Best Sharon Davenport Podcasts (2024)

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Sharon E - We Deal with Addictions in the Order they are Killing Us - Meeting 280 58:00

3h ago58:00

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Sharon started her recovery journey on October 21, 1985 when she was released from the bondage of alcohol. Since then, she has uncovered and discovered other addictions and afflictions that she has experienced relief from. She is a grateful member of several 12-step programs including AA, FA, SLAA, Alanon/S-Anon, and ACoA. Sharon is grateful to be …

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Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions 1:08:46

23m ago1:08:46

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Today’s book is: Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions (Columbia UP, 2024), by Ernesto Castaneda and Carina Cione, which is a practical, evidence-based primer on immigrants and immigration. Each chapter debunks a frequently encountered claim and answers common questions. Presenting the latest findings and decades of interdiscipli…

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Chris D - A Sane and Sound Ideal - Afro -Euro - Meeting 279 1:01:56

2h ago1:01:56

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In today's Afro-Euro Reco12, Chris D speaks on a A Sane and Sound Ideal. Here is a little about Chris: Chris D comes from London, UK. He found the rooms of recovery via AlAnon, but found the program of recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous & Cocaine Anonymous and he has been clean & sober since 23/12/2005. He is grateful to have discovered that the prom…

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Gwen W - The 12 Steps Change Us from the Inside Out - Meeting 278 1:02:07

2h ago1:02:07

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Gwen spent almost 20 years going in and out of 12-step rooms, struggling to do her part to recover from her food addiction. After years of failing and relapse, she became suicidal. This scared her enough to make one final effort to find recovery . . . and she found it! The more Gwen focused her recovery efforts on a few basic practices outlined in …

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Sam L - A Decade of Recovery - Afro Euro - Meeting 277 1:04:32

7d ago1:04:32

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In today's Afro-Euro Reco12, Sam L speaks on a Decade of living in recovery. Here is a little about Sam: * Sobered up 1 April 2009-Dec 2013 * Only got sponsor 2012 * Cleaned up 1 Sept 2014 to date * Got sponsor armed with the facts * Home group CA St Pauls Cheltenham * 3 sponsees through steps in 2024 * 1 new sponsee * Fully surrendered to God 27 N…

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Sharon M. Quinsaat, "Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 57:59

4d ago57:59

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When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora (U Chicago Press, 2024), Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. Quinsaat looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlan…

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Sheryl A - Real Recovery - Meeting 276 1:05:09

7d ago1:05:09

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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 has set her free. She will talk about a new way of living beyond mere abstinence as she shares her experienc…

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In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Memory 1:03:14

8d ago1:03:14

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Alexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father—her last parent—brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chinese mythology. Today’s book is: In The Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic (Flashpoint Books, 2024), by Dr. Alexandra Chan, who is a left-brained arch…

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Nikki M - Reborn - Afro-Euro - Meeting 275 1:05:07

9d ago1:05:07

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In today's Afro-Euro Reco12, Nikki M speaks on being Reborn. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time zone hosted by Karen A. We hope that you will join us and draw strength and hope from these podcasts that we will host every other Wednesday at 9AM GMT / 11AM Israel time. Reco12 appreciates your help in keeping …

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Reco12 Ask-It Basket with Robert P, Michelle K, and Justin B - 2 1:05:44

10d ago1:05:44

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This week, Reco12 continues with the "Ask-it Basket" project we started in July with the Recovery Guy, Robert Pardon. Robert has been a speaker on the Reco12 Speaker Meeting Podcast several times on meetings 44, 91, and 145. In this conversation, Robert and Justin B bring in Michelle K, who has what I want, to discuss several more questions that we…

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Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019) 59:12

12d ago59:12

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One of my talking points when hanging out with my fellow diplomatic historians is the painful absence of scholarship on Hawaii. Too many political histories treat Hawaii’s statehood as a kind of historical inevitability, an event that was bound to pass the moment the kingdom was annexed. As I would frequently pontificate, “nobody has unpacked the i…

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Rax A - Deepening Emotional Sobriety: AA + CODA - Meeting 274 1:02:05

14d ago1:02:05

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Rax got sober from drugs and alcohol September 12th, 2011. She started working the steps of CoDependents Anonymous in September 2022. She currently has a sponsor, is a sponsor, and is working CoDA and AA steps. Rax has held CoDA workshops in FL, held service positions at different district levels, and always does service at group levels. She is alw…

