Workshop: The Big Book and Steps of AA - Part 5 of 6

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Bob O from Denver CO conducted this 6 part workshop at Primary Purpose in Camp Hill PA in June 2009. This is part five of a six part workshop going through the Big Book and steps of AA. This has a lot of good discussion, and is not just a lecture format. 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 virtual
0:21.7	basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day lunch a couple people asked me questions
0:30.9	one of the questions was do i have a degree in counseling?
0:38.3	Because I run this business.
0:40.3	No, I don't.
0:42.3	I studied chemical engineering, which has nothing to do with counseling.
0:50.3	My experience is not in counseling.
0:52.3	I've run several businesses that I knew absolutely nothing about.
0:58.5	I know what good people are, so I hire people who are talented and motivated.
1:14.4	I don't particularly know what they do, but I know they're trying their hardest. I don't know hardly anything about counseling, but I know a lot
1:23.9	about business. So one of the things that I've found over time
1:29.3	is that if you're good in business,
1:31.7	you'll be good in almost any business.
1:36.1	Huh?
1:37.4	Is that a composure?
1:39.6	No.
1:42.2	It's all right.
1:44.5	Second one is this one lady was asking me as it related to sex inventory what goes on in some of the rooms in AA,
1:59.9	and she mentioned in particular about guys with
2:03.6	longer sobriety doing what we call shooting baby ducks do you know what that is 13 step, yep.
2:18.3	So what do I think about that?
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