Forged From Fire

Pieces To Prosperity

Charles Thomas, Jr

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WestBow Press
15 September 2025

Age groups: adults; Business & management; Coping with old age; Family & relationships; Advice on careers & achieving success

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What happens when success arrives, but life still breaks you open?

In this deeply personal memoir, Dr. Charles Thomas Jr. reflects on the layered experience of building and selling a company while navigating the challenges of mid-life, family illness, spiritual uncertainty, and the pressure to lead when nothing feels certain.

Told with unflinching honesty and emotional clarity, this is a story of effort, identity, and faith - not in a perfect outcome, but in the value of showing up. Through moments of failure and doubt, leadership and growth, Thomas explores the quiet resilience it takes to keep going when the weight of life and leadership collide.

This book is not a step-by-step business manual. It's not about shortcuts or silver bullets. It's a reflection on the long game. It's a story about how personal discipline, meaningful relationships, self-awareness, and spiritual grounding can anchor us through success, struggle, and everything in between.

Part entrepreneurial narrative, part emotional reckoning, part love letter to those who keep going, this memoir is for anyone who has faced uncertainty, loss, or fear and chose to stay in the fight. It's for those building something that matters, even if it costs them pieces of themselves along the way.

If you've ever chased a dream, questioned your calling, battled burnout, or simply tried to do good work while life comes at you fast, this story will meet you where you are.

This book is for anyone who lives with urgency and intention. This book is for anyone who leads with heart and scars. This book is for anyone who keeps going. This book is for anyone who cannot quit and will not quit. This book is for anyone who doesn't stop when they're tired, only when they're done. This book is for you.

By: Charles Thomas Jr
Imprint: WestBow Press
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9798385057733
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 15 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active