Multiple Speakers: Sandra then Clarence

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🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We have two speakers today, both are speaking at the same group but not at the same meeting, first is Sandra as an opening 15 min speaker telling part of her story. Next up we have Clarence for the remaining time doing a 30 min speak. Sandra was speaking in June of 2019 and Clarence was speaking in April of 2021 at the Sunday Night Speakers Meeting held in Seattle Washington. 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. Our group started on Zoom during Covid and this will be our 1st in person event. So we are very excited. https://scast.us/fir 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. We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting
0:16.5	by visiting SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual
0:21.8	basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day.
0:27.2	Hi my name is Sandra and I'm an alcohol addict.
0:31.9	Excuse me a minute, should I get my breath out here?
0:37.0	My Sovereign Aid is 6, 7, 2018 and I'm really grateful to be here today.
0:44.0	Thank you Julie for asking me as terrified as I am standing here. It really is an honor.
0:49.2	I can't believe I've made it over a year so this is mind-boggling.
0:56.5	My stage fright is very real. This is giving me flashbacks right now to April.
1:02.8	In my desperate attempt to try to fit in and be a part of I had a friend who was trying out
1:10.5	with a lead role in a school play and I decided to go along with her and try it out for a part
1:16.5	to have her two lines and instead I landed her role which didn't make me a part of anything
1:22.6	with her but also I was good through the practice and then the opening night I walked out on stage.
1:31.1	It was a melodrama, it was very dramatic. I walked out on stage opening line feeling good,
1:37.7	looked out at the crowd and felt my knees crying and that was not part of the drama of the play.
1:42.8	So yeah that's where I'm feeling right now so just keep that in mind.
1:50.6	So that was I have a very complicated large family. I had a very tumultuous childhood. Nothing
2:01.8	truly horrible happened to me but just conditions that children shouldn't be in.
2:06.8	I was raised by an alcoholic one of us and a stepfather who was the 80s and he couldn't deal
2:19.6	with her so he picked up the co-cabit and working in restaurants in the 80s that was acceptable.
2:27.8	And they never touched us but they would get in knock down, drag out the sights and so I became
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