Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast

🧡New Merch!☀️We finally got around to releasing our collection of light-hearted, recovery-inspired shirts and mugs. It's a fun way to share the message and support the channel! 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Tom I. from Southern Pines, NC - speaking at the 22nd Annual Men's Fall Retreat in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | September 17th-19th 2010 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Tom reflects on...

🧡New Merch!☀️We finally got around to releasing our collection of light-hearted, recovery-inspired shirts and mugs. It's a fun way to share the message and support the channel! 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Paul M. from Oceanside, NY speaking at the 60th Gopher State Roundup in Bloomington, MN - May 25th 2013 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Paul shares a heartfelt, hilarious, and deeply spiritual...

🧡New Merch!☀️We finally got around to releasing our collection of light-hearted, recovery-inspired shirts and mugs. It's a fun way to share the message and support the channel! 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Rick W. from Oxnard, CA speaking at the Youngs Peoples group San Diego, CA - June 6th 2006 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Rick W., sober since 1977, delivers a no-nonsense, hilarious, and acti...

🧡New Merch!☀️We finally got around to releasing our collection of light-hearted, recovery-inspired shirts and mugs. It's a fun way to share the message and support the channel! 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Julie H. from Dallas, TX speaking at the 3rd Anniversary of Primary Purpose Group in Marietta, Ohio - March 10th 2012 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Julie shares how she spent 13 painful years...

🧡New Merch!☀️We finally got around to releasing our collection of light-hearted, recovery-inspired shirts and mugs. It's a fun way to share the message and support the channel! 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Hugh N. from Nashville, Tennessee speaking at Tennessee Conference of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous in Memphis, TN - 2003 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Hugh describes growing up with a...

Tom I. from Southern Pines, NC speaking on the topic of "Working with others" at Melon City Roundup in Muscatine, IL - September 28th 2001 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Tom delivers a wise, funny, and deeply spiritual talk on working with others, grounding everything in his belief that alcoholism is a killer illness and that the only real protection we have is service—what he calls AA’s “9...

Bart R. from Sedona, AZ speaking at the Big Book Serenity Breakfast in Minnetonka, MN - May 17th 2015 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com From drinking in fifth grade and cycling through juvenile prisons to wrecked marriages, dry misery, and the belief he’d never be able to live sober, Bart discovered AA only when he’d run out of options—and finally met a sponsor who patiently walked him through...

Keith L. from Wilmington, NC speaking at 25th Brazos Riverside Conference - October 19th 2002 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com With the rhythm of a storyteller and the humility of a man transformed, Keith traced his life from a small-town Irish Catholic boy who couldn’t feel love, through war, brilliance, and despair, to the miracle moment when God and AA pulled him from suicide into service....

Mike C. from Escondido, CA speaking at the "Easy Does It Group" in Lemon Grove, CA - April 15th 2005 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com After years of chasing differences, hiding emotions, and trying to fix life on his own terms, he hit a bottom in sobriety—sitting under a meeting-room clock, weeping uncontrollably, convinced sobriety wasn’t working. That day, a man’s simple message of hope—“Yo...

Kelvin D. from West Fargo, ND speaking at the 60th Gopher State Roundup in Bloomington, MN - May 25th 2013 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Kelvin shares how a childhood filled with fear and abuse left him restless, disconnected, and searching for worth in alcohol, violence, and ego. From cutting himself to “let the demons out” to drinking Pine-Sol in desperation, Kelvin’s story showed the de...

Kent L. from Wetumpka, AL speaking at the Mountain Top Roundup at Guntersville State Park in Guntersville, Alabama - May 16th 2008 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Kent’s story is a powerful testament to humility, growth, and redemption through Alcoholics Anonymous. From a disciplined Army life lost to alcoholism to rebuilding his integrity through service, honesty, and faith, Kent found purp...

Paul F. from Phoenix, AZ speaking at the North Scottsdale speaker meeting in Scottsdale, AZ - July 9th 2005 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Paul shares his transformation from a violent, hopeless addict facing 25 years in prison to a grateful man of faith and service through Alcoholics Anonymous. Sent to prison at 18 and lost in confusion for over a decade, Paul came to AA convinced it would...

Larry T. from Los Angeles, CA speaking about steps 8 and 9 at the Stateline Retreat in Primm, NV - December 9th - 12th 2010 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Larry shares his heartfelt account of redemption through Alcoholics Anonymous, tracing his transformation from a selfish, broken man into one living by grace, humility, and responsibility. With humor and brutal honesty, he painted his ear...

