Episodes

Send us a Text Message. Taylor Cavanaugh went from jail, to Navy SEAL, back to jail, suicidal, to French Foreign Legionnaire. Learning to self-actualize his divine design via a correct system of life disciplines. Now he is on a mission to show others how to re-align their lives to experience peace and clarity by training the mind deliberately as well as the body. Showing others how to get their fire for life back A graduate of University of California Santa Cruz, Taylor enlisted in the Navy in 2...

Send us a Text Message. On May 9th, 2024, Mike Failace sadly took his own life. A man who impacted so many was put to rest and those that are left behind have to witness the fallout and the carnage by this permanent solution. Mike Depalma and Bobby Crudele have been life long friends of Mike Failace and we all sit down to talk about the good and the bad that was my partner, brother, and best friend. Join us on this retrospective of the co host of The Suffering Podcast Mike Failace. Find Bobby Cr...

Send us a Text Message. #2 FREDDIE MITCHELL has endured pain and suffering from multiple angles that would break most people. Serving his country honorably in United StatesArmy, Freddie chose a life of service but found quickly. It was a calling. After leaving military service, FREDDIE applied and was hired by the Roseland Police Department to continue this civic lifestyle. His personal life began to unravel fracturing. His family was still trying to maintain his most coveted job as a father to ...

Send us a Text Message. #1 FREDDIE MITCHELL has endured pain and suffering from multiple angles that would break most people. Serving his country honorably in United StatesArmy, Freddie chose a life of service but found quickly. It was a calling. After leaving military service, FREDDIE applied and was hired by the Roseland Police Department to continue this civic lifestyle. His personal life began to unravel fracturing. His family was still trying to maintain his most coveted job as a father to...

Send us a Text Message. Gustavo Gutierrez was born in North Bergen, New Jersey to Cuban immigrant parents. As a child he was raised mostly by his grandparents while his parents were working, living the “American dream.” Cuban culture, strong beliefs, and food was always the center of his everything. He grew up in and around the kitchen, wether it was helping his abuela or making his own dinner, food was always at the center of it all. Wildly enough, a career in cooking was never at the forefront...

Send us a Text Message. Suzanne is both a Registered Professional Nurse and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist actively working in the health field for the past 20 + years. Suzanne's experience in both nursing and counseling has informed her framework as a holistic mental health provider. Over the years, she has worked at a variety of milieus including outpatient community clinics, inpatient psychiatry units and private practices located in both central NY and Manhattan. Suzanne is the founder...

Send us a Text Message. Seth Gehle is a multifaceted individual whose journey embodies resilience, determination, and triumph. An accomplished ultra marathon runner, BJJ athlete, and overall fitness enthusiast, Seth's dedication to physical excellence is matched only by his unwavering commitment to personal growth. In addition to his athletic pursuits, Seth has earned national recognition in the construction industry, garnering prestigious awards from esteemed organizations such as the National ...

Send us a Text Message. Part 2 Lexi Knight is a 46 year old trans woman,and former drug addict, who lives in South Carolina. She moved there 8 years ago when she was living in her car with her little dog Taco, who is a chihuahua, and a loyal friend to her. She is a social media influencer on Twitch & TikTok, known as Justagirllexi on all of her social media platforms. Lexi is a strong and passionate advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community. She focuses on education on her social media platforms to ch...

Send us a Text Message. Part 1 Lexi Knight is a 46 year old trans woman,and former drug addict, who lives in South Carolina. She moved there 8 years ago when she was living in her car with her little dog Taco, who is a chihuahua, and a loyal friend to her. She is a social media influencer on Twitch & TikTok, known as Justagirllexi on all of her social media platforms. Lexi is a strong and passionate advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community. She focuses on education on her social media platforms to ch...

Send us a Text Message. Mike Faria was born and raised in New Jersey and as a teenager experimenting with drugs and alcohol to deal with his childhood traumas. In October 2019, Mike went into a major depression and began drinking more than he ever had in his life. Mike had to take leave from his job to try and function through the drunken hours. He thought he was going to be able to stop, but he was wrong. In January 2020, Mike was found barely breathing in his house from acute liver failure, he...

From the tender age of four, Ken Teets was confronted with the challenge of a speech impediment, marked by severe stuttering. Initially, his parents brushed it off as a phase he would outgrow. However, as years unfolded, Ken's struggle intensified, that hampered his ability to communicate but also unfairly branded him as intellectually sluggish among his peers, teachers, and loved ones. This unjust label caused him and her very low self esteem. Throughout his schooling, the mockery and bullying ...

Danny was born to Puerto Rican parents in Jersey City New Jersey. At the age of 10 he, his mom, sister, and father moved to Bayonne New Jersey. Danny biological father was not present, although Danny knew who he was. Danny did not grow up with alot of love and attention. During this time he found his love for rap music and began to write his own rap lyrics. This was a way for Danny to deal with the emotions he felt during this time. Danny then started to be in the streets heavily to avoid being ...

