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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Big Book Study: Preface and Forwards

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Today we have a big book study of the Preface and Forwards of the book. This group has covered the big book multiple times so we have six different people presenting on the same topic over three separate meetings. I popped a quick click track between the meetings. Recording provided by, The Big Book Awakening, a Womens Big Book Study for all who identify as Women and/or LBTQ+. They meet in person every Saturday in St. Paul Minnesota at 8:30am. If you would like to join them please visit https://westendaa.org 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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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker meetings and workshops in podcast format.

0:12.7

We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar or two into our virtual

0:21.8

basket.

0:22.3

We hope you enjoyed the podcast.

0:23.8

Have a great day.

0:27.2

Hi, I'm Marity Alcoholic.

0:29.4

And I'm Lowe.

0:30.3

I'm an alcoholic.

0:31.6

All right.

0:33.4

Thank you, ladies, for the opportunity to be of service.

0:37.8

And I'm especially grateful for Lowe to partner with me.

0:42.5

As I've witnessed Lowe in my journey with her,

0:46.2

as her life has just exploded by living this design for living.

0:53.6

And so she will be presenting with me and was kind enough to do this

0:58.8

service work with me. So the point of the conversation today is to look at the preface and the first four

1:08.8

forwards. And at first blush, it's like, oh,

1:12.4

gosh, you know, why would we want to do that? And really the reason is, and the reason I take

1:21.3

sponzi's through this is, is, you know, we'll just get a little bit of basic history about what the big book is,

1:29.8

you know, kind of how the big book was built to give us kind of a landing pad on that.

1:36.3

And then, you know, interesting enough, the preface and the forwards give some context

1:42.1

about why the big book. And Loa and I'll give a little bit of,

1:47.7

you know, a few of the details behind the context. And what's, you know, really remarkable is

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