Scott B. from Jamestown, ND speaking at the Northern Plains Group in Fargo, ND - 2005 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Scott shares how a lost young man who “never was” became a devoted husband, father, and servant through the grace of God and Alcoholics Anonymous. Growing up without a father and feeling less than, Scott found in alcohol a brief illusion of belonging, but it quickly led him t...

Tom I. from Southern Pines, NC speaking on the topic of "Working with others" in Budd Lake, NJ - January 4th 2003 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Tom shares his journey from tragedy, guilt, and imprisonment to grace, freedom, and service. After years of chaos, blackouts, and a fatal drunk-driving accident that led to his incarceration at age 24, Tom found AA inside the walls of Jackson State...

Peter M. from Boca Raton, FL speaking at the Fontbonne Group in Hamilton, ON - September 3rd 2011 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Peter shares his spiritual journey of transformation, tracing his path from a tormented childhood and violent alcoholism to a life of stillness, service, and grace through Alcoholics Anonymous. After losing his mother to addiction, battling relentless self-hatred,...

Bill C. from Torrance, CA speaking about steps 6 and 7 at the Stateline Retreat in Primm, NV - December 9th - 12th 2010 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Bill reflects on growing up in an AA household, falling deep into addiction, and ultimately discovering humility, grace, and emotional maturity through the 12 Steps. Raised by devoted AA and Al-Anon parents, he rebelled into years of chaos, i...

Paul G. from Brookfield, OH speaking at the Spring Fling Conference in Eerie, PA - April 17th 2010 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Paul shares his deeply spiritual account of a life redeemed through Alcoholics Anonymous, tracing his path from a reckless San Francisco youth and hard-drinking biker to a grateful man of faith, service, and humility. Arrests, loss, and utter loneliness finally d...

Karen G. from Los Angeles, CA speaking at Jackson's Mill 31st Fall Roundup in Jackson's Mill, WV - October 4th 2008 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Karen delivers a powerful, hilarious, and deeply moving account of redemption through Alcoholics Anonymous, sharing how she rose from the depths of alcoholic and professional ruin to a life of faith, service, and grace. Once a nurse who lost ever...

Steve D. from Rainbow, CA speaking at the Temecula water district meeting in Temecula, CA - 2011 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com For Steve, a life that began in chaos and tragedy and was redeemed through the grace of Alcoholics Anonymous. From a childhood steeped in alcoholism and instability to wild years in the Navy, overseas near-death experiences, broken marriages, homelessness, and jail...

Chris S. from Bedminster, NJ speaking on the topic of "First Step freedom, the gift of desperation" at the Nosara Big Book Workshop in Nosara Playa Guiones, Costa Rica - March 24th 2012 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Chris shared a powerful and practical talk on the Gift of Desperation and Step One, breaking down the truth of alcoholism with humor, depth, and clarity. Through vivid stories...

Jay S. from Redondo Beach, CA speaking at the 16th annual Thailand Roundup in Pattaya, Thailand - February 26th 2011 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Jay shares his deeply spiritual and profoundly humorous journey through 46 years of sobriety, blending the truth of Alcoholics Anonymous with timeless wisdom about grace, humility, and purpose. From his early years of chaos, blackouts, and denia...

Robin & Fernando speaking at the Thunderbird Speaker Meeting 449 Club in Yuma, AZ - January 13th 2007 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Robin and Fernando shared a powerful and contrasting testimony of recovery, showing how the same disease wears many faces but is healed through one spiritual solution. Robin’s story spoke for countless women who drank in shame and secrecy—trying to stay “l...

Kenny D. from Seattle, WA doing a 12-step spiritual retreat in Santa Fe, NM - December 9th 2006 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Kenny’s workshop talk beautifully captured the heart of Step Two and Step Three in Alcoholics Anonymous — the journey from limited faith to full surrender. Through humor, humility, and vivid storytelling, he explored how closed-mindedness “fetters” the spirit and ho...

Mike L. from Indianapolis, IN speaking at the men's St. Benedict retreat in McKenzie Bridge, OR - March 3rd-5th 2006 Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Mike shares his spiritually rich story of redemption, illustrating how the power of surrender, honesty, and divine grace transformed a life once dominated by fear, pride, and self-will. From his first drink at age twelve, Mike spent years chasin...