block-bottom-amends/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe M. from San Antonio, TX spent years cycling in and out of psychiatric hospitals, attempted suicide multiple times, and was told by doctors he'd never function in society. In this AA speaker tape, he describes what finally broke through the
- [Sober For Keeps - Steps 1-7 Workshop - AA Speakers - Audrey C. & Julie H. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-audrey-c-julie-h-sober-for-keeps-workshop-steps-1-7/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Audrey C. from Austin, Texas and Julie H. from Dallas take you through Steps 1-7 of the Big Book in this comprehensive AA speaker workshop. Their driving message is simple: if you want to get sober for good and all, you
- [Sober 17 Years—Then Finally Recovered: AA Speaker - Tom P. - Mesquite, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-p-17-years-sober-then-recovered-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom P. from Mesquite, Texas stayed sober for 17 years in AA but never actually understood Step One or worked the steps as written in the Big Book. In this AA speaker tape, he explains why meeting attendance and thinking through
- [A Solution That Never Fails: AA Speaker - Paul G. - Prescott, WI | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-paul-g-solution-that-never-fails-12-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Paul G. from Prescott, WI is a recovered alcoholic with 14 incarcerations, seven treatment centers, and years of homelessness behind him. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his bottom—stabbed 17 times in an alley, his children taken away—and how
- [I Didn't Relapse—But I Was Losing the Program: AA Speaker - Charlie P. - Las Vegas, NV | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-charlie-p-losing-program-without-relapse-service-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Charlie P. from Austin, Texas got sober 22 years ago at 28, but after about 17 years of sobriety, he realized he'd missed something fundamental in the AA program—the very foundation of the Big Book itself. In this AA speaker tape,
- [I Tried to Drink Myself to Death in Mexico: AA Speaker - Joe G. - Beaumont, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-g-tried-drink-myself-death-mexico-hitting-bottom/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe G. from Beaumont, TX got sober at 17 after a harrowing stint in Mexico where he attempted suicide while drinking, was deported, and returned home to Alcoholics Anonymous with nothing left. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through hitting
- [From the Streets to a Life Worth Living: AA Speaker - Peter M. - Queens, NY | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-m-streets-to-life-worth-living-queens/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter M. from Queens, NY spent years on the streets, cycling through seven rehabs, stealing, living in hallways, and panhandling before he hit the bitter end that brought him to Alcoholics Anonymous. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his
- [The Fight I Couldn't Win With Alcohol: AA Speaker - Don C. - Silver Creek, CO | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-c-fight-couldnt-win-alcohol-sponsorship-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don C. from Silver Creek, Colorado fought alcohol for years and kept losing. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how he finally admitted powerlessness, worked the steps with a no-nonsense sponsor, and discovered that blending the twelve-step program with
- [When Willpower Finally Failed Me: AA Speaker - Stephen B. - Provo, UT - 2025 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-stephen-b-willpower-failed-step-work-resentments/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Stephen B., an AA speaker from Louisiana who later moved to California, spent 12 years trying to stop drinking on his own—quitting an estimated 300 times before hitting a breaking point at work. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through
- [When the Power of Choice Is Gone: AA Speaker - Dave P. - Barnegat, NJ | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dave-p-power-of-choice-gone-relapse-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dave P. from Barnegat, NJ came back to AA after decades of relapse and found himself trapped in a cycle where alcohol made all his decisions for him. In this AA speaker tape, he breaks down the difference between powerlessness and
- [Clearing the Wreckage of the Past: Steps 5-9 - AA Speaker -  Chris D. - New Bern, NC | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-d-steps-5-9-clearing-wreckage-past/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris D. from New Bern, NC leads a workshop on Steps 5 through 9, the middle steps that form what he calls the "basic training" of recovery. In this AA speaker talk, he breaks down the Fifth Step confession, the character
- [Spiritual Fitness That Actually Works: AA Speaker - Mike L. - Destin, FL | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-l-spiritual-fitness-step-11-meditation/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike L. got sober in 1985 after years of failed attempts and low expectations from the fellowship. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how inventory work, meditation practice, and learning to trust a God of his understanding transformed not
- [Why Just Going to Meetings Almost Killed Me: AA Speaker - Chris R. - Scottsdale, AZ | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-r-going-meetings-almost-killed-me/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris R. spent seven years going to AA meetings in the early '80s without ever being properly qualified as an alcoholic or taught how to work the steps. In this AA speaker talk, he walks through the turning point: finding a
- [From War, Booze, and Chaos to 49 Years Sober: AA Speaker - Howard W. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-howard-w-49-years-war-navy-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Howard W., a Navy veteran who drank his way through military service and marriage, got sober in Montreal after hitting a turning point with his wife. In this AA speaker tape, he describes decades of warfare with alcohol, a critical moment
- [AA Speaker - Cindy M. - Dallas, TX - 2009 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-cindy-m-17-years-relapse-big-book-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Cindy M. from Dallas, TX got sober on January 18, 2003, after nearly 40 years of drinking that started at age 15. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through decades of attempts to control alcohol—therapy, religion, hobbies, treatment centers—before finally
- [A Long Way from Rock Bottom: AA Speaker - David T. - Spartanburg, SC | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-david-t-long-way-rock-bottom-spartanburg/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → David T. from Spartanburg, SC got sober on March 9, 1992, after nearly losing everything—his marriage, his family relationships, and his grip on life itself. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through decades of progressive alcoholism, a turning point in
- [From Inmate to Warden | AA Speaker - Tom I. - Chicago, IL | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-i-inmate-to-warden-prison-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom I. from North Carolina spent eight years destroying everything he touched before killing two people in a blackout while driving drunk at age 24. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a prison AA group, a sponsor named
- [How Surrender Changed Everything: AA Speaker - Brian P. - Copper Mountain, CO | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-brian-p-surrender-changed-everything-copper-mountain/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Brian P. from Copper Mountain, Colorado spent his 20s in federal prison for bank robberies committed while actively using and dealing drugs. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his moment of complete surrender on March 6th, 1993—the day he
- [I Needed All of AA — Not Just the Fellowship: AA Speaker - Chris C. - Alexandria, MN - 2016 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-c-needed-all-aa-not-just-fellowship-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris C. from Alexandria, Minnesota came into AA through a treatment center at 22, fresh off the streets of Los Angeles, thinking meetings were all there was to the program. In this AA speaker talk, he walks through why he needed
- [Sponsorship Saved My Life — From Drinking to Living: AA Speaker - Jay S. - Tacoma, WA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-sponsorship-saved-life-morning-drinker/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S. from Tacoma, WA got sober on May 2, 1979, after years of morning drinking, jail time, and living in his car. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a sponsor and the Big Book saved his life,
- [Alcohol Was My Solution — Until AA Gave Me a Life: AA Speaker - Jeff V. - Aberdeen, SD | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jeff-v-alcohol-solution-until-aa-gave-life-aberdeen/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jeff V. from Aberdeen, South Dakota spent years using alcohol to escape a deep sense of emptiness, isolation, and fear he couldn't name or understand. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through what it took—a sponsor who wouldn't let him
- [I Didn't Know I Was an Alcoholic Until I Heard My Own Story: AA Speaker - Wes H. - Denver, CO | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-wes-h-didnt-know-alcoholic-until-heard-story-denver/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Wes H. from Denver got sober in Los Angeles after years of high-functioning alcoholism—moving from vice president of a company to a locked apartment in Korea Town, drinking wine by the case. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the
- [I Wasn't an Alcoholic Because I Drank Too Much — I Never Got Enough: AA Speaker - Glynn W. - Memp... | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-glynn-w-never-got-enough-memphis/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Glynn W. from Memphis, Tennessee didn't grow up thinking he was an alcoholic. His conception of one was a homeless man pushing a shopping cart under a bridge—not a kid with chaotic family trauma and an obsession that would haunt him
- [Why I Kept Drinking Even When I Wanted to Stop: AA Speaker - Dan S. - Vancouver, Canada | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dan-s-kept-drinking-wanted-stop-step-1/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dan S. from Santa Monica, California spent two years walking to the liquor store every morning despite desperately wanting to stop—completely baffled by his own inability to stay sober. In this AA speaker tape, he breaks down Step One in detail,
- [The Day the Obsession to Drink Was Removed: AA Speaker - D.J. S. - Lufkin, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dj-s-obsession-removed-sponsorship-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → D.J. S. from Texas spent 20 years inflicting himself on others through drinking and using, until a court-ordered recovery program forced him into treatment. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how working the steps at a treatment facility created
- [Robbing Banks, Losing Everything, and Finding God: AA Speaker - Brian P. - Portland, ME | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-brian-p-bank-robbery-hitting-bottom-portland/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Brian P. from Portland, Maine spent his twenties robbing banks, smoking crack, and running from the law before landing in federal prison. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how federal agents, a sponsor who refused to let him leave,
- [I Missed Every Gift… Until Sobriety: AA Speaker - Tim H. - Ardmore, OK | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tim-h-missed-every-gift-until-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tim H., an AA speaker from Kentucky, spent 27 years watching alcohol take away everything that mattered to him—a basketball scholarship, his marriage, his children, his self-respect. When he finally walked into the rooms on April 12th, 1990, he was living
- [From Vietnam Trauma to Spiritual Awakening: AA Speaker - Jim S. - Bagdad, KY | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jim-s-vietnam-trauma-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jim S. from Bagdad, Kentucky was a medic in Vietnam who drank to escape the chaos and trauma he witnessed—including carrying wounded soldiers and watching them die. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his entire path: why he drank
- [The $3 Amends That Changed My Life - AA Speaker - Cecil C. - Blackstone, VA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-cecil-c-three-dollar-amends-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Cecil C. from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan came to AA in 1952 after hitting rock bottom—kicked out of the Navy, fired from jobs, broke, and fighting in bars. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how working the steps in sequence
- ["I Fell 30 Feet, Got 4 DWIs… and Still Couldn't Quit Drinking" - AA Speaker - Troy N. - Elgin, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-troy-n-fell-30-feet-4-dwis-couldnt-quit-drinking/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Troy N. from Elgin, Texas spent years chasing a high he couldn't find and running from consequences he couldn't escape—four DWIs, a catastrophic fall from a 30-foot warehouse, multiple arrests, and a collapsing marriage all failed to stop him from drinking.
- [Maintaining Conscious Contact During the Holidays: AA Speakers - Bill L. & Mike L. - Albany, NY | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bill-l-mike-l-conscious-contact-holidays-step-11/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bill L. and Mike L. from Albany, NY came into AA beaten down by alcoholism but discovered that staying sober wasn't enough—they needed to work the steps and build a spiritual life. In this AA speaker meeting, they share how three
- [From Selling Drugs to Finding God: AA Speaker - Todd M. - Cleveland, OH | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-todd-m-selling-drugs-finding-god-cleveland/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Todd M. from Cleveland, OH spent years in the streets, dealing drugs, and living homeless before finding his way into the rooms. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from rock bottom—including time in a Chinese prison—to 23
- [Why Lack of Power Is the Real Alcoholic Problem - Big Book Study - John N. & Joe Z. - Scranton, PA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-n-joe-z-lack-of-power-big-book-study/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John N. and Joe Z. from Scranton, PA dive deep into Chapter "We Agnostic" from the Big Book in this AA speaker study session. Both men came into recovery skeptical of anything spiritual — John was convinced he was punishing God,
- [One Day at a Time—And Why Today Is the Hard One: AA Speaker - Bill D. - Baton Rouge, LA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bill-d-one-day-at-time-today-hard-one/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bill D. from Baton Rouge got sober in 1953 after five days in a hospital detox ward and nearly three decades of progressive alcoholism. In this AA speaker tape, he traces his entire journey from drinking at age 13 through becoming
- [A Design For Living: AA Speaker - Marsha S. - Austin, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-marsha-s-design-for-living-austin-tx/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Marsha S. from Austin, Texas spent years as a prosecutor, a mother of five, and a woman living a double life—appearing put-together on the outside while her drinking and drug use escalated behind closed doors. In this AA speaker tape, she
- [How Spiritual Experiences Transform Alcoholics: AA Speaker - Jay S. - Lafayette, LA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-spiritual-experiences-varieties-william-james/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S. from Lafayette, Louisiana has been sober since 1979 and is a historian of AA's spiritual foundations. In this AA speaker meeting, he traces the roots of spiritual experience in recovery through William James's "The Varieties of Religious Experience," the
- [How Helping Others Saved My Sobriety and My Life: AA Speaker - Dave A. - Frisco, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dave-a-helping-others-saved-sobriety-frisco-tx/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dave A. from Frisco, TX is blind and has built his sobriety on a single principle: staying close to God and helping another alcoholic achieve sobriety. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how shifting his focus from his own
- [A Doomed and Hopeless Alcoholic :AA Speaker - Kevin H. - Copenhagen, Denmark | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kevin-h-doomed-hopeless-alcoholic-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kevin H., an AA speaker from New York, spent years convinced he could control his drinking through willpower, therapy, meditation, and physical fitness—only to find himself hiding beers in a bathroom at 28 years old, watching his life collapse. In this
- [Locked Doors to Open Skies: AA Speaker - Nancy M. - Fargo, ND | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-nancy-m-locked-doors-open-skies-30-years-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Nancy M. from Fargo, North Dakota has been sober since May 23rd, 1971—over 50 years of continuous sobriety. In this AA speaker tape, she tells the raw story of her bottom: a mother locked in denial, drinking heavily while her young
- [The Day I Couldn't Swallow My Last Drink: AA Speaker - Mack B. - Mt. Crested Butte, CA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mack-b-couldnt-swallow-last-drink-hitting-bottom/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mack B. from California spent nearly 24 years drinking before he reached a moment of absolute powerlessness in a flop house on Anaheim Street in Wilmington. In this AA speaker tape, he shares how a stranger with shiny eyes and a
- [Everything Changed When I Worked the Big Book: AA Speaker - Kerry C. - Berkeley Heights, NJ - 2004 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kerry-c-big-book-steps-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kerry C. from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey came into AA at 16 after years of suicide attempts, psychiatric hospitalizations, and uncontrollable drinking. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how working the Big Book directly—doing the steps out of the
- [I Didn't Know How to Not Drink: AA Speaker - Noel S. - Nashua, NH | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-noel-s-didnt-know-how-not-drink/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Noel S. from Nashua, NH spent twelve years drinking daily, convinced he wasn't an alcoholic because he was in graduate school and had never tried cocaine. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the exact moment—drunk in his apartment after a
- [You Never Have to Feel That Way Again | AA Speaker | Jay S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-spiritual-principles-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S. arrived at his first AA meeting at 24 years old, arrested multiple times, living in a car, and convinced he was simply a bad person. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a sponsor's challenge, the Big
- [Finding My Father at an AA Meeting: AA Speaker - Ed B. - Cleveland, OH | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-ed-b-finding-father-meeting/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Ed B. from Cleveland, Ohio spent years running from his past—raised without his father, angry at God, in and out of rehabs and prison—until he walked into an AA meeting and found his father sitting in the next chair. In this
- [How to Change Your Attitude and Find Real Sobriety: AA Speaker - Chuck S. - Lake Griffin, FL | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chuck-s-attitude-change-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chuck S. from Lake Griffin, Florida spent 18 years drinking, cycling through treatment centers, legal consequences, and devastation at home before a moment of clarity with his daughter broke through the denial. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how
- [I Came to AA With No Underwear - AA Speaker - Joe A. - Louisville, KY | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-a-hitting-bottom-first-meetings-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe A. from Louisville, Kentucky came to AA in 1977 with nothing—no job, no underwear, living in a roach-infested room on skid row. In this AA speaker tape, he tells the story of his descent into alcoholism, the moment his sponsor's
- [Drinking on Antabuse and Still Thinking I Was in Control: AA Speaker - David T. - Hilton Head, SC | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-david-t-antabuse-control-mental-obsession/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → David T. from Hilton Head, SC came to AA thinking he could manage his drinking problem through willpower and even medication—including Antabuse, a drug meant to make drinking dangerous. In this AA speaker tape, he reveals the twisted logic of alcoholic
- [I Bought a Horse to Stay Sober: AA Speaker - Erna G. - Sacramento, CA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-erna-g-horse-staying-sober-third-step/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Erna G. from Sacramento, CA started drinking at 11 years old in Iceland and spent decades chasing relief through alcohol, relationships, and self-will before hitting bottom repeatedly. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how meetings alone didn't stop her
- [50+ Years Sober: AA Speakers - Chief Blackhawk, Liz B. & Steve P. - Akron, OH | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-long-term-sobriety-chief-blackhawk-liz-b-steve-p/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chief Blackhawk, Liz B., and Steve P. are three AA speakers with over 50 years of sobriety each, speaking at an Akron AA Founders Day event. Chief Blackhawk shares how he went from Skid Row in Detroit to becoming a pillar
