E159: Speaking Up: Sharing Stories of Trust, Honesty, and Recovery

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Send us a text In this gripping episode, join Matt and Steve as they delve into the profound world of speaker meetings within Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Steve recounts his recent experience speaking at a detox center, unraveling the chaos, challenges, and invaluable moments of connection that transpired. Discover the underlying reasons why individuals engage in public speaking within the AA community and how it plays a pivotal role in their recovery journey. Steve passionately shares the dual...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:00.9	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:01.9	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.1	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.8	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.3	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has-to-face day-to-day.
0:15.5	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:17.3	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:21.2	You're not alone.
0:22.3	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:25.0	You ever go speak if you're part of AA at a meeting?
0:28.7	You ever go to a speaker meeting?
0:30.9	I went to a speaker meeting on Saturday with somebody brand new, but Steve went to a detox center
0:36.8	and we were kind of working out
0:38.4	what a topic would look like tonight.
0:40.4	We were talking about trust and honesty.
0:43.7	But it just seemed interesting when Steve was telling me about the meeting that he went to
0:48.7	and spoke and a little bit of the chaos beforehand, but how we help people.
0:55.9	Steve, I'm dying to hear more about this. And I think people want to hear some of this stuff of, well, why do people
1:00.6	go speak? What's the purpose? What do you get out of it? What do you learn from it? You know,
1:04.8	it's interesting. So I was, believe it or not, I was listening to another podcast that was talking about, and it's not an AA podcast,
1:12.0	not that we are either, but we're a little bit more A. And they were talking about some of the
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