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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Workshop: The Games We Play With Sponsors

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Games We Play With Sponsors is one of the topics from a 17 part workshop conducted by Tim M, he has done a large number of really interesting workshops over the last 10+ years on a number of different topics. Zoom There is some good Q & A at the end, I removed the chunks of dead air between questions. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 3200+ 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.

0:12.8

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0:21.8

basket.

0:22.4

We hope you enjoyed the podcast.

0:23.8

Have a great day.

0:27.8

So my name is Tim.

0:29.0

I'm an alcoholic.

0:30.1

I don't speak for AA.

0:33.1

You need to know that.

0:34.4

This is going to be a very personal view.

0:39.6

And I may change my mind at a later point in time.

0:44.8

So this is just how things appear to me today. I've gone back on almost everything I've thought at some point.

0:52.2

So I'll probably go back on this, but this is how things appear to me.

0:59.8

Someone could keep an eye on the other microphones. That will be super helpful. Thanks, Alistair.

1:06.1

So this is called the games we play with sponsors. Now, what I'm going to be talking about this

1:14.8

evening is it's such a sensitive topic, frankly. It's not talked about in meetings at all

1:23.7

because it's so sensitive.

1:28.3

Although if you've got a sponsor and you have sponsors of your own,

1:33.3

as soon as you get sponsors of your own,

1:35.3

you discover yourself talking to your sponsor far more

1:38.3

than you did when you had your own problems.

1:41.3

And so all of this material, it's not, I haven't come up with anything new. All of this

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