ESH: Malik A - 14 years

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Malik got sober in 2009 and had 14 years of sobriety at the time of this speak at the Blue Chip Speakers Meeting in Atlanta Georgia in May of 2023. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are anywhere near San Luis Obispo California, the weekend of August 25th, the 56th Annual District 22 Convention is going on and it looks like a fun one. It is a great place to spend a quick vacation weekend less than a 4 hour drive from Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Areas https://scast.us/d22 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 2300+ 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 and podcast
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.6	Alright I'm not like I'm an alcoholic.
0:31.4	So what it used to be like what happened and what it's like now.
0:34.2	So no a lot of thought went into you know you know working the steps, working the program
0:39.3	just by the way my sobriety day is the 17th of May of 2009.
0:46.6	If you look at the paper you just see the numbers was transposed but you know I got
0:51.8	sobbing 09 and I just had my anniversary.
0:56.8	So right now as we speak I got 14 years so you know what I mean you know what are the
1:04.3	things you do like every time you get an anniversary you act like what a child would do at that age
1:09.5	right.
1:10.5	So you know now I'm like you know falling in love and I get to express how I feel about
1:16.0	love you know you know get a girlfriend like I'm into a girlfriend you know but that
1:23.0	was the biggest thing for me like when I say that I'm like oh I can get emotional now
1:27.5	but just taking back like alright so I'm an alcoholic right and tell you the truth that
1:41.9	when doing the work with a sponsor the first is like the first time I could ever remember
1:46.6	drinking alcohol and see this is how I know like my problem you know we say it's in the
1:55.0	head but my problem is in the head because my first drink I'm just explaining this to you
2:00.4	right so I have an older cousin she's about 68 years older to me right so one night she
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