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come back to the Hell Has an Exit Speaker Tape Series. Today’s episode features NA Speaker Jose P. Jose shares the spiritual and emotional journey through what he’s been through and what he’s currently going through. In the Puerto Rican culture, there Is something called “Espiritismo”. When Jose was only 10 years old his mother brought him before a “Spiritista” who told Jose and his mother that he...

Welcome back to the Hell Has an Exit Speaker Tape Series. Today’s episode features NA Speaker Ousmane D. Ousmane begins his story from the day he remembers his childhood innocence being stripped from him. His mother sat him down and told him what it meant to be black, poor and be living on the wrong side of the tracks. From that very day, the light of his spirit began to dull as his reality made h...

Welcome back to the Hell Has an Exit Speaker Tape Series. Today we bring you episode 4 of the speaker tape series featuring AA Speaker Scott R. Scott grew up in an extremely toxic household with a long history of mental and physical abuse coupled with the generational curse of addiction. While his struggles with addiction began with heroin, things ultimately manifested through alcohol. Scott share...

Welcome back to the Hell Has an Exit Speaker Tape Series. Today we bring you episode 3 of the speaker tape series featuring the one and only, Khalis. Khalis spent 40 years of his life enslaved to the grips of his addiction. By the grace of God and thanks to the rooms, Khalis has found a new life in recovery. Khalis has a true gift when it comes to speaking and sharing the message. This is one of t...

Welcome back to the Hell Has an Exit Speaker Tape Series. Today we bring you episode 2 featuring Tommy O. This deeply moving share is one for the books. Tommy opens about his deeply troubled past and brings addicts around the world an unmistakable message of hope and redemption. While serving a life sentence, Tommy found the rooms and through his dedication and involvement was able to get clean an...

Welcome to the Hell Has an Exit Speaker Tape Series! Today we kick off with episode 1 featuring speaker Sean E. Sean gets honest and shares some of his deepest darkest truths with his audience. In this share, Sean opens up about the traumas that shaped his life and the things that led him to a life of addiction and hopelessness. Through his journey in recovery, Sean has learned to get painstakingl...

Welcome Back to Episode 92 of the Hell Has an Exit Podcast. On this Episode Bryan Brings us longtime Friend, Evan to share his story.    From the time Evan was 14 or 15 years old he started abusing drugs and alcohol. He spent his formative years in schools for troubled kids. Evan mastered the art of manipulation by a very early age, later in his recovery he realized that much of his manipulation w...

Welcome Back to the Hell Has an Exit Podcast. Today Bryan Introduces his longtime friend Kiko who he met in the rooms over a decade ago.    On today’s episode Kiko shares his deeply personal story of childhood trauma, homelessness, amputation, addiction, and the tumultuous journey ultimately leading him to recovery.    Rock Bottom for Kiko involved using and dealing drugs, a potential life sentenc...

This week on a very special Hell Has An Exit, the show welcomes the Wolf of Wall Street himself, creator of the legendary “Straight Line” sales method, author, lecturer, infamous wall street tycoon, Mr. Jordan Belfort. Jordan shares with Bryan about his life in the fast lane on Wall Street, the train wreck of drug and alcohol addiction that contributed to the end of his business, marriage and free...

Welcome back to Hell Has an Exit featuring LILLO BRANCATO! For part 2 of the two-part series.    In Part 1, Lillo and Bryan discussed what it was like for Lillo becoming an overnight sensation. It wasn’t long before accompanying fame proved too much for the new star. His addictive behaviors grew along with his new fame.   As his addiction worsened – encompassing alcohol, cocaine, crack and heroin...

Welcome to Hell Has an Exit Episode 89 featuring LILLO BRANCATO! Lillo joins Bryan Today to share the story of his highest highs and his lowest lows. Lillo goes from being casted to play the lead role in the move “A Bronx Tale”, to a steady downward spiral into the grips of a harrowing addiction. By the time he was 29, Lillo found himself incarcerated with a 10-year prison sentence for a charge in...

Welcome back to episode 88, part 2 of 2 of Yuta’s Story! When we left off last episode Yuta was facing up to 4 years in prison.    While serving time, Yuta was able to get clean. Upon getting out he figured his problem was always drugs and not alcohol so he figured drinking would be just fine. From one week to the next, his prescription drug use went from pills to the needle, to Flakka, and ending...

