Topic: The Doctors Opinion and Step 1

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Greg B is from London in the United Kingdom and he is sharing on the topics of the Doctors Opinion and Step 1 at the zoom Broken Elevator meeting held in early June 2023. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Events: I just added a number of new events to the calendar so if you will be in Arizona, California, New Zealand, Australia, Washington, or Las Vegas take a look. 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 2300+ 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 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.
0:27.6	My name is Carrie, I am an alcoholic, I always have been and always will be.
0:38.5	My home group is the New Horizons group of Alcoholics Anonymous in Bend, Oregon and we meet
0:46.4	Monday through Thursday in person where our group is about 30 plus years old.
0:53.8	We did switch over to the online platform during the pandemic and we did that for two years
1:02.2	and this was our first week back into the church and so thank you for having me.
1:13.4	First and foremost, it's always an honor and a pleasure to talk anywhere and alcoholics
1:18.9	Anonymous to be invited anywhere and alcoholics Anonymous but especially to talk about
1:23.4	step one and I think that it's because it comes with such a heavy and important responsibility.
1:31.1	I think that step one, well technically it's half of our program.
1:37.9	If you're looking at the big book of alcoholics Anonymous, step one is half of our program
1:44.2	and I'll get into that but I think it is a responsibility.
1:51.2	I'm looking at my big book and it says on the cover our chief responsibility to the newcomer
1:56.9	is an adequate presentation of the program and so there is a lot of new people in here
2:03.3	welcome to Alcoholics Anonymous.
2:08.3	I hope that you hear something that not only keeps you coming back but requires you to stay.
2:19.9	I'm pausing because I don't want to go off on any tangents so I did tell you my I have
2:28.8	a home group.
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