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Tracy Pintchman, "Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple" (Oxford UP, 2023) 42:34

15d ago42:34

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The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen…

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Anthony B - Sponsorship - Afro-Euro - Meeting 273 43:26

16d ago43:26

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In today's Afro-Euro Reco12, Anthony B speaks on Sponsorship. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time zone hosted by Karen A. We hope that you will join us and draw strength and hope from these podcasts that we will host every other Wednesday at 9AM GMT / 11AM Israel time. Reco12 appreciates your help in keeping…

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Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle, "Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us" (Duke UP, 2024) 40:34

26d ago40:34

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Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us (Duke UP, 2024) explores the key role video games play within the race makings of Asia/America. Its fourteen critical essays on games, ranging from Death Stranding to Animal Crossing, and five roundtables with twenty Asian/American game makers examine the historical entanglements of…

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Erica Davenport - When Did I Decide to Change My Life - Meeting 272 56:23

21d ago56:23

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Erica Davenport is our speaker today. Here is a bit about her in her own words: "I was homeless and experienced domestic violence. Was almost killed and almost raped. One day I believe I met an angel through all of my scary moments who pulled me aside and told me she had been looking for me to give me a message. What she told me was amazing. And al…

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Karen A - Spiritual Life First... Or Else - Afro Euro - meeting 271 56:00

23d ago56:00

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Karen A talks about her experience with managing life when life gets lifey - Dealing with the overwhelming thoughts, while caring for a family, managing a career, builders/ renovations and continuing to show up when it's much easier for us to cut bait & run to cut back on recovery. Resting on our Laurels, however lets see how Karen A handles this i…

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Jay Westbrook - Staying Sober Through Life's Ups and Downs - Meeting 270 1:05:32

28d ago1:05:32

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Jay Westbrook has been sober since December 2nd, 1988. He spent most of that time in Los Angeles, but moved to Tupelo Mississippi two years ago. He's been a hospice nurse and Grief + Loss Counselor for over three decades. Jay authored "Compassionate Journeys: Lessons From My Work With the Dying," and has a new book "Relationship Resilience: Applyin…

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Alex - Spiritual Bypass 1:00:09

1M ago1:00:09

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Alex is speaking today as the guest on Reco12 with Silvio D as the host as Justin takes a couple of weeks for some vacation. Alex is a first time Reco12 speaker and speaks on Spiritual Bypass. Reco12 is all about exploring the common threads of addiction and sharing tools and hope from those on a similar path. We gather from diverse backgrounds, fa…

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Sam - Going at Gd's Pace on the Pathway of Recovery - Afro Euro - Meeting 268 56:39

1M ago56:39

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Today we will hear Sam in the Afro-Euro Reco12 Meeting. He will be speaking on the topic of Going at Gd's Pace on the Pathway of Recovery. Here is a little about Sam in his own words: I am Sam, a debtor and underearner. I have been working the the program with increasing intensity for the past three yesrs. I used to rotutinely max out credit cards,…

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Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle 51:38

2M ago51:38

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Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. The path to this nomination and the generation election has been a bit unusual—with President Joe Biden deciding not to pursue re-election but doing so after the primary season has concluded. Thus, there is a rather condensed election season, and Vice Pre…

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Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024) 1:00:16

1M ago1:00:16

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Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theatre, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles, yet with her US citizenship scrutinised due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant misfit—innovated nuanced performances to subvert the racism and sexism…

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Tom T - Right-sizing - Meeting 267 55:40

1M ago55:40

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Tom T is speaking today as the guest on Reco12 with Silvio D as the host as Justin takes a couple of weeks for some vacation. Tom T is a first time Reco12 speaker and speaks on Right-sizing. Reco12 is all about exploring the common threads of addiction and sharing tools and hope from those on a similar path. We gather from diverse backgrounds, fait…

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Inna M - Spiritual Experience - Afro Euro Meeting 266 1:05:32

2M ago1:05:32

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Today we will hear from Inna M in the Afro-Euro Reco12 Meeting. She will be speaking on the Spiritual Experience. Here is a little about Inna M in her own words: Inna alcoholic addict I work the steps through the Big Book Aa Recently started doing steps in Coda as well The program has changed my life in every way I was a hopeless walking tornado th…

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Christopher T. Fan, "Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:50:19

2M ago1:50:19

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After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engin…

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Cameron F - Responsible Sponsorship vs. Codependent Relationships - Meeting 265 58:08