- [From Party Life to Purpose: AA Speaker - Mark C. - Studio City, CA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mark-c-party-life-recovery-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mark C. from Palmdale, CA spent nine years chasing the party life—from the San Fernando Valley to Denver to Chicago to Florida—before his alcoholism and drug addiction spiraled into homelessness and desperation. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the moment
- [Row Your Boat Gently: AA Speaker - Dan P. - Fort Worth, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dan-p-surrender-acceptance-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dan P. from Fort Worth, Texas spent decades as a functioning alcoholic—a lawyer with money, success, and two failed marriages—while convincing himself he didn't have a problem. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the moment denial finally cracked, how
- [I Was 18 and Already Dying From Alcoholism - Kellie L. - Athens, GA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kellie-l-dying-alcoholism-18-years-old/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kellie L. from Chicago got sober at 18 after spending her childhood in poverty and using drugs and alcohol by age 12. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through hitting bottom at 17—malnourished, sick, and suicidal—and the moment she called
- [The Difference Between the Fellowship and the Program: AA Speaker - John H. - Aberdeen, SD | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-h-fellowship-program-difference/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John H., sober since May 19, 1973, shares his 50-year story in this AA speaker tape recorded in Aberdeen, SD. From a childhood in an alcoholic Philadelphia home to decades on the streets, in and out of prison, John walks through
- [Why Half Measures Nearly Killed Me: AA Speaker - Bart R. - Superior, WI | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bart-r-half-measures-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bart R. from Superior, WI spent eight years cycling through relapses and dry drunk periods before he finally understood what "half measures avail us nothing" actually meant. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from chronic relapse to
- [From Skid Row to Sobriety: AA Speaker - Elizabeth M. - Honolulu, HI | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-elizabeth-m-skid-row-sobriety-hawaii/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Elizabeth M. from Honolulu, Hawaii got sober on April 5, 1999, after years of arrest, homelessness, and losing her children to the disease of alcoholism. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through her childhood hole in her soul, the moment
- [The 4 R's That Saved My Life: AA Speaker - Leroy Y. - Toluca Lake, CA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-leroy-y-four-rs-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Leroy Y. from Toluca Lake, CA came into AA after years on the streets, multiple arrests, and three prison sentences—but kept relapsing until he found a sponsor willing to take him through the Big Book step by step. In this AA
- [A Priest Who Couldn't Stop Drinking: AA Speaker - Hollis D. - Eugene, OR - 1999 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-hollis-d-priest-alcoholism-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Hollis D. from Eugene, Oregon was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1974, but his priesthood became a casualty of his drinking—a disease he contracted spiritually first, then mentally, and finally physically. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how
- [Am I Moving Forward… or Just Swinging Back and Forth? - AA Speaker - Kenny L. - Hong Kong - 2012 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kenny-l-moving-forward-swinging-back-forth/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kenny L. spent years in AA trying to stay sober through willpower, planning, and self-determination—only to keep getting drunk. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his moment of spiritual awakening at a bus stop, his discovery that surrender works
- [Don't Quit Before the Miracle Happens: AA Speaker - Robbie W. - Aberdeen, SD | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-robbie-w-dont-quit-before-miracle/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Robbie W. from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania spent his 20s in and out of jails, prisons, and mental hospitals because of his drinking. In this AA speaker tape, he describes his last drunk in Chester County prison, his moment of clarity in Kalamazoo,
- [AA Is a Sacred Community — The Steps Are What Heal Us: AA Speaker - Paul M. - Chicago, IL | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-paul-m-sacred-community-steps-healing/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Paul M. from Chicago, IL has been sober since August 1947—over 60 years in Alcoholics Anonymous. In this AA speaker tape recorded at his gold diamond jubilee celebration, Paul walks through how he discovered that AA is a sacred community, how
- [You Don't Have to Reinvent AA — Just Show Up: AA Speaker - Jason B. - Memphis, TN | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jason-b-showing-up-service-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jason B. from Memphis, Tennessee got sober at 18 after a brief stint in treatment cracked open the possibility that he might actually be an alcoholic. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through nearly 25 years of sobriety—from finding his
- [I Was a Spiritual Litterbug: AA Speaker - Mike L. - McKenzie Bridge, OR | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-l-step-3-surrender-turning-it-over/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike L. from McKenzie Bridge, OR is an AA speaker who spent years getting the drama of Step 3 wrong—kneeling down with sincerity, turning everything over to God, then walking away like God was a bellhop who'd pick up his luggage.
- [A Guardian of AA's History: AA Speaker - Gail L. - Stockholm, Sweden | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-gail-l-aa-history-founders-arkron/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Gail L., a retired schoolteacher and AA archivist from Akron, Ohio, shares the story of how Alcoholics Anonymous was born—from Dr. Bob's recovery with the Oxford Group to Bill Wilson's arrival in Akron to the harrowing journey of writing and publishing
- [From Homeless & Hopeless to Grateful & Free: AA Speaker - Paul M. - New Orleans, LA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-paul-m-homeless-to-recovery-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Paul M. from New Orleans spent years on the streets, in and out of homeless shelters, and spiraling deeper into addiction—until a chance invitation to an AA dance changed everything. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through decades of chaos,
- [The Sacred Steps in a Circle: AA Speaker - Don C. - Laughlin, NV | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-c-sacred-steps-circle-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don C., a member of the Moheakin Nation, came into AA after years of struggle, prejudice, and a boxing-match battle with alcohol that cost him his family and everything he owned. In this AA speaker tape, he describes not just his
- [The Spiritual Awakening That Saved My Life: AA Speaker - Chris G. - Austin, TX - 2012 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-g-spiritual-awakening-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris G. from Austin, Texas was a musician chasing fame in LA, using heroin daily, and found himself at a crossroads with a gun in one hand and a syringe in the other. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through
- [Raised in Chaos, Saved by AA: Jay K. - Myrtle Beach, SC - 2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-k-chaos-to-recovery-grace/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay K. from Myrtle Beach grew up in chaos watching his father drink, swore he'd never become an alcoholic, then spent 15 years proving himself wrong—from Skid Row to handcuffs to a moment of clarity at an AA meeting he'd stumbled
- [From Yale to the Gutter and Back: AA Speaker - Peter G. - Southbury, CT - 2005 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-g-yale-gutter-back-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter G. from Connecticut got sober on July 23rd, 1998, after years of drinking that took him from Yale University to living in a gutter with garbage bags full of empty cans. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his
- [A Drunk Pilot's Spiritual Awakening: AA Speaker - Scott L. - Nashville, TN | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scott-l-drunk-pilot-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scott L. from Nashville, Tennessee spent decades flying high-performance military aircraft while drinking himself toward death. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his decades as a functional alcoholic, his moment of spiritual awakening in a treatment center bed, and
- [Dr. Bob and the Good Old Gals: AA Speaker - Gail L. - Stockholm, Sweden | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-gail-l-women-aa-history-dr-bob/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Gail L., speaking from Stockholm, Sweden, walks through the largely untold history of women in Alcoholics Anonymous—the wives, supporters, and early female members who were essential to AA's founding but often left out of the official story. This AA speaker talk
- [How AA Saved My Life at 19: AA Speaker - Joshua H. - Alberta, Canada | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joshua-h-hitting-bottom-at-19/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joshua H. from Toronto, Canada got sober at 19 after years of heavy drug use, a near-fatal suicide attempt by carbon monoxide poisoning, homelessness in Seattle, and a collapse at work. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how he
- [Protect What Protects Us: AA Traditions - AA Speaker - Tom I. - Vancouver, Canada | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-i-aa-traditions-unity-common-welfare/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom I. from Vancouver has been in the program long enough to see how the AA Traditions operate at every level—from his home group to the General Service Office. In this AA speaker tape, he breaks down the first ten traditions
- [We Drink Alone. We Stay Sober Together: AA Speaker - Paul M. - Bloomington, MN | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-paul-m-we-drink-alone-stay-sober-together/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Paul M., originally from Northern Ireland and now in Bloomington, Minnesota, came to AA after years of drinking himself into hospitals, seizures, and complete isolation—convinced he had a willpower problem when the real issue was that he couldn't stay sober alone.
- [Do It This Weekend - AA Speaker - Rick W. - San Diego, CA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-rick-w-working-the-steps-weekend/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Rick W. from Oxnard, California got sober in 1977 after landing in a mental hospital, thinking he'd never be an alcoholic. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how he went from a punk kid headed for prison to someone
- [Don't Warm the Seats: AA Speaker - Julie H. - Dallas, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-julie-h-working-steps-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Julie H. from Dallas, TX spent 13 years in and out of AA, relapsing repeatedly, until she finally grasped what the Big Book was actually teaching. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through why meetings alone don't keep people sober,
- [Hole in the Soul: AA Speaker - Hugh N. - Memphis, TN - 2003 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-hugh-n-hole-in-soul-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Hugh N. from Memphis, Tennessee got sober at 16 after a near-fatal blackout, but spending years in meetings without working the steps left him miserable and dry. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a sponsor finally pushed him
- [The 90/10 Program: AA Speaker - Tom I. - Muscatine, IL | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-i-working-with-others-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom I. from Muscatine, Illinois has been sober since 1957, and in this AA speaker tape, he tackles one of recovery's most critical responsibilities: working with others. Rather than offering quick tips, Tom walks through how the 12-step call actually works,
- [Lying Through Life: AA Speaker - Bart R. - Minnetonka, MN - 2015 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bart-r-lying-through-life-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bart R. grew up in New York City as the only alcoholic in his family, drinking from fifth grade onward—in school closets, on the streets, in detention centers. In this AA speaker tape, he traces his path from lying, cheating, and
- [The Circle of Love - AA Speaker - Keith L. - Lake Jackson, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-keith-l-circle-of-love-family-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Keith L. from Lake Jackson, Texas grew up in a large, loving Irish Catholic family but spent his childhood isolated and unable to receive the affection that surrounded him. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through decades of alcoholism—from his
- [From Black Sheep to Best Friend: AA Speaker - Mike C. - Lemon Grove, CA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-c-surrender-steps-amends/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike C. from Lemon Grove, CA got sober in 1989 after years of feeling like the black sheep of his family, and early sobriety felt worse than drinking. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through hitting an emotional bottom at
- [From Pine-Sol to Peace: AA Speaker - Kelvin D. - Bloomington, MN | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kelvin-d-playing-god-second-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kelvin D. from Bloomington, Minnesota came into AA as a wreck—drinking pine-sol, homeless, collecting for drug dealers, and convinced he was possessed by demons. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how early sobriety gave him a fake confidence that
- [The Disease of Perception - AA Speaker - Kent L. - Guntersville, AL-2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kent-l-disease-of-perception/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kent L. from Guntersville, Alabama grew up privileged with no trauma, yet became a desperate alcoholic by his late thirties. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a disease of perception—comparing himself to others, lying, and a false sense
- [From Hollow Eyes in a Dark Corner to a Life Worth Living - AA Speaker - Paul G. - Eerie, PA](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-paul-g-recovery-sponsorship-fellowship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Paul G. from Breckville, Ohio got sober on September 15, 1991, after years of living on the streets, a federal indictment, and a stay in a treatment center outside the Pennsylvania border. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how
- [I Glued My Husband and Lost Everything - AA Speaker - Karen G. - Jackson's Mill, WV](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-karen-g-recovery-nursing-license-redemption/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Karen G. spent years as a working nurse, got sober, lost everything including her license, and ended up on the streets—but this AA speaker tape chronicles her unlikely path back to both sobriety and her profession. Over 26 years in the
- [I Ran Over Myself With My Own Van - AA Speaker - Steve D. - Temecula, CA](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-steve-d-hitting-bottom-homeless-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Steve D. from Temecula, California came to AA after a decade of homelessness, living in his car and at a cemetery, wanted in multiple counties, and running with outlaw motorcycle clubs. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his rock
- [Why Step One Is the Springboard to Everything - AA Speaker - Chris S. - Playa Guiones, Costa Rica](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-gift-of-desperation-step-one/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. from Costa Rica shares a deep dive into Step 1—the foundation of the AA program—in this AA speaker meeting recorded at a recovery retreat. Chris walks through his own experience of the phenomenon of craving that started at age
- [Why the Spiritual Power Comes From Amends, Not Meditation - AA Speaker - Jay S. - Pattaya, Thailand](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-pattaya-thailand-alcoholism-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S. from Los Angeles came into AA in 1979 after years of uncontrolled drinking, blackouts, and living in his car. In this AA speaker tape recorded in Pattaya, Thailand, he walks through what the disease of alcoholism actually is—the allergy
- [When a Cup of Coffee Meant Somebody Noticed I Was Alive - AA Speaker - Robin & Fernando - Yuma, AZ](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-robin-fernando-yuma-recovery-stories/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Robin and Fernando, a married couple in recovery, share their AA speaker stories at a meeting in Yuma, Arizona. Robin went from a 15-year-old sneaking drinks at nightclubs to eight years of rapid-progression alcoholism, ending up homeless and broken before finding
- [When the Hoop Gets Bigger Than You Ever Imagined - AA Speaker - Kenny D. - Santa Fe, NM](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kenny-d-step-2-belief-step-3-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kenny D., an AA speaker from Santa Fe, New Mexico, shares his experience working Steps 2 and 3 in this detailed AA speaker meeting. He walks through the Big Book's "We Agnostics" chapter, explaining how his own closed-mindedness nearly cost him
- [I Stole a Spiritual Awakening Out of a Bottle - AA Speaker - Mike L. - McKenzie Bridge, OR](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-l-spiritual-awakening-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike L., an AA speaker from Indianapolis, Indiana with over 20 years sober, walks through his entire recovery journey at a retreat in McKenzie Bridge, Oregon. His talk traces the moment alcohol first gave him what he thought was a spiritual
- [I Was Professing a Faith I Didn't Even Believe In - AA Speaker - Robi S. - Haddonfield, NJ](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-robi-s-sponsorship-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Robi S. from Haddonfield, New Jersey came into AA broken, terrified, and convinced she wasn't a real alcoholic—until a woman at a meeting told her to shut up and do the work. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how
- [I Came to AA Hating Happy People - AA Speaker - Kelvin D. - Salem, OR](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kelvin-d-spiritual-awakening-god/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kelvin D. from Fargo, North Dakota came to AA with a deep wound—a feeling of disconnection that went back to childhood, complicated by identity questions and an irritable, restless nature that made him feel like an outsider. In this AA speaker
- [Why That Fear of Impending Calamity Nearly Killed Me - AA Speaker - Jay P. - St. Cloud, MN](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-p-step-4-inventory-resentments/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay P. got sober on March 8th, 1974, after nine years of drinking destroyed his marriage and family. In this AA speaker meeting, he walks through what it was like to get serious about Step 4 with a sponsor who refused
- [From Lost Veterinarian to Spiritual Purpose - AA Speaker - Jonathan S. - Playa Guiones, Costa Rica](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jonathan-s-recovered-recovering-spiritual-condition/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jonathan S. spent 13 years trying to stay sober before landing in a recovery center in Austin, Texas in 2008—not a treatment facility, but a place where recovering people worked the steps directly from the Big Book. In this AA speaker
- [From Faultfinder to Father - How One Man Learned to Love His Family - AA Speaker - James T.](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-james-t-steps-powerlessness-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → James T. from Manitoba, Canada came to AA already sober from alcohol but still smoking marijuana, thinking his problem was just drinking. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how he finally accepted he was an alcoholic, moved through the
- [I Couldn't Even Enjoy a Single Cigarette - AA Speaker - Kenny D. - Santa Fe, NM](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kenny-d-santa-fe-spiritual-retreat-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kenny D. from Seattle, Washington got sober in 1989 after years of heroin addiction, homelessness, and multiple failed treatment attempts. In this AA speaker tape from a Santa Fe retreat, he walks through his journey from living behind a McDonald's to
- [Why I Couldn't Get Sober Again Until Someone Explained the Allergy - AA Speaker - Cindy M. - Dallas, TX](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-cindy-m-powerlessness-step-one-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Cindy M. from Dallas, Texas got sober on January 18, 2003, after decades of drinking, failed attempts at recovery, and one desperate moment of clarity. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through her long struggle with the disease, what actually
- [From Fellowship Alone to a Transformational Recovery - AA Speaker - Chris S. - Playa Guiones, Costa Rica](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-big-book-recovery-movement/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. is an AA speaker who got sober in the late 1980s after a life of blackout drinking, violence, and multiple failed attempts at recovery through meetings alone. In this AA speaker tape recorded in Costa Rica, he traces the
- [When I Finally Understood I Had Alcoholism, Not a Drinking Problem - AA Speaker - Don L. - Edmonton, Canada](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-l-alcoholism-disease-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don L. from Bellingham, Washington got sober in 1991 after six years of relapsing on his own attempts to quit drinking. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the critical difference between having a drinking problem and suffering from alcoholism
