ESH: Yolanda V

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Yolanda V. telling her story at SNL Friday night speaker mtg. San Jose in 2002, she was 9+ years sober at the time of her speak. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] Event List: https://scast.us/event Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker Meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.7	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.4	Hi, I'm Yolanda and alcoholic.
0:29.3	Hi.
0:30.5	And I want to thank the people, my friends from Hollister, for coming down.
0:33.9	That's really special.
0:35.3	And I want to thank Saturday Night Live for inviting me to
0:38.6	do this speaker meeting that's really an honor and Saturday Night Live is my home group
0:44.0	because of Saturday Night Live and the spirituality and the friendship and love I found here
0:51.5	I have nine and a half years today.
1:05.2	And qualifying myself, you know, talking about your stories as time goes on, it's almost like you can't see that. In the beginning of my sobriety, I almost relived my past on a daily basis all the time.
1:12.6	It was like present there.
1:14.4	And now it's not.
1:15.4	It's like it's an entirely different person.
1:17.6	And I think that's where it's a good thing for me.
1:21.2	I don't want to be that person that I came in here as.
1:25.6	And in order to do that, I have to do a few simple things.
1:29.5	And most of those are right here. And they're in this, the blue book, which is our big book,
1:38.0	and the 12 by 12. That's not the 12th. Anyway, the 12 by 12. And this is where I learned how to be the person that I am today.
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