ESH: Angelique B speaking at the Feet First Speakers Group

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Angelique B from Collingswood NJ, sober in 2007 speaking at the Feet First Speakers Group in August of 2014. This coming weekend is the 2nd Annual Online International AA Convention, (Nov 14-16) registration is free. Meetings will be hosted by various groups from around the world. Details are here: https://aaev.cc/oiaa25 Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] 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 link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.1	Hi, I'm Angelique.
0:28.3	I'm an alcoholic.
0:29.1	Hi, thank you.
0:30.7	And my sobriety date is August 1st of 2007.
0:44.3	And, um, though, technically my last drink was July 30th of 2007. But I personally, for myself, define my sobriety by an active life in Alcoholics Anonymous.
0:53.3	And so on August 1st of 2007, I walked into my first meeting.
0:58.0	And I cried like a baby.
1:04.0	I cried.
1:06.0	And there were things going on in that room that I did not understand.
1:10.0	And some of them, I've come understand are, have nothing really to do with AA.
1:15.6	They have nothing really to do with the spirit of love and tolerance.
1:22.6	The code of love and tolerance.
1:26.6	There were some older gentlemen who were screaming at these people that were in a detox
1:35.2	that I was not in.
1:37.4	I just happened to walk into this meeting.
1:39.9	And they were screaming at them, and they were saying, you're going to die.
1:43.9	You're going to die!
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