On today’s Episode Bryan invites good friend Yuta V. To share his story. Yuta was born in Buffalo New York to Japanese immigrant parents who met in the US while his father was doing his residency. In a sudden turn of events, Yuta’s father was killed in a car accident when he was 15. After his fathers death, Yuta’s life changed drastically. Not only did he lose his best friend, his mother also stru...

On today’s Episode Bryan invites longtime friend Abraham D. to share his story. The two met in the rooms when Bryan was a newcomer and Abraham had about a year clean. Abraham spent most of his formative years in Peru & Colombia before moving to the United States at 38 years old. As a child, Abraham remembers recalls always feeling a deep sense of loneliness and not belonging. He mostly kept to him...

On Todays Episode Bryan Invites one of his best friends from child hood: Brooke Z. Bryan & Brooke met in middle school and she quickly became a special person in Bryan’s life as he always felt like he could be himself around her and not have to worry about putting on a mask. As their friendship developed, so did Bryan’s Intense addiction. Brooke had to stand on the sidelines as one of her close fr...

Welcome Back to Part 2 of 2 of Mili’s story on Hell Has an Exit.  On this episode Mili shares the details of how her addiction continued to manifest, the state of her mental health, and the role that the childhood trauma she experienced has had in her life. She shares her deep learning and healing experiences with us and shed’s light as a parent on how you can do better for your children than your...

On todays Episode Bryan invites a very special guest by the name of Mili.    Mili was born to family that struggled to meet the emotional needs of a child. Her brother was a diagnosed sociopath and her mother struggled with severe mental illness and substance abuse. Growing up, Mili quickly realized that she had to find a way to fend for herself. One of the ways she learned to cope was through dri...

On today’s episode Bryan Invites friend Sean E. to share his story of addiction, relapse & recovery.  From as early as he can remember, Sean tells us about his compulsive and addictive behaviors. Sean consistently found himself substituting one addiction for another. He shares the different ways that his addiction took hold and manifested in his relationship leading to a relapse after acquiring 2...

This week Bryan sits down with Kristen C. as she shares her story of addiction and her journey through recovery. Born and raised right on the border of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Kristen remembers having a typical upbringing. While most kids viewed their parents’ divorce as a difficult time, for Kristen it just meant extra freedom. In this freedom she began to experiment with alcohol and find...

This week on Hell Has An Exit Bryan stands in front of a crowd at a Seattle convention to share his story as a youth speaker. He discusses: His journey becoming an addict and the road to recovery at 17, crack, meetings & members, sharing & getting clean, spirituality, getting clean with the help of his sponsor, getting out of the burning building, going to a new school, prayer, the rooms, his pare...

This Week on Hell Has an Exit Bryan invites longtime friend, and predecessor, Church.    It all started in good fun for Church. There were drugs, girls, & rock shows. “It’s what we did to have fun”. Little by little the drugs began to take hold and before he knew it there was no more sense of self control. With a spiraling addiction involving quaaludes, alcohol, cocaine, and eventually crack, chur...

Today on Hell Has an Exit Bryan invites Ray, a recovering addict & founder of GRATEFUL. Apparel. Born and raised in the streets of Jackson Heights in Queens New York, all Ray ever knew were the streets. His mother left when he was a young child and his father struggled with alcohol battling his own demons. Instead of growing up with family support & a house hold filled with love, It was crack coca...

Ep 77: “The Battlefield Between My Ears” ft Brad M. This week on Hell Has an Exit Bryan Welcomes a very special guest by the name of Brad M. A Vietnam Veteran, & a veteran in the rooms with almost 37 years clean!! As a child Brad yearned for the love of his abusive father who battled his own demons. With this, Brad developed a sort of desperation to fit in, be accepted and to be noticed. He discov...

This week on Hell Has an Exit Bryan returns to South Florida to interview his friend Ryan C. Ryan dives right into his early childhood and shares the deep affect that bullying had on him which drove him to having suicidal thoughts as early as 8 years old. Ryan recalls the first time every drinking alcohol as a teenager all by himself. He instantly felt “better” and more “normal” even though he bla...

This week on Hell Has an Exit Bryan continues the impromptu “LA series” with special Guest Joe E. from Hollywood California.  Joe was born into a “Classically dysfunctional Family” - There was drugs, drinking, domestic violence and abuse present growing up. For Joe, his addictive behaviors began manifesting as a child by acting out, stealing, lying and just doing things he knew he wasn’t supposed...