About this episode

Mackenzie Selby shares her powerful story of survival and recovery from a life of addiction and chaos.

This week, Ronnie LeDuff and Michael Oakley sit down with Mackenzie Selby for one of the rawest and most powerful conversations yet. Mackenzie’s story is one of survival. She opens up about growing up around addiction, violence, abuse, and crime from an early age — a life most people couldn’t even imagine living through. By the time she was a teenager, addiction and chaos had already taken over her world. But instead of becoming another statistic, Mackenzie found recovery in 2009 and complet...

People in this episode

Hosts: Ronnie LeDuff, Michael Oakley

Guest: Mackenzie Selby

Topics covered

• addiction
• recovery
• survival
• personal story
• mental health

Keywords

• addiction
• recovery
• survival
• mental health
• personal story

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