Multiple Speakers: Keith then Janice

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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We have a couple of speakers today, this meeting is from February of 2002 and is opened by Keith as the 10 min intro speaker, he is followed by Janice telling her story for the balance of the meeting time at this meeting from the North Oakland AA Open speaker meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in Oakland California. Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1500+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
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0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.5	Hi, my name is Keith and I'm an alcoholic.
0:29.3	Really grateful to be here.
0:34.3	Yeah, I'm not going to lie.
0:35.3	I was a little stressed out before I came.
0:37.3	I was just leaving her brother's birthday party over in Brentwood and one of those little
0:42.3	jumpy places and she was not happy to leave and she was screaming the whole way here.
0:46.3	My check engine light came on and I was supposed to get my car smog my day.
0:50.3	And I was freaking out for a minute, you know what I mean?
0:54.3	In the past, I would have drove straight home.
0:57.3	I would have called the person that asked me to speak and be like, hey, I would have lied and said something came up
1:02.3	and I just wouldn't have showed up.
1:04.3	That's how I spent a lot of my life.
1:07.3	Being dishonest, running from things that scared me or things that made me uncomfortable.
1:12.3	But I think to this program, it showed me a new way to live and it's definitely a better way for me.
1:20.3	Trust me.
1:22.3	Yeah.
1:24.3	What it was like for me, I grew up with both my parents were alcoholics and addicts.
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