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Worst Firsts with Brittany Furlan

Ryan Leone's Incredible Journey From Prison to Sobriety & Success

Worst Firsts with Brittany Furlan

Brittany Furlan & Studio71

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Best-selling author, artist and activist Ryan Leone walks Brittany through his harrowing experiences being a young addict, going through the prison system, and how he was able to get clean and become the great success he is today. Ryan details how getting a high-profile job at Spike TV didn't deter him from his $600-a-day crack addiction, how some difficult relationships and his habit led him to being in prison for 5 years, and how he ultimately got control of his life, sobered up and is now a successful author and activist fighting for prison reform. For more information and to donate to Ryan's Narcan initiative, visit here: http://paulnarcanproject.com/ Love Worst Firsts but hate the ads? Subscribe to the ad-free version here!: https://worstfirsts.supercast.tech/ Follow Brittany on YouTube: @BrittanyFurlan Follow Brittany on Facebook: @BrittanyFurlan Follow Brittany on IG: @BrittanyFurlan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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That's Better Help, H E L P dot com slash Brittany. Hello everyone and welcome back to worst. First I am really excited. I have a very

1:00.9

special guest here today who I was introduced to you through Mickey Avalon, who I love, who is a

1:06.4

friend of Ergullus, and it's Ryan Leone and he has a book called Wasting Talent,

1:13.0

which is about your life when you were in prison,

1:17.2

before prison, how you got to prison, in prison,

1:20.4

and then now your life clean and sober and happy and doing your doing your

1:25.8

best life right now. Yeah we have the books a novel so it's like a fictional

1:30.8

account of it. Okay.

1:33.0

It's basically covers the years before I went to prison

1:36.4

the first time.

1:36.9

I've been to prison three times,

1:38.0

but the first time I went,

1:40.8

that covers like the junkie years before that.

1:42.8

The year is a heroin addict.

1:45.1

Which is, so you're like, you're like, you're 35?

1:49.2

35. So you're literally a year older than me. And I'm like like you've been to prison three times in your life and

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