Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast

Dave P. from Elkton, MD speaking at Barnegat Saturday night speakers meeting in Barnegat, NJ - August 1st 2009 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Dave shares a gripping firsthand account of repeated relapses, devastating consequences, and ultimate freedom through fully surrendering to the Big Book program as written, explaining with urgency and clarity what it means to be a “real alcoholic” who has lost the power of choice; drawing from prison, addiction, physical catastrophe, and spiritual awakening, Dave highlights how half-measures, watered-down programs, and intellectual debate nearly cost him his life, while rigorous step work, sponsorship, and service to others restored dignity, purpose, and peace—demonstrating how true recovery averts misery and death and leads to a life guided by God rather than self-will. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

Chris D. from New Bern, NC speaking about the steps 5 through 9 at a step Workshop in New Bern, NC - May 24th 2009 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com In this AA workshop, Chris walks through Steps Five through Nine with clarity, humility, and lived experience, emphasizing that real recovery is not about mere abstinence but about a full spiritual transformation rooted in honesty, willingness, and action; he breaks down how inventory, confession, character defects, and amends form the forge that reshapes an alcoholic’s life, showing how courage, responsibility, and surrender to a Higher Power lead to freedom, restored relationships, and the ability to live as a useful, principled human being—one who clears away the wreckage of the past and walks forward with integrity, service, and peace. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

Mike L. from Indianapolis, IN speaking on the topic "Taking the 11th step to the street" at the Serenity at the Beach conference in Destin, FL - August 28th 2010 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Mike reflects on decades of sobriety shaped by painful honesty, repeated failure, and ultimately a lived practice of Steps 10 and 11, where maintaining conscious contact becomes a moment-by-moment discipline rather than a theory; through sponsorship, rigorous self-examination, meditation as “effective thought,” and profound personal loss—including loving deeply and grieving without drinking—Mike describes how surrendering old ideas about God transformed despair into purpose, restored relationships, and allowed him to live with integrity, emotional sobriety, and usefulness, proving that real spiritual growth is measured not by years sober, but by humility, presence, and a life devoted to love and service. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

Chris R. from Ingram, TX speaking at the SRI Roundup in Scottsdale, AZ - August 12th 2011 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Chris shares his journey from chronic relapse, untreated alcoholism, and a suicide attempt to lasting recovery after finally being properly diagnosed as an alcoholic and taken quickly through the Big Book and the Twelve Steps; with humor, urgency, and deep conviction, Chris explains why meetings alone never kept him sober, how a spiritual experience removed his obsession to drink, and why service, sponsorship, and maintaining daily conscious contact are essential for long-term freedom—highlighting a life transformed from hopelessness to usefulness, decades of sobriety, and a commitment to carrying a clear, undiluted message of recovery to newcomers who are still dying. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

Howard W. from Edmonton, Albert, Canada speaking at Salmon Arm Roundup, British Columbia, Canada - March 17th 2007 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Howard reflects on nearly five decades of sobriety, tracing his journey from early alcoholism shaped by war, military life, and repeated humiliation to lasting recovery found through acceptance, service, and spiritual surrender; with humility, humor, and deep gratitude, Howie highlights the life-saving importance of Step One, sponsorship, family, and giving sobriety away, sharing how AA restored his marriage, allowed his children to grow up without a drunken father, and gave him a life of dignity, usefulness, and conscious contact with a Higher Power that continues to sustain him even in old age. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

Cindy M. from Dallas, TX speaking about the 12 step at the Primary Purpose Group in Dallas, TX - January 2009 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com   Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

Vince Y. from Pasadena, CA speaking at the Lubbock Conference in Lubbock, TX - July 16th-19th 1987 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Vince shares his deeply honest journey from privilege, education, and early professional success into devastating alcoholism marked by jail, addiction to narcotics, career loss, broken marriage, homelessness, and despair, followed by a long and painful period of sobriety without recovery until desperation finally made him willing to take action; through humility, surrender, sponsorship, disciplined obedience, and actually working the Twelve Steps, Vince experiences a true spiritual awakening that restores not only sobriety but dignity, purpose, and usefulness, ultimately rebuilding his career, marriage, and inner life, and demonstrating with clarity that Alcoholics Anonymous works not by motivation, intelligence, or self-will, but by willingness, action, and reliance on a Higher Power—offering hope that no matter how far one has fallen, lasting recovery and a meaningful life are possible. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

David T. from Spartanburg, SC speaking at the South Carolina Area Assembly - October 2nd 2004 Subscribe to Sober Sunrise on YouTube! YouTube Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com In this raw and deeply reflective AA speaker talk, David shares his journey from early alcoholism marked by fear, violence, failed self-help solutions, and repeated attempts to quit on willpower alone, to lasting sobriety that began on March 9, 1992. He describes hitting a point of complete surrender—when every solution had failed—and how willingness, not belief, opened the door to a Higher Power, the 12 Steps, and a life rebuilt through service, integrity, and consistency. Today, David’s recovery is defined not by the absence of pain, but by the ability to face life with dignity, faith, and connection, while carrying the message to newcomers, detoxes, and prisons one day at a time. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

Brian P. from Round Rock, TX speaking at the Fellowship of the Spirit convention in Copper Mountain, CO - June 29th 2013 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com In this deeply honest and moving AA speaker share, Brian recounts his journey from severe alcoholism, crime, prison, relapse, and despair to lasting sobriety that began on March 6, 1993, emphasizing that real recovery only came when he fully surrendered both alcohol and self-will through the 12 Steps. With humility and humor, he reflects on healing family wounds, making amends, rebuilding integrity after spiritual relapse, and learning that sobriety must be actively maintained through honesty, service, and reliance on God—ultimately becoming a devoted husband, father, sponsor, and servant to others, especially incarcerated alcoholics, proving that transformation is possible no matter how far down the scale one has gone. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

Chris C. from Dallas, TX speaking at the 12th annual Big Ole Roundup in Alexandria, MN - March 12th 2016 Visit our merch and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Visit our website - Sober-Sunrise.com Chris delivers a crystal-clear, Big Book–centered AA talk that breaks down alcoholism as a real, diagnosable illness of body and mind, explaining why willpower, meetings alone, and “just don’t drink” never worked for him, and how following the directions in the book—step by step, without shortcuts—led to a living relationship with God, freedom from obsession, and a full life that includes sobriety, marriage, fatherhood, service, and joy; with humor, depth, and precision, Chris shows that AA is not about opinions or inspiration, but about action, discipline, and walking the same path as those who recovered before us. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu