Born to Die, Trained to Win: The LAPD Officer Who Refused Comfort
Send us Fan Mail A hidden birth, a one-way flight to LAX, and a badge that taught him how fast life can vanish. Alex—host of Purpose Over Pleasure and former LAPD and Santa Monica officer—opens up abo...
12 Jan 1h 49min
Inside Prison as a Teen Lifer: Race Riots, Lockdowns, Survival
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3 Jan 1h 10min
Inside the Yard: Prison Guard Reveals What Really Happened to Hugo Pinell
Send us Fan Mail We sit down with retired California CO Jimmy Johnston, who activated New Folsom, survived riots, mixed yards, and a preventable stabbing, and lays out how leadership, training, and eg...
27 Des 20251h 49min
Locked Doors, Hard Lessons: The Jail Taught Him What Ego Never Could
Send us Fan Mail We follow Goldie from a San Bernardino childhood to a disciplined career that starts in juvenile hall, grinds through a tough sheriff’s academy, and faces violence and addiction insid...
19 Des 202543min
Inside Law Enforcement: Lost Protections, Legal Paths, And Real Costs
Send us Fan Mail Imagine swearing an oath to serve, only to discover that the rules you enforce don’t fully protect you. We sit down with attorney Mila Aretunian to unpack the hidden tradeoffs of a ba...
18 Des 202558min
From Encino To High Power: A Life Inside California’s Prison Machine
Send us Fan Mail The story starts with a red light, a door cracked open, and a desperate roll onto Wilshire Boulevard. From there, Scott takes us inside a bullet-torn Mercedes, a judge who called it a...
5 Des 20251h 37min
From Dope To Duty To Deliverance
Send us Fan Mail We follow Ross from a Wisconsin childhood to street hustles, an Air Force enlistment, relapse, a near-fatal overdose, and a rebuild through surgeries and recovery. Raw details on brai...
27 Nov 20251h 41min
From Baghdad Streets To Healing First Responders
Send us Fan Mail We trace a Muslim infantryman’s path from the Iraq surge and a life at a Baghdad outpost to a long run in New Jersey law enforcement, a brutal mental health spiral, and a mission to f...
22 Nov 20251h 48min
