{"podcast":{"title":"Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast","slug":"sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561","podcast_index_feed_id":7161561,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/sober-sunrise/feed.xml","website_url":"https://sober-sunrise.com/","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/20053233/GoldBestSSLOGO.png","author":"Sober Sunrise","episode_count":422,"summary":"Sober Sunrise brings you AA Speaker Tapes from around the world. Rather than an AA discussion podcast, Sober Sunrise brings you speakers who share step-work, workshops, and general fellowship discussion points. We are not affiliated with AA in anyway.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T00:18:24.208639+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561"},"episode":{"title":"The Fellowship I Never Knew I Craved - AA Speaker - John S.","slug":"the-fellowship-i-never-knew-i-craved-aa-speaker-john-s","published_at":"2026-07-23T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/the-fellowship-i-never-knew-i-craved-aa-speaker-john-s","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561","url":"https://sober-sunrise.podbean.com/e/the-fellowship-i-never-knew-i-craved-aa-speaker-john-s/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/sm5t8zpjbsa9v8jx/JohnS-Podcast.mp3","summary":"John came to AA expecting lessons in social drinking and discovered something far bigger: people who taught him how to live, stayed close when life became frightening, and gave him a place he never knew he had been searching for. ☀️ Sober Sunrise AppListen to Sober Sunrise AA speaker talks anytime, track your sober time, take a daily pledge, and keep recovery support close throughout the day.📱 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sober-sunrise/id6770203116If you enjoy the app or find it useful in your recovery, a quick rating or review on the App Store would mean a lot and helps more people find Sober Sunrise. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode ArchiveHundreds of AA speaker tapes and recovery stories:https://sober-sunrise.com/episodes 🧡 Sober Sunrise Merchhttps://sober-sunrise.com/merch 🌴 Sober Sunrise Newsletterhttps://sober-sunrise.com/newsletter John shares a fast, funny AA speaker talk about the stories an alcoholic mind can turn into truth. Sober since December 19, 1982, he looks back at ranch life, rock-band ambitions, morning barrooms, and the day he finally became willing to ask for help. He arrived believing Alcoholics Anonymous would teach him how to drink like other people, then met sponsors and old-timers who showed him that recovery was not just about quitting alcohol. It was about learning how to live, repair a marriage, accept direction, show up for others, and keep coming back. With his funny “Apples Anonymous” explanation of the physical allergy, John makes the obsession and first-drink problem easy to understand. He also speaks honestly about financial collapse in sobriety, the danger of trying to recover without a sponsor, a cancer diagnosis that brought him into the present moment, and the family member who corrected his thinking when he began minimizing his past at…","meta_description":"John came to AA expecting lessons in social drinking and discovered something far bigger: people who taught him how to live, stayed close when life became…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4131,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/episodes/the-fellowship-i-never-knew-i-craved-aa-speaker-john-s/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/the-fellowship-i-never-knew-i-craved-aa-speaker-john-s.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}