Recovery testimony with weight and room tone.
Mad Dog Recovery AA Speakers is built from meeting-room testimony, not studio polish. Rotating speakers work through AA steps, addiction memories, prayer, amends, sponsorship, and service with the unhurried force of people speaking from lived experience.
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Mad Dog Recovery AA Speakers is a large collection of recovery talks shaped by the rhythm of AA rooms, roundups, and step meetings. It does not behave like a conventional hosted podcast. There is usually a greeting, a speaker being handed the room, and then a long share that finds its own path. That path often begins in identification. Speakers name alcoholism or addiction, mark sobriety dates, thank sponsors and committees, and establish why the room matters before moving into the work itself. The work is the steps, but not as abstract doctrine. Step 10 becomes the ongoing practice of admitting wrongs. Step 11 becomes a search for a usable life of prayer, meditation, attention, and surrender. Step 12 becomes the argument that helping others is not a bonus of recovery but the thing that gives sobriety power and purpose. The stories can be stark. Listeners hear about drinking, drug use, arrests, suicidal despair, broken trust, family boundaries, and the long damage of self-will. The delivery is often warm and communal anyway. Humor arrives as relief, not escape, and a room’s laughter can sit beside grave memories without cheapening them. Speakers like Amy Spain Duncan, Cliff Gooding, Jenny, Chad Payne, and Devin bring different temperaments to the same basic question: how does a person stop running their life on fear, ego, resentment, and appetite? Some answer through sponsorship and accountability. Some answer through amends and integrity. Some answer through God, service, and the daily choice to be useful. The show’s strongest moments come when a speaker turns from an old story toward a present-tense spiritual point, as if the memory is being used in real time. It is intimate, plainspoken, and deeply inside recovery culture. For the right listener, that insider quality is the appeal.
Made for: For listeners who value AA speaker tapes, step work, spiritual recovery, and long-form testimony from people who speak as members of the fellowship rather than outside observers.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the raw meeting-room format: rotating speakers, little polish, and a steady movement from personal wreckage toward surrender, amends, sponsorship, and service.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A substantial archive of candid speaker meetings that turns twelve-step recovery principles into concrete accounts of sobriety, accountability and service.
Mad Dog Recovery AA Speakers keeps the meeting room intact: introductions, personal histories, step studies, practical instruction and the occasional joke all remain part of the recording.
A roomful of hard-won sobriety turns the Big Book into something you can actually use.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A recovery talk that turns prayer, meditation, and service into practical guidance.
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A candid recovery reflection on voice, boundaries, and why years sober do not settle questions of integrity.
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A recovery talk about sponsorship, receptivity, and learning to quiet a crowded mind.
Amy Spain Duncan's talk keeps its focus on sponsorship, spiritual permission, and the work of staying open when the ego pushes back. It traces a recovery life shaped by women who see her clearly, a sponsor chain she trusts, and a simple posture for hearing concern without…
A candid Steps Four and Five talk on resentment, belonging, and seeing the self beneath addiction.
Cliff Gooding turns Steps Four and Five into a lived story rather than a worksheet, tracing addiction through the need to belong, the obsession that keeps circling back, and the version of himself he could not quite recognize from the inside.
A raw recovery story where dark comic timing, police pursuit, and unseen grace sit close together.
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A measured AA talk on helping without forcing, rooted in timing, spiritual openness, and sober humility.
This single-episode review frames Step 12, "Working with Others," as a matter of patience, timing, and humility. Devin See begins with the familiar AA markers of home group, sobriety date, and membership, then moves into the harder judgment calls: when to approach someone who is…
A direct recovery testimony about desperation, willingness, and carrying the program forward.
Stephen Rood's testimony turns on the point where alcohol has worn him down enough to listen. Given a choice between jail and calling someone to pick him up, he calls his parents, enters treatment, and meets men who make sobriety look like an actual life: chasing dreams,…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
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Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Blind Dave shares his journey of 27 years of sobriety, reflecting on his recovery milestones and the influence of his parents at a group anniversary event.
Devin, a recovered alcoholic since August 28, 2011, shares his journey from suicidal despair to sobriety through Alcoholics Anonymous.
Stephen Rood shares his 18-year recovery journey at an AA speaker meeting.
A speaker shares their personal journey of discovering a transformative Alcoholics Anonymous program through Mark H in Dallas, leading to sponsorship and deeper engagement in recovery.
A recovering alcoholic shares his personal journey with addiction and discusses how love and service are interconnected in Alcoholics Anonymous, based on insights from a workshop.
A recovering alcoholic named Frank McKibbon shares his personal story and commitment to orthodox AA principles at a recovery meeting in Denver.
Chad Payne opens by naming himself an addict and marking 23 years clean and sober since April 2, 2003.
Ginny Quillen's Step 12 talk for Mad Dog Recovery AA Speakers centers on amends, service, and the split second she calls the move from 'nope' to 'yes.' She says AA gave her 'a voice,' then ties that voice to sponsor Blanche, weekend speakers like Amy, Cliff, Ralph, and Roger, and the line about practicing these principles in all our affairs.
Amy Spain Duncan opens by naming her sobriety date, March 6, 2010.
Cliff Gooding shares his personal journey of sobriety and reflects on the power of recovery meetings to inspire conversations and provide support for those struggling with alcoholism.
Amy shares her personal journey of alcoholism recovery, expressing gratitude for friends and hosts while reflecting on her sobriety date and past experiences in Southern Maryland.
Cliff Gooding, sober since August 15, 2001, speaks at the Southern Maryland Roundup 2026 in Annapolis about Steps 4 and 5.
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Devin shares his personal journey with alcoholism and recovery as part of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting focused on Step 12 from the Big Book.