Hell Has an Exit Podcast with Bryan Alzate

Andre was born in a period of intense violence and tribal warfare in poverty-stricken Jamaica.  He escaped with his family to the US, but not before witnessing the deaths of both children and adults, first-hand, by the time he reached five years old.Life continued to be a challenge for his family, as his parents divorced shortly after the move with Andre and his brother being bounced back and forth between Maryland and Florida. After several years, their mother decided to move to Florida permanently in which the brothers decided to join.Andre and his bother looked so similar, they were often confused as twins even though they were 8 years apart. They each did well in school, and excelled in sports. It wasn’t until they hit high-school and moving to a rough neighborhood, that they were introduced to the the Florida drug culture. Becoming a drug dealer, Andre quickly fell into drug abuse and was met with difficult days. In the midst of it all, Andre became a father to two children, children he almost never saw due to him spiraling deeper and deeper into addiction. At first it was pills and cocaine, and soon after, heroin. It became increasingly difficult to juggle his addiction while keeping a low profile as a dealer. He was on a one way journey to prison or death. Caught with thousands of pills, Andre was facing up to 15 years in prison. If it wasn’t for miracles, that’s exactly where he would have ended up. What happens next is incredible and life affirming. Listen to the story of Andre and find out once again that. “hell”does have an exit.🎬Watch Video Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/uJnEcFQMuhs🔗Check us out at: https://hellhasanexitpod.com/Follow on Instagram & Twitter☑Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellhasanexit/?hl=en☑Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellHasAnExit☑Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellhasanexit/☑TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellhasanexit❤‍🩹Get the support you need from our trusted addiction treatment provider: https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/?data_traffic=POD-EP-DES-URP (https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/)👉🏻Call Now: (877)-706-0625🆘Support is Available 24/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to episode twenty-four of HELL HAS AN EXIT Podcast with Bryan Alzate.On today's episode, Bryan sits down with John S. to discuss John’s incredible true story. John was born into a large, loving family. Through hard work, he became a nurse, purchased a home and was married before his 30th birthday. Until one late night altered his fate and opened the doors to his addictions.With virtually unlimited access to prescription drugs, John’s life took a sharp turn to years of abuse and hiding his additions and his sexuality. John recalls standing at the edge, facing the jail time and the loss of his marriage, home, job and almost his life, before asking if he was truly ready to get help.Hear the true story of John, who turned his malpractice into a new practice and through the rooms of NA, found a brand-new life. This episode is not to be missed!🎬Watch Video Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/wSdLI7EBEtE🔗Check us out at: https://hellhasanexitpod.com/Follow on Instagram & Twitter☑Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellhasanexit/?hl=en☑Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellHasAnExit☑Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellhasanexit/☑TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellhasanexit❤‍🩹Get the support you need from our trusted addiction treatment provider: https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/?data_traffic=POD-EP-DES-URP (https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/)👉🏻Call Now: (877)-706-0625🆘Support is Available 24/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Born in a Broward County jail into a family of addicts, Rachel quickly realized her childhood wasn’t like her friends’. While her mom prostituted the streets of South Florida, Rachel was left alone for days. And when she was finally arrested, Rachel was left for good.After her mom’s arrest, Rachel turned to opiates and lived with a friend, whose father raped her daily and fueled her growing addiction. Constantly trying to avoid her mother’s behavior, Rachel’s addictions only repeated the cycle, and led her down the same path filled with drug-addicted pregnancies, prostitution, police and horrific physical abuse. Rachel and Bryan discuss doctor shopping, giving birth at a methadone clinic, outrunning DCF, and how easy it is to lose ourselves while trying to save everyone else. Rachel also shares how, after years of being treated like a lost cause, she finally found recovery. You don’t want to miss this incredible true story.🎬Watch Video Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/mgxHhs4O4mk🔗Check us out at: https://hellhasanexitpod.com/Follow on Instagram & Twitter☑Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellhasanexit/?hl=en☑Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellHasAnExit☑Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellhasanexit/☑TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellhasanexit❤‍🩹Get the support you need from our trusted addiction treatment provider: https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/?data_traffic=POD-EP-DES-URP (https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/)👉🏻Call Now: (877)-706-0625🆘Support is Available 24/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For years, Robin bounced around different homes, first with her mom in New York, then with her brother in Germany, and finally landed in South Florida. Regardless of where she lived, she spent her years escaping – first her family’s physical abuse and next a relationship with a pedophile, a man who ultimately murdered her sister. Bryan and Robin discuss what happened in the aftermath of her sister’s murder and how her grief and guilt quickly snowballed into an addiction to crack.Robin recalls being raped repeatedly and shares how one violent incident led her to jump through a second-story window naked. Bryan and Robin discuss her journey with step work and finding God, her experience with Narcotics Anonymous, her relapse and, ultimately, her road to recovery. Don’t miss this episode.