ESH: Doug O from Des Moines Iowa

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Doug O from Des Moines Iowa has been sober for 25 years and is telling his story at the White House Conference held in Des Moines in September of 2015. This ends a bit abruptly as he is telling a story wrapping up. A quick side note to those of you that have been submitting upcoming AA events, there have been a lot of you lately and thanks to donations (Thank You So Much). I was able purchase some event management software to plug into the website to keep everything much better organized and to allow folks to search by event, location, date etc, I hope you will like it. I am still setting up and learning it, I should have it live shortly!!! Ill be emailing those of you that submitted events once I have it running so you can check your listings. Along with that if you are in the area the 45th Annual Sacramento Spring Fling is happening February 10-12. You can register at the door. Details: https://www.sacspringfling.org Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate If you have an AA roundup, retreat or convention coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2100+ 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 podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:30.5	Through the Grace of God actions AA and sponsor ship I've been sober since October 8th of 1989
0:35.8	for which I'm extremely grateful this morning.
0:40.3	And I say that because I was always taught from my sponsor to give credit what credit
0:46.1	is due and it's simply because of those things, the grace of God, the actions that I've taken
0:51.2	an alcoholics anonymous and a sponsor that encourages me to continue to take actions that
0:56.6	I don't want to take is the reason I stand before you today and no other reason than that.
1:03.6	So I am sure glad to be here.
1:05.8	I want to thank Alyssa for the opportunity to participate.
1:12.4	The White House has been a big part of my recovery and I just think I could have not even
1:20.2	fathomed the idea when I walked in here 25 years ago of being up here some day speaking
1:27.5	at the White House conference on Sunday morning.
1:30.4	So it is it's just really a dream and just really grateful for the opportunity so thank
1:36.4	you very much.
1:38.4	I want to welcome you to Alcoholics Anonymous if you're new.
1:43.4	Alcoholics Anonymous is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me and it is amazing
1:52.1	that what is available to all of us, if we're willing to just simply grab on to what is
2:00.6	the grace and recognize it and just be open-minded and willing to take some different actions
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