Personal Success Memoir

This is my story about how I overcame two suicide attempts, depression, anxiety, and stress and beat them all by living a positive life filled with gratitude. I was always "the glass is half empty" kind of guy, then things changed for me in the most amazing way! This is my story and how I did it. We all hear the ups and downs of celebrities, but what if you are like me, a regular 40-year-old with two young children and a 13-year career lost due to mental illness? In the space of two years, I lost a sister in law, father in law, and mother in law.

Steve Cederquist has achieved success as a Hollywood reality TV personality (Flip or Flop), founder of a renovation design company, and award-nominated philanthropist. But before he got here, he took dangerous detours through alcohol, drugs, criminality, and destructive relationships. The trauma of child protective services moving his kids into foster care drove Steve to reform. Against all odds, Steve Cederquist turned his world around. In Get Out Alive: Surviving and Thriving After Drugs, Guns, Gangs, Dysfunction, and Crazy, he shares his story.

In this book, Frank walks you through how the power of choice is always in your control. This book will fill you with inspiration as it outlines numerous times when Frank demonstrates how to overcome to most challenging of setbacks and keep moving forward. Frank also shares how growing up Black and being a minority presents a unique set of challenges, but by having the right mind-set nothing can stop you

A trip to Canada to officiate the wedding of two friends became a journey to peace, freedom, and a home the author never knew existed. Take a journey with the author as he explores what it means to enter another country as a stranger in a strange land and then leave as a native son. The book has humor, philosophy, stream of consciousness imagery, and a few ideas on how to find peace wherever you are. It also has a story about hunting bear.

Facing difficulty in life is inevitable. The difference is the way we deal with those challenges. In this autobiographical reflection, Rachel opens up about her experiences with eating disorders, abuse, chronic disease, and addiction. In revealing how she overcame these obstacles by focusing on mindset, fitness, and nutrition, Rachel explains how you too can take the wreckage of your past and transform it into a gift that moves you toward a better life.

"My aunt wrote down the story of her life with depression. She didn't share it, so I’m sharing it for her.” A true story spoken from a sufferer of depression. The ugly truths and the painful battles. Combined with the story from someone who loved them, how they tried to support, and the painful process of losing them. All shared with the hope to help others and encourage support.

Casey Mackinlay’s recollection on beating life’s unforeseen challenges and her journey to success, Girls Don’t Lay Bricks is an inspiring yet humble and practical distillation of all the successful tactics, concepts, and reflections that took one hungry teenage mother from a young bricklayer to CEO. If you aspire to more than where you are at, to pave your own path to success, or simply need a dose of inspiration for business, then this is a must-listen.

Written for women of all ages as an encouragement. The author has poured into this audiobook her personal testimony of how she overcame drugs, relationship issues, low self-esteem, and grief, etc.

Making a Quantum Leap: From There to Here, Vol. 1 takes you deep inside the mind of international best-selling author, Tom Nelson, as he goes from a maximum security prison cell to being a successful businessman, respected member of society, and father. Tom tells how he went from being a street thug and cocaine trafficker to owning the largest private fitness training facility in Los Angeles, being voted Trainer of the Year and Best Gym in Los Angeles.

Your past is not your past until you are healed from it. Have you suffered from sexual, verbal, or physical abuse in your childhood? Have you suffered abandonment and rejection? Are you carrying your past experiences with you in your daily life?This is a powerful story of how Jesus saved and healed a girl from abuse and abandonment and gave her a voice of her own. The reason I am writing this book is to bring awareness to the silent killer of abuse.

Experience the will-power of someone with a real story, about a real experience, with a real change. Impacting communities nationwide! A former high school student, 3.8 GPA, two basketball scholarships, on her way to college in pursuit of the American Dream. In as less as two weeks after her high school graduation, Desiree Lee found herself on the other side of the law.

What were the first words you spoke this morning? You possess the most powerful life changing tool known to mankind that will change your life! That tool is words. This dynamite power is yours and yours alone. No one, not even God can take that away from you. When I discovered this powerful tool, I began to build bridges to freedom from circumstances that were meant to kill and destroy me. It was my words that brought the destruction, and it was my words that restored my life, as I crossed the bridge over circumstances that looked like raging rivers and deep canyons.

The Magic of Life explores how he overcame tragedy, grief, and depression throughout his life. Even though he lost his mother, he and his brother were raised by his father and an incredible Jamaican woman who stepped in to fill the mother’s role. Michael shares his unique life about loss and how he finally addressed his grief with a blend of humor and inspiration that will have you crying and laughing throughout the book.

Never has society focused on a mother’s life after her child has been incarcerated until now. In this heart-wrenching memoir, Tosha shares a highly detailed journey of how she propelled through the physical and mental exhaustion of dealing with a dying mother and a prodigal son. She spent endless hours fighting to keep her oldest son, BJ, out of the realm of juvenile delinquency. However, his continued disobedience and criminal conduct resulted in a harsh prison sentencing.

Angelo is a metalhead - he lives and breathes heavy metal music. This is the amazing story of how metal guided Angelo to success as an attorney, in business, and in life. You’ll learn how metal supported every twist and turn of his unusual career path. Whether you’re a music lover, professional, or just looking for inspiration, the motivational stories and lessons from Angelo’s metal journey will open your mind to career possibilities and maybe even bring out the metalhead in you!

The intimate memoir of a young woman handed a future she refused to accept, and how she discovered the secret to rewriting her own destiny. Newly divorced and happily single, Mayuri Saxena had just relaunched her life in the Big Apple. But a devastating, unforeseen diagnosis would wrench the rug from under Mayuri’s feet, leaving her old anxieties to scatter like snowflakes on the wind. But amidst the wreckage of her old identity, hidden truths and promises waited to be discovered, if Mayuri could only bring herself to find them.

When Casey fled her home to move 2,700 miles away at a moment's notice, she thought that she was escaping the trauma of her circumstance. She quickly crafted a new life - new job, new friends, new city, new adventures. What she didn't anticipate was being haunted by scars that were much older than the life that she had left. Journey with the writer a she peels back the fragile layers of her life; layers that she had not previously given voice to...until she was left with no other choice but to call them out.

Part moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Princess Can Fly is a timeless charm that tells the story of a young woman who leaves the safety of staying small to follow her joy. Be inspired by this journey to transformation and self-love, self-belief, and self-realization as she learns to overcome the vagaries of adult behavior. Her personal odyssey culminates in a voyage of confidence, joy, determination, and success.

A simple response of "thank you" seems inadequate when you are on the receiving end of an act of kindness. My wife, Elsie, disabled from a fall at the age of 75, received such attention as she approached a door or was in need of help in some manner. We often asked what more could be said to make the thank you more meaningful. After her death in 2015, I put some of our thoughts together and present them in this audiobook. It offers ideas and anecdotes on ways to go beyond the ordinary response.

After a 2003 car accident, a family struggles as one member recovers from an eight-day coma to a rich and happy life, even with the new limits set on her. Watch her success and, perhaps, even see your family doing the same thing.