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still um so the second hour i hope everybody's had a nice lunch, the second hour, I'm basically

going to ask myself questions and answer them. So, you know, and the reason I'm going to do

that is that when I've done things like this before, quite often when you have the question

and answer things, people get embarrassed to ask a question

in group so they don't ask.

Or what they do is they forget what question it is they want to ask and they just end

up sharing experience because you're in AA mode.

So they spend five minutes or so sharing around the question without asking the question.

So I think it can be most useful really.

If I just go through the common questions that I've been asked over the years that I've been a sponsor and maybe that answers some of the questions that people aren't able to ask themselves. And then at the end of the hour, we'll have a bit of hands in the air stuff. I know at the end of the day there's going to be a half an hour window

for people to share back. So I suppose in that sharing back time as well, if you want to, you

can ask a question if you want to or, you know, tell us about the kind of stuff that you do

with people you work with. So the first question I've written down is

how will I know when I'm ready to be a sponsor?

And, you know, it's an interesting question, right?

Because I don't think I ever knew when I was ready.

I certainly wasn't ready when I became one.

I didn't feel like I was ready.

And probably even after three or four years of being a sponsor,

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