- [From $42,000 in Debt to Spiritual Disciplines - AA Speaker - Kent L. - Montgomery, AL](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kent-l-spiritual-disciplines-steps-10-11/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kent L. from Montgomery, Alabama got sober on September 18th, 1998, after a military discharge for drinking on duty, abandoning his family, and hitting a bottom he thought would never end. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how early
- [I Entered the World of the Spirit - AA Speaker - Dave A. - Lake Jackson, TX](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dave-a-step-3-surrender-spiritual-experience/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dave A. from Lake Jackson, Texas got sober in 1998 after 25 years of relapsing despite a strong faith. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how fully surrendering to the program at Step 3—turning his will over to a
- [From Collecting Bottles to Managing Wall Street - AA Speaker - David R. - Raleigh, NC](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-david-r-ninth-step-amends-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → David R. from Raleigh, NC got sober in 1994 after years of destruction—losing jobs, living in shelters, and ending up handcuffed to a hospital wall. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from active addiction through intensive step
- ["Sliding Professional Scale" 😂 - AA Speaker - Jay S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-alcoholism-denial-humor/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S. was a bartender deep in his drinking, waking up in the early morning hours in a cold sweat, needing a beer just to function. In this AA speaker tape, he recounts the absurd logic he used to justify his
- [I Couldn't See My Part Until Step Four Changed Everything - AA Speaker - Travis A. - Lethbridge, Alberta](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-travis-a-recovery-powerlessness-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Travis A. from Alberta entered AA at 18, lost years to heavy drinking and homelessness, and found his way back through working the steps with a sponsor. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the insanity of his drinking—planning to burn
- [I Didn't Wear Underwear and They Let Me Stay - AA Speaker - Kerry C. - Windsor, Ontario](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kerry-c-spiritual-awakening-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kerry C. grew up paralyzed by fear, got sober at 18, and spent years hiding in meetings instead of actually working a program. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through her spiritual awakening, her journey from self-centered ego-driven service work,
- [Why Most People in AA Only Want Relief, Not Recovery - AA Speaker - Bill L. - Westfield, NJ](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bill-l-help-others-service/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bill L. from Westfield, NJ has spent decades working with hundreds of people in recovery, and in this AA speaker tape, he makes a direct case: helping others isn't optional in AA—it's the core of the program. He walks through why
- [When Giggling in a Candlelit Meeting Taught Me to Stop Performing - AA Speaker - Sean A. - Edmonton, Canada](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-sean-a-recovery-steps-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Sean A. from Vancouver, British Columbia spent decades as a functioning alcoholic—working in theater, real estate, and television in Los Angeles while drinking a quart of scotch daily. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his moment of clarity at
- [Five Notebooks and Mud Puddle Prayers - AA Speaker - George S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-george-s-step-4-inventory-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → George S. from New Jersey came into AA broken—arrested multiple times, living in a town for years without knowing it, estranging his own children. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a tough-love sponsor named Joe took him through
- [From Chicken Coop Criminal to Spiritual Missionary - AA Speaker - Don P. - Camden, ME](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-p-hitting-bottom-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don P. from Camden, ME got sober on Christmas night 1967 after hitting a bottom he couldn't get up from—homeless with two young children, running drugs across the Mexican border, and realizing he'd become completely useless. In this AA speaker tape
- [I Thought I'd Spend My Life in Prison Until AA Changed Everything - AA Speaker - Edie C. - Sacramento, CA](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-edie-c-surrender-acceptance-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Edie C. from Sacramento, CA walked through the doors of AA at 24 years old with deep wounds—abandonment, shame, and anger rooted in childhood trauma. In this AA speaker meeting, she describes how working the steps, finding sponsorship, and committing to
- [When Spiritual Sickness Became More Painful Than Alcohol - AA Speaker - Bill L. - Albany, NY](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bill-l-mike-l-spiritual-solution-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bill L. and Mike L. from New Jersey spent years sober but spiritually stuck—not drinking but miserable, still lying, stealing, and manipulating. In this AA speaker tape, they break down what happens when sobriety isn't enough and how working the steps
- [From Three DUI Tickets to Holding Hands and Praying - AA Speaker - Scott P. - North Ridgeville, OH](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scott-p-step-work-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scott P. from North Ridgeville, OH came into AA after a DUI conviction, years of drinking, and a moment of clarity that forced him to choose between the program or losing everything. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his
- [From 50% Success to Less Than 5% - Why AA Changed - AA Speaker - John K. - Laguna Niguel, CA](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-k-step-one-powerlessness-alcoholism/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John K., an AA speaker from Laguna Niguel, CA, walks through Step 1 with surgical precision, focusing on what it actually means to be powerless over alcohol. In this workshop-style talk, he breaks down the Big Book's disease concept—the physical allergy
- [From 19 Years of Crumbs to Eating at God's Banquet - AA Speaker - Tara R. - Las Vegas, NV](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tara-r-big-book-step-work-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tara R. from Long Beach, New York spent 19 years in AA meetings going through the motions—committed, disciplined, but spiritually disconnected and three times suicidal. In this AA speaker tape, she reveals how a sponsor from Virginia and the Big Book's
- [From Willpower to Spiritual Help - AA Speaker - Audrey C. - Dallas, TX](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-audrey-c-michael-k-step-one-step-two-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Audrey C. and Michael K. from Dallas, Texas walk through Steps 1 and 2 of the Big Book with precision and lived experience. In this AA speaker meeting, they dissect what the Big Book actually says about the problem—the physical allergy
- [Why Half Measures in AA Get You Zero - Not Fifty Percent - AA Speaker - Jerry J. - Melbourne Beach, FL](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jerry-j-steps-work-self-centeredness/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jerry J., a lawyer from West Texas who got sober in 1973, walks through his experience working the first five steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this AA speaker tape, he uses vivid stories—a bulldog fighting a hog, fish in an aquarium,
- [From Character Assassination to Spiritual Presence - AA Speaker - Desmond T. - Grapevine, TX](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-desmond-t-powerlessness-service-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Desmond T., an AA speaker from New York, spent his first year in recovery absolutely convinced he wasn't an alcoholic—despite a bleeding stomach, hospital visits, and daily drinking that began at 7:30 a.m. In this AA speaker tape from 2002, he
- [I Confused Spirit in Powder Form With Spirituality - AA Speaker - Wes H. - Denver, CO](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-wes-h-power-surrender-spirituality/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Wes H. from Denver, Colorado walked into sobriety after years as a musician spiraling through cocaine, alcohol, and the music industry. In this AA speaker tape, he tells the full arc—from his first hit of crystal meth in a San Antonio
- [AA Speaker - Mike W. - Lake Jackson, TX - 2002 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-w-steps-four-five-six-seven/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike W. from Lake Jackson, TX spent years living in isolation, driven by fear, resentment, and self-centeredness—until he discovered what the Big Book actually teaches about Steps 4 through 7. In this AA speaker tape, Mike walks through the spiritual mechanics
- [AA Speaker - Peter M. - Long Island, NY - 2006 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-m-steps-1-through-7-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter M. from Long Island, NY got sober in 1988 after multiple treatment centers and hitting bottom in a hallway on the lower east side of Manhattan. In this AA speaker tape, he breaks down Steps 1 through 7 experientially—not theoretically—showing
- [AA Speaker - Bart R. - Duluth, MN - 2013 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bart-r-recovered-alcoholic-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bart R. from Queens, New York grew up drinking from fifth grade, cycling through detention homes and shelters as a teenager, and eventually getting sober at 24 after years of failed attempts. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through what
- [AA Speaker - Mary L. - Great Falls, MT - 2001 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mary-l-character-defects-surrender-adoption/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mary L. from Great Falls, Montana has been sober since January 15, 1972. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through her journey from a terrified, approval-seeking child to a woman learning surrender through step work, sponsorship, and raising four adopted
- [AA Speaker - James T. - Sacramento, CA - 2010 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-james-t-steps-sobriety-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → James T. from Sacramento got sober on December 6, 1982, but didn't actually join AA until months later—he was still convinced he wasn't alcoholic despite quitting drinking and smoking pot instead. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his full
- [AA Speaker - Lindsay M. - Atlanta, GA - 2014 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-lindsay-m-grace-god-first-step/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Lindsay M. from Atlanta got sober at 21 after a car accident left her certain she would die if she drank again. In this AA speaker tape, she traces her path from teenage drinking to treatment, her early sobriety working the
- [AA Speaker - Dhulkti B. - Covington, LA - 2006 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dhulkti-b-spiritual-awakening-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dhulkti B. from Louisiana spent nearly two decades in active alcoholism—homeless on the streets of New York, arrested repeatedly, hospitalized in psychiatric wards, and at one point clinically dead after an overdose. In this AA speaker tape from 2006, she walks
- [AA Speaker - Peter M. - Lynbrook, NY - 2006 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-m-steps-1-7-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter M. from Lynbrook, NY got sober in 1988 after years of drinking, multiple treatment centers, and a moment of clarity in the back of a hallway on the Lower East Side. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through Steps
- [You Can't Think Your Way Into a New Life: AA Speaker - Jeanette S. - Waitsburg, WA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jeanette-s-action-steps-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jeanette S. from Waitsburg, WA was a blackout drinker from her first drink at 12, spending years waking up with no memory of where she'd been or what she'd done. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how she finally
- [AA Speakers - Scott M. & Matthew M. - Fort Worth, TX - 2006 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scott-m-matthew-m-big-book-preface-forwards-doctors-opinion/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scott M. and Matthew M. from Fort Worth, Texas, dive deep into the Big Book's foundational sections—the preface, forwards, and Doctor's Opinion—in this AA speaker tape. Rather than treating these pages as introductory material people skip over, they walk through why
- [AA Speaker - Ralph W. - Oslo, Norway - 2015 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-ralph-w-12-steps-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Ralph W. from Los Angeles came into AA in October 1986 as a broken man—a business executive by day who'd become a street-dwelling creature of the night, fired from his dream job and living in the wreckage of addiction. In this
- [AA Speaker - Jay S. - Hobbs, NM - 2006 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-alcoholism-recovery-story/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S. from the West Coast got sober on May 2, 1979, at 24 years old after years of blackouts, jail time, and waking up homeless in his car. In this AA speaker tape recorded in Hobbs, New Mexico in 2006,
- ["It Came Out of Every Hole in My Head" - AA Speaker Rick W. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-rick-w-bottom-denial-alcoholism/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Rick W. is an AA speaker whose story cuts straight to the heart of how denial works in late-stage alcoholism. In this talk, he describes a moment on the side of a road where his body physically rejected alcohol in one
- [AA Speaker - Carl P. Conyers, GA - 2014 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-carl-p-belief-systems-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Carl P. from Conyers, Georgia, spent years chasing relief through cocaine and alcohol, burning bridges everywhere he lived until he found himself alone in an apartment with nothing. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from repeated failed
- [AA Speaker - John K. - Dodge City, KS - 2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-k-big-book-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John K., an AA speaker from Kansas, walked into his first real AA meeting in September 1999 after years of failed attempts at sobriety, blackouts, jail, and a near-fatal drinking binge in Puerto Rico. In this AA speaker tape, he describes
- [AA Speaker - Rick K. - British Columbia, Canada - 2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-rick-k-hitting-bottom-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Rick K. from British Columbia spent years as a traveling salesman and chef, drinking his way through blackouts, affairs, and a crumbling marriage before losing nearly everything. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through hitting bottom—seizures, yellow eyes, and complete
- [AA Speaker - Joshua H. - Vancouver, Canada - 2009 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joshua-h-transformation-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joshua H. got sober at 19 after years of homelessness, drug addiction, and a suicide attempt that should have killed him. In this AA speaker tape from Vancouver, he walks through his entire recovery—from hitting bottom in a stolen van to
- [AA Speaker - Rick W. - La Jolla, CA - 2010 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-rick-w-step-work-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Rick W. from Oxnard, California came into AA at 26 years old after checking himself into a psychiatric hospital with suicidal intent. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the real reasons he stayed sober—the rooms, the fellowship, and working
- [AA Speaker - Tim T. - Edisto, SC - 2007 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tim-t-powerlessness-surrender-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tim T. from South Carolina spent 12 years of his life locked up, and came through the doors of AA on June 23rd, 1982, at a literal bottom—hepatitis, 112 pounds, unable to imagine life with or without alcohol. In this AA
- [AA Speaker - Don C. - Albuquerque, NM - 1994 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-c-medicine-wheel-steps-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don C. from Albuquerque, NM brings a Native American lens to AA recovery work in this 1994 speaker tape. Drawing on tribal teachings, prophecy, and the medicine wheel, he explains how the 12 steps align with Indigenous spiritual practices and developmental
- [AA Speaker - Ralf S. - Copenhagen, Denmark - 2009 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-ralf-s-step-work-fellowship-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Ralf S., a mathematician and former international businessman, arrived at AA after years of high-functioning alcoholism that eventually required hospitalization in Miami. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a brutal moment of clarity from a hospital nurse, followed
- [AA Speaker - Kerry C. - Seattle, WA - 2010 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kerry-c-spiritual-awakening-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kerry C. from Pennsylvania got sober at 18 after years of homelessness, suicide attempts, and psychiatric holds—hitting a bottom so deep that by her own reckoning she shouldn't have survived. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how working the
- [AA Speaker - Valerie D. - Santa Fe, NM - 2007 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-valerie-d-big-book-recovery-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Valerie D. from Santa Fe, New Mexico spent her early sobriety running—from commitment, from honesty, from the program itself. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how years of half measures, multiple bottoms, and a sponsor who wouldn't let her
- [AA Speaker - Todd S. - Bozrah, CT - 2015 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-todd-s-fifth-dwi-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Todd S. from Keene, New Hampshire spent his drinking career racking up five DWIs, multiple jail sentences, and a spectacular crash that should have killed him—all before he finally understood what recovery actually meant. In this AA speaker tape, he walks
- [AA Speaker - Kort K. - Saint Paul, MN - 2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kort-k-sponsorship-12-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kort K., an Icelandic AA speaker who got sober in 1999, has spent nearly a decade sponsoring newcomers and working the 12 steps from the Big Book. In this AA speaker tape recorded in Saint Paul, he walks through the practical
- [AA Speaker - Vaughan Q. - Scarborough, Ontario, Canada - 1994 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-vaughan-q-first-step-powerlessness-ego-deflation/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Vaughan Q., a Roman Catholic priest from Scarborough, Ontario, shares a 1994 talk centered on the First Step and what real recovery looks like beyond simply stopping drinking. In this AA speaker meeting, he challenges the idea that hitting bottom is
- [I Wanted What He Has - AA Speaker - Earl H. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-earl-h-sponsorship-wanting-what-he-has/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Earl H. sat in a meeting miserable and empty, struggling with sobriety until he watched a man walk through the door radiating strength, commitment, and fearlessness. In this AA speaker tape, Earl describes the moment he realized what he actually wanted
- [AA Speaker - Steven V. - Honolulu, HI - 2010 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-steven-v-responsibility-spiritual-growth/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Steven V. from Honolulu, HI got sober at 22 after seven years of heavy drinking and found his way into the fellowship. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through 24 years of sobriety—from compartmentalizing his spiritual life to discovering that
- [I Relapsed After 17 Years Sober - AA Speaker - Tom P. - Plano, TX | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-p-relapse-big-book-study/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom P. from Plano, TX came to AA in 1987 at age 23 after years of daily drinking since age 11. In this AA speaker tape, he shares how despite 17 years sober, he relapsed—and what he discovered in the Big
- [The Disease of Perception - AA Speaker - Kent L. - Guntersville, AL-2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kent-l-disease-of-perception-2/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kent L. from Alabama tells the story of how his "disease of perception" — the way he saw himself compared to others — drove his drinking for years before he ever took the first drink. In this AA speaker tape, he
- [From Prison to Pink Cloud - AA Speaker - Paul F. - Scottsdale, AZ | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-paul-f-prison-pink-cloud-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Paul F. from Scottsdale, AZ spent 13 years in prison starting at age 18, attended AA meetings inside and out for 12 years without staying sober, then got arrested again for assaulting police officers and faced 25 years. In this AA
- [From That Little Blue Window to a Life of Purpose - AA Speaker - Larry T. - Primm, NV](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-larry-t-steps-8-9-making-amends/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Larry T. from Primm, Nevada has nearly 29 years sober, and in this AA speaker talk, he walks through what it takes to actually make amends—not just think about them. Starting from a holding tank in 1975 to a life rebuilt
