Rise Above with Kevin Lanning

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

  October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

  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 will. That drive took her everywhere it shouldn't: robbing the very…

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

  October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

  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 none of it was ever enough. Over 34 years, his drinking and drug use…

• I Drank For Almost 30 Years Before I Finally Got Sober

  October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

  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 life unraveling: a toxic boyfriend who was a bookie, the afternoon she…

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

  October 4, 2026 · 1 hr 57 min

  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 teenager, she'd found the one thing that finally quieted her mind…

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

  October 3, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

  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 away the only identity he'd ever known, and in the years that…

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

  October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

  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 addiction doesn't discriminate. What started with weed in seventh…

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

  September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

  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 federal investigation that brought the FBI to her door. In this…

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

  September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

  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 queen, an honor-society athlete who seemed to do it all. What no one…