Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast

Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast

Sober Sunrise brings you AA Speaker Tapes from around the world. Rather than an AA discussion podcast, Sober Sunrise brings you speakers who share step-work, workshops, and general fellowship discussion points. We are not affiliated with AA in anyway.

Episodes

April 14, 2026 22 mins
Ben built a 300-can beer shrine at age seven, called his sponsor from a snowmobile race with a beer in his hand, and walked past his own mother on the street for eight years — until Alcoholics Anonymous became the last house on the block. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober Sunrise Episode Archive Ben grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota building a 300-c...

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She blacked out her past, faked her own death to escape charges, and faced 10 years in prison—yet what finally broke her wasn’t jail… it was the unbearable pain of not drinking and not recovering. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober Sunrise Episode Archive Pattie’s story is a powerful testament to how far a person can fall—and how profoundly they can r...

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He wasn’t a failure—he was successful, respected, and “smart”… until alcohol slowly took everything, leaving him homeless, hopeless, and completely powerless over a mind that kept telling him he’d be fine. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober Sunrise Episode Archive Chris B delivers a deeply impactful breakdown of the first three steps by sharing how hi...
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Mike was five years sober, going to 10 meetings a week, and completely hollow inside — until the man he disliked most in AA told him he'd missed the entire recovery program. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️ Sober Sunrise Speaker Archive Mike did Alcoholics Anonymous the way he did college — signed up for everything, bought the books, threw them in the clos...

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David spent every Saturday planning how to drown himself and 22 years smiling and saying "I'm fine" — until a sponsor gave him two lines to say to his son and everything cracked open. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com David shares a clear and deeply relatable story about living most of his life believing he simply wasn’t good enough, cons...

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Peter went through seven treatment centers, got drunk two days after the fifth one, and was dying in a hallway on the Lower East Side before he found a sponsor who disturbed him on the question of alcoholism and handed him the book. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Peter is not here to make you comfortable. He went through seven treatmen...
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Tami went to treatment to quit drugs but told her husband she'd leave the car at 65 mph if he suggested she quit drinking — then a tin cross, Psalm 23, and Board 23 started connecting dots she couldn't explain. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Tami chased a euphoric feeling from her first sip of Purple Passion at 12 and spent the next...

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Mike was a street drunk, a junior high dropout, and a petty criminal who once demanded 100 cheeseburgers at hammer-point — until a guy named Dan shook his hand, took him to meetings every night for six months, and showed him the book that changed everything. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Mike grew up watching his mother drain a bott...

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After years of drinking, hiding, and trying to outsmart alcoholism, Tony K. found hope through his sober brother, a first AA meeting he didn’t want to attend, and a program that changed his life. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Tony K. shares a raw and funny story of how alcohol became the answer to pain he could not face, beginning ...
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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 — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Damon was spiritually sick long before alcohol showed up — the ruined relationships and lost jobs were already happening. When he found what b...
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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 first place that ever felt like home. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Josh was adopted from the Philippines, took his first drink at 10 ...
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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 — but the steps gave him something the voice can't touch. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Steve B. loved AA from the minute he walked i...
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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 rusty rear to the meeting and everything changed We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Larry grew up in a small California house with a speed-...
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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 everyone else. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Susan grew up in a house where her father gave her alcohol as a child, her mother gave her Valiu...
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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 himself across the floor for one more broken bottle — until AA taught him to stay in God's wheelbarrow. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Da...
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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 just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Robbie grew up loved in a Catholic family in Philadelphia, fit in everywhere, and started drinking at a Yes ...
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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 launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com This isn't a typical AA story — it's a former law professor walking through steps one through three with the precis...
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Frank J. went from Marine sniper to homeless with everything he owned in a cardboard box in a stolen car — and 13 months without a drink, with no meetings, he was choking strangers and throwing eggs across grocery stores. AA didn't make him a different person. It taught him to stop acting like the one he was. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunri...
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Chris L. spent four years sober in AA without taking the steps and almost died of untreated alcoholism — then a phone call, a big book, and three other desperate women changed everything. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Chris grew up with a mind that told her she was never enough and always too much, found alcohol at 14 and chased thr...
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D.J. got busted with two felonies in a parking lot while lecturing his wife — court-ordered into AA, a no-nonsense sponsor and a moment in a 7-Eleven changed everything. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com DJ grew up crawling out of his skin, moved from upstate New York to South Texas at 13, and found alcohol the first night out at a res...
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