Juliet Warner shares her raw, unfiltered journey through addiction, relapse, recovery, and redemption. From a lonely childhood and early substance use to rehabs, relapse after nearly a decade sober, and ultimately rebuilding her life, marriage, and purpose—this conversation is a powerful reminder that addiction doesn’t always look the way we expect.

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DJ ActRight sits down with Kevin Lanning to share his powerful journey from active addiction to over 2.5 years sober — all while living a true double life.

By day, he’s a middle school teacher in West Virginia. By night and on weekends, he’s touring the country as Petey Pablo’s DJ, performing in packed venues where alcohol and temptation are everywhere. After a DUI became his wake-up call, DJ ActRight made the decision to get sober and hold himself accountable — even behind the DJ booth.

In this episode, DJ ActRight opens up about:

The shame and mental battles of active addiction

Why “once I started, I couldn’t stop” didn’t look how people expect

Getting sober in party environments and staying accountable

Touring sober, support from artists and bartenders, and setting boundaries

Marriage, living amends, and rebuilding trust

Why there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recovery

This is a raw, honest conversation about discipline, purpose, and proving to yourself — one day at a time — that change is possible.

If this episode helps even one person, it’s done its job.

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Michelle Falco opens up about the hidden battle she fought for years — an eating disorder rooted in anxiety, ADHD, perfectionism, and a deep fear of not being enough.

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In this powerful conversation, Michelle shares:

How her eating disorder began in adolescence

The role dissociation, OCD traits, and intrusive thoughts played

Why going to treatment in 2018 changed — and saved — her life

Leaving a successful career in advertising to pursue purpose

Becoming a licensed social worker and helping others heal

Building a mindfulness-based wellness brand with her husband

This episode is a raw look at what suffering can look like behind a “normal” life — and how recovery, humility, and self-awareness can lead to a completely new path.

If you or someone you love is struggling with an eating disorder, anxiety, or addiction, this conversation may help you feel less alone.

You are not broken. You are human. And healing is possible.

#EatingDisorderRecovery #MentalHealthAwareness #DisorderedEating #RecoveryJourney #AnxietyHealing #ADHDAwareness #MindfulnessPractice #HealingStory #WomenInRecovery #RiseAbove

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Amy spent decades battling addiction in different forms—anorexia, obsession, control, and ultimately alcohol. From hiding vodka in her bedroom while raising her kids to blacking out during COVID, Amy lived a double life that nearly cost her everything.

In this raw and emotional conversation, Amy shares how childhood trauma, OCD, eating disorders, toxic relationships, and owning bars all fueled her addiction. She opens up about the terrifying moments her kids found her passed out, the shame of hiding bottles, and the day her family finally said the words she’d been praying to hear: “You need help.”

Three years sober, Amy proves that recovery is possible—even when alcohol is everywhere—and that sobriety isn’t about willpower, but healing the mind behind the addiction.

If you or someone you love is struggling, this episode could be the one that helps you take the first step.

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Andrew’s story is a raw, unfiltered look at what severe alcoholism actually looks like behind the scenes.

From growing up with crippling anxiety and a heart condition, to discovering alcohol at 18 and immediately losing control, Andrew spiraled into years of relapse, hospitalizations, psych wards, self-harm, legal consequences, and 13 rehab attempts — all before the age of 27.

He drank every morning, worked remote jobs while intoxicated, ran from police during a wellness check involving helicopters and K-9 units, and endured life-threatening alcohol withdrawals that landed him in ambulances and ERs multiple times in a single night.

In this episode, Andrew breaks down:

Why willpower and discipline never worked for him

How anxiety, fear, and control fueled his addiction

What alcohol withdrawal really feels like

Why alcohol and benzos are among the most dangerous withdrawals

How understanding addiction as a disease changed everything

The exact moment he surrendered and finally stayed sober

Today, Andrew is over 2.5 years sober, living with purpose, helping others, and proving that even when everything looks lost, recovery is still possible.

This episode is for:

Anyone struggling with alcohol or addiction

Loved ones trying to understand the disease

People who keep relapsing and feel hopeless

Anyone who believes they’ve “tried everything”

If this story helps even one person, it’s worth telling.

#Alcoholism #AddictionRecovery #SobrietyJourney #RecoveryIsPossible #MentalHealthAwareness #AlcoholRecovery #LifeInRecovery #RelapseRecovery #PsychWardSurvivor #AddictionIsADisease #NearDeathExperience #SobrietyStories #TraumaHealing #AnxietyRecovery #SubstanceAbuseRecovery #RecoveryPodcast #RiseAbovePodcast #SoberLife #SoberCommunity

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Neva Coleman shares her raw and deeply honest journey through high-functioning alcoholism, trauma, perfectionism, and getting sober at a young age — long before her life “looked” like it was falling apart.

In this episode of Rise Above with Kevin Lanning, Neva opens up about growing up in New Jersey, losing her father in the 9/11 attacks, excelling academically and socially, and how alcohol slowly became her coping mechanism. What started as “normal college drinking” at Tulane University escalated into blackouts, extreme anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and a terrifying 3-day Mardi Gras bender that led her to call the suicide hotline.

Despite near-death moments, being roofied, severe withdrawals, and repeated attempts to moderate, Neva continued drinking — a reality many people in active addiction know all too well. This conversation dives into the truth about alcohol use disorder, why “high-functioning” doesn’t mean healthy, and how denial can keep someone stuck for years.

