Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast

Sober Sunrise is an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) speaker podcast bringing you experience, strength, and hope for long-term recovery, mental health, and personal transformation. Chuck S. from Cary, NC speaking at 8th Central Florida Men's Workshop in Lake Griffin, FL - January 30th 2009 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Chuck share...

Chief Blackhawk from Detroit, MI, Liz B. from Brooklyn, NY & Steve P. from Mentor, OH speaking at the Founder's Day Old Timers Panel in the J.A.R. Arena in Akron, OH - June 6th 2003 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Chief Blackhawk, Liz Bailey, and Steve P. each share powerful, uplifting journeys of transformation through A...

Scotty G. from Laguna Niguel, CA speaking at the Center for Spiritual Recovery meeting in San Marcos, CA - March 20th 2010 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Scotty's story is an uplifting reminder that true freedom in recovery comes through spiritual action and service; after early sobriety, business success, and a painful 12-y...

Doug R. from Tujunga, CA speaking at Northern Rockies Pockets, Helena MT - March 15th 2002 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Doug delivers a heartfelt and humorous reflection on recovery, sharing how a life of ego, show business success, drugs, and alcohol left him disconnected and spiritually empty until desperation drove him...

Diz T. from Tallahassee, FL speaking at the Open Door group in Tallahassee, FL - May 3rd 2003 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Diz shares how real recovery began when he stopped “walking the steps off the wall” and fully surrendered through deep Big Book study, fearless inventory, tough sponsorship, and wholehearted amends—inc...

Mark C. from Palmdale, CA speaking at the Third Tradition Speaker Meeting in Studio City, CA - June 22nd 2005 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Mark shares how early family loss, a hard-partying lifestyle, and a fast-moving career fueled his alcoholism until everything unraveled, but through surrender on January 1, 1990, sponso...

"Blind" Dave A. from Austin, TX speaking at the Show Me Group in Denton, TX - December 7th 2008 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Dave shares a powerful, experience-based message about moving beyond mere abstinence and into a life guided by conscious contact with God, showing how the Twelve Steps—especially humility, honesty, a...

Dan P. at the Glasshous Group in Fort Worth, TX - March 2001 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Dan shares a deeply honest and expansive recovery story that traces his progression from early discomfort, daily drinking, denial, and professional success masking inner collapse, through failed marriages, financial ruin, and spiritua...

John K. from Dallas, TX speaking at the Eastside Group in Fort Worth, TX - February 2006 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com John shares a powerful, no-nonsense message grounded in lived experience, tracing his journey from years of failed attempts at sobriety, repeated hospitalizations, and utter hopelessness to lasting recovery...

Burns B. from Louisville, KY speaking at the 12th Annual Bayouland Jamboree in Houma, LA - January 23rd 1993 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com In this sweeping, deeply compassionate AA talk, Burns B shares a lifetime journey from untreated alcoholism, amphetamine addiction, psychiatric hospitals, ego-driven perfectionism, and n...

Karl M. from New Orleans, LA speaking at the Mississippi conference of Young People in AA - May 23rd 2008 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com In this raw, vulnerable, and deeply human AA talk, Karl shares how getting sober at just 15 years old didn’t magically fix life, but gave him a way to survive it, grow through it, and keep...

Paul O. from Laguna Niguel, CA speaking at the Club Med Playa Blanco conference in Playa Blanco Mexico - 1998 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Paul shares how decades of untreated self-obsession, insomnia, professional success, and denial quietly spiraled into alcoholism, ultimately landing him in a psychiatric ward where a si...

James T. from Auburn, CA speaking at the 70th Annual Roundup in Duluth, MN - September 15th 2015 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com James shares how long-term sobriety—dating back to December 6, 1982—was made possible not by meetings alone, but by sponsorship, rigorous step work, and a complete shift from self-management to spir...

Chris S. from New Vernon, NJ speaking at the Spiritual Awakenings group in Bernardsville, NJ - 2006 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com In this foundational AA workshop talk, Chris shares how lifelong fear, untreated alcoholism, and repeated failure finally led him to discover the difference between mere sobriety and real recover...

Jim S. from Laguna Hills, CA speaking at the El Toro Friday Night speakers meeting in Lake Forest, CA - April 25th 2008 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com In this candid and grounded AA talk, Jim shares how a man who never expected to live past 30 became a recovered alcoholic through working all 12 steps, sponsorship, and living...

Paul M. from Oceanside, NY speaking at the 60th Gopher State Roundup in Bloomington, MN - May 25th 2013 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Paul shares his journey from growing up in Northern Ireland amid drinking culture and conflict, through decades of compulsive alcoholism, seizures, hospitals, and repeated failed attempts to...

Joe M. from Bastrop, TX speaking at the 62nd anniversary of Club 12 in San Antonio, TX - August 29th 2010 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Joe recounts a lifelong sense of being different, catastrophic alcoholism, repeated institutionalization, and total emotional collapse, before finally finding lasting sobriety through Alcoh...

Audrey C. from Dallas, TX and Julie H. from Dallas, TX speaking on steps 1 thru 7 at the first annual Stay Sober for Keeps workshop in Laguna Niguel, CA - January 21-22 2011 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Part 1 In this Big Book–centered workshop, Audrey and Julie work through Steps 1 thru 7 as part of their “Sober for Keeps...

Tom P. from Dallas, TX speaking at the Freedom Group of Alcoholics Anonymous in Mesquite, TX - September 17th 2006 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Tom shares how he stayed sober for 17 years while slowly dying inside Alcoholics Anonymous, mistaking meeting attendance and slogans for recovery, until a relapse forced him to fin...

Paul G. from Cambridge, MN speaking at Western Wisconsin traveling intergroup speaker meeting in Prescott, WI - March 15th 2008 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Paul shares a powerful Big Book–centered message that cuts through watered-down recovery and returns Alcoholics Anonymous to its original purpose: a program of action...

Charlie P. from Austin, TX speaking at the Specific Group in Las Vegas, NV - March 22nd 2007 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Charlie shares a powerful, Big Book–grounded AA story that moves beyond wild drinking into the deeper danger of long-term sobriety run on self-will, describing how years of meetings without real step wo...

Joe G. from Pearland, TX speaking at the South East Texas Area 67 convention in Beaumont, TX - January 20th-22nd 2006 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Joe shares a brutally honest, often humorous, and deeply spiritual journey that begins with his first drink as a child, races through blackout drinking, violence, homelessness,...

Peter M. from Union, NJ speaking at the Hardheads 20th group anniversary in Queens, NY - March 2003 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Peter M. shares a gripping, often humorous, and deeply spiritual journey from a painfully isolated childhood, early relief found in alcohol, and years of escalating chaos—homelessness, repeated r...

Don C. from Colorado Springs, CO speaking at the Fellowship of the Spirit in Silver Creek, CO - July 25th 1998 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Don shares his journey from repeated defeat by alcohol to lasting sobriety through surrender, cultural healing, and rigorous Big Book work, weaving Native American traditions with the...

Stephen B. from Los Angeles, CA speaking at the SNL speaker meeting in Provo, UT - August 16th 2025 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Stephen shares a deeply grounded and hopeful AA story that traces a loving childhood in small-town Louisiana, an early and devastating loss of control once alcohol entered his life, and more than...