Rise Above with Kevin Lanning

Hiding Vodka & Shaking Every Day | I Needed A Drink So Bad I Walked Into A Murder Scene

Holly Hiles has six years of sobriety and a story that’s almost hard to believe. Growing up she bounced through twelve schools, leaned on her twin brother, and lost her f

You Don't Have To Hit Rock Bottom To Stop Drinking

Cadence came on Rise Above with a story that breaks the mold most people picture when they hear “sober.” She never drank in high school, never craved alcohol, and to this

I Was Told Kratom Was Harmless...It Was The Hardest Thing I Ever Quit

Tiffany Mercer flew across the country to tell a story most people in recovery have never heard put into words. She’d already done the hard work — sober from alcohol, yea

I Was A 7-Time Felon On Alabama's Most Wanted | Heroin Addiction Left Me Homeless Living Out of My Car

Amanda Lee grew up a privileged, straight-A overachiever in Birmingham who dreamed of becoming a nurse — but by 10 she was gripped by crippling anxiety, and her very firs

By 8th Grade I Was Getting High With The Homeless In Parking Garages

Lauren Latterell grew up moving from home to home around Palo Alto, never quite feeling like she belonged — and by middle school, she'd found that alcohol and drugs could

I Was A Porn Star Drowning In Cocaine & Whiskey — Now I'm A Sober Mom

From the outside, Riley Jensen was living a life a lot of people fantasize about — a successful adult-film career, thousands of dollars a week, flying around the world, t

At 17 A Car Crash Sent Me Down A 15-Year Spiral Into Addiction

Jonathan Gale was a 17-year-old athlete in small-town Wyoming when one lunchtime car ride changed the course of his life. His cousin, driving, inhaled air duster, passed

I Robbed The Bank I Worked At...Then Stripped For 20 Years & Ended Up On Crack

Allison Doss grew up in a tiny, divided Louisiana town, in a home ruled by fear — and from a young age she learned she could survive anything and bend the world to her wi

I Made Six Figures A Month On Wall Street...Then I Was Eating Out Of Garbage Cans

Ray Rapaglia had the life most people chase — a six-figure-a-month Wall Street career, a nightclub he owned with other brokers, celebrity parties, models, Ferraris. But n

I Drank For Almost 30 Years Before I Finally Got Sober

Polly Pierce spent nearly three decades lost in alcoholism — and from the outside, she kept up the appearance of a churchgoing mom who had it together. Underneath was a l

I Never Had An Off Switch With Alcohol....My First Drink Was A Blackout

Elena Sanders grew up anxious, highly emotional, and feeling like she never quite fit in — a sensitive kid carrying far more than any child should. By the time she was a

I Had The Corporate Dream Job & A Drinking Problem No One Saw

From the outside, Mike Cavallaro had the blueprint: prep school, college athlete, investment banker with the title and the money. But a career-ending back injury stripped

I Was Snorting Fentanyl Every Day...Now I'm 3 Years Sober

From the outside, Mike Van Holderbeke had no reason to end up where he did — a two-parent home, food in the fridge, gifts under the tree, a successful older brother. But

Cocaine, Nightclubs & the FBI | Ingrid Casares Reveals Her Wild Addiction & Recovery Story

Ingrid Casares lived through the cocaine-fueled Miami of the 1980s, multiple trips to treatment, relapse, fame, the height of the South Beach nightclub scene — and even a

I Overdosed on Heroin at 20 | Beauty Queen Reveals the SHOCKING Addiction That Nearly Killed Her

From the outside, Victoria Treadwell was the picture of the all-American girl — raised on a 295-acre dairy farm in upstate New York, a crowned dairy princess and beauty q

I Was Severely Burned In A Fire At 14 | Then The Pain Meds Led Me To Fentanyl

William Ellis was 14 years old, a freshman in high school, when gas splashed onto him near a smoldering fire and he went up in flames from the waist up. He survived secon

I Was A Straight-A Student Blacking Out Every Weekend By 13

Paris Bazley had her first drink at 13 — and blacked out that very first night. From the outside, nothing looked wrong: she was a straight-A student in AP classes, gradua

Delonte West on Recovery, Rock Bottom & Rebuilding His Life

Delonte West lived a dream millions of kids chase — a standout at Saint Joseph's, drafted into the NBA at 21, and years in the league alongside legends like Paul Pierce,

My Dad Taught Me How To Do Cocaine At 16 | My Whole Family Was Addicted

Cody Ellis grew up as the youngest of three in a small Georgia town, and by the time he was a teenager, addiction had swallowed his entire family. It started when his old

Alcohol Was The Only Thing That Quieted My Anxiety — So I Drank Until I Blacked Out

From the outside, Zac Spowart had every reason to be fine — loving parents, a disciplined home, good grades, a heart-surgeon father. But from around 13, he was being crus