Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast

• A Priest Who Couldn't Stop Drinking: AA Speaker - Hollis D. - Eugene, OR - 1999

  Hollis D. from Staunton, VA speaking at The Summerfest 1999 in Eugene, OR - July 7th-10th 1999 Check out our new sober/AA inspired merch & support the channel 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Hollis shares a powerful and often humorous account of his life in alcoholism and recovery, describing how drinking unraveled his priesthood, morals, health, and sense of self until he finally surrendered in November of 1977, and entered AA completely defeated. He highlights the life-saving impact of sponsorship, the Big Book, working all twelve steps—not just the first half of them—and giving the program away through service, from helping drunk priests get sober to building AA groups and studying its history. Hollis’s story shows how recovery rebuilt every part of his life, gifting him a loving marriage, a daughter he never expected to have, deep spiritual renewal, and a joyful commitment to carrying the message. His journey underlines the life-changing truth that AA isn’t just about not drinking—it’s a way of life that restores purpose, connection, and hope one day at a time. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

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• Am I Moving Forward… or Just Swinging Back and Forth? - AA Speaker - Kenny L. - Hong Kong - 2012

  Kenny L. from Houston, TX speaking at the Hong Kong International Convention in Hong Kong - November 4th 2012 Check out our new sober/AA inspired merch & support the channel 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Kenny’s story shows how a man who could not stay sober for years—even with treatment, education, willpower, and every plan he could invent—finally reached the gift of desperation that opened him to a spiritual solution. He describes growing up feeling misunderstood, achieving academically, climbing career hills as a CPA and attorney, and still never feeling whole until alcoholism stripped everything away. His breakthrough came when he stopped trying to manage his life and instead became willing to believe he had a sick soul and needed power, not plans. A blinding white-light experience marked the turning point, and from that moment he began taking direction, helping others, and doing the spiritual actions in AA he had resisted. Through sponsorship, humility, and service in halfway houses and professional assistance programs, he rebuilt his life and even founded the Powerhouse Recovery Center—proving that when he stopped running the show and focused on helping others, a life beyond anything he imagined unfolded. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

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• Don’t Quit Before the Miracle Happens: AA Speaker - Robbie W. - Aberdeen, SD

  Robbie W. from Vineland, NJ speaking at the Aberdeen Wednesday Night Group's Quarterly Meeting in Aberdeen, SD - 2007 Check out our new sober/AA inspired merch & support the channel 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Robbie’s story is a raw, powerful walk from gifted Catholic-school athlete to a broken young alcoholic whose drinking dragged him through jails, prisons, mental institutions, and homelessness before he finally cried out to God in a Kalamazoo detox at age 22. What saves him isn’t luck but the unwavering love of Alcoholics Anonymous—beginning with a pig farmer named Don who took him into his home, taught him the steps, and showed him he was worth saving. Through rigorous honesty, daily action, and sponsorship, Robbie rebuilt his entire life: returning to his parents with amends, becoming a husband and father, building a stable career, and spending his life carrying the message to newcomers. His central truth is that God never let go of him—and AA didn’t either—and that our job is to pass that same hope to the next suffering alcoholic. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

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• AA Is a Sacred Community — The Steps Are What Heal Us: AA Speaker - Paul M. - Chicago, IL

  Paul M. from Chicago, IL speaking at his 60 year sobriety anniversary at the Last Chance House in Chicago, IL - August 26th 2007 Check out our new sober/AA inspired merch & support the channel 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com This powerful gathering celebrates Paul Martin’s remarkable 60 years of sobriety, but even more, it showcases the timeless AA message he carried into the lives of the six men who spoke before him—each a sponsee or someone deeply formed by his guidance. Their stories reveal how they arrived in AA full of fear, ego, or untreated alcoholism, only to find healing through Paul’s unwavering emphasis on rigorous honesty, repeated step work, amends, and daily spiritual action. Together they show that sobriety isn’t sustained by meetings alone, but by practicing the Twelve Steps as a way of life—over and over—until sanity, humility, and usefulness slowly return. Above all, the evening honors the sacred community of Alcoholics Anonymous, where one alcoholic helping another becomes a lifeline, a spiritual path, and a living demonstration of the profound impact one dedicated sponsor can have across generations. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

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• “You Don’t Have to Reinvent AA — Just Show Up”: AA Speaker - Jason B. - Memphis, TN

  Jason B. from Memphis, TN speaking at Tennessee Conference of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous in Memphis, TN -2009 Check out our new sober/AA inspired merch & support the channel 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Jason’s talk is a powerful reminder of how early willingness, honest step work, and deep service can completely reshape a life. He shares how his drinking began young, escalated quickly, and left him spiritually empty—yet the moment another alcoholic carried the message, a door cracked open. With a sobriety date of May 16, 1999, he credits the Big Book, real sponsorship, rigorous inventory, and years of service for giving him a life of purpose, connection, and freedom. His journey highlights the importance of unity, showing up for others, and discovering a God of one’s own understanding, proving that consistent action in AA can turn a lost young man into someone who now helps countless others find sobriety. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

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