{"id":6141,"date":"2010-06-24T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2010-06-24T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:02:03","slug":"dereksteele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2010\/06\/24\/dereksteele\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Steele shares how he overcame his drug addictions and embarked on a new life of success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dereksteele.com\/\">Addict at 10<\/a>, Derek Steele tells his story of achieving financial success and fulfillment after leading a childhood life of drug abuse and crime.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a child, Steele was subjected to parental neglect and abuse. His parents thought it was funny when he became drunk for the first time when he only 8 years old.<\/p>\n<p>At age 10, he became addicted to marijuana. He began dealing drugs during junior high school and eventually dropped out of high school.<\/p>\n<p>At age 19, he was arrested for felony forgery. A year later he was unemployed, homeless, and hiding from a drug dealer he\u2019d swindled.<\/p>\n<p>Just when he was on the verge of pulling off the biggest drug deal of his life, Steele had a moment of inspiration and vowed to conquer his addictions, come to terms with his parents\u2019 neglect, and begin a new life.<\/p>\n<p>He sought help from God and entered a 12 Step Program. With the assistance of his mentors, his life took a dramatic change for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Steele entered the business world and became a multi-millionaire at age 35. He achieved financial freedom with the sale of his third enterprise in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>A board member of Teen and Family Services and a Covenant House volunteer, Steele is pursuing his life&#8217;s mission by speaking out about the nature of addictions and inspiring others to turn around their lives by following the steps that he took.<\/p>\n<p>Steele lives in Missouri City, Texas, with his wife Becky and their two children.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book, Addict at 10, Derek Steele tells his story of achieving financial success and fulfillment after leading a childhood life of drug abuse and crime.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,11,13,46,19,40,14],"tags":[2582,2574,2576,2572,2575,2577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}