Multiple Speakers: Alex then Rowbie

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We have two speakers today each sharing a little of their story, first we have Alex who got sober in 2006 as the opening 10 min speaker. Alex is followed by Rowbie who got sober in 1986, they are speaking at the North Oakland AA Open speaker meeting held every Saturday in Oakland California. This meeting is from 2001. The Friends in Recovery Roundup down in Durban South Africa is this weekend, they just added their schedules and zoom info for this free event to the FIR website. https://scast.us/fir Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event: Friends in Recovery Roundup Rally held in Durban South Africa on April 28-29 Details: This event is live and on Zoom (Free). See the Sobercast event list for updated info including schedule and zoom access info. https://scast.us/events 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 and podcast
0:11.8	format.
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.6	Hi, I'm Alex, I'm an alcoholic.
0:30.4	Can you guys hear me?
0:31.4	Jazz, can you hear me back there?
0:32.8	Yeah.
0:33.8	Okay, cool.
0:34.8	Hey, so let's see.
0:35.8	My sobriety date is February 7th, 2006, my home group is in San Jose, Costa Rica and
0:45.1	I move around a lot.
0:47.0	So I've had sobriety experiences from Chile up through the Americas, up to Asia.
0:54.9	And I guess two things are uncommon and one is the illness, the alcoholism, the addiction
1:04.8	I don't see much of a difference, it's just one form and the other, but I belong to
1:09.9	multiple 12 step groups and oh, I've got a lot of work to do.
1:18.1	And the other part that's in common is the 12 steps, the recovery, the program of recovery.
1:24.3	And what we have in common, unfortunately, is that it's a program that's available to
1:29.6	all of us and we get guides to walk us through it, to teach us, to help us get better, but
1:35.0	sadly, throughout the world, we don't work them.
1:38.9	They're the spiritual toolkits that are later at our feet and we say, yeah, but now I know.
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