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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Craig S. – Sober 4 Years
Craig came to AA later in life, getting sober at 63. For years he appeared to manage his drinking while building a highly successful business and prov...
Amy B. – Sober Since October 2018 (Encore Episode)
Amy’s fascinating story is one of early exposure to her father’s alcoholism and her mother’s active involvement in Al-Anon. But her parents also divor...
Kirkland V. – Sober Since February 2005 (Encore Episode)
Kirkland’s family of origin was a difficult place to grow up. Alcoholism was rife and the cause of constant stress and chaos. Wracked with fear and is...
Gerry R. – Sober Since January 1990 (Encore Episode)
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Gerry’s road to utter ruin began with pot, pills, and intravenous drug use at 15. Living as a heroin addict for the...
Kelvin S. – Sober Since September 2017 (Encore Episode)
Kelvin's life was defined and dominated by booze and drugs. Though there are similarities to other sobriety tales, many parts of his story contain thi...
Sarah M. – Sober Since May 1996 (Encore Episode)
Sarah’s remarkable story begins with a relatively happy childhood in a family with little connection to alcohol. While other addictive behaviors may h...
Dan C. – Sober 3 Years
Dan C.'s story challenges conventional wisdom about alcoholism and recovery. We often think of alcoholism/addiction as a young person's struggle, a di...
Kyle G. – Sober Since January 2019 (Encore of Eps. 102)
Kyle’s hard-fought battle with addiction and alcoholism was one he thought he could win on his own. He even managed to stay dry without AA for five ye...
Patrice T. – Sober Since January 1979 (Encore Episode)
Patrice T. has known alcoholism from both sides—first as the child of an alcoholic, and later as an alcoholic herself. For a time, her drinking overla...
Robert H. – Sober Since November 2001
Robert got sober when he was just 13, after a brief, but vicious, struggle with alcoholism and hard-drug addiction. Twenty-two years later, he’s a liv...
Victoria H. – Sober Since January 1992 (Encore Episode)
Victoria started drinking early to deal with the strife of abuse she suffered as a child and the trauma she experienced at 15 witnessing the aftermath...
Jackie B. – Sober Since October 2015
Jackie's story illustrates one of the most cunning aspects of alcoholism--the erroneous belief that going to AA meetings without necessarily doing the...
William B. – Sober Since June 1999
William’s story speaks to the devastating effects of alcohol on a life already afflicted with mental health issues. Raised in a drug-infested part of...
Bob W. – Sober Since July 1999
A Viet Nam veteran from a family fraught with alcoholism, Bob’s post-war progression into the disease of alcoholism accompanied a long and hard-driven...
Tom W. – Sober Since January 1995 (Encore Episode)
Incredibly, Tom hadn't had a drink in over nine years when he joined AA. He was "dry", but his behavior during those years was every bit as alcoholic...
Rosemary B. – Sober Since October 1980 (Encore Episode)
Rosemary started drinking at age 6 with a sip of beer. But unlike other children, whose experience with beer was an occasional sip, Rosemary's beer dr...
David D. – Sober 9 Years
My guest on today’s episode of AA Recovery Interviews is David D., a man whose story of descent into alcoholism—and steady climb back through the Prog...
Courtney P. – Sober Since July 2014 (Encore Episode)
Courtney’s backstory is not dissimilar to those who grew up in tumultuous families in which alcoholism was present. The seeming frivolity and celebrat...
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...