- [From Last Pick to Sponsor—How Intensive Work Changed Everything - AA Speaker - Scott B. - Fargo, ND](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scott-b-sponsorship-service-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scott B. from Fargo, North Dakota got sober in May 1989 after years of blackouts, legal trouble, and a diagnosis that he'd spend his life in and out of institutions. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how one man's
- [From Jackson Prison to 46 Years Sober - AA Speaker - Tom I. - Budd Lake, NJ](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-i-alcoholism-recovery-prison/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom I. spent 25 months in a maximum-security penitentiary after hitting one of recovery's darkest bottoms—a moment that broke him completely. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his first AA meeting inside Jackson Prison in 1957, the transforming power
- [Why Just Not Drinking Is a Lie—We Need Spiritual Transformation - AA Speaker - Peter M. - Hamilton, Ontario](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-m-spiritual-awakening-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter M. from Brooklyn got sober on June 23rd, 1988, after years of drinking that took him from his family's waterfront business to the streets of Manhattan. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his early life shaped by his
- [From Serial Marrier to Finding Love in Action - AA Speaker - Bill C. - Primm, NV](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bill-c-character-defects-step-6-7/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bill C., who's been sober 25 years, grew up in a house full of AA and Al-Anon members—his father stayed sober 45 years, his mother 48 in Al-Anon. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through Steps 6 and 7 and
- [AA Speaker - Tom I. - Vancouver, Canada - 2010 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-i-recovery-steps-prison/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom I. walked into his first AA meeting in a maximum-security penitentiary in Michigan in 1957, convicted of manslaughter and facing 5 to 15 years. In this AA speaker tape, he describes working the steps while incarcerated, the spiritual transformation that
- [AA Speaker - Bob D. - Concord, CA - 2017 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bob-d-12-traditions-loneliness/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bob D. from Concord, CA got sober on October 31st, 1978—a day he thought was the worst of his life. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through decades of sobriety and what he's learned about ending loneliness through the 12
- [The Insane Thought Won Out AA Speaker - Kenny L. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kenny-l-insane-thought-relapse/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kenny L. had just earned a full day of sobriety—something he hadn't managed in months while trying to stay in the program. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the moment that clarity evaporated in less than five minutes at his
- [AA Speaker - Deandre M. - Simi Valley, CA - 2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-deandre-m-step-work-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Deandre M. got sober in 1991 after hitting bottom hard—stealing from his mother, getting into fights, living recklessly in Watts. In this AA speaker meeting from Simi Valley, he walks through how a sponsor named Dennis L. showed him that recovery
- [AA Speaker - Mike S. - San Diego, CA - 2002 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-s-surrender-perfectionism-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike S. from San Diego came into AA after years of reckless drinking, infidelity, and suicidal thoughts—hitting bottom in 1980 when he checked himself into a hospital chemical dependency unit. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his first sponsor's
- [AA Speakers - Dustin B. & Kelly B. - St. Peter, MN - 2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dustin-b-kelly-b-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dustin B. and Kelly B., both sober since 2006, sit down to discuss what sponsorship actually means in Alcoholics Anonymous and how it changed their lives. In this AA speaker meeting, they walk through real stories about finding sponsors, working the
- [AA Speaker - Kenny L. - Ingram, TX - 2011 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kenny-l-spiritual-awakening-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kenny L. from Ingram, TX spent three and a half years in AA trying to force sobriety through sheer willpower and hard work. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how self-reliance nearly destroyed his recovery—until a spiritual experience and
- [AA Speaker - Matt C. - Greensboro, NC - 2020 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-matt-c-step-4-inventory-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Matt C. from Long Island got sober at 19 and walked straight into the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous completely lost, despite nearly a year sober, because nobody taught him the steps. In this AA speaker tape, he shares how finding his
- [AA Speaker - Sigrún H. - Oslo, Norway - 2015 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-sigrun-h-spiritual-awakening-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Sigrún H. from Iceland got sober on December 26, 1999, after a moment of clarity that changed everything—but the real work came after. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through two brutal years of sobriety without the program, the moment
- [AA/NA Speaker - Arthur D. - Dallas, TX - 2018 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-arthur-d-surrender-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Arthur D. from Dallas, TX spent 11 years in the program but relapsed spectacularly—blowing $20,000 in a month while tweaking alone in his closet with loaded pistols nearby. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through what changed when his friend
- [AA Speaker - Billy N. - Ontario, Canada - 2014 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-billy-n-traditions-unity-service/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Billy N. is sober since 1990 and serves as a Class B trustee and director on the AA Services Board. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the foundations of AA's 12 Traditions—particularly unity and group conscience—and warns against the
- [God Has Such A Sense of Humor - AA Speaker - Don M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-m-gods-sense-of-humor-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don M. spent the first decade of his legal career living in constant fear of the ethics committee, the IRS, and the FBI. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the absurdity and grace of going from someone institutionalized 18 times
- [The Morning the Colors Came Back - AA Speaker - Joe M. - Joplin, MO | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-m-spiritual-awakening-resentments/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe M. from Joplin, MO grew up in chaos—his father's alcoholism, commitment to a psychiatric hospital, and years of rage that followed him into adulthood. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how letting go of resentments through prayer became
- [AA Speaker - Don M. - Moorhead, MN - 2019 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-m-divine-intervention-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don M. from Moorhead, Minnesota got sober in April 1981 after 25 years of heavy drinking, losing his law license, spending time in psychiatric hospitals, and nearly dying in a car crash while intoxicated. In this AA speaker tape, he walks
- [AA Speaker - Clint H. - Corpus Christi, TX - 2005 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-clint-h-powerlessness-step-three-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Clint H. got sober on August 14, 1966, after years of military discharge, homelessness, and repeated jail appearances. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a simple conversation with a sponsor named Bill Kennedy—"You're an alcoholic and you'll drink
- [AA Speaker - Peter J. - Palisades, CA - 2015 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-j-hitting-bottom-getting-sober/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter J. from Palisades, CA spent decades running from his feelings with alcohol and drugs, crashed a car into another driver while speeding through Hollywood, and ended up arrested and isolated—until he walked into a Tuesday night meeting in West Hollywood.
- [AA Speaker - Bobby C. - Edisto, SC - 2007 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bobby-c-step-work-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bobby C. from Philadelphia got sober in 1988 after years as a police officer wrestling with alcohol and trauma he couldn't process. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through hitting bottom, finding a sponsor who didn't tolerate his BS, and
- [AA Speaker - Cia F. - Brentwood, CA - 2015 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-cia-f-surrender-spiritual-malady/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Cia F. from Brentwood, CA is an AA speaker who got sober in January 1983 after years of running, multiple attempts at recovery, and a moment of surrender that finally stuck. In this AA speaker meeting, she walks through how feeling
- [AA Speaker - Forrest S. - Pompano Beach, FL - 2024 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-forrest-s-step-1-powerlessness-first-step/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Forrest S. from Pompano Beach, Florida came into AA off the streets with no life skills, hit bottom multiple times—including a relapse after 19 years sober—and came back to rebuild. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through Step 1 and
- [Part 3 - Chris S. & Steve L. - AA Speakers - East Dorset, VT - 2021 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-steve-l-steps-8-9-10-11/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. and Steve L., two AA speakers from different regions, walk through Steps 8 through 11 at this East Dorset workshop. Their talk moves through the practical work of making amends—the fear that holds people back, the distinction between willingness
- [AA Speaker - Stephanie K. - Martha's Vineyard, MA - 2017 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-stephanie-k-step-two-coming-to-believe/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Stephanie K. grew up in an alcoholic home, lost in denial about drinking from childhood, and didn't understand what sanity meant until she came to AA. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through Step 2 and how she came to
- [AA Speaker - Jason J. - Issaquah, WA - 2018 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jason-j-recovery-sponsorship-redemption/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jason J. from Issaquah, WA got sober after years of addiction, prison time, and a moment of clarity in a jail cell. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a tough-love sponsor, the fellowship, and showing up—even when ashamed—brought
- [AA Speaker - Tom B. - Laughlin, NV - 2003 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-b-recovery-transformation-family/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom B., sober since July 5, 1962, shares 41 years of recovery experience in this AA speaker tape recorded in Laughlin, Nevada. Starting from the streets of Brooklyn and the depths of alcoholism—waking up in jails, losing his family, and nearly
- [AA Speaker - Matthew M. - Issaquah, WA - 2017 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-matthew-m-grace-sobriety-redemption/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Matthew M. from Gig Harbor, Washington got sober on May 16th, 1993, after years as a rock musician, homelessness, and a moment of clarity at a family wedding. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his descent into alcoholism, the
- [AA Speaker - Kathleen W. - Studio City, CA - 2014 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kathleen-w-surrender-step-3-acceptance/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kathleen W. from Studio City, California got sober after a Hollywood career in freefall, a marriage to an active addict, and the trauma of watching her mother die from alcoholism. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how surrender in
- [One Sip After Three Years and I Was Drunk That Night - AA Speaker - Larry V. - Cleveland, OH | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-larry-v-one-sip-relapse/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Larry V. from Cleveland, OH spent three and a half years sober without a drink, then took a single sip at a social gathering. In this AA speaker tape, he breaks down what happened next—how that one taste ignited the phenomenon
- [Part 2 - Chris S. & Steve L. - East Dorset, VT - 2021 - AA Speakers | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-steve-step-4-inventory-resentment-fear/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. and Steve L., both long-sober members from the East Dorset recovery community, break down Step 4 inventory work in detail at this 2021 workshop. Rather than rush through the steps, they slow down on the resentment inventory, fear inventory,
- [AA Speaker - Kip C. - Los Angeles, CA - 1999 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kip-c-surrender-acceptance-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kip C. from Southern California came into AA after decades of drug smuggling, prison time, homelessness, and unbearable pain. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through a brutal journey that included losing his son to tragedy and finding the only
- [AA Speakers - Chris S. & Steve L. - East Dorset, VT - 2021 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-steve-l-step-one-powerlessness/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. and Steve L., both longtime members from different regions, dive deep into Step 1 at the Wilson House in East Dorset, Vermont. In this AA speaker meeting, they walk through how they came to understand not just that they
- [AA Speaker - Don P. - Billings, MT - 1990 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-p-spiritual-awakening-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don P. from Denver, Colorado attempted suicide on Christmas night 1967 after years of addiction and desperation. In this AA speaker tape, he shares how he ended up at a meeting in the Colorado State Penitentiary and what working the steps
- ["My Ignorance Was Gone" - AA Speaker - Mary P. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mary-p-higher-power-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mary P. came into AA thinking she had all the answers—until her sponsor flipped the script on her completely. In this AA speaker tape, Mary describes how her sponsor's tough love forced her to surrender her intellect, call for help instead
- [AA Speaker - Howard P. - Paramount, CA - 2001 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-howard-p-fear-resentment-inventory/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Howard P. from Arizona discovered that his real problem wasn't the drinking itself—it was the fear underneath it. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from a childhood shaped by rigid discipline and a faulty belief system about
- [AA Speaker - Mary P. - Crested Butte, CO - 2006 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mary-p-amends-redemption-granddaughter/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mary P. from Orlando, Florida got sober after hitting bottom in a Duval County Jail at age 33, terrified and out of control. In this AA speaker tape from Crested Butte, she walks through her full recovery story—multiple marriages, learning to
- [AA Speaker - Chris C. - Alexander City, AL - 2011 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-c-step-work-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris C. from Alexander City, Alabama got sober on April 20, 2010, after years of drinking and using drugs to escape childhood trauma, homelessness, and the devastation of watching his young son's illness. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through
- [AA Speaker - Scott R. - Oakland, CA - 2007 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scott-r-step-work-inventory-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scott R. from Oakland, CA came to AA in 1985 after destroying his family with heroin and alcohol, unable to stay present for his newborn son in the hospital or even show up for his father's death. In this AA speaker
- [I Stole a Hearse Then Rode a Bus for 8 Months to Get My Life Back - AA Speaker - Vince Y. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-vince-y-hearse-bus-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Vince Y. came to his first AA meeting in Long Beach in 1965 fresh out of jail, broke and desperate—and his motivation had nothing to do with sobriety. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through three and a half years
- [The Obsession Hit Me at 30,000 Feet - AA Speaker - Tom I. - Edisto, SC | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-i-obsession-surrender-step-four/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom I. from Edisto, South Carolina walked into an AA speaker meeting in a maximum-security penitentiary with one foot in the grave and no belief he was an alcoholic. After striking and killing two people while driving drunk, serving his sentence,
- [AA Speaker - Charlie P. - Santa Barbara, CA - 2013 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-charlie-p-big-book-study-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Charlie P. from Austin, Texas got sober on March 22, 1985, after 12 years of heavy drinking and using that left him stealing from his father, pawning belongings, and accumulating charges. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his early
- [AA Speaker - Marty J. - Abilene, TX - 2002 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-marty-j-prejudice-spiritual-growth/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Marty J. from Abilene, TX came to AA in 1976 at age 24 with a head full of prejudices against everything the program offered—faith, hope, love, and God. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a persistent sponsor who
- [AA Speaker - Johnny T. - New Orleans, LA - 2016 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-johnny-t-family-recovery-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Johnny T. from Gainesville, Florida got sober on February 14th, 2003 after years of escalating drinking that cost him his family, nearly his father's life, and landed him in treatment. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how working the
- [AA Speaker - Sandy B. - Ellenton, FL - Part 3 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-sandy-b-practicing-presence-now/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Sandy B. from Ellenton, FL takes on one of AA's most subtle but powerful practices: learning to live in the present moment. In this AA speaker tape, he connects the search for God directly to the eternal now, drawing parallels between
- [Light As A Feather - AA Speaker - Sandy B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-sandy-b-forgiveness-resentments/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → In this AA speaker tape, Sandy B. asks a deceptively simple question: what would happen if you forgave every bad thing that ever happened to you? Every unfair circumstance, every unkind word, every person who wronged you in grammar school, high
- [AA Speaker - Sandy B. - Ellenton, FL - Part 2 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-sandy-b-contemplative-aa-reflection/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Sandy B. from Ellenton, FL explores contemplative AA and the power of reflection in this AA speaker tape. Rather than rushing through Big Book passages, Sandy teaches how to sit with powerful sentences, ask questions about their meaning, and conduct spiritual
- [AA Speaker - Sandy B. - Ellenton, FL - Part 1 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-sandy-b-spiritual-awakening-basics/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Sandy B. from Ellenton, FL shares a talk centered on spiritual awakening as the fundamental aim of AA's 12-step program. In this AA speaker meeting, he explores how self-centeredness creates the problems we face, why conscious contact with God is the
- [I Walked in 6'8", I Walked Out 4'6" - AA Speaker - Steve B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-steve-b-making-amends-humility/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Steve B. walks into a 7-Eleven where he'd been disrespectful to the clerk years earlier, humbled and ready to make things right. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the profound shift that happens when someone actually works the amends step—and
- [From Skid Row Dumpster to 47 Years Sober | AA Speaker Wayne B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-wayne-b-skid-row-spiritual-malady/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Wayne B. started drinking at a senior dance in a group home and ended up on skid row living in a dumpster behind Larry's Oasis in Illinois by age 23. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from
- [AA Speaker - Ilene W. - Brentwood, CA - 2015 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-ilene-w-40-years-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Ilene W. from Brentwood, California got sober in 1975 after years of drinking and drug use that began at age 12, and has now celebrated nearly 40 years in the program. In this AA speaker meeting, she walks through her journey
- [AA Speaker - Rósa Á. - Oslo, Norway - 2022 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-rosa-a-recovery-surrender-higher-power/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Rósa Á. from Iceland got sober on September 16, 2001, after years of drinking, drug use, psychiatric hospitalization, and cycling through 13 rehabs without lasting sobriety. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through what finally worked: hitting true powerlessness, a
