River Blackwood

The Forge and the Garden (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When Your Back Breaks, Your Dreams Don't Have To

Two pops. Two inches. Everything changed.

River Blackwood collapsed on a warehouse floor at 35, his spine shattered, his future seemingly over. What followed were 15 years of "dying daily deaths"disability checks, chronic pain, watching his wife carry burdens that should have been shared.

But in those sleepless 3 AM hours, something miraculous happened. Dreams that had been buried under decades of survival began scratching their way to the surface, first on napkins and paper bags, then on pizza boxes and medical bills. What if broken didn't mean finished?

This is the story of a man who discovered his greatest strength in his deepest weakness.

From those paper bag blueprints, River built an $85,000 government grant into a community development empire. He transformed abandoned buildings everyone had written offjust like they'd written him off. He created affordable housing that lifted families instead of displacing them. He proved that you can build wealth while building community, that success means taking people with you, not leaving them behind.

Every chapter reveals another breakthrough:

• How a high school teacher's words became a lifelong compass
• Why carnival economics taught him more than any MBA program
• The moment he stopped asking permission and started taking responsibility
• How government grants became his secret weapon for community transformation

River's journey from broken-backed dreamer to neighborhood transformer isn't just inspiringit's instructional. He shows exactly how limitations become launching pads when you stop seeing obstacles as endings and start seeing them as redirections toward your true purpose.

This isn't about recovery. It's about discovery.

In a world that measures success by how far you travel from where you started, River stayed home and changed everything. He learned that the places everyone abandons hold the greatest opportunities, that the people everyone overlooks possess the deepest wisdom, that real wealth comes from what you build, not what you take.

"Mrs. Henderson had been right all those years ago: dreams with purpose were better than dreams alone."

If you've ever felt broken, written off, or told your dreams were too big for where you come from, this book will show you something extraordinary: your comeback story and your community's comeback story might just be the same story.

Sometimes the compass that matters most doesn't point north. It points home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: River Blackwood
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230965213
• Artikelnr.: 75229046