Today, someone who occasionally does work for me—who also happens to be a former foster kid and now owns her own small business—said to me, “Thank you so much for writing your book. I finally finished it, and it aligned so much with my story. It helps remove the shame and stigma we often carry because of what we’ve been through. It meant so much to me.”
That right there, folks, is one of the key reasons I wrote Twice Over a Man.
I often say that my life is a demonstration project—a small-scale, pilot initiative designed to test, showcase, or evaluate the effectiveness of a new idea or approach before broader implementation.
And the broader implementation? It’s this: What if more of us had the courage to just be who we are—warts and all—and focused our energy on helping others unleash the potential within themselves?
I believe we'd be a better community, and a stronger nation, because of it.