Neva also talks candidly about:

Getting sober in her early 20s

Why she didn’t identify as an alcoholic at first

Trying moderation and why it failed

Anxiety, perfectionism, and people-pleasing

The loneliness of early sobriety

Finding community through AA and therapy

Healing her relationship with her mother

Using social media to break stigma and help others

This episode is for anyone who:

Thinks their drinking isn’t “bad enough”

Is successful on the outside but struggling inside

Is afraid sobriety means life will be boring

Is sober-curious, newly sober, or struggling in silence

If this conversation resonates with you, you are not alone — and help is available.

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In this raw and deeply emotional episode of Rise Above with Kevin Lanning, Caylene shares the full truth of her battle with alcoholism — a battle that nearly cost her life.

What began as “normal” wine drinking slowly escalated into daily dependence, hiding alcohol around her home, drinking before work, and waking up shaking until her first sip. During COVID, her addiction spiraled until her family staged an intervention that saved her life.

Soon after, doctors diagnosed Caylene with end-stage liver disease and cirrhosis. She experienced severe alcohol withdrawal, hallucinations, massive fluid buildup that made her look pregnant for over a year, repeated hospitalizations, invasive medical procedures, and was placed on the liver transplant list.

Over the course of two years sober, Caylene endured:

Liver failure and cirrhosis

Weekly and twice-weekly fluid drainage procedures

Withdrawal without rehab

Life-threatening hospitalizations

Emergency surgery removing part of her intestines

A TIPS procedure that ultimately saved her life

Today, Caylene is over two years sober, medically stable, and using her story to help others who feel trapped in addiction.

This episode is a reminder that alcoholism doesn’t always look chaotic — until it suddenly is. And that it’s never too late to ask for help.

If you or someone you love is struggling, this episode may save a life.

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Tony had everything on the outside — money, sales success, status, and opportunity — but inside he was spiraling fast.

In this episode of Rise Above, Tony opens up about his descent into gambling addiction, Adderall abuse, cocaine use, and a terrifying 5-day stimulant binge that nearly cost him his life. What began as discipline and ambition turned into obsession, hallucinations, paranoia, and suicidal thoughts.

Tony shares:

How gambling became his first addiction at just 16

Making over $100,000 playing poker and losing it all

How Adderall fueled sales success — then completely rewired his brain

Snorting prescription stimulants just to feel normal

A 5-day binge that led to hallucinations, psychosis, and thoughts of jumping

Losing trust, money, relationships, and self-identity

Why quitting Adderall was harder than quitting drugs

How faith, discipline, and small daily wins rebuilt his life

Finding peace, purpose, and sobriety after surrendering everything

Today, Tony is over a year and a half sober, a present husband and father, financially stable, debt-free, grounded in faith, and finally at peace.

This is a raw conversation about addiction that doesn’t get talked about enough — prescription drugs, performance addiction, and the dangerous lie of “success at any cost.”

If you’re struggling, questioning your choices, or feeling trapped in a cycle you can’t escape — this episode is for you.

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Millicent Huser is a conscious leadership practitioner, trauma-informed mentor, and recovery professional with over 22 years of sobriety and more than two decades working in mental health, addiction treatment, and organizational leadership.

In this episode of Rise Above, Millicent explains why putting down alcohol was only the beginning of her journey. Years into sobriety, unresolved trauma, insecurity, and emotional patterns resurfaced — forcing her to confront the deeper inner work required to stay sober, grounded, and fulfilled long-term.

Millicent shares how her work today focuses on emotional sobriety, trauma healing, habit transformation, and conscious leadership, helping individuals and organizations create environments where people can grow without burnout, shame, or control. Drawing from her experience working with treatment centers, executive teams, and leaders, she breaks down how workplace culture, identity, and unhealed wounds can quietly undermine recovery — even decades later.

This conversation goes beyond addiction and speaks to anyone who has done “the right things” but still feels lost, disconnected, or unfulfilled. Millicent’s upcoming book, Answering the Call, offers a blueprint for conscious leadership and living with purpose — in recovery, work, and life.

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This episode of Rise Above with Kevin Lanning is one of the most intense, raw, and powerful stories we’ve ever shared.

Jana began using painkillers at 14 years old, progressed to shooting heroin daily, and by 18 was homeless, blacklisted by drug dealers, and clinically dead after an overdose so severe she left her body.

In this interview, Jana shares:

Growing up in chaos and trauma

Dating dangerous drug dealers as a teenager

Shooting heroin, meth, and crack

A near-death experience where she watched herself turn blue

Being told she had to return to her body

Surviving homelessness, addiction, and overwhelming survivor’s guilt

Getting sober at 19 years old

Using methadone and Suboxone when few believed in medication-assisted recovery

Rebuilding her nervous system, faith, and identity

Losing her younger brother to suicide

And building a life today filled with purpose, discipline, love, and freedom

Jana now has 14 years sober and lives a life rooted in honesty, movement, faith, and service.

This is not just a story about addiction—

If you or someone you love is struggling, this episode could save a life.

#RiseAbove #HeroinAddiction #RecoveryStory #AddictionRecovery #NearDeathExperience #SobrietyJourney #OpiateEpidemic #MentalHealth #TraumaHealing #MethadoneRecovery #SuboxoneRecovery #HomelessToHope #SoberLife #HealingJourney #SecondChances

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