Category: Interviews from 2024 Shows

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:10:04 — 48.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Mike’s qualification for AA was honed by years of alcohol and drug abuse. Like so many others in our Program, Mike’s experience…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:15 — 44.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Laura B. got sober at age 17 after 4 years of intensively developing her alcoholism into qualification for AA. In that first…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:45 — 40.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!As the frontman for a British band that was among the vanguard of punk rock in the late 1970s, my guest, David…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:01:42 — 42.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!At age 82, Boots had lived most of his life as a moderate or normal drinker, only to find out in his…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:07:32 — 46.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!On today’s episode, my guest Karen W. shares a chilling story that every long-term alcoholic needs to hear. It’s a story about…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:02:14 — 42.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Originally from Detroit, Robert grew up in what many would consider to be a “normal’ family in which alcohol and dysfunctional behavior…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:39 — 41.0MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Al D. came into AA at 60 years of age to get sober after a lifetime of normal or moderate drinking. Punctuated…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:07:55 — 46.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!This 154th interview in my podcast series features Helen M., from London, England. Helen tracks her nearly three years of sobriety as…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:08:54 — 47.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Marci’s first exposure to Alcoholics Anonymous was at age 12 when she witnessed her father receiving his one year anniversary chip. But…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:02:03 — 42.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Sex, drugs, and rock & roll were more than a cliché in the life of Elliott M. As a prominent rock musician…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:12:05 — 62.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Though he first attended court-ordered AA meetings decades before his current sobriety date, John had no interest in the Program and no…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:38:22 — 85.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!To mark the 150th interview in this podcast series, Dwight’s story is both riveting and ominous. It began with alcohol being added…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:03:39 — 63.2MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Nicole’s battle with alcoholism was set against the backdrop of repressed feelings from childhood and the deep closet in which hid her…

Podcast: Download (61.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Like many alcoholics, Quinten S. started drinking in his mid-adolescence amidst a chaotic home life. Alcoholism was not prevalent in his immediate family, but the…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:54 — 50.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!With a family of origin riddled with alcoholism, abuse, and fractured relationships, Soleen was a disenfranchised child. She started drinking at 11…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:16:15 — 62.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!In David’s childhood home, there was one basic rule about alcohol: Don’t let it interfere with your household chores. Lacking any other…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:09:21 — 56.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Imagine you’ve been sober for a while and move to a new country. You don’t speak the language and the nearest English-speaking…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 56:31 — 45.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Getting sober at age 58, Steve had been drinking for 35 years with many opportunities along the way to acknowledge his overuse…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:04:10 — 68.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Jon’s drinking started in his late teens and continued into his thirties when the disease of alcoholism had him firmly in its…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:18:06 — 53.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!With nearly 20 years of sobriety, John relapsed after an extended period of good fortune had convinced him that he was cured….

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:00:55 — 41.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Joining us from Nairobi, Kenya, Kassie recently celebrated seven years of sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. Raised amidst the pomp and circumstance of…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:11:17 — 48.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!By the time he got sober, the dark cloud of alcoholism had engulfed Guy’s life. After years of heavy drinking and drug…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:00:10 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Mary joined Alcoholics Anonymous 35 years ago, shortly after her father picked up his 20 year chip in the Program. Her father’s…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:06:08 — 45.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!At age 13, Charlie suffered hydrocephalous and underwent the first of 5 brain operations over the next 8 years. By 15, he…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:57 — 45.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Chimene’s story will resonate with those in their first few years of sobriety. It will also ring familiar with those who drank…

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:06:53 — 45.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | Gaana | Youtube Music | RSS | Subscribe Now!Originally from England, Martyn immigrated to the U.S. in the mid-1970’s bringing along his predilections for excessive drinking. Insecurities from his earlier…