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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Multiple Speakers: Christina then Gene

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Christina has just over 2 years sober and opens this up as the 10 min speaker telling a bit of her story, she is followed by Gene sharing for the remainder of the time. They are sharing at the North Oakland AA Open speaker meeting held in Oakland California, this one is a Zoom meeting recorded during the pandemic sometime in 2020. 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

Transcript

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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.

0:12.8

We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting

0:17.1

SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.

0:22.4

We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.

0:27.8

Thank you Laura for asking me to speak, you know, the first thing that comes to mind is

0:33.1

fear.

0:34.1

I don't want to do that.

0:35.1

There are a thousand excuses I can make up to not do that but it's always being, you

0:40.1

know, honest, open my name and willing in this program that's really led to a lot of

0:46.0

success and or at least personal success and anyway it's good to be among all of you

0:54.0

tonight.

0:55.0

I'm an alcoholic and an addict and but most people call me Christina and my sobriety date

1:02.0

is January 20th of 2020 so I just just got about like 25 months in change but really

1:11.5

I'm just I'm just here 24 hours just like the rest of us and so I just briefly wanted

1:18.2

to touch on like the whole like how it was, what it was like how it's now because I think

1:24.5

it gives some context to I'm really wanting to talk about step one and four letter words.

1:30.8

So so how it was was really mostly unremarkable and unmemorable passage in life and the reason

1:42.2

I say unmemorable is because I don't remember a lot of it not as much as I feel like it

1:46.7

should be accountable for and I still kind of wrestle with that today it really disturbs

1:53.5

me what it was like what it can gather and like what it was is that it was a wildly stressful

2:02.2

and deadly time in my life.

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