Recording Tips and Suggested Topics
Tips:
- Speak as you would in a meeting.
- Begin by giving us your name and phone number. This way, Grapevine will have a way to contact you if your story is chosen.
- Focus on a specific experience or something that can be handled in 5-7 minutes.
- Think about the arc of a story: a beginning, a middle and an end.
- Remember to include the following things when you begin to record your story:
- Introduce yourself as though you were in a meeting.
- Location. Are you in Georgia? California? Canada? This helps to set the scene for the listener. Details help.
Topics:
Here are some suggestions to get you thinking. Feel free to choose something else.
- An anecdote from your first 90 days
- My first sponsor
- Getting to Step One
- Going back to school sober
- Talking to family about your sobriety
- My first job sober
- My old friends, my new friends
- My favorite service commitment
- My favorite Step—and why
- Fun times in Sobriety (pick one)
- What got me into AA?
- How I deal with fear today
- What my sponsor taught me (something I'll never forget)
- How I found my Higher Power
- My favorite part of the Big Book
- Going on your first date in sobriety
- People, places and things
- A 9th Step amend that changed my life
- My sober morning routine
- How I pray
- My meditation