Speaker Potluck #21

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

With Speaker Potluck, just like in a real meeting you dont know what you are going to hear, till you do. I grabbed four 15min speakers without listening to them in advance, then created the audio. You get what you get, enjoy. Sober Cast had a small milestone yesterday surpassing 40 Million downloads, a great big Thank You, to all of you. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate 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 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

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to SilverCast, where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in
0:11.3	podcast format. We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us
0:15.7	be self-supporting by visiting SilverCast.com, look for the donate link, and drop a dollar
0:20.7	to into our virtual basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day.
0:24.7	Hey, I'm Nikki. I am definitely an alcoholic.
0:29.7	I'm a baby.
0:32.7	When I did this last year, I was so nervous that I just didn't know what I wrote some notes,
0:38.2	but it's not because I won't remember it as much as I tend to get a little off the subject
0:44.2	because I'm an alcoholic. I'm a little crazy.
0:48.2	My home group is daily a preve at Magnolia. I'm a rebel. I want two of them, and my sobriety
0:56.2	date is March 25th, 2006 to 14. Wow. I do have a sponsor. She's incredibly cool and silly
1:08.6	and extremely patient with me when she doesn't take any of my, I can't swear. BS, so that
1:15.6	is the best, maybe the best part about her.
1:20.6	So let's see. My story starts, I just turned 40, and I'm still having major issues with
1:27.4	that number. I don't know why, but so I started 40 years ago, right, and I was raised in
1:35.2	Bellevue, but it was not the Bellevue that we don't know today. It was old school. We raised
1:45.0	chickens on a farm. I mean, Microsoft was in a strip mall. It was a very small place.
1:52.3	And my parents both graduated from Mercer Island High School, and so that was kind of rebellious
1:57.6	to go to Bellevue, and they just didn't want anywhere near Mercer Island. So I understand
2:02.3	that. And so my parents got married and settled. My mom is a normie, and was actually quite
2:14.5	involved in Eleanor, and still is, because she had to be to stay sane with living with
2:21.2	my dad. And my dad is an alcoholic, and comes from a very long line of alcoholics.
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