2M ago58:08

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Cameron F is speaking today as the guest on Reco12 with Silvio D as the host as Justin takes a couple of weeks for some vacation. Cameron has spoken on 3 previous Reco12 meetings as is a very involved member of Cocaine Anonymous and also hosts the monthly 12 Steps in 4 Hours workshops. His topic today will be on Responsible Sponsorship vs. Codepend…

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Reco12 Ask-it Basket with the Recovery Guy - Robert Pardon 54:47

2M ago54:47

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This week, Reco12 branched out a little and did an "Ask-it Basket" with the Recovery Guy, Robert Pardon. Robert has been a speaker on the Reco12 Speaker Meeting Podcast several times on meetings 44, 91, and 145. In this conversation, Robert and Justin B discuss about 10 questions that were submitted from various addicts from various backgrounds and…

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Nira M - How to Sit with Grief - Afro-Euro - Meeting 264 1:00:58

2M ago1:00:58

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Nira M speaks to us on how to sit with Grief in this Afro-Euro meeting of Reco12. Here is a little about Nira in her own words: I am recovered codependent and sex and love addict from Sweden, a member of CoDA, SLAA and SAA. I found my way into the rooms during the summer of 2022. My homegroup is The Nordic Primary Purpose Group of Sex Addicts Anony…

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Krissy F - My Painful Past is the Key to Helping Others - Meeting 263 1:04:47

2M ago1:04:47

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Only by the grace of God, Krissy F is still alive. She has been sober since December 6, 2006, but stayed sick sober for a long time, suffering from untreated alcoholism without realizing it. Krissy did the program 'her way,' avoiding certain steps and excluding God. For 14.5 years, she hung on by 'not drinking and going to meetings.' When she final…

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Evan P - Journey Through Al-Anon, Ala-Teen, Nar-Teen - Afro-Euro - Meeting 262 56:17

2M ago56:17

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Evan P speaks to us on his journey through Al-Anon, Ala-Teen, and Nar-Teen in this Afro-Euro meeting of Reco12. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time zone hosted by Karen A. We hope that you will join us and draw strength and hope from these podcasts that we will host every other Wednesday at 9AM GMT / 11AM Is…

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Mike L - Spirituality in Recovery - Meeting 261 1:02:35

2M ago1:02:35

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Mike L is a sober coach with 36 years of sober and clean lived experience and he has come to believe that he is a spiritual being having a human experience. Mike uses the 3 Legacy model of Unity (Meetings), Service (Helping Others) and Recovery (Practicing Spiritual Principles) to hold off the full-blown return of Stinking Thinking, which in his ex…

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Tobias W - Carry the Message Not the Addict - Afro-Euro - Meeting 260 58:18

2M ago58:18

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Tobias W speaks to us on the topic of carrying the message, not the addict in this Afro-Euro meeting of Reco12. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time zone hosted by Karen A. We hope that you will join us and draw strength and hope from these podcasts that we will host every other Wednesday at 9AM GMT / 11AM Is…

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William Gow, "Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community" (Stanford UP, 2024) 1:05:40

2M ago1:05:40

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This episode features a conversation with Dr. William Gow on his recently published book, Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community (Stanford University Press, 2024), focuses on the 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles–its Chinatowns, and “city,” as well as the Chinese American community’s relationship with Hol…

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Jonathan Tran, "Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2021) 31:20

2M ago31:20

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Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approaches to antiracist theory and practice. The first emphasizes racial identity to the exclusion of political economy, making racialized life in America illegible. This approach's prevalence, in the academ…

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Michael S - Life After 11 Years in Recovery - Meeting 259 1:04:57

3M ago1:04:57

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Michael S has been in a variety of 12 Step fellowships over the last 11years. His primary fellowship is AA, even though he is not an alcoholic-He will explain. Currently, he is most active in SLAA and CODA. Michael's favorite topic to talk on is Emotional Sobriety but in this meeting he will talk about his experience sober dating and what living re…

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Samira Mehta, "The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging" (Beacon Press, 2023) 57:02

2M ago57:02

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The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging (Beacon Press, 2023) is an unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds. In this emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative blend of memoir, cultural crit…

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Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024) 53:52

2M ago53:52

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Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the nation. This sea change presents a unique opportunity to dissect both the environmental impacts of modern-world resource extraction and the obscured yet damaging ways in whic…

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Amit - Prejudice - Afro Euro - Meeting 258 53:38

