Topic: Living in a new and wonderful world

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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🗓️ 10 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Olis S got sober in 1987, she is speaking at the New Jersey Bronx Big Book Study meeting on the topic of: Living in a new and wonderful world. Recorded in August of 2022 at The Broken Elevator meeting. Zoom Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate If you have an AA event coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out as well as list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast EVENT Bakerstock: Oct. 21-23 - Formerly the Mt Baker Roundup is taking place at The Silver Reef Casino & Resort. Hosted out of Bellingham WA it is a quick trip for folks from Seattle or Vancouver Canada. Details: https://www.bakerstock.org Sober Cast has 2000+ 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.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:28.0	Hi family, my name is Alice and I'm a grateful, grateful, grateful number of alcoholics
0:33.4	anonymous.
0:34.4	Man is good to be here.
0:36.2	My sobriety date is May 21, 1987 and you know, I have to say I'm surprised by that.
0:43.0	I'm surprised to be 35 years sober.
0:44.8	I got to alcoholics anonymous.
0:46.6	I was 26 years old.
0:47.9	I did not come to stay.
0:49.6	I don't even think I came to stop drinking.
0:51.3	I came because the pain was it crushing and I just was looking for some relief and the
1:00.1	truth is if I could have found a way to get joyous and happy and free and still drink,
1:05.2	you'd have a different speaker today, that's the truth, but that's not the truth.
1:09.8	The truth is that I had to give it up.
1:12.8	I had to give up that one thing to get everything.
1:17.2	I want to thank Mel for for starting this meeting and for inviting me back.
1:22.2	It's one thing to be invited.
1:23.6	Oh, it's another thing to be invited back.
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