Tell Me Your Story

ABOUT: Heard on iHeartRadio. To bring as many different points of view, from around the circle, into your view, to assist you in expanding your life and living. To assist in the positive evolution of mankind and bringing about a greater awareness of self and others in order to create the kind of world YOU want. ABOUT THE BOOK At seven years old, Jonathan Tepper was not collecting baseball cards or building model airplanes—he was walking the streets of Madrid’s most drug-ravaged neighborhood, handing pamphlets to heroin addicts and inviting them into his family’s home. Set against the backdrop of Spain’s devastating AIDS-era heroin epidemic, Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Addiction (Infinite Press, February 17, 2026) is Tepper’s searing coming-of-age story about growing up inside a radical experiment in compassion—one that exposed a young boy to addiction, death, and grief, while teaching him, in the most intimate way possible, what it means to love people society has written off. In 1985, Jonatha