🎬Watch Video Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/hFKqfnvw6i8🔗Check us out at: https://hellhasanexitpod.com/Follow on Instagram & Twitter☑Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellhasanexit/?hl=en☑Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellHasAnExit☑Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellhasanexit/☑TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellhasanexit❤‍🩹Get the support you need from our trusted addiction treatment provider: https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/?data_traffic=POD-EP-DES-URP (https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/)👉🏻Call Now: (877)-706-0625🆘Support is Available 24/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to episode twenty one of HELL HAS AN EXIT Podcast with Bryan Alzate.On December 9, 1999, the body of a young woman was found in a forest preserve in Waukegan, Illinois. Two weeks later, police charged Jason Strong, an adult bookstore employee, with first-degree murder and concealing a homicide. For the next 15 years, Jason immersed himself in the prison’s library, studying law and writing letters to legal defense firms across the country. Jason describes his years at war with the system, the feeling of newly discovered evidence coming to light, and the experience of regaining freedom and being granted an exit from his personal hell.🎬Watch Video Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/EtN-Ha5Y-QQ🔗Check us out at: https://hellhasanexitpod.com/Follow on Instagram & Twitter☑Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellhasanexit/?hl=en☑Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellHasAnExit☑Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellhasanexit/☑TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellhasanexit❤‍🩹Get the support you need from our trusted addiction treatment provider: https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/?data_traffic=POD-EP-DES-URP (https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/)👉🏻Call Now: (877)-706-0625🆘Support is Available 24/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Adam C. was 26 years old, he hopped on an Amtrak train from Chicago to Miami carrying 50 pounds of Canadian weed. What happened next falls short of a Hollywood drama, but would leave Adam facing 30 years behind bars -- and this is just one of 36 arrests he'd face in his lifetime. Raised by his grandmother in Miami, Adam and Bryan discuss how early childhood trauma shaped his outlook and vision for his future. The two talk about teenage identity, fitting in and finding friends in whoever was smoking and drinking over shared secrets of Visine and cologne.Adam recalls when he crossed the line between loving the lifestyle and uncontrollable addiction, and how his first time trying cocaine in a Chinese restaurant snowballed into a two-day bender begging strangers for money.Now with more than six years clean, Adam reflects on the behaviors and substances that fueled his addiction, and how he survived and found freedom in recovery.🎬Watch Video Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/hT4zWP1r4eQ🔗Check us out at: https://hellhasanexitpod.com/Follow on Instagram & Twitter☑Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellhasanexit/?hl=en☑Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellHasAnExit☑Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellhasanexit/☑TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellhasanexit❤‍🩹Get the support you need from our trusted addiction treatment provider: https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/?data_traffic=POD-EP-DES-URP (https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/)👉🏻Call Now: (877)-706-0625🆘Support is Available 24/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the mid-2000s, Flakka dominated headlines as a zombie drug that made its users attack and eat people. Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, America was introduced to Krokodil (pronounced “croc-o-dill”), flesh-eating Russian heroin. On today’s episode, Bryan sits down with Crystal, Broward County’s first Krokodil case.Growing up the child of an addict with mental illnesses, Crystal had long eased her way into addiction. After barely graduating from her South Florida high school, she tried heroin for the first time and was immediately sucked into the world of chasing dope while trying to juggle real life.Crystal soon fell in love with Flakka, a cheap and highly addictive amphetamine-like synthetic drug, and would run away to “Flock-ville,” or neighborhoods where the drug was rampant. During this time, she started using Krokodil, which ate her flesh from the inside out. After being hospitalized, nearly having both legs amputated and jumping off a second-story balcony to escape intervention, Crystal details the final arrest that saved her life. You don’t want to miss this unbelievable true story. 