ESH: Chandrashekhar from India

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Chandrashekhar is from Mumbai, he got sober in 2010 and is telling his story at an unknown meeting sometime in 2020. Zoom Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next Event: AALA Roundup - lgbtQIA+ at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, May 26-28. With the theme of “Don’t take yourself too damn seriously” the AALA Roundup is the perfect opportunity to connect with others who share your experiences and journey towards a fulfilling sober life. https://scast.us/aala AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and 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 2200+ 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 SilverCast, where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in
0:11.3	podcast format. We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us
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0:20.7	to into our virtual basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day.
0:28.1	Thanks for having me. My name is Chandra. I'm an alcoholic. I'm sober today by the grace of God,
0:35.4	whom I found in the 12 steps of our colleagues anonymous. My sobriety date is somewhere between
0:42.2	the 7th of July and the 8th of July 2010. I just don't remember. I was fallen on a road somewhere
0:50.8	before somebody. My family reached out to me. They picked me up, and I was put into
0:57.9	a rehabilitation centre, and so I'm hitting my 10th year now, and life is good.
1:06.6	My home group is the Holy Family Group in Nandheri, which is a suburb of Mumbai,
1:13.0	which is on the west coast of India. I have a sponsor. My sponsor's name is Raju. He has a
1:19.2	sponsor. His sponsor's name is, he just expired, late-registered, and we can trace up our chain
1:29.3	to our sponsors and our grand sponsors, and so on and so forth. I've done step one to nine
1:35.8	to the best of my ability after I came out of rehab with my sponsor. I try and stay in step 10
1:45.0	and 11, and every weekend I try and work the steps with my sponsor and sponsor trying to practice
1:52.8	step 12, and I'm available for a service as the work demands. So I'm really happy to be here,
2:03.8	and you know, share an English back home. We've got all Hindi meetings. So if I do break into
2:10.0	Hindi, suddenly just let me know that I'm speaking Hindi so that I can switch back into English.
2:18.1	The natural progression for me here is in an AME thing. The other thing is that if I suddenly
2:27.2	blank out, I just might take 30 seconds or so to just blank back in. We have weak Wi-Fi networks
2:35.4	in India, so I'm going to switch and toggle between two networks. All right, so thanks for reading
2:47.9	that. So really, really, really, you know, I kind of enjoyed it when I did my steps with my sponsor
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