About The Lion's Den

Well, here we are... and here you are.

Let us just remind you:

This isn’t just a podcast.
And this isn’t just a book.

The Lion’s Den is a war cry from two men who refused to die silently, internally or externally.

It’s the product of fire. The kind that either hardens you into purpose… or burns you into nothing. And Darren Morgan and Edison Cordero have lived on both sides of that line, sometimes as the flame, sometimes as the one burning.

Since August of 2022, what started as two voices and a mission has grown into a movement that has already helped save over 2,797 relationships from catastrophe. Not through sugar-coated advice. Not through feel-good quotes. But through truth, raw, confrontational, and healing.

Before Edison was a mental health advocate, a psychological tactician, and one of the most powerful voices helping people escape emotional abuse… he was a fighter.

Literally and emotionally.

He didn’t grow up as the “role model kid.” He was the reason for the parent-teacher meetings. The kid with fists instead of apologies. The one who got picked on and learned to hit back harder, not just at people… but at life.

And in middle school, that pain had an outlet: bullying.

One of his first targets?

Darren Morgan.

But the universe has a twisted sense of humor, because within months, the tension dissolved when both realized the truth:

They had more in common than they ever expected.

Both were misunderstood.
Both were wounded.
And both were on a collision course with something bigger than their pain.

Even as a boy, Edison was obsessed with human behavior. Why do bullies bully? Why does love turn toxic? Why do people stay silent until it kills them? That obsession grew into a relentless pursuit of psychology and human nature... studying under institutions like Yale, Wesleyan, and the University of Michigan.

But his real education didn’t start in a classroom.
It started in pain.

Three moments carved his mission into stone:

- A daughter who changed his DNA, not just his life.
- A close family friend, Larissa Barros, murdered by the father of her own child, failed by a system that was supposed to protect her.
- And two suicidal cries for help that Edison refused to ignore, one from his uncle at just 12 years old, and one from a bullied teenage girl who was collapsing under cruelty.

He helped both find a reason to live.
And from that moment forward, he made a decision:

No one who crosses his path should feel alone in the dark again.

And Darren’s story is no less powerful.

As a kid, Darren was tormented for simply existing. Bullied, threatened, and once even told he was on someone’s “murder list” for the way he looked. But he kept standing. Kept breathing. Kept learning. When Edison introduced him to boxing, Darren found a fire he didn’t know he had. When he discovered the art of debate, it was like someone handed him a sword.

He later joined the U.S. Army and served with honor, only to be medically discharged due to health challenges.

But his battles didn’t end.
They transformed.

Today, Darren is a mental health powerhouse, especially for the people who don’t feel like anyone sees them. Men who were taught to shut up and “be strong.” Women who’ve been emotionally trapped but blamed for the damage. People who are exhausted from explaining their pain to someone committed to misunderstanding them.

Together, Darren and Edison created The Lion’s Den not just to inform…

but to liberate.

Because manipulation doesn’t always look like violence at first.
Sometimes it looks like love with conditions.
Sometimes it sounds like an apology that leaves you bleeding.
Sometimes it’s silence that punishes you until you fold.
Sometimes it’s someone rewriting your reality until you don’t trust your own mind.

The Lion’s Den exists to give language to the pain you couldn’t explain.
To expose the tactics that kept you stuck.
To help you recognize patterns before they become prisons.
To help you rebuild your identity after someone tried to erase it.

This isn’t for the faint of heart.

This is for the ones who’ve been burned, broken, blamed…
and are finally ready to reclaim their minds, their hearts, and their lives.

Welcome to the Den.