Someone Burglarized My Garage and Stole All My Stolen Stuff - AA Speaker - Rick B. - Saint Paul, MN

Rick spent years trying to build his empire, control every outcome, and force life to go his way — until AA taught him that the things he needed most only showed up when he stopped chasing them. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Rick walked into AA after decades of big-shotism — buying houses to impress people, stealing anything he could get his hands on, and bulldozing through relationships to get what he wanted. He took and took until there was nothing left, not the business, not the house, not the wife and kids. In sobriety he discovered that every cliche he heard in meetings needed to be tested against the actual book, that sponsorship built on dependency was dangerous, and that spiritual growth had nothing to do with addition — it was about subtraction, letting go of what he wasn't so what he actually was could emerge. When he finally stopped forcing outcomes and focused on giving through 12-step work and meetings at the mission, jobs started showing up without him looking, cars appeared when he needed them, and raises came before he even started work. Rick's talk is a sharp, honest breakdown of how controlling your life is the biggest roadblock to recovery — and how the things worth having only come when you stop trying to grab them. Rick B. from Minneapolis, MN speaking on the topic of "Roadblocks to Recovery" at The Firing Line Group of Alcoholics Anonymous in Saint Paul, MN - January 1st 2009 Music: Deep by KaizanBlu