The Rollercoaster Podcast

What makes someone throw away everything they've spent 10 years rebuilding?

In this episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Corey Warren, a recovery advocate, business owner, and former addict whose life was shaped by addiction, prison, relapse, and ultimately redemption.

Corey shares how a single decision at a high school party led to a 20-year battle with heroin and alcohol addiction. He opens up about the armed robbe...

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What happens when you've achieved everything the world tells you should make you happy but you still feel completely empty inside?

In this episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Keith Hale, entrepreneur, author, and men's mental health advocate, who shares the story of the day he attempted to take his own life.

From the outside, Keith looked ...

What happens when the very things you swore you'd never become are the things that slowly take over your life?

In this episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Natalie Stavola, a recovery coach, filmmaker, and survivor whose life was shaped by childhood trauma, abusive relationships, addiction, and years of self-destruction.

Natalie shares the harrowing moments that changed her forever, including having a gun held to her...

What do you do when the person you've loved for 20 years decides they no longer want to live?

In this episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Tommy O'Mara to talk about the day that changed his life forever. After two decades together, Tommy came home expecting an ordinary morning with the woman he loved. Instead, he found Cynthia unconscious on the floor after she had intentionally taken her own life.

Tommy shares the ...

Every morning at 6:45am, Baylee would get the same text from her fiancé, Jared.

He would meet her in the parking garage before work, walk her inside, give her a hug, a kiss, and remind her that she was loved. It was a simple routine they never thought twice about. Until one morning, that text never came.

In this episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Baylee Barnes as she shares the heartbreaking story of losing her fia...

What do you do when a doctor tells you that you have 15 months to live and less than a 10% chance of surviving the next two years?

In this episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Doug Cartwright, a sales coach, entrepreneur, and one of the most spiritually grounded people I've ever met, who was diagnosed with Grade 4 Glioblastoma, the deadliest, most aggressive form of brain cancer, just weeks before we recorded this c...

What happens when the person trained to save lives loses someone they couldn’t save?

In this episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Marlon Rollins for one of the most powerful conversations we’ve ever had about suicide, grief, trauma, mental health, and healing. Dr. Rollins spent years working as a crisis director and mental health professional helping people through suicidal crises, until the unthinka...

Nothing prepares you for the moment your parents call screaming that your little brother is gone.

In this episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with twin brothers Jake & Joe Sharp as they relive the night their 16-year-old brother Sam died by suicide while they were serving church missions in Mexico.

What followed was a pain neither of them knew how to survive. The phone call, the confusion, the anger, the guilt, and ...

I thought I understood what domestic abuse looked like until I heard Erica Muniz’s story.

In this episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, Erica shares the reality of surviving a 15-year marriage, one that began with control and silence, and escalated. From being isolated from her family to enduring moments that nearly cost her life, her story is confronting, raw, and impossible to ignore.

But this isn’t just about trauma, i...

I was standing in front of the mirror, fixing my tie, minutes away from going live on CNBC.

Then my phone rang.

In a matter of minutes, my entire world collapsed.

In this episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, I step out of the interviewer's seat and into the most vulnerable conversation of my life, sitting down with Aleksei Archer of the Morning Glory Podcast to share the story of the day that split my life in two.

From selling my comp...

They were only married for 3 months and 3 days and then everything changed.

Today on the Rollercoaster Podcast, I sat down with Gracie Laufenberg to hear the story of a love that felt like it lasted a lifetime and the moment it was taken from her in an instant. From believing in love at first sight to building what she calls a perfect marriage and the phone call that shattered her world, this conversation will stay with you.

Gracie o...

I didn’t expect this story to hit this hard.

Because it starts with success and ends somewhere no one thinks they’ll ever go.

In this episode, I sit down with Brad White, who was making over $100K a year, building a business, and living what most people would call the dream until one decision pulled him into addiction, and everything began to collapse.

What started with pain pills turned into a spiral of opioids, meth, and...

I woke up to 15 missed calls and in that moment, something in me already knew. Nothing prepares you for the call that changes your life forever.

In this episode, I sit down with Aleksei Archer, who shares the devastating morning she learned her father had died by suicide, and the quiet signs she now wishes she had seen sooner.

This isn’t just a story about loss. It’s about guilt, awareness, and learning how to show up for...

I thought it was just a routine procedure, until we got the call that changed everything.

In this episode, I sit down with Danielle and Joey Orr, parents navigating a journey no family should ever have to face. What started as a simple hospital visit quickly turned into something far more serious, leading to a diagnosis that would completely reshape their lives.

Their son Joey has already defied the odds since birth, facing Down synd...

Carl Angelo was never supposed to be a rapper.

He grew up in a Filipino immigrant family that came to America chasing stability, sacrifice, and the promise of a better life. Like many first-generation kids, the expectation was clear: follow the safe path, build a career, make the family proud.

But he felt something pulling him in a completely different direction.

In this episode of The Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Carl Angel...

It was supposed to be a routine surgery.

On August 6, 2021, Shantelle Tate kissed her young son goodbye and walked into the hospital expecting to be home the next day. Doctors told her it was a simple procedure they perform all the time.

But something went terribly wrong.

What followed was a medical nightmare that would nearly cost Shantelle her life. A surgical complication led to sepsis, emergency surgery, and a medically induced co...

This is going to feel different than anything we’ve done before.

Today, I sit down with Mya-Lisa Ludwig and her 52-year-old brother Adam and what unfolds is one of the most beautiful conversations we’ve had about special needs, caregiving, sibling love, and finding purpose after grief.

Adam lives with Mya, who became his full-time caregiver after the heartbreaking loss of their parents. But this isn’t just a story a...

If you looked at her life from the outside, it was perfect.

A brilliant Harvard-trained doctor. Four beautiful children. A marriage built on love. And then, slowly… it wasn’t.

In this episode of The Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Andrea Suchin, caregiver, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Wuggle. For six years, Andrea watched subtle changes in her husband Craig, slowly unravel into something far more devastating. W...

What happens when the people meant to protect you become the ones you have to run from?

In this raw and deeply personal episode of the Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Willie Wolfgramm to uncover a story of survival that most people wouldn’t make it out of. Willie takes us inside the darkest corners of his past: being thrown down stairs by a drunken stepfather, being chased through a field by a truck, and the crushing we...