Body-Brokering Survivor | The Hidden Third with Mariana van Zeller
Nov 05, 2025•57 min
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This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Go to http://betterhelp.com/mariana for 10% off your first month.
At 23, Sequoyah Thiessen moved to L.A., believing the “Rehab Riviera” would help her kick opioids. Instead, she was pulled into the shadow economy of fraudulent rehab programs, where people in crisis are bought and sold on a multi-billion-dollar black market. She sits down with Mariana to talk about how this dangerous underworld works, who profits, and the way she turned her life around.
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