AA History: How the 12 Traditions Were Born - Sybil C sober in 1941

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Sybil C had been sober for 39 years at the time of this speak, she is from of Los Angeles and is speaking on the subject of How the Traditions Were Born, a topic she lived while working in the AA office in New York at the time of their creation. Sybil got sober in 1941 after trying for 17 years, at her first meeting she was asked to wait out in the hall because it was a closed meeting and they thought she was one of the wives, not one of the drunks, she was also the first woman AA member on the East coast. I was a bit shocked at how well this cleaned up considering how it sounded on my first listen. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 3000+ 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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0:06.6	Hello, welcome to Sobercast.
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0:21.0	and to our virtual message.
0:22.4	We'll go and enjoy the podcast.
0:23.8	Have great day.
0:27.3	Hi everybody.
0:28.1	My name is Sybil and I'm an alcoholic.
0:31.2	Hi, Sybil.
0:33.6	And by the time this thing is over,
0:35.3	I will be perky and bright and shiny and sparkling
0:38.4	and I won't have cotton wool in the head and I'm just not a morning person most of you
0:44.3	people know me and Matt in particular who drove us down will tell you that I am not very sharp
0:51.3	until about noon but that's not because of advancing age. I never was. I always
0:56.8	did sleep in. I never did like to go to a morning meeting. I do, but I sit when I do, and that's
1:03.0	easy to do compared to being up here. And suppose to tell you something about the way it was
1:09.3	in the old covered wagon days of Alcoholics
1:12.2	Anonymous and how it came about that our traditions were born.
1:19.8	Can you imagine such a thing from an ex-this is my, the way I spent my earlier years,
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