3M ago53:38

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Amit speaks to us on the topic of prejudice in this Afro-Euro meeting of Reco12. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time zone hosted by Karen A. We hope that you will join us and draw strength and hope from these podcasts that we will host every other Wednesday at 9AM GMT / 11AM Israel time. Reco12 appreciates y…

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Tony H - Identification - Meeting 257 54:23

3M ago54:23

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Tony’s recovery bio is a story of relapses and brief moments of continuous sobriety. It wasn’t until he completely gave himself to this simple program that he found peace and felt clean inside. In this meeting Tony talks about identification as an alcoholic and the importance of finding a place where you fit in. Reco12 is all about exploring the co…

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Sorayya Khan, "We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir" (Ohio State UP, 2022) 58:12

3M ago58:12

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Today’s book is: We Take Our Cities With Us (Ohio State UP, 2022), by Sorayya Khan. After her mother’s death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, and her own Pakistani-Dutch heritage in a multicultural memoir that unfolds over seven cities and three continents. We Take Our Cities with Us ushers us …

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J. Megan Greene, "Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II" (Harvard UP, 2022) 1:20:02

3M ago1:20:02

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Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II (Harvard UP, 2022) argues that the Chinese Nationalist government’s retreat inland during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), its consequent need for inland resources, and its participation in new scientific…

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David F - The Foundation Stone of Recovery is Helping Others - Afro-Euro - Meeting 256 54:59

3M ago54:59

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David F speaks to us on the foundation stone of recovery being that of helping others in this Afro-Euro meeting of Reco12. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time zone hosted by Karen A. We hope that you will join us and draw strength and hope from these podcasts that we will host every other Wednesday at 9AM GM…

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Kevin B - The Role of HP in the 12 Steps - Meeting 255 57:40

3M ago57:40

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Kevin got sober in Sexaholics Anonymous on June 11, 2019. He was first introduced to SA in 2001 by a therapist, but he didn't know yet how to be rigorously honest, so he faded away from the Program after a few years. After HP returned him to the Program in 2018, he thought he could skip right over Steps 2 and 3 because his faith practice had alread…

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Rachel Khong, "Real Americans" (Knopf, 2024) 46:47

3M ago46:47

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Real Americans (Knopf, 2024) begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more di…

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Debi S - 9th Step Healing - Meeting 254 1:04:50

3M ago1:04:50

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Debi's 1st sober date was in 1987. Her current & permanent sober date is 1/31/94. After a long history of trouble at home, school, & with police, including rehab, detox, jail, DUI, psych ward, diagnoses, medication, etc. Debi finally surrendered. After 3.5 years sober for the 2nd time, she was ready to suicide. In this situation she allowed a recov…

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Babe K - A Design for Living - Meeting 253 57:54

4M ago57:54

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Babe K was separated from alcohol on March 2, 2002. His initial experience with the fellowship was unspectacular but he immediately fell in love with the Big Book. Through the process and discipline of the twelve steps,he has been given a life of useful joy beyond his wildest dreams. Today he speaks on A Design for Living. Reco12 is all about explo…

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Dennis T - Sober is Not Well - Meeting 252 1:03:54

4M ago1:03:54

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Dennis T in Alaska is sober since July 29th, 2014. He came into the program after experiencing 40 years of pain and destruction and being unable to stop. The program has given him principles and tools to practice and live by on a daily basis. His experience showed him that only "not doing" left him sick and suffering, and the only path to freedom w…

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Gina Chung, "Green Frog: Stories" (Vintage, 2024) 36:05

4M ago36:05

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From the author of Sea Change comes Green Frog: Stories (Vintage, 2024) a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival. Equal parts fantastical--a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancho…

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Angie and Kevin H - You Were Stronger than My Lust - Meeting 251 1:04:12

4M ago1:04:12

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Angie H from Missouri has a 3-16-15 SA and AA sober date and does a ton of program service including being a Phone meeting moderator, Helping to start a local meeting that is going strong. Phone and Zoom Speaker shares, Key note SA speaker in the Golden Colorado Mother Cabrini Retreat in 2019. Angie also Formed a Local SA group fellowship in her ar…

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The Translator's Daughter: A Discussion with Grace Loh Prasad 53:21

4M ago53:21

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Today’s book is: The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir (Mad Creek Books, 2024), by Grace Loh Prasad, which is a unique immigration story about the loneliness of living in a diaspora, the search for belonging, and the meaning of home. Born in Taiwan, Grace Loh Prasad was two years old when the threat of political persecution under Chiang Kai-shek’s di…

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