ESH: Russell B from London England (NSFW)

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

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I was thinking of adding a forum or discord so folks can discuss the speaks or whatever sober related. It would be private, I want to know if you would be into that? I put a one question survey up to get your opinion and I would be very grateful. https://scast.us/discuss Russell B from London UK speaking at the Saturday Night AA Group Group held in Camberwell London in Jan of 2021. NSFW, repost from 2021. I just added ISCYPAA 41 Young Peoples on the event list, its taking place in Illinois at the end of March https://scast.us/iscypaa41 The Southern States Women's Conference is coming up in Florida at the end of this month and space is still available. https://scast.us/sswc I also just added the South Carolina State Convention to the event list, coming up in March. https://scast.us/regscstate Also if you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/events Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate 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 2400+ 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 Soebokast, where we provide a speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
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0:22.0	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	Hello everyone, I'm Russell, I'm an alcoholic. Thanks very much Matt for inviting me to
0:38.4	participate at this meeting and thanks all of you for being here and those of you that are new, welcome, and those of you that are new, welcome,
0:47.0	those of you that are struggling.
0:50.0	Welcome everyone, really.
0:52.0	It's no real categorization. We're all just here out, we're all just trying to not drink and probably in the case of some of us not take drugs one day at a time.
1:00.0	I, like for me the 12 step program, the Fellowship of Al-Qallics anonymous,
1:08.0	having a sponsor, belief in a high power, reading the literature and sponsoring other people is their foundation and platform for my life.
1:21.0	It's my, it's my sort of belief system without it. I don't think I would get very far for very long.
1:30.0	Not just talking about like alcohol and drugs even to be honest.
1:34.3	I came into this because of alcohol and drugs but I reckon I could have done
1:38.4	in this program when I was a little kid to tell you the truth.
1:42.0	Like when I was about I don't know when did I first like I don't know about you but I felt like the
1:49.9	qualities or traits should we, of alcoholism were present long before I started drinking.
1:56.5	The way that I ate chocolate was pretty obsessive, like the sort of general fretful nervousness I had as a little boy.
2:05.5	In fact I remember I was lucky enough to go the 12-step treatment center and when I read my life
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