Multiple Speakers: Eric then Jenee

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Eric opens this meeting as the 15 min speaker at the Sunday Night Speakers in Seattle, he had about 4 years sober at the time of this speak from June of 2015. He is followed by the 45 min speaker Jenee, she got sober in the summer of 2008. Event List: https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? 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 2700+ 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 Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.6	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day.
0:27.6	Hi, my name is Eric. I'm an alcoholic.
0:29.6	Hi, Eric. My sobriety date is 228, 2011. I have a home group. It's in Edmonds, Edmonds home group, Tuesday nights. Actually, in the summers, we have a nice beachfront barbecues the last Tuesday of every month. So that's usually when we get a lot more attendance. I have a sponsor. I sponsor three young men currently, and I've got 15 minutes to tell my story, so I'm going to get right into it.
1:02.7	It's actually the tougher one of the two, I think.
1:05.2	Tough to get in 15 minutes.
1:06.5	But I don't think I have a particularly interesting story,
1:13.1	but that's not always the case with other folks.
1:15.2	So you don't know what somebody's going to grasp on to or glean from your story.
1:19.4	So I grew up in Edmonds, and I had an amazing childhood, adolescence, I had incredible parents,
1:30.3	alcoholism, alcohol was not really part of my household. Nobody in my immediate family
1:37.3	had any problems with alcohol. And I didn't even start drinking until I turned 17.
1:45.0	And so that's, but from the moment I turned roughly 17, I was in sports and things like that,
1:52.0	so I just didn't have the opportunity.
1:55.0	But the first night I drank, I blacked out.
1:58.0	I was the captain of the football team, I was the captain of the basketball team. And every
2:01.5	time I went out and drank, every few, two, three months when the opportunity rose, I blacked
2:06.6	out. Or I threw up. And I didn't, you know, at the time you obviously don't know what that's
2:12.1	all about. And then fast forward, had the normal college, well, not a normal college, but I went to Washington State
2:20.3	and went in a fraternity, and I was just a walking stereotype. I did everything that you
2:27.3	watch on the movies, and I thought that was pretty normal because most of the other young men
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