What Happens When Your Star Doesn’t Burn as Bright as Your Passion? Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding faced that question . . and is now on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List as an international drug lord. It’s about ambition without brakes and what happens when the skills that make you great — focus, risk tolerance, hunger for status — get redirected into a market where the rules are written in blood. This is Wedding’s descent from the mountaintops to the depths of drug dealing and murder.

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What Happens When Your Star Doesn&rsquo;t Burn as Bright as Your Passion? Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding faced that question . . and is now on the FBI&rsquo;s 10 Most Wanted List as an international drug lord. It&rsquo;s about ambition without brakes and what happens when the skills that make you great &mdash; focus, risk tolerance, hunger for status &mdash; get redirected into a market where the rules are written in blood. This is Wedding&rsquo;s descent from the mountaintops to the depths of drug dealing and murder.
Do you have a story idea you&rsquo;d like me to share? Just DM me! On Facebook it&rsquo;s Patty Steele and on Instagram Real Patty Steele.

Love a good, juicy story that goes beyond what we already know? We're talking scandalous presidential family members, a mass murder at a world-famous architect's home, stolen inventions, nude athletes at the first Olympics, compulsive liars, the arrival of the bikini, and so much more. History fanatic Patty Steele tells you the inside backstories you didn’t know you needed to know.

Love a good, juicy story that goes beyond what we already know? We're talking scandalous presidential family members, a mass murder at a world-famous architect's home, stolen inventions, nude athletes at the first Olympics, compulsive liars, the arrival of the bikini, and so much more. History fanatic Patty Steele tells you the inside backstories you didn’t know you needed to know.

The Backstory with Patty Steele

The Backstory: Olympic Athlete to Drug Lord

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