- [AA Speaker - Searcy W. - Houston, TX - 2002 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-searcy-w-primary-purpose-traditions/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Searcy W. from Houston, Texas has been sober since May 10, 1946—56 years at the time of this talk. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from a West Texas farm boy to a general manager living a
- [AA Speaker - Matt K. - Los Angeles, CA - 2017 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-matt-k-forgiveness-higher-power-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Matt K. from Los Angeles has been sober since November 1978—nearly 40 years. In this AA speaker meeting, he walks through his early chaos (arrests, brain injuries, suicide attempts), his moment of clarity at a Grateful Dead concert, and the slow
- [AA Speaker - Bill C. - Springfield, MO - 2009 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bill-c-sponsorship-kitchen-table-aa/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bill C. from Springfield, MO spent 24 years building a sponsorship-centered approach to recovery, grounded in what the early AA founders actually did. In this AA speaker tape, he breaks down the forgotten history of sponsorship — pulling directly from the
- [AA Speaker - Chris S. - Copenhagen, Denmark - 2007 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-recovery-big-book-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. from Copenhagen, Denmark got sober on December 28, 1989, after years of blackouts, car crashes, jail, and a Christmas morning when he threatened his family with a gun. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how listening to
- [AA Speaker - Bob B. - Primm, NV - 2010 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bob-b-steps-10-11-emotional-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bob B. from Primm, Nevada has been sober since December 10, 1967 — over 40 years — and in this AA speaker tape, he tackles one of recovery's central puzzles: why, if the program works, do so many of us still
- [AA Speaker - Doug M - 2008 - Part 3 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-doug-m-step-work-fourth-step-inventory/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Doug M., an airline pilot with 13 years sober, walks through the Big Book step by step in this AA speaker tape from 2008. In this extended talk, he focuses on Steps 1 through 12, with emphasis on working the fourth
- [AA Speaker - Doug M - 2008 - Part 2 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-doug-m-big-book-study-step-two/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Doug M. from Jacksonville, Florida delivers a detailed Big Book study in Copenhagen, Denmark, walking through pages 20–53 with laser focus on the core problem every alcoholic faces: the mental obsession that makes stopping drinking virtually impossible. In this AA speaker
- [AA Speaker - John K. - Fort Worth, TX - 2006 - Part 4 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-k-steps-10-11-12-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John K., an AA speaker from Fort Worth, TX, has been sober since September 4, 1999. In this AA speaker tape, he breaks down Steps 10, 11, and 12 in detail, walking through how daily inventory works in real life, what
- [AA Speaker - Patti O. - Palisades, CA - 2015 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-patti-o-alcoholism-recovery-story/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Patti O. from Palisades, CA is 40 years sober and shares her full story in this AA speaker tape—from her first drink at 13 to blackout drinking, multiple drunk driving charges, jail time, and the moment a judge offered her an
- [AA Speaker - John K. - Fort Worth, TX - 2006 - Part 3 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-k-steps-4-5-6-7-8-9-amends/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John K. from Fort Worth, Texas got sober on September 4th, 1999, after years of in-and-out sobriety, blackout drinking, and broken promises to his family. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through Steps 4 through 9 in detail—building a thorough
- [AA Speaker - John K. - Fort Worth, TX - 2006 - Part 2 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-k-steps-one-two-three-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John K. from Fort Worth, Texas got sober on September 4, 1999, after 37 previous attempts to stay sober since 1988. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through Steps 1, 2, and 3 in meticulous detail—unpacking powerlessness, the concept of
- [AA Speaker - Nicole H. - Phoenix, AZ - 2020 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-nicole-h-surrender-acceptance-step-three/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Nicole H. from Phoenix, Arizona got sober on September 20th, 2015, after years of drug addiction, homelessness, and a severe beating that brought her to her knees. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how trauma, fear, and manipulation nearly
- [AA Speaker - Doug M - 2008 - Part 1 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-doug-m-big-book-study-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Doug M, an airline pilot turned recovery speaker, spent his career in corporate America and recovery service. In this AA speaker tape recorded in Copenhagen, he walks through the Big Book page by page, revealing how the original founders structured sponsorship
- [AA Speaker - John K. - Fort Worth, TX - 2006 - Part 1 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-k-step-one-powerlessness-allergy/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John K. from Fort Worth, Texas got sober in September 1999 after years of failed attempts, jail time, wrecked cars, and five treatment centers. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through Step One in meticulous detail—what it means to be
- [Someone Burglarized My Garage and Stole All My Stolen Stuff - AA Speaker - Rick B. - Saint Paul, MN | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-rick-b-roadblocks-to-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Rick B. from Saint Paul, Minnesota spent years chasing money, status, and control—only to lose everything multiple times. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the roadblocks that derailed him on the streets and nearly killed him in early sobriety:
- [AA Speaker - Chris S. - Toronto, Canada - 2023 - 1st Step Work | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-first-step-powerlessness/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. from Toronto breaks down Step 1 of Alcoholics Anonymous using his own drinking history as the foundation. Starting with his first blackout at age 13 and progressing through decades of escalating chaos—car accidents, blackouts, job losses, and violent episodes—Chris
- [AA Speaker - Karl M. - Los Angeles, CA - 2015 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-karl-m-alcoholic-physical-mental-relationship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Karl M., an AA speaker from Los Angeles, got sober on January 21st, 1987 after years of desperation drinking while on antabuse in the Navy. In this talk, he walks through what it actually means to be an alcoholic—the bizarre physical
- [AA Speaker - Scott R. - Torrance, CA - 2004 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scott-r-alcoholism-spiritual-illness-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scott R. from Torrance, California spent years cycling through alcohol, marijuana, pills, cocaine, and heroin before a moment of clarity at age 34. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how he mistook therapy for recovery, how his family suffered
- [AA Speakers - Mary T. - Donna D. - Catharine D. - Aaron M. - Copper Mountain, CO - 2013 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-step-2-higher-power-second-step-panel/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → This AA speaker panel from the 2013 Copper Mountain Conference features four speakers diving deep into Step 2 — coming to believe in a power greater than oneself. Mary T., Donna D., Catharine D., and Aaron M. each describe their journey
- [AA Speaker - Jay S. - Estes Park, CO - 2008 - Part 4 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-spiritual-awakening-meditation/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S. from Estes Park, Colorado got sober in the 1980s and learned that recovery isn't just about stopping drinking—it's about conscious contact with something greater. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his dramatic spiritual experiences, how meditation became
- [AA Speaker - Deandre M. - Ventura, CA - 2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-deandre-m-sponsorship-steps-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Deandre M. from Watts, California grew up in a housing project where alcoholism looked normal, and by his early twenties he was homeless on Skid Row. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from hitting bottom at 24
- [AA Speakers - Mike S. & David M. - Conyers, GA - 2014 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-s-david-m-step-8-9-amends/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike S. spent years drinking in San Francisco, running strip clubs for the mob, dealing drugs on reservations, and living in constant fear of consequences. In this AA speaker tape from Conyers, GA, he walks through Steps 8 and 9—making amends
- [AA Speaker - Valerie D. - Dallas, TX - 2005 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-valerie-d-step-work-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Valerie D. from Dallas, Texas got sober, relapsed after three and a half years, drank for four more years, and nearly took her own life. In this AA speaker meeting, she walks through hitting a spiritual bottom, finding a sponsor who
- [AA Speaker - Jay S. - Estes Park, CO - 2008 - Part 1 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-spiritual-principles-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S. from Estes Park, Colorado spent decades in recovery building a deep spiritual practice through simple, actionable steps. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how conscious contact with a Higher Power moved from rote prayers to a living
- [AA Speaker - Yisrael C. - Toronto, Canada - 2018 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-yisrael-c-toronto-recovery-spirituality/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Yisrael C., from Toronto via Philadelphia, got sober at 16 after a hit-and-run accident that felt like a direct sign from God. In this AA speaker meeting, he walks through nearly four decades in recovery—how a sponsor named Paul became his
- [AA Speaker - Linda R. - Charlottesville, VA - 2005 - Parts 4 & 5 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-linda-r-grief-acceptance-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Linda R. from Charlottesville, VA walks through two of the most difficult periods of her sobriety in this AA speaker tape: her father's terminal brain cancer diagnosis and seven months of caregiving, followed by her husband Richard's pancreatic cancer just months
- [AA Speaker - Linda R. - Charlottesville, VA - 2005 - Part 3 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-linda-r-ninth-step-amends-spiritual-progress/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → In this AA speaker tape from 2005, Linda R. from Charlottesville, VA shares her journey through the ninth step and beyond—making amends to family she'd harmed, rebuilding her relationship with her sister, and navigating the ongoing work of Steps 10 and
- [AA Speaker - John K - Fort Worth, TX - 2006 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-k-step-three-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John K. from Fort Worth, Texas got sober on September 4th, 1999, after 37 previous attempts at AA spread across more than a decade. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his sponsor's methodical approach to Steps 1, 2, and
- [AA Speaker - Linda R. - Charlottesville, VA - 2005 - Part 2 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-linda-r-step-work-inventory-third-step/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Linda R. from Charlottesville, VA walks through the deeper promises in the Big Book—the ones that go beyond just staying sober. In this AA speaker tape, she unpacks Step 3 (surrender and the decision to let God run the show), the
- [AA Speaker - Rick K. - Edmonton, Alberta - 2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-rick-k-surrender-acceptance-family/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Rick K. from Edmonton, Alberta got sober on his 31st birthday after years of failed attempts, blackouts, and a marriage on the verge of collapse. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how surrender—not willpower—became the turning point, and how
- [AA Speaker - Linda R. - Charlottesville, VA - 2005 - Part 1 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-linda-r-step-1-step-2-powerlessness-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Linda R. from Charlottesville, VA spent 15 years drinking despite knowing she was dying from the disease—until August 1989, when she came to in her living room and asked for help. In this AA speaker tape recorded in 2005, she walks
- [AA Speaker - Peter M. - Toronto, Canada - 2012 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-m-spiritual-awakening-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter M. from Brooklyn, New York hit bottom homeless and suicidal outside the Port Authority in Manhattan before God connected him with his father on June 23rd, 1988. In this AA speaker tape recorded in Toronto, Peter walks through 24 years
- [AA Speaker - Adell S. - New Orleans, LA - 2016 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-adell-s-step-work-meditation-spiritual-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Adell S. from New Orleans came into AA in 1989 after years of hiding a drinking problem while attending meetings, struggling with delusion about the extent of her addiction, and carrying deep trauma from childhood. In this AA speaker tape, she
- [Today I Have a Much Better Childhood Than I Used to Have - AA Speaker - Sandy B. - Alexandria, VA | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-sandy-b-spiritual-awakening-childhood/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Sandy B. from Alexandria, VA got sober in 1964 after years as a fighter pilot, struggling with anxiety, and finally hitting a breaking point. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how the stories we tell ourselves—about our families, our
- [I Was Drunk in 12 Hours After Begging God to Save My Daughter - AA Speaker - Keith L. - San Diego | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-keith-l-powerlessness-faith-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Keith L. from Wilmington, North Carolina spent years struggling with alcoholism while building what looked like success: a prestigious job, a marriage, and two daughters. But when his second daughter was born severely premature with a life-threatening illness, he got on
- [AA Speaker - Bud M. - Paramount, CA - 1999 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bud-m-from-child-actor-to-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bud M. from Paramount, California came into AA straight out of jail in 1953 after reading the Big Book during a six-month sentence. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through decades of crime, multiple arrests, the moment he read the
- [AA Speaker - Brooke C. - Bend, OR - 2021 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-brooke-c-home-group-service-structure/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Brooke C., sober since September 1984, spent years in Al-Anon and Al-Ateen before realizing she was the one with the drinking problem. In this AA speaker meeting, she walks through how discovering her home group and understanding the service structure of
- [AA Speaker - Matt C. - Medicine Hat, Canada - 2020 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-matt-c-spiritual-exercises-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Matt C. from Medicine Hat got sober at 19 after years of using other substances to control his drinking. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his early days in the rooms with reluctant sponsorship, his move to North Carolina
- [AA Speaker - Carrie B. - Concord, CA - 2018 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-carrie-b-home-groups/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Carrie B. from Concord, CA spent her first year in AA running around to multiple meetings, trying to fix everything and everyone—until a service sponsor handed her a manual and forced her to learn what "one among many" actually means. In
- [AA Speakers - Joe & Charlie - "Steps 9, 10, 11, & 12" | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-steps-9-10-11-12/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe & Charlie dig into Steps 9 through 12—the final chapters of the AA program—in this classic AA speaker recording. Rather than treating these as maintenance steps, they explore how working these steps continues to transform your relationship with God, yourself,
- [AA Speakers - Joe & Charlie - "Steps 5, 6, 7, & 8" | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-steps-5-6-7-8-character-defects/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe & Charlie, two foundational AA speaker voices, walk through Steps 5, 6, 7, and 8 from the Big Book with surgical precision. They explain why a solitary inventory isn't enough—why you need another human being to help you see what
- [AA Speakers - Joe & Charlie - "How it Works" | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-how-it-works/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe & Charlie are legendary AA speakers whose Big Book study sessions have shaped recovery for decades. In this talk, they walk through the original manuscript of "How it Works" and explain why Bill W. had to change it, what the
- [AA Speakers - Joe & Charlie - "We Agnostics" | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-we-agnostics-higher-power/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → This AA speaker tape features Joe & Charlie walking through Chapter 4 of the Big Book, "We Agnostics"—the chapter written specifically for those who can't accept traditional religious ideas about God. The talk tackles the core problem many newcomers face: how
- [AA Speakers - Joe & Charlie - "More About Alcoholism" | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-more-about-alcoholism/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → In this AA speaker tape, Joe & Charlie walk through one of the most foundational chapters in recovery: "More About Alcoholism" from the Big Book. They use the stories of Jim, Fred, and the man of 30 to illustrate what insanity
- [AA Speakers - Joe & Charlie - "There Is A Solution" | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-there-is-a-solution/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe & Charlie, two of AA's most respected Big Book teachers, walk through "There Is A Solution"—the chapter that identifies the two powers every alcoholic needs to recover: the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous and the vital spiritual experience. In this AA
- [AA Speakers - Joe & Charlie - "Bill's Story" | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-bill-story-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe and Charlie, two of the most respected Big Book teachers in recovery, walk through Bill W.'s story—the foundational narrative of Alcoholics Anonymous. This AA speaker tape breaks down how Bill went from successful stock speculator to hopeless alcoholic drinking for
- [AA Speakers - Joe & Charlie - "AA History" | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-aa-history-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe & Charlie are two longtime AA members who've spent years studying the Big Book together. In this AA speaker talk, they walk through the actual history of Alcoholics Anonymous—how Bill W. met Dr. Bob in Akron, Ohio in 1935, what
- [AA Speaker - Lauren A. - Los Angeles, CA - 2016 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-lauren-a-transformation-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Lauren A. from Los Angeles got sober in 1986 after years of lying, stealing, homelessness, and a moment of clarity in a tiny apartment in the Valley. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how sponsorship, the steps, and the
- [AA Speaker - Zach G. - New Orleans, LA - 2016 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-zach-g-resentments-fourth-step-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Zach G. from New Orleans got sober at 30 after years of fighting the disease across three continents—college football star, traveling drifter, English teacher, criminal. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how sponsorship in Prague, Fourth Step inventory work,
- [AA Speaker - Bill C. - Scottsdale, AZ - 2007 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bill-c-sponsorship-workshop/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bill C. from Scottsdale, Arizona walks through the origins and purpose of sponsorship in Alcoholics Anonymous at this 2007 workshop. In this AA speaker session, he traces sponsorship back to the Oxford Group, examines why the early program was so effective,
- [AA Speaker - Sharon C. - Bend, OR - 2020 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-sharon-c-recovery-from-bottom-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Sharon C. from Bend, Oregon has nearly 45 years sober—a journey that began with a spiritual awakening in the back of a Volkswagen in 1975 after she was beaten and left on the side of a road in Los Angeles. In
- [AA Speakers - Joe & Charlie - "The Doctors Opinion" | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-doctors-opinion/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → In this AA speaker recording, Joe & Charlie work through "The Doctor's Opinion"—the foundation of how AA understands alcoholism as both a physical allergy and a mental obsession. Walking through the Big Book's opening statement from Dr. Silkworth, they explain why
- [AA Speaker - Charlie P. - Santa Barbara, CA - 2013 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-charlie-p-step-4-resentment-inventory/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Charlie P. from Santa Barbara, CA walks through Step 4 inventory work in detailed, practical terms—breaking down how the resentment inventory actually works, what the fourth column reveals, and how looking at resentments from an entirely different angle can rewrite decades
