Workshop: 12 Steps by Sandy B - Part 3: Steps 5 and 6

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🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Sandy B conducting a workshop on the 12 steps over 5 different sessions, this session is about Step 4. This was recorded at an unknown event and ends abruptly. If you are unfamiliar with Sandy he was a highly sought after circuit speaker who has spoken globally over many years. Part 3 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	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the donate link, and drop a dollar or two into our
0:21.4	virtual basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.2	So now we get to the fifth step where we share with another human being, this lift that we
0:35.3	have worked on, and there's a great reluctance to do this
0:40.0	oh you talk about
0:41.5	not wanting to do a step if you want to see character defects
0:45.3	and instincts get in the way
0:46.6	you just check the average AA
0:49.1	when you asked them about the fifth step
0:51.7	and
0:53.0	how long did it take you to do the fifth step?
0:56.2	Oh, about an hour, two hours, whatever it was,
0:59.1	but how long did it take you to get ready?
1:00.5	Ooh, four years, five years, eight years.
1:06.4	In other words, you get, the four step done,
1:09.0	but now we're going to go share this to somebody, and it's just a tremendous feeling of, I don't think I would do this today. This is a lot of wait a little bit. And then you get somebody to start a rumor about, he heard about a guy about 30 years ago who got drunk right after a fifth step. Oh, really? I'm so glad to hear that. Run home and tell our sponsor, you know, the guy got drunk doing that. No, he's got drunk from drinking.
1:31.3	Oh, that's right.
1:36.3	It wasn't the fit. That was drank. That was the thing. Okay. Well, yeah.
1:41.3	And so some of us came up with a plan. This is in case as anybody knew, you've already thought of how to do the fifth step painlessly.
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