When you write a book—and it’s not your primary hustle—you sometimes wonder who will actually read it. Who will pick it up. Who will sit with it long enough for it to matter.
Not too long ago, I visited the prison in Bon Terre. The men there are no different from you or me. What separates us are often micro choices—choices aided and shaped by environment—that slowly move people onto very different paths.
And yet, even with some of them serving life sentences, they are still clinging to hope.
They invited me because of the book. And honestly, they weren’t sure I would show up. One of them said to me, “CEOs don’t come to visit us. You’re the first.”
That stuck with me.
Yesterday, I went to visit someone who was sick—actually dying. As I walked in, his daughter said casually, “Hey, I have your book on my nightstand.” I instinctively responded, “Have you read it?”
Because the hope doesn’t come from owning the book. It comes from absorbing what it says about you.
This week, someone sent me this message:
“I just listened to your message and I’m tearing up because that message was 100% for me and just what I needed. The Lord really is working through you in my life and I’m just so baffled on how I ended up in your sphere from just answering a post on LinkedIn. The Lord truly works in wondrous ways. I’m sharing your message with my Bible Study ladies because it’s amazing… Thank you for using your voice to share God’s love.”
Moments like these remind me that purpose doesn’t need volume to be effective. It just needs placement.
I’m grateful for the recent write-up in U.S. Business News and for the other outlets that have covered Twice Over a Man since its release in 2024. But what I’m most grateful for is this: the book is doing exactly what I hoped it would do.
From More Than a Conqueror to Ward of the State, the book was always meant to help us access something deeper—resilience, rebound, and the quiet strength that already lives within us. Not borrowed strength. Innate strength.
Twice Over a Man has become the intellectual and spiritual foundation for The Thriver’s Path because it keeps doing the work—helping me, and others, reach for the resilience and rebound that are already there.
And my prayer is simple: that it keeps doing its job.