Podcast Episodes

I Found Out I Was Adopted At 13, Got My First DUI At 18 & Did 4 Months In Jail | 3.5 Years Sober

Rise Above | Adam Vohra's Story

Adam Vohra grew up in Connecticut ....a kid of color in a Jewish day school who always felt different. At 13 he found…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

I Blacked Out Every Night While Running The San Francisco Bureau of HuffPost | Highrise Suicide Attempt and How I Got Sober

Carly Schwartz had a career most journalists only dream about. Running the San Francisco Bureau of HuffPost at 26. On the leadership team of one of t…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

I Drank A Bottle Of Scotch Every Night | From Alcoholic Depression to 39 Years Sober | Suebelle Robbins

Suebelle Robbins had a life that looked like a movie. Playboy Bunny by night, first grade teacher by day. Travel escort taking groups to Hawaii and S…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Inside A Chicago Street Junkie's 20-Year Spiral | 3 DUIs, Heroin, Cook County Jail & Finding God

Mike Supak was a Division 1 track athlete. He never touched a drop of alcohol in four years of high school. He was structured, dedicated, trustworthy…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

I Was Taking 10 Xanax Bars A Night At 17, Stabbed A Woman At 37 Weeks Pregnant & Sat On A Sidewalk Ready To Die | 11 Years Sober

Crystal Meliea grew up alone on 183 acres of North Carolina mountain property with a narcissist mother who left her unsupervised with music industry …

3 months ago

I Made My First Million On Wall Street At 28 & Was Broke & Addicted To Opiates By 30

TJ DelVecchio was a Division 1 baseball player at Providence College who walked onto Wall Street during the dot-com boom and made his first million d…

3 months ago

Inside A Functioning Mom's Secret Alcoholism | My 30-Year Battle With Alcoholism

Kyle Garges had everything — a loving husband, a beautiful daughter, a career in advertising sales, and a life that looked perfectly put together fro…

3 months ago

7-OH Pills Destroyed My Life | The SHOCKING Truth About 7-Hydroxymitragynine Addiction

You can buy it at a gas station. It's sold next to energy drinks and lottery tickets. And it almost destroyed Matt Dean's life.

Matt Dean had already…

3 months, 1 week ago

I Was Held Hostage By The Cartel In Mexico | Inside A College Addict's Spiral

John Luedke had it all on paper — a scholarship to Michigan State, a successful father, a big house, and every material thing a kid could want. But u…

3 months, 1 week ago

I Was A Teacher With Two DUIs | 30 Years of Alcoholism & Finding Sobriety

Elisa Nicole Saunders was a Palm Beach County schoolteacher, standing in front of classrooms every day — and quietly drinking and drugging her way th…

3 months, 1 week ago