12 Step Workshop: Jack The Marine

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🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This speak is from the 2014 10th Annual Fellowship of the Spirit 12 Step Workshop held in Bayside New York. The speaker is Jack the Marine (a former Marine Recruiter), he is the featured Saturday night speaker so this isnt step focused as much as its a general share. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are anywhere near San Luis Obispo California, the weekend of August 25th, the 56th Annual District 22 Convention is going on and it looks like a fun one. It is a great place to spend a quick vacation weekend less than a 4 hour drive from Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Areas https://scast.us/d22 AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2300+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:28.6	My name is Jack and I am an alcoholic.
0:33.6	Hi.
0:36.6	I've never said anything more important than that.
0:39.6	I'm not going to say anything more important than that here tonight.
0:44.4	If you ever knew what it took for me to make that confession, you'd know why it's the
0:51.7	most important thing I've ever said and that I've never grown anymore in one day than
0:58.0	my first day of sobriety.
1:01.8	What it takes to cross that threshold, all the pain and suffering and family woes, lost
1:08.1	opportunities, losses of confidence.
1:11.0	You never grow anymore in one day than you do in your first day.
1:16.8	And there was a guy around my pots a long time ago.
1:21.6	He was called upon to carry a message one night.
1:25.8	He started in the north end of Boston, the old north church, crossed over the Charles
1:31.1	River into Charlestown.
1:32.8	He went through Medfidden Island, Tinney ended up in Lexington and conquered 20 miles
1:38.2	later.
1:39.4	His name was Paul Revia.
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