Ed Mylett Show

What Would You Do If You Were Shot Eight Times? Today, I sat across from a man who shouldn’t even be alive. Marcus Stanley was shot eight times at point-blank range, left for dead in the street, and in that moment, he saw what he believes was an angel standing between him and every bullet. I needed you to hear from this man because Marcus isn’t just here to tell a story about survival—he’s here to remind us what it means to keep going when everything around you says it’s over. Marcus and I talk about the dark years that followed his shooting, years where painkillers turned into addiction, and addiction turned into heroin. We talked about what it feels like when your life gets blown apart, and you have to learn how to walk again, literally and spiritually. Marcus told me it was forgiveness—real, hard, gut-wrenching forgiveness—that unlocked his freedom, even though the men who tried to kill him never paid for what they did. And you’ll hear how Marcus went from a man chasing fame as a musician to a man