Give It, Give It, Give It Away Now (The Daily Trudge)
Give It, Give It, Give It Away Now (The Daily Trudge)

RAW Recovery Podcast

Dion talks candidly about why recovery has to be shared through service and sponsorship, grounding his views in AA literature and his own experience. With humour and direct challenges, he focuses on step twelve, higher power, and the importance of helping newcomers to keep sobriety strong.

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42:37•11 Apr 2026

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Give It Away to Keep It: Service, Sponsorship and the Daily Trudge

Episode Overview

Recovery gifts are meant to be shared; helping others is what keeps sobriety alive and meaningful.
Step twelve is presented as essential, with practical work with other alcoholics offering more than just immunity from drinking.
Fear, ego and pride often block people from sponsoring, even when the Big Book gives clear guidance on how to help.
Faith or a higher power is described as present in everyone, but Dion stresses that good intentions matter more than forcing beliefs.
Accountability through committees and community-based meetings helps keep service focused on helping others rather than ego.

“"You can help when no one else can."”

What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? This Daily Trudge instalment of RAW Recovery drops you right into Dion’s easy-going, slightly chaotic, but deeply honest take on what it means to "give it away" in recovery. Drawing on the *Working With Others* chapter from the Big Book and Hazelden literature, Dion talks about how sobriety is something "freely given" that has to be shared to be kept.

You’ll hear him break down the classic sequence "I came, I came to, I came to believe" and link it to steps one, two and three, stressing that "deep down in every man, woman, and child is the fundamental idea of God." He openly shares his own wobbly journey with faith, saying he hasn’t read the Bible and leans on the Big Book as his guide, while still insisting that people who "vehemently do not believe in God" can have good intentions and be worth supporting.

He jokes his way in with "dion's daily funnies" and playful Red Hot Chili Peppers references – "Give it away, give it away, give it away now" – but he keeps circling back to one serious question: are you actually passing on what you’ve been given? A big chunk of the chat centres on step twelve, sponsorship and fear.

Dion challenges people who "sit on their butt and wait for somebody to ask" for sponsorship, insisting that "you can help when no one else can" and that intensive work with other alcoholics is what brings "gratitude, joy, serenity" – not just immunity from drinking. He also shares how creating committees and community meetings keeps him accountable and stops things turning into "the dion show".

If you’re sober, sober-curious, or stuck in a rut with meetings and service, this honest mix of humour, AA history, and practical challenge might get you asking: what are you doing with the gifts you’ve been given?

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