RECO12
An Addiction Recovery Lunch-hour Speaker Meeting. A new guest speaker with at least 1 year sobriety from any addiction, and who is actively working in recovery, will speak for 25 minutes each week on a specific recovery topic. This will be followed by a moderated 25 minute Q & A session from the live audience. The live speaker meetings will be held on Zoom each Friday at 10:00 AM Pacific time. To attend the live recordings and have the opportunity of asking questions of the guest, please send an email to reco12pod@gmail.com and request to get on the invitation list. To become a Reco12 Spearhead and support this mission, please consider subscribing at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1117700/support . All aspects of recovery will be covered, including but not limited to: Steps, Blessings of Recovery, Relapse Prevention, Sponsoring, Specific aspects of recovery, What to do if I relapse, etc. We invite each guest speaker to seek guidance so they can reflect the light they have been given in order to inspire hope, meaning, growth and worth in each of us, the listening audience.
Episodes
317 episodes
Samantha M - Stop Painting Red Flags Green! - Meeting 312
Samantha M is our powerful and passionate speaker today on Reco12. Sobriety Date: 9/5/1995. Home Group: As Bill Sees It Saturday mornings 10:00 am, Santa Barbara, CA. She speaks eloquently and powerfully on why we should stop ...
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Episode 312
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57:50
Jaynie M - Finding and Building a Relationship with a Power Greater than Self - Afro Euro - Meeting 3
In this week's Afro-Euro Reco12 meeting, Karen A has Jaynie M as the guest speaker. Jaynie speaks on the topic of Finding and Building a Relationship with a Power Greater than Self. Here is a little about Jaynie: 13 years ...
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Episode 311
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58:59
Kahi W - All of Me Good and Bad - Meeting 310
Kahi W. is a wife of 22yrs, mother of 5, and has worked the 12 Steps for Betrayal Trauma for the last 12 yrs. Born and raised in Hawaii, Kahi is grateful for the recovery tools she found when her family moved to Utah. She currently works ...
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Episode 310
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55:58
Afro-Euro - Janet K - Fast Asleep to Spritually Awake - Meeting 309
Janet K, An Irish woman living in Greece, joins Karen A from Israel in this Afro-Euro Reco12 Meeting. Her topic is "Fast Asleep to Spiritually Awake" Janet says, “I was fast asleep for so long and all I could see was darkness. ...
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Episode 309
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56:07
Patt O - Step 1 - Meeting 308
WHEN PATT O WAS 11 MONTHS OLD, HE CAME INTO THE ROOM OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WITH HIS MOM WHO WAS EITHER GOING TO GO TO AA OR PRISON FOR 10 YEARS. GROWING UP IN THE ROOMS WAS NOT ENOUGH TO KEEP PATT SOBER. HIS JOURNEY OF ALCOHOLISM ...
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Episode 308
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1:01:35
Sheryl A - Surrender vs. Compliance: Recovery Beyond Our Wildest Dreams - Meeting #307
Sheryl A had a spiritual experience on May 12, 2022 through working the 12 Step Program outlined in the Big Book of AA. Since then, Sheryl has been journeying in recovery from food addiction and codependency through a spiritual solution that ha...
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Episode 307
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Ursula B and Joseph O - Steps 10 and 11 - Afro Euro
Ursula B from South Africa and Joseph O from Israel join Karen A from Israel in this Afro-Euro Reco12 Meeting. They share their experience, strength, and hope on Steps 10 and 11.Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in an...
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Episode 306
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1:06:54
Ask-It Basket with Robert Pardon - 6
This week, Reco12 continues with the "Ask-it Basket" project we started in July. In this conversation, Justin B and Robert Pardon, discuss 10 things we have learned from and in recovery. We dive deep into questions that generally co...
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56:00
Father Bill W - Spiritual Sobriety - Meeting 305
Father Bill W. is a recovered alcoholic, who just celebrated 52 years in recovery last week, and an Episcopal priest in Austin, TX, who has worked in the addiction treatment field for over 50 years. Bill presents workshops and hosts the Father ...
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Episode 305
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1:02:54
Nadia J - Relationships In Recovery - Afro Euro - Meeting 304
In today's Afro-Euro Meeting of Reco12. which was recorded on Friday, December 27th, 2024, Nadia J from the South Africa speaks with us on the topic of Relationships in RecoveryHere is a little about Nadia J - Twice born.Agent worki...
