ESH: Cass V speaking at A Woman's Perspective

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

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Cass V. gets into the book while speaking at, A Woman's Perspective held in Bernardsville NJ in 2004 by the Spiritual Awakenings Group. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] Event List: https://scast.us/event Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? 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 2700+ 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.
0:27.6	Hi, everyone.
0:28.5	My name is Cass, and I'm an alcoholic.
0:31.3	My sobriety date is May 6, 1990.
0:36.0	I came into Alcoholics Anonymous in a small town of state New York where women weren't getting
0:41.6	sober. And the men weren't. Women weren't. The women did not have sponsorship that took them
0:51.4	through the program of recovery. Women upstate New York, what
0:55.4	they did was they did the AA Fox Trout. They did steps one, two, three, and twelve. That
1:03.4	was it. And their idea of a fourth step was to sit down and tell somebody, you know, how
1:10.3	miserable their life was.
1:12.8	And making amends was, I'm sorry.
1:16.1	But I'm sorry doesn't walk the dog.
1:20.2	It doesn't accomplish anything.
1:22.9	And we've said that so often.
1:25.4	I came into the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, just like every one of you.
1:30.3	I walked in, I didn't know what I was facing, and I sure as hell wanted to know how the hell did I land here.
1:38.3	I mean, this was not in my game plan at all. And you told me to get a sponsor. You told me to read the book called
1:47.3	Alcoholics Anonymous. And you told me to go to meetings and not to drink. And I'm going
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