- [AA Speaker - Louise C. - Los Angeles, CA - 2015 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-louise-c-service-acceptance-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Louise C. from Los Angeles, CA got sober on August 8th, 1993, after years of blackout drinking, family displacement, and watching her mother die while she was still actively drinking. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how a no-nonsense
- [AA Speaker - John R. - Palm Springs, CA - 1982 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-r-powerlessness-surrender-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John R., an engineer turned union official from New York, came into AA as a dying drunk after 18 months of catastrophic decline—multiple psychiatric hospitalizations, a failed relapse attempt, and complete spiritual collapse. In this AA speaker tape from Palm Springs,
- [AA Speaker - Yvonne S. - Oslo, Norway - 2018 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-yvonne-s-surrender-steps-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Yvonne S. from the United States came to AA at 21 after a treatment facility deal: get sober or lose custody of her daughter. She had no interest in the program, hated meetings, and planned to drink again once she got
- [AA Speaker - Don M. - Moorhead, MN - 2019 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-m-surrender-acceptance-steps-six-seven/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don M. from Moorhead, Minnesota got sober in April 1981 after a catastrophic car accident while practicing law in Louisville. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through hitting bottom—losing everything, spending time homeless, and cycling through psychiatric hospitals—and how working
- [AA Speaker - Jennifer D. - Oslo, Norway - 2022 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jennifer-d-service-work-amends/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jennifer D., from Wilmington, North Carolina, got sober just before her 15th birthday on January 12, 1992, after years of daily drinking, isolation, and suicidal desperation. In this AA speaker tape recorded in Oslo, she walks through her early bottom, the
- [12 Step Workshop - Chris S. - Manor, TX - 2008 - Part 4 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-12-step-workshop-recovery-spiritual-process/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. from Manor, Texas got sober on December 28, 1989, after years of blackout drinking, car crashes, DUIs, and a terrifying Christmas night that became his breaking point. In this AA speaker workshop from 2008, he walks through how desperation
- [12 Step Workshop - Chris S. - Manor, TX - 2008 - Part 3 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-step-work-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. from Manor, TX breaks down the twelve steps with the precision of someone who's lived them repeatedly. In this AA speaker workshop, he explains Step 1's mental obsession and unmanageability, then guides listeners through inventory work, the Fifth Step
- [12 Step Workshop - Chris S. - Manor, TX - 2008 - Parts 1 & 2 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-step-4-resentments-inventory/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. from Manor, TX spent years going to meetings but dying inside—restless, irritable, discontented, stuck in misery and fear. In this AA speaker workshop, he walks through Steps 1–4 and the spiritual principles behind the recovery process, drawing from his
- [AA Speaker - Mari G. - Primm, NV - 2019 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mari-g-12-traditions-alcoholics-anonymous/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mari G., a member with 35 years of sobriety from Ontario, Canada, delivers an in-depth AA speaker talk on the 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. Starting from the chaos of early AA groups that had no unified principles, Mari walks through
- [AA Speaker - Earl H. - Prescott, AZ - 2019 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-earl-h-recovery-design-for-living/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Earl H. from Prescott, Arizona has been sober since November 6, 1980—39 years. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through a life shaped by violence, addiction, and unimaginable loss: a plane crash in Mexico that killed his parents and sister,
- [AA Speaker - Ashley J. - Bend, OR - 2021 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-ashley-j-step-work-recovery-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Ashley J. from Bend, OR grew up in a multigenerational alcoholic home with childhood trauma, abandonment, and loneliness. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through her entire journey with the 12 steps—from hitting bottom on champagne and wine to building
- [Sober Sunrise - Jeffrey B. - Prince George, BC, Canada - 2022 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jeffrey-b-steps-six-seven-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jeffrey B. from Prince George, BC got sober in 2003 after hitting bottom homeless on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, attempting suicide at the Lion's Gate Bridge, and spending time in treatment. In this AA speaker talk, he describes his first five years
- [Sober Sunrise - Chris S. - Wilmington, DE - 2022 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-spiritual-awakening-service/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. from Wilmington, DE spent a decade as a chronic alcoholic—blacking out every night, losing his family, his jobs, his friendships—before walking into Alcoholics Anonymous in 1989. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how the steps rewired his
- [Sober Sunrise -Keith L. - Edisto, SC - 2000 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-keith-l-recovery-story-amends/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Keith L. from Ohio spent 12 years destroying his family through alcoholism before landing on Skid Row in Washington, DC in 1973. In this AA speaker tape recorded at Edisto, South Carolina in 2000, he walks through his path to sobriety,
- [I Got Arrested Telling My Wife About Her Bad Behavior - AA Speaker - D.J. S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dj-s-spiritual-experience-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → D.J. S. spent 20 years inflicting himself on his wife while drinking and using methamphetamine, convinced that his external circumstances—his job, his marriage, his band—were the reason he drank. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his arrest at his
- [Find God or Die - The Secret of AA in Four Words | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-oxford-group-aa-history/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S., an AA speaker with deep knowledge of recovery history, walks through how the Oxford Group's spiritual exercises directly shaped Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12 Steps. In this talk, he unpacks the source material Bill W. and Dr. Bob drew
- [AA Speaker - Mark T. - Medicine Hat, Alberta - 2019 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mark-t-unity-recovery-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mark T. from Medicine Hat, Alberta spent seven years in and out of AA before finding a solution that worked. In this AA speaker talk, he breaks down what actually brings alcoholics together—not war stories, but a common problem and a
- [AA Speaker - Kevin O. - Calgary, Alberta, Canada - 2016 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kevin-o-surrender-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kevin O. from Calgary, Alberta got sober at 22 after seven relapses, years in treatment centers, and nearly losing everything to alcoholism that started at age 12. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through why meetings alone didn't work—and what
- [Sober Sunrise - Bob D. - Adelaide, Australia - 2012 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bob-d-step-one-powerlessness-chronic-alcoholic/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bob D. from Adelaide, Australia got sober on October 31st, 1978, and hasn't touched alcohol or any mind-altering substance since. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through Step One in depth—not the intellectual understanding of it, but the gut-level realization
- [Sober Sunrise - Mike I. - McKenzie Bridge, OR - 2004 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-i-powerlessness-step-work-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike I. from Indianapolis, Indiana got sober in 1985 after years of using alcohol to mask deep fear and seeking approval. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his bottom—living off a woman, unemployable, crawling on a bathroom floor—and the
- [Sober Sunrise - Bob B. - Palm Harbor, FL - 2006 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bob-b-spiritual-awakening-character-defects/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bob B. from Palm Harbor, Florida got sober in 1967 at age 23 after years of drinking that left him unemployable, broke, and facing a medical discharge from the Army. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through nearly four decades
- [Sober Sunrise - Brendan D. - Reykjavik, Iceland - 2016 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-brendan-d-step-work-resentment-inventory/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Brendan D. from Redmond, Washington got sober at 18 after a childhood marked by violence, family chaos, and drinking that started at 13. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how the Big Book and a sponsor willing to teach
- [Sober Sunrise - Bill C. - Charlotte, NC - 1988 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bill-c-self-centeredness-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bill C. from Charlotte, NC grew up in an alcoholic home, used alcohol to escape unbearable feelings of powerlessness, and spent years caught in cycles of denial and failed attempts to control his drinking. In this AA speaker tape, he traces
- [Sober Sunrise - Marty J. - Laughlin, NV - 1999 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-marty-j-powerlessness-surrender-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Marty J. from Red Deer, Alberta was drinking by age 11, his mind divided between voices of destruction and survival. In this AA speaker tape from a 1999 Laughlin conference, he traces his path from that first drink to 23 years
- [Sober Sunrise - Jay S. - New Orleans, LA - 2016 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-new-orleans-spiritual-awakening-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S. from New Orleans spent his early drinking years living in his car, accumulating DUIs, and convinced he was simply a bad person getting what he deserved. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his first few days in
- [Sober Sunrise - Tom P. - Berlin, Germany - 2021 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-p-emotional-sobriety-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom P. from Berlin, Germany got sober at 18 after years of substance abuse and suicidal ideation, but found himself hitting a wall at five years sober—miserable, emotionally driven, and without tools to manage his inner life. In this AA speaker
- [Sober Sunrise - Billy S. - Paramount, CA - 2003 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-billy-s-staying-middle-herd-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Billy S. from Paramount, California got sober in 1975 after attempting suicide—a point where he couldn't live with or without alcohol. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through two decades of the fellowship, the sponsor who changed everything, and what
- [Sober Sunrise - Sandy B. - Primm, NV - 2008 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-sandy-b-spiritual-awakening-higher-power/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Sandy B. from Nevada got sober in 1964 after hitting an almost unimaginable bottom—as a U.S. Marine fighter pilot struggling with alcoholic withdrawal in the cockpit, eventually institutionalized in a naval hospital where he experienced terrifying hallucinations and seizures. In this
- [Sober Sunrise - Rob B - Baskin Ridge, NJ - 2003 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-rob-b-service-work-committees/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Rob B., a member of Somerset Hills group in Basking Ridge, New Jersey with sobriety since April 1988, explains how getting involved in AA service work deepened his recovery. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the structure of Alcoholics
- [Sober Sunrise - Clancy I. - Venice Beach, CA - 2017 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-clancy-i-acceptance-surrender-belief/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Clancy I. from Venice Beach, CA spent nearly a decade in and out of AA, unable to believe he was an alcoholic and furious at God after losing his son. In this AA speaker tape, he describes how a no-nonsense movie-actor
- [Sober Sunrise - Harvey J. - Los Angeles, CA - 2006 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-harvey-j-gratitude-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Harvey J. from Los Angeles spent three decades drinking in secret—hiding bottles behind books, wrapping empties as gifts, storing vodka in a sealed bathtub—while telling himself he wasn't like other alcoholics. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how a
- [Sober Sunrise - Aaron S. - Issaquah, WA - 2018 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-aaron-s-surrender-acceptance-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Aaron S. from Issaquah, Washington got sober on July 14, 2003, after years of drinking to escape a spinning mind, running from a felony drug charge, and a breaking point where he couldn't get drunk enough to feel relief anymore. In
- [Sober Sunrise - Chuck C. - Amarillo, TX - 1978 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chuck-c-surrender-powerlessness/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chuck C. from Amarillo, TX got sober in 1946 after a catastrophic 28-day blackout over Christmas and New Year's that burned away every excuse and defense he had. In this classic AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from a
- [Sober Sunrise - Mel B. - Las Vegas, NV - 2005 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mel-b-aa-history-founders-bill-bob/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mel B. from Nebraska got sober in 1950 at age 24 after years of destitution, jail time, a stint in a state hospital, and finally finding AA. In this AA speaker tape, he traces his own unlikely journey from a frightened,
- [Sober Sunrise - Chris R - Pearl City, IL - 2003 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-r-spiritual-experience-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris R. spent 19 years drinking and drugging, eating out of dumpsters, losing marriages and businesses, and nearly taking his own life before walking into a room full of people who would tell him the truth. In this AA speaker tape
- [If It's Not in the Book It's Not Important - AA Speaker - Ray O. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-ray-o-big-book-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Ray O., sober since November 1965, is an AA speaker who has attended step meetings nearly every day for decades. In this talk, he breaks down his personal experience working the 12 steps, emphasizing how the Big Book became his guide
- [My Daughter Named Her Son After Me and It's Not Because I'm a Good Dad - AA Speaker - Frank J. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-frank-j-fatherhood-redemption-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Frank J. is an AA speaker whose life spiraled from the Marine Corps through Vietnam, violent crime, homelessness, and a complete loss of everything—family, money, dignity. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the exact moment a doctor told him he
- [I Sent the Devil Into My Son's Room and Didn't Remember Any of It - AA Speaker - Chris L. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-l-blackouts-recovery-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris L. from Ohio spent 20 years chasing a three-minute moment of bliss from her first drink at 14, descending into blackouts where she'd wake up in strange towns with no memory of how she got there. In this AA speaker
- [From Federal Prison at 18 to Calling Home at Six Years Sober - AA Speaker - Robbie W. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-robbie-w-federal-prison-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Robbie W., from Philadelphia by way of New Jersey, was locked up in federal prison at 18 for bank theft, cycled through jails, mental hospitals, and the streets for years—all while drinking. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how
- [The Bomb Went Off at 16 Years and the Only Thing Left Was the Meeting - AA Speaker - Steve B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-steve-b-bomb-16-years-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Steve B., an AA speaker with 28 years of continuous sobriety since May 1979, tells the story of what happens when the bottom falls out—not in early sobriety, but at 16 years. In this talk, he walks through hitting an unexpected
- [Seven Years of Walking Into AA for Cake and Walking Back Out - AA Speaker - Larry T. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-larry-t-seven-years-walking-in-for-cake/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Larry T., a longtime member with over 26 years in Alcoholics Anonymous, didn't get sober his first time walking into a meeting. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through seven years of coming to meetings "for cake and walking back
- [Everyone Said My Case Was Too Special for the Regular Program - AA Speaker - Susan D. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-susan-d-special-case-big-book-study/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Susan D. grew up in a deeply abusive home where she was given alcohol by her father at age eight and developed a hidden drinking problem that persisted through college, multiple therapy sessions, and four treatment centers. In this AA speaker
- [I Got Fired Twice From the Same Job in 24 Hours - AA Speaker - Josh H. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-josh-h-fired-twice-hitting-bottom/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Josh H. grew up adopted in Denver with five adopted siblings, discovered alcohol at 10, and spiraled into drug addiction, homelessness, and a suicide attempt by age 16. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his hitting bottom at 19
- [They Pronounced Me Dead Twice and I Still Wasn't Done Drinking - AA Speaker - Dave M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dave-m-pronounced-dead-alcoholic-cardiomyopathy/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dave M. from Pennsylvania was pronounced dead twice in a hospital bed with an alcoholic heart the size of a grapefruit—yet went home and drank for months more. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his unlikely path from a
- [God Took the Compulsion but I Kept Lying Out of Habit - AA Speaker - Damon G. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-damon-g-step-work-character-defects/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Damon G. is an AA speaker who came to the program spiritually sick from childhood, chasing anything that could numb the pain inside. In this talk, he walks through his first nine steps in detail—not just the story of hitting bottom,
- [The First Time I Told the Truth I Didn't Catch Fire - AA Speaker - Tony K. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tony-k-telling-truth-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tony K. from Colorado got sober at 22 after five years of drinking that started as an escape from family pain and quickly spiraled into isolation and despair. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his early resistance to the
- [They Pronounced Me Dead Twice and I Still Wasn't Done Drinking - AA Speaker - Dave M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dave-m-alcoholic-cardiomyopathy-dying-twice/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dave M. grew up in the Pennsylvania mountains with an abusive, alcoholic father—a resentment that shaped his early life and drove him toward the priesthood. In this AA speaker tape, he traces his descent from seminary to monastery to teaching religion
- [They Pronounced Me Dead Twice and I Still Wasn't Done Drinking - AA Speaker - Dave M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dave-m-pronounced-dead-drinking/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dave M. grew up in the Pennsylvania mountains with a father who drank abusively, and after years of trying to control his drinking through willpower, marriage, and eventually becoming a religion teacher while sneaking alcohol during the day, he landed in
- [Save Me a Seat Were the Last Words I Said to My Sponsor - AA Speaker - Mike M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-m-sponsor-grace-god/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike M. got sober in February 1978 after years living on the streets, jail time, and a moment of grace that stopped him from pulling the trigger on a loaded gun in Los Angeles. In this AA speaker tape, he walks
- [My 12-Year-Old Daughter Drove Me Home Because I Couldn't- AA Speaker - Tami F. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tami-f-daughter-drove-home-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tami F., a recovering alcoholic and mother of four, hit a turning point when her intoxicated driving forced her 12-year-old daughter to take the wheel on a highway. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through her descent into alcoholism and
- [AA Speaker - Kenny D. - Santa Fe, NM - 2006 - Part 2 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kenny-d-step-two-step-three-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kenny D. from Santa Fe, NM takes a deep dive into Step 2 and Step 3, walking through what it means to come to believe in a power greater than yourself and then make the decision to turn your will and
- [My Brain Was the Problem, Not Just the Drinking - AA Speaker - Peter M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-m-spiritual-experience-brain-thinking-mind/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter M., an AA speaker from the New York area, walks through how he discovered his brain—his thinking mind—was the actual problem keeping him sick in sobriety. After years of treatment centers and repeated relapses, Peter finally found the solution wasn't
