{"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":"They Told Me I'd Never Feel Love - AA Proved Them Wrong - AA Speaker - Wayne B.","slug":"they-told-me-i-d-never-feel-love-aa-proved-them-wrong-aa-speaker-wayne-b","published_at":"2026-05-05T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/they-told-me-i-d-never-feel-love-aa-proved-them-wrong-aa-speaker-wayne-b","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561","url":"https://sober-sunrise.podbean.com/e/they-told-me-id-never-feel-love-aa-proved-them-wrong-aa-speaker-wayne-b/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/67fy4c9qpwywernq/WayneB-Podcast2.mp3","summary":"Wayne spent five years drinking his way through AA meetings before his sponsor casually mentioned the program works better if you don't drink - and what happened next almost got one of them killed. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️ Sober Sunrise Episode Archive Check out our lighthearted sober t-shirts and help support the channel🧡 Sober Sunrise Merch Want to receive all the speakers from the last week + some fun other AA happenings? Join the Sober Sunrise Newsletter! Weekly Newsletter Wayne was living in a dumpster behind a bar in Illinois when his dad found him and closed the lid. A bartender sent him to a basement AA meeting where an old-timer grabbed him and wouldn't let go - not through five years of drinking in meetings, not through a gunshot, not through a psych ward. Wayne fired his sponsor after year one, sponsored himself into a seven-year depression, then finally did the steps the way they're written and went from the bottom of the barrel to graduating a police academy. Wayne B. from Santa Monica, CA speaking at ORC 2000 Program - March 1st 2000Music: Deep by KaizanBlu","meta_description":"Wayne spent five years drinking his way through AA meetings before his sponsor casually mentioned the program works better if you don't drink - and what h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4650,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/episodes/they-told-me-i-d-never-feel-love-aa-proved-them-wrong-aa-speaker-wayne-b/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/they-told-me-i-d-never-feel-love-aa-proved-them-wrong-aa-speaker-wayne-b.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}