#194 – Ed Kressy – Addiction, Recovery, and Why Significance Is What We’re All Chasing ⛓️ 💡 🙏
Ed Kressy had a career at Stanford University, a home in San Francisco, a BMW motorcycle, and a life savings. He put all of it in a glass pipe and smoked it away.
20 years addicted to cocaine and meth. Homeless. Arrested. Carrying a loaded .357 pistol through the streets of San Francisco because he believed the FBI was hunting him. Then one night in a hotel ballroom — wearing a filthy tuxedo — he made the decision that changed everything.
Ed shares the raw truth about addiction, Mental Health, rock bottom, and the three S’s that pulled him back — spirituality, self-improvement, and service.
He’s now the CEO of Uncarcerated, a nonprofit helping incarcerated people transform their lives. His book is distributed inside prison walls.
The comeback is real. And it started with one decision.
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