- [I Said I'm Fine for 40 Years and Never Meant It Once - AA Speaker - David L. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-david-l-fine-40-years-honesty-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → David L., born and raised in North Carolina, spent 40 years saying "I'm fine" without meaning it once. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how childhood conditioning taught him to hide his real self, how alcohol became the only
- [The Eight Minutes That Got Me Here - AA Speaker - Cliff R. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-cliff-r-eight-minutes-surrender/) - AA speaker Cliff R., a functioning alcoholic and former debate coach, shares how eight minutes of relief through drinking masked his real problem until surrender changed everything.
- [I Had Ten Meetings a Week and Was Completely Hollow Inside - AA Speaker - Mike L. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-l-step-10-11-hollow-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike L. from Indianapolis got sober in 1985 but found himself five years in, still hollow and suicidal despite attending ten meetings a week. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how he was going through the motions of recovery
- [From Waking Up in Random Cities to Never Wanting a Drink Again - AA Speaker - Chris B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-b-first-three-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris B., a recovered alcoholic from Philadelphia sober since March 2, 1994, walks through the first three steps of AA with clinical precision and brutal honesty. In this AA speaker tape, he explains what it actually means to be powerless over
- [The Steps Are the Diagnosis, the Prescription, and the Medicine - AA Speaker - David A. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-david-a-steps-diagnosis-prescription-medicine/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → David A., a member of the Preston Group in Dallas, Texas, has been sober since April 20, 1967. In this AA speaker tape, he breaks down the 12 Steps not as abstract concepts but as a logical sequence: the first step
- [I Called My Sponsor From the VIP Suite With a Beer in My Hand - AA Speaker - Ben H. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-ben-h-last-drunk-sponsor-early-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Ben H. grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota, with an early restlessness that led to drinking at 12 and a 15-year spiral into daily alcohol and drug use that nearly killed him. In this AA speaker tape, he shares the moment
- [From 56 Pages of Chaos to a Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams - AA Speaker - Patti O. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-patti-o-recovery-inventory-56-pages/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Patti O. from California came through the doors of Alcoholics Anonymous facing 10 years in prison, having blackout-drank through college, a career, and motherhood. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through what it took to go from that courtroom moment
- [I Can't Stay Sober on Yesterday's Spiritual Awakening - AA Speaker - Frank M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-frank-m-emotional-sobriety-spiritual-awakening/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Frank M., an AA speaker from New York, spent 23 years drinking—13 of them daily—using alcohol to numb the deep self-loathing and anxiety that haunted him since childhood. In this talk, recorded at a weekend AA event, he walks through how
- [My Parakeet Died With Two Years Sobriety - AA Speaker - Jack H. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jack-h-parakeet-two-years-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jack H. from San Jose is a Navy veteran who spent decades as a functional alcoholic, working hard and drinking harder until his disease progressed into full-blown chaos. In this AA speaker tape, he tells the remarkable story of his parakeet
- [I Ran Out of Lies and All My Toughness Just Went Away - AA Speaker - Don P. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-p-surrender-powerlessness-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don P. from Aurora, Colorado spent 34 years drinking alcoholically before he finally ran out of lies on Christmas night 1967. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the moment of complete surrender—when all his toughness dissolved and he became willing
- [Things Got Worse Faster Than I Could Lower My Standards - AA Speaker - Tim W. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tim-w-standards-hitting-bottom/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tim W. spent years on the streets in Sacramento—homeless, begging for money, stealing to get drunk—until things got worse faster than he could lower his standards. In this AA speaker meeting, he walks through the moment of clarity that brought him
- [AA Gives You Riches That Nobody Can Take Away - AA Speaker - Ken B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-ken-b-riches-program-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Ken B. from Cleveland walked into Rosary Hall in 1972 facing jail time, multiple DWI charges, and a marriage barely holding together. In this AA speaker tape, he reveals how learning to surrender his will, working the steps with rigorous sponsors,
- [Sobriety Is a Doing Process Not a Learning Process - AA Speaker - Don M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-m-doing-process-not-learning/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don M. from Louisville, Kentucky spent 25 years drinking and using drugs before hitting bottom in 1980. In this AA speaker tape, he explains how his sponsor taught him that recovery isn't about learning more—it's about doing what the Big Book
- [I Was Everything in AA Except Working the Steps - AA Speaker - Jay P. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-p-working-the-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay P., an AA speaker from the early days of his sobriety, came into the rooms doing everything except the one thing that mattered: working the steps. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through a year and a half of
- [I Was Mr. AA on the Outside and Gasping for Air on the Inside - AA Speaker - Chris P. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-p-powerlessness-fear-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris P. spent 17 years drinking a fifth of vodka daily while building a successful corporate career—on the outside, he looked picture-perfect. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the moment his double life collapsed in a blackout car crash
- [You Cannot Believe the Glory That's Available to You - AA Speaker - Frank M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-frank-m-step-work-inventory-amends/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Frank M. is an attorney with decades of sobriety who takes a rigorous, methodical approach to the steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this AA speaker tape, he breaks down exactly how he works Steps 4 through 9—from writing a three-column inventory
- [My Ego Wants Me Dead but Will Settle for Me Drunk - AA Speaker - Peter M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-m-ego-alcoholism-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter M., a recovered alcoholic with 17 years of sobriety, speaks openly about his descent into homelessness, panhandling on the streets of Manhattan, and the moment of clarity that changed everything. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how his
- [From Nine Varsity Letters to Everything I Own in a Cardboard Box - AA Speaker - Frank J. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-frank-j-hitting-bottom-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Frank J. from California was a high school athlete with nine varsity letters, a decorated Marine, and a police officer. Yet alcohol turned his life into chaos: jail in Okinawa, two failed marriages, lost custody of his children, shooting himself in
- [Admitting It Ain't the Same as Fully Conceding It - AA Speaker - Mickey B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mickey-b-fully-conceding-alcoholic/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mickey B., an AA speaker from Los Angeles who's been sober since January 15, 1983, walks through a distinction that most people miss: admitting you're an alcoholic is not the same as fully conceding it to your innermost self. In this
- [From Eight Years of Warming a Chair to Finally Reading the Book - AA Speaker - Bart R. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bart-r-eight-years-warming-chair-reading-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bart R. from Long Island came to AA in 1987 but spent eight years "warming a chair" — going to meetings, standing outside smoking cigarettes, refusing to participate. In this AA speaker tape, he shares how a persistent sponsor and a
- [They Told Me I'd Never Feel Love - AA Proved Them Wrong - AA Speaker - Wayne B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-wayne-b-love-recovery-broken-heart/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Wayne B., an AA speaker from Illinois who is now based in California, was told by psychiatrists at age 18 that he'd never feel the emotion of love—that he was a psychopath incapable of guilt or conscience. In this talk, he
- [I Borrowed My Sponsor's God Until I Found My Own - AA Speaker - Shelly S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-shelly-s-finding-god-sponsor/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Shelly S. got sober in Hot Springs, Arkansas on July 14, 2001, at age 22, physically dying from alcoholism. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how working the 12 steps with her sponsor—including borrowing her sponsor's God until she
- [The Book Gets Bigger Every Time I Read It - AA Speaker - Charlie P. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-charlie-p-big-book-study-spiritual-progress/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Charlie P., with nearly four decades of sobriety, walks through what it took to go from a high-functioning addict to someone committed to working the steps exactly as the Big Book outlines them. This AA speaker tape covers his bottom—years of
- [I Got Sober and Accidentally Became a Service Junkie - AA Speaker - Andrew W. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-andrew-w-service-junkie-general-service/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Andrew W. from Missoula, Montana came to AA at 17 with a mind full of fear and shame, convinced he was different from everyone else. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his drinking, early sobriety, working the steps—especially making
- [Going to Meetings and Not Drinking Doesn't Treat Alcoholism - AA Speaker - Paul M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-paul-m-working-steps-treats-alcoholism/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Paul M., sober since August 1947, shares why simply attending meetings and staying dry isn't enough in recovery. In this AA speaker talk, he makes a direct case that working the 12 steps—especially the fourth, fifth, eighth, and ninth—is what actually
- [The Fifth Step Is Not a Confession - AA Speaker - Chris S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-fifth-step-confession/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S., an AA speaker from New Jersey, walks through the Fifth Step in depth—showing the critical difference between a confessional approach and the actual purpose of step work. In this talk, he explains how doing a proper Fourth Step inventory
- [Do the Stitches and Leave the Patterns Up to God - AA Speaker - Tim H. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tim-h-stitches-patterns-god/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tim H., a sober member for nearly 20 years, shares his journey from an all-state basketball player in Kentucky to a man living in a basement—and the spiritual solution he found in Alcoholics Anonymous. In this AA speaker tape, he walks
- [I Didn't Have a Long Drinking History, I Had a Long Hell History - AA Speaker - Pasha R. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-pasha-r-hell-history-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Pasha R. grew up in an alcoholic home where she experienced abuse, learned to hide, and developed a spiritual connection to God as a child that kept her alive. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how she became the
- [The Big Book Never Made a 12-Step Call - AA Speaker - Don C. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-don-c-big-book-sponsorship-service/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Don C., with 35 years of sobriety, challenges the common overreliance on Big Book study as a substitute for active sponsorship and service work in this AA speaker meeting. Drawing from his journey from a skid-row drunk to a committed member
- [I Cursed God at Port Authority and Found Him in a Hallway - AA Speaker - Peter M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-m-spiritual-awakening-hitting-bottom/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter M. from Brooklyn, New York spent 16 years chasing alcohol after his first drink at 14, watching his family suffer the fallout of his alcoholism before landing on the streets—jobless, skeletal, and desperate. In this AA speaker tape, he walks
- [The Great Gift of AA Is Being Wrong - AA Speaker - Keith L. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-keith-l-great-gift-being-wrong/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Keith L. came to Alcoholics Anonymous on May 13, 1973, ready to die. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through 26 years of continuous sobriety, sharing how the program's principles—especially powerlessness, belief in a higher power, and surrender—literally saved his
- [AA Was Almost Lost Before the Traditions Saved It - AA Speaker - James M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-james-m-traditions-history/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → James M. from Louisiana has been sober since 1981, and in this AA speaker tape recorded at an AA birthday celebration, he walks through the history of Alcoholics Anonymous and why the Traditions were essential to the fellowship's survival. Drawing parallels
- [I Had a Huge Ego and No Self-Esteem - AA Speaker - Joe D. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-d-ego-self-esteem-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe D. from Woodstock, Illinois got sober for two years, built a million-dollar internet business in his mid-twenties, and then relapsed hard for eight years when the pressure, success, and his massive ego collided. In this AA speaker tape, he walks
- [I Forgot the Inside Job After 12 Years Sober - AA Speaker - Wesley P. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-wesley-p-inside-job-deflation-ego/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Wesley P. from Papa Beach had built a solid recovery over 12 years—spiritual abundance, a successful business, two educated children, freedom from the obsession. Then ego crept back in. In this AA speaker tape, Wesley walks through how he inflated again,
- [The Age of Miracles Is Still With Us - AA Speaker - Dick A. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dick-a-spiritual-awakening-miracles/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Dick A. from Georgia spent decades drinking his way through jobs, relationships, and his family's honor—until homelessness, suicidal despair, and a moment of grace led him to call AA. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from rock
- [My Dark Past Became My Greatest Possession - AA Speaker - Mark B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mark-b-dark-past-greatest-possession/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mark B. walked into his first AA meeting on April 10th, 1988, carrying 37 years of wreckage: Vietnam combat, multiple prison sentences, homelessness, and a life controlled by fear and alcohol. In this AA speaker talk, he explains how working the
- [I Was in Prison Before I Ever Got to Prison - AA Speaker - Wallace B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-wallace-b-prison-recovery-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Wallace B. spent 18 years in a North Carolina penitentiary with a life sentence plus 40 years. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his descent from a frightened young soldier who discovered alcohol's magic to a man in prison
- [Sudden or Gradual, the Fruits Are the Same - AA Speaker - Jay S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jay-s-spiritual-experience-varieties-religious-experience/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jay S. brings a scholar's depth to the spiritual foundations of AA, drawing from William James' landmark work on conversion and religious experience. In this AA speaker tape, he traces how the sudden white-light experiences and gradual spiritual awakenings of early
- [I Was Stupid Enough to Follow the Instructions - AA Speaker - Ray M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-ray-m-follow-instructions-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Ray M. got sober at 20 years old after years of isolation, drinking heavily in his garage, and convinced he was better than everyone around him. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how following his sponsor's instructions—even when he
- [Where There's Love, There's Service - AA Speaker - Tom F. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-f-love-service-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom F., a member of the Harbor City Speakers Meeting in Baltimore, has been sober since 1980 and pulls no punches in this talk about love, service, and the real work of sponsorship in AA. In this AA speaker meeting, he
- [A Book, a Pound of Coffee, and a New AA Meeting- AA Speaker - Bud M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-bud-m-hole-in-ground-recovery-history/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Bud M. walked out of jail on March 10, 1953, facing a 10-year-to-life sentence, $9,700 in restitution, and a reputation as the town troublemaker. In this AA speaker tape, he tells the full arc of his recovery—from that first meeting at
- [I Lived the Twelve Steps Backwards - AA Speaker - Tarek K. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tarek-k-twelve-steps-backwards/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tarek K., sober 8 years in London, walks through one of the most striking shares about the disease of alcoholism: how he actively lived the Twelve Steps backwards during his drinking years. In this AA speaker tape, he breaks down exactly
- [The Window I Broke Cannot Be Replaced - AA Speaker - Terri K. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-terri-k-vehicular-homicide-amends/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Terri K. spent 10 years in Ohio prison for vehicular homicide—killing a 14-year-old boy while driving drunk and arguing with her sister. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through the denial that kept her numb even after sentencing, the intensive
- [Seven Years in AA Before I Tried the Program - AA Speaker - Chris R. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-r-seven-years-before-trying-program/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris R., a recovered alcoholic and addict with 21 years of sobriety, didn't actually get sober during his first seven years in AA despite picking up multiple desire chips. In this AA speaker meeting, he walks through his chronic relapse cycle—the
- [I Wanted to Be Ordinary - AA Speaker - David B. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-david-b-ordinary-life-sobriety/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → David B. from Montreal was the first member of Alcoholics Anonymous in the province of Quebec. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from a childhood marked by fear and privilege to decades spiraling through blackouts, hospitalizations, and
- [Sober Without a Solution - AA Speaker - Melanie S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-melanie-s-sober-without-solution/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Melanie S. started drinking at 10 and spent decades cycling through treatment centers, psychiatric hospitals, and brief stints in AA before relapsing. In this AA speaker tape, she describes hitting a point where she had truly exhausted every solution except the
- [My Sponsor Knows, But Not This Part - AA Speaker - Kane T. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-kane-t-sponsor-step-work-honesty/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Kane T. spent years telling himself "my sponsor knows a lot about me, but not this part"—hiding pieces of his life, his past, and his decisions until sobriety fell apart. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his journey from
- [We Know the Way In and the Way Out - AA Speaker - Peter M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-m-steps-10-11-12/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter M., an AA speaker from Canada, walks through the heart of Steps 10, 11, and 12—the daily work that sustains sobriety and deepens spiritual connection. In this AA speaker tape, he challenges common misconceptions about meditation, reveals why written inventory
- [I Paid Half a Million Dollars for a Big Book - AA Speaker - Adam T. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-adam-t-half-million-dollars-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Adam T. came to AA after cycling through 28 treatment centers, accumulating what he calls his "half-million-dollar Big Book education"—yet nothing stuck until he understood that his real problem wasn't alcohol. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through how he
- [God Came Crashing Into My Darkness - AA Speaker - Chris H. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-h-spiritual-awakening-darkness/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris H. spent 14 years drinking, starting at 11 years old on Skid Row in Cleveland. She bounced between jail, treatment, and a burning descent that ended with her burning down her mother's house and nearly killing someone while driving drunk.
