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Sarah (2 years) opens the meeting as the 10 min speaker at this North Oakland AA Open speaker meeting recorded in June of 2017. Roni (31 years) is the speaker for the remaining meeting time. NSFW

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Lynn A. is an Al-Anon member and her husband Bruce, both an AA and Al-Anon member are from Southern California. They are leading this workshop on the topic of, A Couple In Recovery at the Friends of Bill and Lois W meeting held on zoom in July of 2023.

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Ollis sober in 1987 is sharing on the topic - We Are Not A Glum Lot, at Newcomers Keep It Simple zoom speaker meeting held at the beginning of February 2024.

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Bob D is from Las Vegas Nevada he is a well known circuit speaker conducting workshops and speaking all over the world, today we have him speaking at the Live at Pine Lake Meeting in Seattle Washington in February of 2018. Repost from mid 2022

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Earl H speaking at an unknown event in October in 2003. Earl is one of my favorite speakers, he tends to be very step and book focused in his shares as he is here, that being said its a mix of his story along with big chunks of book and steps without a specific topic. Repost from 2021

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Craig P has been sober 4 years, he is telling his story at the No Reservations Speaker Meeting held monthly on the first Saturday of the month at the Swinomish Reservation in La Conner Washington. If you are ever in the area its a great meeting, I have been to it a number of times. Recorded at the beginning of February 2024. NSFW.

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Joe F from Stevenage in the UK is sharing on the topic of The Road of Happy Destiny at the Magical Mystery Tour zoom meeting, recorded in December of 2022.

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Amy Beth M from Canton Georgia is sharing at the My Favorite Steps zoom meeting on the topic of Step 9, recorded in June of 2022.

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This is a very late version of the Joe and Charlie Big Book workshops recorded in 2003, the audio quality is excellent. If you have never heard a J & C workshop I would encourage you to give it a listen, there is a lot here. There is also a 4th step worksheet to accompany it, if you would like a copy you can download it from google drive here: https://scast.us/jc4th

This is part 8 of 8, it jumps right in from the end of yesterdays post.

Joe McQ and Charlie P met in 1973, they instantly discovered their mutual fascinations with AA's Big Book. The study they met for regularly became something they presented at meetings, eventually becoming this workshop.

At the AA International Convention in New Orleans in 1980, Wesley P, organized a lunch for 1,500 AA members from all over the world and gave away 100 Joe & Charlie workshop tape sets as door prizes. Invitations exploded, and within a couple of years Joe & Charlie were presenting about 36 seminars a year worldwide.

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Joe & Charlie: The Big Book Comes Alive

This is a transcript of a Big Book workshop that Joe and Charlie have done around the world.

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The Joe & Charlie Journey to Recovery in "THE BIG BOOK COMES ALIVE" is a book that you'll want to read for your own recovery as well as get one for your friends too.

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Ebby: The Man Who Sponsored Bill W.

This is book is both a fascinating history of the formative years of AA, as well as the bitter-sweet tale of the troubled man Bill W. always referred to as "my sponsor."

Available in paperback & for kindle

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The Little Red Book

In 1942, Ed W. began teaching the “Twelve Step Study” classes that helped the Minneapolis Group achieve their 75% recovery rate. Then in 1946, he and Barry C. (The first sober A.A. in the state) published the lectures used for these classes as a book. Initially titled The Twelve Steps, it was affectionately nicknamed “The little red book.”

Back in print for the first time in more than 65 years, the original 1946 edition reveals firsthand how some of A.A.’s earliest members made the program their way of life. Everyone from newcomers to oldtimers will find a wealth of practical experience in this comprehensive guide to the Twelve Steps.

The Study Edition of The Big Book

I have one of these and it is one of my favorite items, a really excellent and useful for book study meetings or as a gift to a newcomer who is going to be heading to one.

The First 164 pages of The Big Book with lined blank pages opposite each page of text for note taking.

Includes the original Foreword
The Doctor's Opinion
Dr. Bob's Story.
Bound in black bonded leather.

Paragraph numbers along side the text for easy reference. Entire Original Manuscript (about) including the stories. Easy to read retyped version. Includes paragraph numbers corresponding to the modern text for easy comparison.

Footnotes explaining historical and obscure references in the text.

Footnotes documenting all 79 differences between the modern text and the original 1st printing text of the 1st 164 pages (about). Yes, believe it or not, the basic text has been changed 79 times since it was first published.

Two place keeping ribbons. Special "lay flat" binding.