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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Retreat: The Power of the Program - Tom I (Part 5 of 5)

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Tom I leads this 5 part retreat on the topic: The Power of the Program. Tom was a highly sought after speaker for many years. This picks right up from the last one. Recorded at an unknown event. Part 5 of 5. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] Sober Cast has 3000+ 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.

0:12.7

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0:21.7

basket.

0:22.3

We hope you enjoyed the podcast.

0:23.7

Have a great day.

0:27.2

I wonder if you can reintegrate into society.

0:30.5

And it is more than just melancholy.

0:32.5

It's a reality of, you know, can I actually get connected and be one of the tribe again, I guess

0:39.7

would be one way to put it. There only one, I'm worried about that. I'm worried if it would ever be

0:44.8

trusted by anybody for anything. So just little things like that, you know, that someday might have a family.

0:56.9

Well, those are just the general things of life that most people just encountered, just moving around along.

1:03.7

Well, the good news is that every single one of those things have been realized, every single one.

1:12.6

And he probably gathered after what I was saying.

1:15.6

The same guy who wondered if we'd ever be trusted,

1:18.6

I'm entrusted to be the leader for A.A. in a prison two months after I was out of a Maximum custody prison.

1:25.6

What an affirmation, eh? What an affirmation.

1:30.0

Like the DCM, five months after I left. Same guy who wondered if he would ever be trusted.

1:38.8

Here were the people, and by the way, this coughing has been bothered me a little. Terry says he thinks he might be able to get some of that out.

1:47.5

Because if you happen to get the recording of yesterday,

1:52.5

and you splayed it for somebody, they say,

1:54.7

man, that guy sure can't cough.

1:58.1

Because that was about what it was about yesterday.

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