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Episode 304
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50:53
D. B. - 9th Step Amends with Self and with Higher Power - Meeting 303
Here is a bit about D. B. in his own words: I grew up in a nuclear family filled with addicts and alcoholics. In 1995, I began a long term relationship with an alcoholic and sex addict. That relationship and eventual marriage ...
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Episode 303
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1:00:00
Ollie D - We Had To Quit Playing God - It Didn't Work - Afro Euro 302
In today's Afro-Euro Meeting of Reco12. which was recorded on Friday, December 20th, 2024, Ollie D from the UK speaks with us on the line from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, "We had to quit playing God, it didn't work."Here is a ...
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Episode 302
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1:02:06
Monty M - Anonymity Doesn't Mean Secrecty - Meeting 301
Monty Meyer (aka, the Monty'man) is Founder and Executive Producer of KHLT Recovery Broadcasting and the Take 12 Recovery Radio Shows. With over 20 years in broadcasting and 30 years’ experience wo...
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Episode 301
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56:53
Debi S - 10th Step Evolution
Debi's 1st meeting was in 1981. Her 1st sober date was in 1987. Her current and permanent sober date is 1/31/94. After a long history of trouble at home, school, and the law, from a very young age, including rehab, detox, jail, DUI, psych ward,...
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Episode 300
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1:00:58
Ask-it Basket with Robert Pardon - 5
This week, Reco12 continues with the "Ask-it Basket" project we started in July. In this conversation, Justin B and Robert Pardon, discuss several more questions that were submitted from various addicts from various backgrounds and locati...
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Cristina M - Afro Euro - Step 3 God's Will
In today's Afro-Euro Meeting of Reco12, Cristina M from Romania speaks with us on the importance of God's Will in Step 3.Cristina alcoholic from Romania.Prior to AA, I tried therapy, self-help books and any methods I could find but ...
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Episode 299
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43:13
David G - The Power of Revealing Self - Meeting 298
David G from Oklahoma is Sober member of AA since 08-08-1994 having had a life changing spiritual experience in 1995 as a result of the 12 steps as outlined in our Big Book he soon learned he had no idea how grow & develop with it. He found...
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Episode 298
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1:02:34
Liza L and Nikki M - Indispensibles
In today's meeting, Liza L and Nikki M fill in for Justin B as he spends Thanksgiving with his family. They explore the indispensible things in recovery. Reco12 is all about exploring the common threads of addiction and shar...
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Episode 297
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55:55
Andrew E - Afro Euro - The Gaunt Prospector - Meeting 296
In today's Afro-Euro Reco12 pop-up meeting, Andrew E speaks to us. His talk is entitled "The Gaunt Prospector".Here is a little about Andrew E:I came into recovery 8 months ago in a 12 step treatment centre after more...
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Episode 296
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59:57
Jay Westbook - Relationship Resilience - Applying the 12 Traditions in Relationships - Meeting 295
Jay Westbrook has been clean & sober in Alcoholics Anonymous since December 2nd, 1988. He is a hospice nurse, Grief & Loss counselor, national speaker, and best-selling author. Both his first book, Compassionate Journeys...
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Episode 295
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1:03:43
Liza L - What If - Afro Euro - Meeting 294
In today's Afro-Euro Reco12, Liza L speaks on the "What If".Here is a little about Liza L.:Active member of Cocaine Anonymous in Fort Wayne, Indiana and the Tristate Area, as well as the Big Book Sponsorship fellowship, Nik...
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Episode 294
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1:03:09
Ask-It Basket with Robert Pardon - 4
This week, Reco12 continues with the "Ask-it Basket" project we started in July. In this conversation, Justin B and Robert Pardon, discuss several more questions that were submitted from various addicts from various backgrounds and locati...
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Tash M - All of Life on Life's Terms - Meeting 293
Tash’s Sobriety Birthday in Alcoholics Anonymous is July 22-2001. Her current Sobriety Birthday in Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous is October 26-2018. SLAA and S-anon are also significant areas of her ongoing recovery. This will be the first t...
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Episode 293
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1:01:43
Golda H - Through Many Lifetimes - Afro Euro - Meeting 292
In today's Afro-Euro Reco12, Golda H speaks on the "Through Many Lifetimes".Here is a little about Golda in her own words:I started in DA, tunneled into AA, found media addiction recovery, then worked the steps out of the BB for ...
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Episode 292
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57:02
Chris A - Change and Transformation - Meeting 291
Chris began drinking around 6 years old and consider himself to be a career drug addict and alcoholic. He finally crashed and burned in 2000, walking away from a good paying job to become homeless in Salt Lake City, Utah. Chris has been in reco...
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Episode 291
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