Breakfast with an Alcoholic: Episode X

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Breakfast with an Alcoholic: Episode X

Breakfast with Matt @ Gracie's Corner Diner

T.B.D.

May 20, 2022

My breakfast with Matt was a real treat, and not just because pancakes were involved. Matt is a firefighter and a yoga instructor and a dad from the East Bronx and he just celebrated 6 years of sobriety. Matt talks about how following the words in the Big Book got him sober and he is very involved in the recovery community. Matt helps run Big Book Awareness Groups and a Big Book-oriented AA meeting that draws hundreds of people every night on Zoom. Matt helps a lot of people, but don’t take my word for it—

Make sure to check out the Liner Notes for Episode X, too!

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Liner Notes for Episode X

I had a really great breakfast with Matt and I hope you’ve had a chance to listen. If not, I get it, things happen. Fortunately, it’s a super-easy problem to fix: When Matt sat down at the diner for “breakfast” the first thing that struck me was that he’s a powerful person. I don’t mean he was performing random but impressive feats of strength, although …

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Pour yourself a cup of coffee and join us!

Don’t forget, it’s never too late to listen to earlier episodes of Breakfast with an Alcoholic, like Episode Nine for example:

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Breakfast with an Alcoholic: Episode Nine

Listen now (13 min) | I can’t wait for you to hear my breakfast with Jane! She’s a 22 year-old digital talent manager and has four months of sobriety. It takes a mountain of courage to walk into that first AA meeting, especially coming in at 22 and all alone. I think the story of Jane’s first AA meeting is really moving and so worth listening to. Her perspective on early so…

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Or, you could get old school and go back to the beginning:

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Episode One: Welcome to Breakfast with an Alcoholic

Listen now (9 min) | Welcome to Breakfast with an Alcoholic! Join me and my friends to talk about addiction, recovery and whatever else comes up—usually over pancakes from the one of the Upper East Side’s finest diners…

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Be well, stay groovy, go to a meeting and call your sponsor!

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Breakfast with an Alcoholic

Welcome to Breakfast with an Alcoholic! Pour yourself a cup of coffee while we discuss addiction, recovery, how we got sober and what life is like now. To be fair, we get sidetracked pretty often talking about 1970’s music or the Planet of the Apes movies or whatever—all from one of the Upper East Side’s finest diners. It’s a strictly BYOP affair...

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