For more than 20 years, Recovery Speakers has helped preserve the living history of the recovery movement — with a special focus on Alcoholics Anonymous, early AA history, and some of the most important recovery recordings ever captured.

Over the years, the Recovery Speakers archive has grown into one of the world’s most meaningful collections of recovery experience, strength, and hope.

The archive contains historic recordings from:

* AA founders and early pioneers,

* speakers from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s,

* historic conventions and meetings,

* and many of the voices that helped shape the recovery movement itself.

These recordings are far more than audio files.

They are pieces of recovery history.

For years, listeners around the world have turned to Recovery Speakers during moments of desperation, loneliness, healing, spiritual awakening, and recovery. Researchers, authors, historians, documentary filmmakers, and producers have also used these recordings and archives to help preserve and share the history of recovery with future generations.

Recently, Recovery Speakers experienced a catastrophic infrastructure failure involving a former hosting environment. As a result, more than 35,000 media file associations and production delivery systems were permanently removed from the live server environment.

While devastating, the archive itself still survives.

Over the years, Recovery Speakers preserved backup copies of recordings and media assets across multiple hard drives and archival sources. What was lost was the massive infrastructure, organization systems, file mapping, naming structures, and automated delivery platform that connected the archive to the public website.

And while this moment has been incredibly difficult, it has also created an extraordinary opportunity.

We Are Building the Future of Recovery Preservation

Recovery Speakers is now moving full speed ahead toward building a completely new, state-of-the-art recovery archive and research platform designed for the future.

The new Recovery Speakers platform will be dramatically more powerful, searchable, stable, and accessible than anything we have built before.

The new platform is being designed to include:

* Massive searchable audio and video archives

* Full talk transcriptions

* Real-time captions synchronized to recordings

* Historical photographs and recovery documents

* Rare pioneer speaker collections

* Downloadable workbooks and study materials

* AI-powered “Ask the Archive” search tools

* Powerful topic and keyword discovery

* YouTube and Spotify integration

* Mobile-friendly streaming across phones and computers

* A dedicated Recovery Speakers mobile app

* Long-term digital preservation systems

* Automated archive management and media organization

Our vision is to create one of the most comprehensive digital recovery preservation and research libraries ever assembled anywhere in the world.

More importantly, we want to build it correctly:

* stable,

* modern,

* protected,

* searchable,

* and designed to preserve these voices for generations to come.

Why We Need Immediate Help

The archive itself survives, but the rebuilding effort ahead is enormous.

Thousands of recordings and assets now need to be:

* located,

* reorganized,

* renamed,

* reindexed,

* uploaded,

* synchronized,

* and integrated into an entirely new automated platform infrastructure.

This process requires:

* development resources,

* cloud infrastructure,

* archival management systems,

* AI and transcription technologies,

* storage and preservation systems,

* engineering support,

* and full platform redevelopment.

Our long-term goal is to raise $250,000 to fully complete the Recovery Speakers platform and preservation project.

However, our immediate emergency goal is to raise $50,000 over the next several weeks so we can rapidly accelerate development and launch the foundation of the new platform as quickly as possible.

With sufficient support, we believe we can begin rolling out the new Recovery Speakers platform as early as mid-June while continuing to expand and build the archive in real time.

The Message Continues

Recovery Speakers has never simply been a website.

It has been:

* a meeting between meetings,

* a source of hope during difficult moments,

* a connection to recovery history,

* and a reminder that no one has to walk this path alone.

If Recovery Speakers has ever helped you, inspired you, supported your recovery, or preserved a piece of history meaningful to your life, we humbly ask for your support during this next chapter.

Together, we are not simply rebuilding what existed before.

We are building the future of recovery preservation.

Thank you for believing in this mission.

The message continues.

— Mike Fitzpatrick & The Recovery Speakers Team