Keith Shibley is a twenty-year veteran of law enforcement. He is currently a K-9 handler at Metropolitan Washington Airports Keith started his law enforcement career in 2002, graduating from the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Academy as a patrol officer for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department. In 2003 Keith left the Airport police and moved to Richmond Virginia where he was hired by the Richmond City Police Department where he served as a patrol officer. While in...

Richard Kaufman originally hails from Belleville, NJ. He proudly served in the United States Army from 1986-1988. Richard had a temporary break in service, he continued to serve in the Army National Guard from 1991-2012 in the following states, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. One of the missions of his unit was to support Operation Enduring Freedom. Richard was medically retired after 23 years of service. Like many other veterans, Rich is no stranger to some of the struggles that i...

From the campus of Montclair State University, Matthew Isler witnessed the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. It eventually inspired him to pursue a career in law enforcement. For over a decade he took police exams. After graduating from college, Matt had a desk job in publishing for seven years and was eventually laid off. A week later, he finally received his police test certification from the city of Hoboken. He also received a letter from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey pol...

Bobby Crudele is back! A very magnetic and energetic personality who happens to be one of the best Law Enforcement Officers in North Jersey. Outwardly he appeared to be the life of the party. On the inside, Bobby was fighting a battle that he was losing slowly, the fight with the bottle. After chasing Alcohol down a very dangerous path, Bobby surrendered and asked for help, something that is very difficult for all Police to reach out for and admit. Once Bobby got the help he needed, a new lease ...

Ryan grew up in western Wi and is from a family of cops on his mother’s side, farmers, trades people and laborers on his fathers side. Ryan initially followed in his father’s footsteps in the trades as an electrician, but while working on new home construction of sever police officers, he did some ride a longs and was hooked. Ryan worked as an electrician at night so he could attend Wisconsin’s Police Recruit academy during the day to become a licensed peace officer in WI. In the late fall of 20...

Kenneth Strange Jr. is a former FBI Special Agent and DOJ Special Agent-In-Charge, Private Investigator and Award-Winning author. A Spanish-speaker, Arabist and member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), he has recently published a Best-Selling true crime memoir, “A Cop’s Son: One G-Man’s Fight Against Jihad, Global Fraud and the Cartels.” Strange served with three distinct and distinguished US Government Agencies pursuing criminals and bad actors including some of the most heinous ...

Angel joined the NYPD in June 1992 and worked patrol and anti-crime until 2004, eventually being moved to the 48 Detective Squad, Burglary Robbery Apprehension Module In 2005 Angel was Promoted to Detective and began a specialized detail in the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in 2007. Throughout is time in the JTTF Angel was the case Detective for Operation Rapid Return finding Abdel Hameed Shehadeh a Staten Island Jihadist who was attempting to enlist in the U.S. Army and then defect to the T...

​Michael Anthony Palazzo was born and raised in Quuens.He was raised in a small neighborhood called Maspeth,a predominantly Italian neighboorhood. it was a neighborhood that if your family didn't own a business you became cop or fireman or a gangster or somewhere in between. Michael was heavily involved in athletics growing up and never really wanted to be a cop.His father Pasquale,who was a Correction Officer on Rikers urged him to take all the police tests in New York just in case his athletic...

Sherrie Allsup is an international speaker, educator, and subject matter expert with lived experience. She speaks on topics such as sexual assault, sexual abuse, trauma, and suicide. Sherrie is a survivor of long-term sexual abuse, trauma, and suicide attempts. After much hard work and healing she became the founder and CEO of Courage Starts With You. For victims, Courage means telling someone and reaching out for help. For law enforcement, Courage means looking beyond the traditional victim int...

Dom is the only child to immigrant parents from Italy, all about the ideas and practice of morals. He started his career in Law Enforcement in 1997 as a juvenile detention officer then became a Hudson county Corrections Officer. In 2000 he graduated from Essex County police Academy, as a Hudson County Sheriff Officer, the following year in 2001 took his oath as a Bayonne Police Officer During his career as a BPD he encountered many stressful moments. The biggest form of stress came when their in...

George T. Drost, a distinguished attorney and curator of art, has a life story that mirrors the resilience and triumph of the human spirit. Born in former Czechoslovakia during one of the darkest periods in history, George's early years were marred by the harsh realities of World War II. His parents were compelled to divorce, and his father faced the brutal fate of being forced into a work camp under the Gestapo. In a heartbreaking decision to protect their family, George's parents chose to lea...

Michael Martyn can be summed up in a handful of words. He is a father, a husband, a veteran, a brother to 5, and a former foster child. While these words may be accurate, they give no justice to the many difficult situations and circumstances that Mike had faced throughout his life. At four years old, Mike lost his father to a car accident and continued living with his mother, who by most accounts, wasn’t the tender, caring, loving mother that most moms are. Mike suffered abuse after abuse at th...