I Loved Blackouts Because I Was Neither Dead Nor Really Alive - AA Speaker - Damon G.
Damon was a militant atheist who chased blackouts as his only escape from a life he didn't want — the steps didn't just get him sober, they sent him to seminary. We just launched our new Episodes page...
2 Apr 2h 2min
I Got Fired Twice From the Same Job in 24 Hours - AA Speaker - Josh H.
Josh got sober at 19 after a carbon monoxide attempt, a psych ward, and getting fired twice from the same job in 24 hours — and discovered that the same program he came to as a last resort became the ...
1 Apr 55min
The Bomb Went Off at 16 Years and the Only Thing Left Was the Meeting - AA Speaker - Steve B.
Steve B. never got one sober day before AA, tried his own plan of drinking three days and giving four to the program, and 28 years later still has a voice in his head trying to talk him into one drink...
31 Mar 1h 15min
Seven Years of Walking Into AA for Cake and Walking Back Out - AA Speaker - Larry T.
Larry T. started drinking Four Rose Whiskey at 11, bounced around with lowriders, and spent seven years walking into AA for cake and walking back out — until a Montana cowboy told him to get his own r...
30 Mar 1h 11min
Everyone Said My Case Was Too Special for the Regular Program - AA Speaker - Susan D.
Susan D. survived four treatment centers where everyone agreed her case was too special for the regular program — until a man with an eye patch told her the truth and she worked the steps like everyon...
28 Mar 44min
They Pronounced Me Dead Twice and I Still Wasn't Done Drinking - AA Speaker - Dave M.
Dave M. entered a monastery to become a priest, fell in love with alcohol on his first beer, and spent the next decade hiding bottles behind medicine cabinets, teaching religion drunk, and dragging hi...
27 Mar 1h 3min
From Federal Prison at 18 to Calling Home at Six Years Sober - AA Speaker - Robbie W.
Robbie went from federal prison at 18 to getting kicked out of his own AA club at three months sober — until a pig farmer from Michigan took him home and said someday you're going to be somebody. We ...
26 Mar 1h 14min
If It's Not in the Book It's Not Important - AA Speaker - Ray O.
A law professor who lost everything sat in a wet, smoldering chair planning his revenge — then a sponsor with one rule changed everything: if it's not in the Big Book, it's not important. We just lau...
25 Mar 2h 56min
