Garrett D a former monk tells his story

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Garrett D lived as a monk for 10 years, he is from Dublin Ireland and is telling his story at an unknown meeting in the US in August of 2014. Repost from mid 2019 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
0:11.2	podcast format.
0:12.2	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.0	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket.
0:22.7	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:26.7	Good evening everybody, my name is Garrett, and I'm an alcoholic, and well, this is a big
0:34.0	meeting.
0:35.0	It's a big room.
0:36.0	It's far bigger than I was there to believe when I first started accepting this job.
0:41.5	But this evening, I come to come to you, brothers and sisters, as a drunk, as a drunk, a
0:51.7	recovering drunk.
0:53.8	And I don't want anybody to think, or I'd hate people to get the idea, that I'm up here
0:59.6	spouting some sort of special knowledge, or that I have some sort of special message
1:05.6	that I'm going to sort of mysteriously kind of zoom in on you all with.
1:09.8	I haven't.
1:11.3	I haven't.
1:12.3	All I have is my story.
1:14.4	I'm standing at a podium.
1:16.6	I'm not on top of it.
1:18.3	I'm pleased I don't think I'm preaching from it.
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