THE FOUNDER'S CONVICTION

I AM NOT POWERLESS.

The expedition challenge

One difficult journey. One visible challenge.

Break the Cycle is a planned, approximately 7,000-mile cycling challenge intended to draw public attention to recovery and treatment outcomes through community engagement and conversation.

Miles of planned road

~7,000

A long-distance challenge across a broad American route corridor, from Houston toward Alaska and later back to Austin.

Why this journey exists

The system demands better questions.

Break the Cycle is intended to draw visible public attention to recovery and treatment outcomes—and to create space for serious questions about whether current approaches are producing meaningful, lasting results.

Through community engagement and conversations shaped by lived experience, the campaign seeks to listen, examine assumptions, and build awareness and support for a better future.

  1. Call attention to recovery and treatment outcomes.

  2. Center lived experience and community voices.

  3. Create a credible public conversation about what meaningful progress should look like.

About the campaign

See what stands behind the journey.

Meet the nonprofit behind Break the Cycle and understand how this public challenge fits within a larger founder-developed vision.

About the campaign
Juan Arroyo, known as Johny Brooklyn

The founder

Meet the public voice behind the challenge.

Johny Brooklyn founded Recovery Alliance Group Inc. and is expected to carry Break the Cycle into public view through the planned journey, interviews, and community conversations.

Meet Johny

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