- [My Wager Is Too High - AA Speaker - Scott L. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scott-l-wager-too-high-surrender/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scott L., a former Air Force pilot from Nashville, Tennessee, describes his spiral from flying high-performance jets to drinking in the cockpit, and how a spiritual experience in a treatment center bed changed everything. In this AA speaker tape, he talks
- [There Is No Door Number Three - AA Speaker - Chris S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-chris-s-hitting-bottom-service-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Chris S. from Fort Walton Beach, Florida spent two decades destroying his life with alcohol before landing in county jail facing seven years. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his bottom—the DUIs, prison sentence, psychiatric holds, and the moment
- [You're Working the Program on the Wrong Guy - AA Speaker - Geoff C. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-geoff-c-working-program-wrong-guy/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Geoff C. walked into AA on Christmas Day 1978 with nothing but a beat-up car and a criminal record. In this AA speaker tape, he describes how his sponsor Don forced him to do honest inventory work, how success and ego
- [Joe & Charlie - Part 1 - AA History - AA Big Book Workshop | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-big-book-history/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe and Charlie, two longtime AA members with decades of sobriety between them, walk through the actual history behind Alcoholics Anonymous and the Big Book. This AA speaker workshop covers how Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith met in Akron, Ohio
- [Joe & Charlie - Part 2 - The Doctor's Opinion Explained - AA Big Book Workshop | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-doctors-opinion-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe and Charlie, two legendary AA speaker teachers, walk through the Doctor's Opinion section of the Big Book in this foundational workshop. They explain Dr. Silkworth's discovery of the physical allergy to alcohol and the mental obsession that keeps alcoholics trapped—and
- [Joe & Charlie - Part 3 - Bill's Story Explained - AA Big Book Workshop | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tape-joe-charlie-bills-story-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → In this AA speaker tape, Joe and Charlie walk through Bill W.'s story from the Big Book, showing exactly how a successful stockbroker lost everything to alcoholism, hit absolute bottom in a hospital, and found recovery through a spiritual experience that
- [I'm Not a Has-Been, I'm a Never Was - AA Speaker - Jerome S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-jerome-s-design-for-living/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Jerome S., from South Central Los Angeles, arrived at AA as a broken 26-year-old with nothing left—no home, no hope, just a moment of clarity that told him he'd die if he went back to Skid Row. In this AA speaker
- [Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 4 - There Is A Solution - AA Big Book Workshop | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-big-book-there-is-a-solution/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe & Charlie, two foundational AA speaker voices, walk through the "There Is A Solution" chapter of the Big Book in this workshop recording. They explore the two powers that hold AA together—the fellowship and the vital spiritual experience—and explain why
- [This Is Where Dead People Come to Life - AA Speaker - Daniel E. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-daniel-e-hitting-bottom-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Daniel E. from Benton, Arkansas spent years drinking to blackouts, caught in a cycle of rage, jail stays, and failed attempts to manage his life. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the moment he believed he was dead and in
- [Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 5 - More About Alcoholism - AA Big Book Workshop | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-more-about-alcoholism-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe & Charlie, legendary AA speakers, walk through the "More About Alcoholism" chapter from the Big Book in this AA speaker tape. Using real case studies—the man of 30, Jim, the jaywalker, and Fred—they explain that alcoholic insanity isn't about what
- [Any Fool Can Quit Drinking - AA Speaker - Michael M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-michael-m-step-one-unmanageability/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Michael M. spent 12 years knowing he was an alcoholic before he walked into AA—12 years of hiding car keys from himself, waking up wondering if he'd hit kids with his truck, spending time behind bars, and losing his family. In
- [God Is Whatever Got You to Those People - AA Speaker - Karl M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-karl-m-god-got-you-those-people/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Karl M. came to AA at 25, burned out in every area of life after years of cocaine, pot dealing, and a car crash while drunk in the Navy. In this AA speaker tape, he describes how his father's simple answer—"God
- [Sober Sunrise - Mike I. - McKenzie Bridge, OR - 2004 | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-mike-i-spiritual-awakening-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Mike I. from Indianapolis started drinking at twelve to escape fear, spent decades chasing the spiritual awakening he'd stolen from a bottle, and eventually found himself homeless and dying of untreated alcoholism despite five years sober. In this AA speaker tape,
- [It Was Never the Lack of What I Am - AA Speaker - John V. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-john-v-acceptance-self-worth/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → John V., a Micmac Indian from the streets of Syracuse, New York, arrived at his first AA meeting in 1962 with nothing—no education, no home, no hope. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through 32 years of sobriety and reveals
- [I Was Stone Cold Sober and Stark Raving Mad - AA Speaker - Steve L. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-steve-l-stone-cold-sober-stark-raving-mad/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Steve L. came to AA on a court order after a DUI, convinced he'd never actually get sober. For his first 100 days, he attended meetings religiously but never worked the steps—and slowly began to lose his mind. In this AA
- [Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Parts 6 & 7 - We Agnostics & How It Works - AA Big Book Workshop | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-we-agnostics-how-it-works-big-book/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe & Charlie, two of AA's most respected Big Book teachers, walk through chapters 4 and 5 of the Big Book—"We Agnostics" and "How It Works." In this AA speaker workshop, they tackle the core question: how does someone who struggles
- [Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Part 8 - Working the 4th Step - AA Big Book Workshop | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-step-4-resentments-inventory/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe & Charlie walk through the Step 4 resentment inventory in detail, breaking down exactly how to work the Big Book's method rather than getting lost in complicated guides or life stories. This AA speaker tape cuts through the confusion about
- [The Phoniest Man in Alcoholics Anonymous - AA Speaker - Lou F. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-lou-f-phoniest-man-aa/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Lou F. from Vancouver arrived at AA in 1963 as a broke, broken man—having hit his wife, abandoned his family, and lost everything to alcohol. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through decades of sobriety and reveals how the Big
- [Joe & Charlie AA Speakers - Parts 9 & 10 - Steps 5-12 - AA Big Book Workshop | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-joe-charlie-steps-5-12-big-book-workshop/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Joe & Charlie, two respected AA speakers, walk through Steps 5 through 12 in this detailed Big Book workshop. They explain the core work of recovery—from the Fifth Step confession to making amends and maintaining spiritual condition—with specific examples of how
- [The Dry Drunk Cometh - AA Speaker - Deandre M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-deandre-m-sponsorship-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → DeAndre M., an AA speaker with 15 years of continuous sobriety since May 29, 1991, walks through why sponsorship isn't optional in recovery—it's the difference between staying sober and becoming a dry drunk. From his first sponsor who saw through his
- [The Invisible Rowboat - AA Speaker - Arnor K. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-arnor-k-carrying-the-message-sponsorship/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Arnor K. from Iceland got sober in late 2000 as a combative, angry newcomer who fought everything AA had to offer—until a sponsor and a story about making amends to someone who'd molested him shifted everything. In this AA speaker meeting,
- [At the Christening of AA - AA Speaker - Paul K. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-paul-k-christening-aa-pioneers/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Paul K. came into AA in Akron during its earliest days and witnessed firsthand how the program took shape—from the Oxford Group's spiritual concepts to the birth of the twelve steps. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his own
- [Don't Let Me Meet God With Alcohol on My Breath - AA Speaker - Grant P. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-grant-p-hitting-bottom-recovery/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Grant P. spent years carefully hiding his drinking from his family—sneaking beers, stashing them in spare tires, making excuses—until the day he realized he couldn't stop. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his bottom, his first 11 months of
- [5,000 Meetings Before I Heard Step One - AA Speaker - Tom P. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-tom-p-step-one-spiritual-malady/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Tom P. spent 17 years in AA meetings—nearly 5,000 of them—before he actually understood what Step One meant. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his relapse after years of sobriety, his crash and burn, and the moment he finally
- [The Glee of This Moment - AA Speaker - Carla R. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-carla-r-glee-of-this-moment/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Carla R. is a 37-year-old AA speaker from Southern California who spent her adolescence in and out of psychiatric hospitals, living on the streets, and struggling with addiction that nearly cost her everything—including her daughter. In this AA speaker tape, she
- [Out of Dirt Comes Flowers - AA Speaker - Vaughn Q. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-vaughn-q-archway-freedom/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Vaughn Q., a Catholic priest from Toronto, got sober in 1964 after hitting bottom in a hospital with 18 stitches in his head—just two days after his ordination. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his path from the locked
- [What You're Looking For, You're Looking With - AA Speaker - Ed M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-ed-m-spiritual-sobriety-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Ed M. got sober at 20 years old on January 5th, 1971, after waking up in the middle of the street following a car accident with nothing left to say. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through five decades of
- [A Belly Full of Fear and a Head Full of AA - AA Speaker - Pat P. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-pat-p-fear-anxiety-step-work/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Pat P., sober 34 years from Cleveland, spent years on the streets, lost his family, and cycled through jail multiple times before a sponsor named Eddie Sullivan brought him to the rooms. In this AA speaker tape, Pat walks through how
- [I Had One Relationship 20 Times - AA Speaker - Keith L. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-keith-l-relationships-covenant/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Keith L. came to Alcoholics Anonymous at 29, emotionally 15 years old, with no ability to relate to another human being. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through 50 years of sobriety and explains why he had the same painful
- [I Like the Effect Produced by the Steps - AA Speaker - Scott S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-scott-s-effect-produced-steps/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Scott S. got sober after years of homelessness, multiple jail stints, and bleeding out—hitting a bottom so complete he finally believed he was an alcoholic. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through the obsession that drove him to drink, the
- [God Interrupted My Death - AA Speaker - Peter M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-peter-m-spiritual-awakening-recovery-2/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Peter M. grew up in Brooklyn, lost his mother to suicide at 14, and spent years as a drunk on the streets of New York before landing in his seventh treatment center. In this AA speaker tape, he walks through his
- [The Miracle Is: I Was Ready - AA Speaker - Robi S. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-robi-s-spiritual-awakening-readiness/) - YouTube Spotify Apple All Episodes Listen to 200+ AA Speaker Tapes on YouTube → Robi S. came into AA at rock bottom—89 pounds, jaundiced liver failure, homeless, and separated from her children. In this AA speaker tape, she walks through how surrender, step work, and a spiritual awakening transformed her life over 16 years, including
- [Whatever Time I Have, I Have This Program - AA Speaker - Dennis M. | Sober Sunrise](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-speaker-dennis-m-drag-recovery-hiv-sobriety/) - Dennis M., an AA speaker from Reno, shares his journey from drag bars and drug addiction to finding recovery and spiritual awakening. His story shows how the program works beyond drinking.

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- [AA Speaker Talks on Hitting Bottom, Relapse & Early Sobriety](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-hitting-bottom-early-sobriety-speakers/) - YouTube Playlist Spotify Apple Podcasts In Alcoholics Anonymous, "hitting bottom" is the point where an alcoholic becomes willing to try something different. These AA speaker meetings feature members describing their bottom, their first days of sobriety, and for some, the painful experience of relapse and coming back. The stories range from park benches to corner
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- [AA Speaker Talks on Sponsorship & Carrying the Message](https://sober-sunrise.com/aa-sponsorship-carrying-the-message-speakers/) - YouTube Playlist Spotify Apple Podcasts Sponsorship is one of the core practices in Alcoholics Anonymous. A sponsor is a member who has worked the Twelve Steps and guides another member through the process. It is how the message of recovery gets carried — one alcoholic to another. These AA speaker tapes explore the sponsor-sponsee relationship,
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