🎬Watch Video Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/vIKk-JoT-mk🔗Check us out at: https://hellhasanexitpod.com/Follow on Instagram & Twitter☑Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellhasanexit/?hl=en☑Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellHasAnExit☑Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellhasanexit/☑TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellhasanexit❤‍🩹Get the support you need from our trusted addiction treatment provider: https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/?data_traffic=POD-EP-DES-URP (https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/)👉🏻Call Now: (877)-706-0625🆘Support is Available 24/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the #1 male porn star with billions of views across top porn sites like Porn Hub, Alex Adams sits down with Bryan to explain how he was kicked out of the Marines and stumbled into the life of a porn star.After answering a Craigslist personal ad asking for a bachelorette party stripper, Alex went quickly down the rabbit hole into porn. Alex discusses his bisexuality, how his parents found out he starred in gay porn, how the adult entertainment industry actually helped him in his recovery, and how he rose to the top of one of the world’s largest industries.Alex doesn’t spare ANY details as he and Bryan discuss all the wild places porn has taken him over the years. You won’t want to miss this episode.🎬Watch Video Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/7qnHCckSdCI🔗Check us out at: https://hellhasanexitpod.com/Follow on Instagram & Twitter☑Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellhasanexit/?hl=en☑Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellHasAnExit☑Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellhasanexit/☑TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellhasanexit❤‍🩹Get the support you need from our trusted addiction treatment provider: https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/?data_traffic=POD-EP-DES-URP (https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/)👉🏻Call Now: (877)-706-0625🆘Support is Available 24/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to episode seventeen of HELL HAS AN EXIT Podcast with Bryan Alzate. On today's episode, Bryan sits down with John Huffington to discuss John’s incredible true story. At 18, John was an up-and-coming Maryland drug dealer, moving weight for the cartel and running with the Greek mob. However, before his 20th birthday he found himself caught in a web of death, bad luck and worse timing.On Memorial Day in 1981, police found the body of Diane Becker, 21, stabbed and beaten to death in her home in an Abingdon RV park. Her boyfriend, Joseph Hudson, a popular local disc jockey, was found shot to death a few miles away. The next morning, one of John’s acquaintances asked him to visit the police station and say they were together the night before. Immediately after giving the alibi, John was handcuffed for a double murder he didn’t commit, marking the beginning of a 32-year fight for his freedom.During those 32 years, John lived in the prison’s law library, relentlessly searching for a way out. After decades spent battling a legal system that falsely accused him and a district attorney determined to keep him in prison, newly discovered DNA evidence in 2013 turned the case upside down. Don’t miss this story of redemption and advocacy only on this week’s episode of HELL HAS AN EXIT.🎬Watch Video Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/6WMkmBHUtc0🔗Check us out at: https://hellhasanexitpod.com/Follow on Instagram & Twitter☑Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellhasanexit/?hl=en☑Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellHasAnExit☑Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellhasanexit/☑TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellhasanexit❤‍🩹Get the support you need from our trusted addiction treatment provider: https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/?data_traffic=POD-EP-DES-URP (https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/)👉🏻Call Now: (877)-706-0625🆘Support is Available 24/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EPISODE SUMMARY:Welcome to episode sixteen of HELL HAS AN EXIT Podcast with Bryan Alzate. On today's episode, Bryan sits down with Ingrid to hear her true story of a girl born into the New York City projects to a mother who died when she was young, leaving her with an abusive father and a slew of teachers, guardians, gangsters and police officers who faded in and out of her life for decades. Addicted to drugs and alcohol at the age of 10, Ingrid graduated to running a crack operation from her apartment. Listen to her raw story of rejection and addiction and how she overcame incredible odds to fight for recovery, self-education and a renewed life. Now a mother and grandmother, Ingrid shares her 33 years of hard-won – and sometimes hilarious – recovery and experience and explains how she survived round after round in the battle against addiction. 🎬Watch Video Episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/WOPapcfGsz4🔗Check us out at: https://hellhasanexitpod.com/Follow on Instagram & Twitter☑Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellhasanexit/?hl=en☑Twitter: https://twitter.com/HellHasAnExit☑Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellhasanexit/☑TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellhasanexit❤‍🩹Get the support you need from our trusted addiction treatment provider: https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/?data_traffic=POD-EP-DES-URP (https://unitedrecoveryproject.com/)👉🏻Call Now: (877)-706-0625🆘Support is Available 24/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices