AA Recovery Interviews with Howard L.
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AA Recovery Interviews with Howard L.
Alcoholics Anonymous members from around the world share their awesome stories of experience, strength, and hope with interview host Howard L.
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Jimmy G. – Sober 7 Years
A "Man of the Cloth", Jimmy G.'s earliest aspirations were to be in service to the Episcopal Church. Though strict in many ways, when it came to drink...
Matt J. – Sober Since March 2014 (Encore Episode)
Matt J. describes his family tree as “littered with problem drinkers”, of which he became one all too quickly. As an only child, Matt grew up in a hom...
Ron B. – Sober 43 Years
Today’s podcast is my interview is with Ron B., a man whom I’d just met at a Friends of Bill W. meeting on an enormous cruise ship earlier this year....
Ray O. – Sober Since April 2009 [Encore Episode]
Ray’s difficult road to sobriety was paved with many failed attempts to get sober over the years. Each attempt was thwarted by the belief that his sit...
Justin M. – Sober Since June 2020 (Encore Episode)
[This is an encore of Episode 84 originally released June 29, 2022]
Alcoholism nearly ended Justin’s marriage and his caree...
Nadia S. – Sober Since August 1980
Nadia's personal story was published in the 4th Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous in 2001. She’s the first AA member I’ve interviewed whose backstory ca...
Kristina C. – Sober Since August 2018 (Encore of Episode 74)
By age 15, Kristina had already been in treatment for drug and alcohol abuse, self-harm, and a suicide attempt. It took another 14 years for her to fi...
Richard B. – Sober 2 Years
Richard's life-long battle with alcoholism was abated for nearly two decades in AA. But he let up on his Program and ultimately relapsed on "thimbles"...
Ted O. – Sober 42 Years
Welcome back my friends to AA Recovery Interviews. I’m your host, Howard L. and I’m an alcoholic, sober since January 1, 1988, one day at a time. I’m...
Richard B. – Sober 2 Years
Richard's life-long battle with alcoholism was abated for nearly two decades in AA. But he let up on his Program and ultimately relapsed on "thimbles"...
Nancy K. – Sober 53 Years
Nancy K. is an extraordinary woman whose 53 years of continuous sobriety is a stunning achievement built upon the trials and tribulations of everyday...
Susan D. – Sober Since January 2003 (Encore Episode)
Ever meet someone in an AA meeting for the first time whom you can just tell is working a good Program? My guest on today’s show, Susan D., is that ki...
Vicki A. – Sober Since April 2002 (Encore Episode)
Marijuana was Vicki’s primary addiction along with alcoholism. Like a lot of us, she smoked pot much more frequently than she drank, but ended up in A...
Jeff B. – Sober Since October 2017 (Encore Episode)
Jeff B. rose to very top of major league baseball, only to find alcoholism waiting to take him down. For years, his extraordinary achievements on the...
Sabine H. – Sober 2 Years
Joining me from Copenhagen, Denmark, Sabine H. grew up in a culture in which alcohol is both ubiquitous and deeply ingrained in social life. She never...
Sam H. – Sober 38 Years
With his life in tatters, Sam's entrée into Alcoholics Anonymous literally came down to a coin flip. Heads, he’d go AA. Tails, he’d put a bullet throu...
Jay S. – Sober Since May 2003 (Encore Episode)
Jay’s foray into alcoholism stemmed from a difficult childhood in a home where his father drank, and fear and confusion reigned. By the time he starte...
Howard L. – Sober 37 Years – Celebration of 175th Episode
This is the 175th interview in the AA Recovery Interviews podcast series. This milestone episode celebrates the success of this podcast in touching so...
Lauren A. – Sober Since June 2009 (Encore Episode)
Lauren rose to the top of her profession as a prima ballerina and enjoyed international acclaim during her 23 years of thrilling audiences around the...
Bud S. – Sober 44 Years (Encore Episode)
[Program Note: Bud S. passed away shortly after the release of this interview in 2022 at age 94. He had 44 Years of sobriety when he died. This interv...
Bret B. – Sober 14 Years
Growing up in a home fractured by alcoholism, Bret B. had first-hand exposure to his father’s untreated disease. The physical and verbal abuse was a l...
Paul B. – Sober 7 Years
Given up for adoption by his 17-year-old mother, Paul B. still describes his childhood as idyllic. Growing up on a rural English farm where beer and a...
Terri S. – Sober Since August 2003 (Encore Episode)
Terri S. first overdosed on pain meds when she was only six years old. Living in a Brooklyn apartment with an alcoholic father and chronically ill mot...
Audie M. – Sober 36 Years
Celebrating 36 years of sobriety on the day of this interview, my guest Audie M. recorded this episode of AA Recovery Interviews during some free time...
Kesenija P. – Sober Since February 1992 (Encore Episode)
Imagine trying to get sober in a country without AA meetings or the Big Book. That's what faced Ksenija when she got sober in 1992. That, plus Croatia...
Jennifer S. – Sober 2 Years
Jennifer S. had a rough journey getting to AA recovery. She was raised in a home where her mother’s alcohol abuse was neatly ignored while frequent fa...
Larry L. – Sober Since February 2011 (Encore Episode)
Larry got sober at age 65, finally claiming his chair in AA after drinking his entire adult life. As a life-long bachelor, he was also a loner. For de...
Mike V. – Sober 30 Years
Mike’s story is classic tale of a life dragged to the brink of ruin by alcoholism. Brought up in a mostly normal home, his introduction to booze in wa...
Max A. – Sober Since November 2008 (Encore Episode)
Max grew up in a horribly alcoholic home with a mother who later died of cirrhosis and organ failure from drinking. To deal with the madness, Max bega...
Joe S. – Sober 26 Years
Joe's abuse of alcohol was a big part of his teenage and young-adult years growing up in Liverpool England. By the time he moved to Australia in his e...
Emily M. – Sober Since November 1989 (Encore Episode)
[This is an encore of Episode 26 originally released May 13, 2021]
Some alcoholics go to AA meetings even though they haven...
Jeff S. – Sober 26 Years
Jeff S. got sober in 1998 after years of alcoholism and addiction to crack cocaine. Coming from a tough upbringing, he started drinking as a teen. Jef...
Beth F. – Sober 3 Years
When Beth finally got sober less than four years ago, she had made it to middle age as an active, but functional alcoholic. She grew up in a family wh...
Leigh P. – Sober Since March 1995 (Encore Episode)
Born and raised in London, Leigh's love affair with alcohol began in neighborhood public houses, or pubs. These establishments were and still are the...
Teska M. – Sober Since July 2016 (Encore Episode)
[This is an encore of Episode 24 originally released April 29, 2021].
As the daughter of a Louisiana bar-owner, Teska’s fat...
Ryan M. – Sober 14 Years
My guest today is Ryan M., who was given tequila at age nine by his father to induce an aversion to alcohol. But Ryan actually liked it, especially th...
Bruno R. – Sober 12 Years
In his late teens, Bruno R. initially attended Alcoholics Anonymous to satisfy the terms of probation after his first DWI. His half-hearted attempts r...
Brent F. – Sober Since November 2018 (Encore Episode)
[This is an encore of Episode 61 originally released January 19, 2022].
It was 1996 when Brent first attempted to get sober...
Claire H. – Sober 29 Years
Claire H. arrived in America from Great Britain 32 years ago as a full-blown alcoholic. It took her another three years before she got sober in AA. Gr...
Jason G. – Sober Since November 1994 (Encore Episode)
[This is an encore of Episode 45 originally released September 22, 2021].
Jason's moment of clarity materialized with the b...