Not all leaders rise. Some are forged in fire. Doug Smith was a social worker, a policy insider at the Texas Capitol, and a father-until untreated mental illness and addiction led him to rob a bank and land in prison for nearly six years. The Path of Rocks and Thorns isn't a redemption story dressed up for TED. It's a descent. A reckoning. And, ultimately, a resurrection. Structured like Dante's Inferno, this unflinching memoir follows Smith's journey through the darkest corners of his past-childhood trauma, shame, ...
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Not all leaders rise. Some are forged in fire. Doug Smith was a social worker, a policy insider at the Texas Capitol, and a father-until untreated mental illness and addiction led him to rob a bank and land in prison for nearly six years. The Path of Rocks and Thorns isn't a redemption story dressed up for TED. It's a descent. A reckoning. And, ultimately, a resurrection. Structured like Dante's Inferno, this unflinching memoir follows Smith's journey through the darkest corners of his past-childhood trauma, shame, self-sabotage-and into the brutal clarity of prison. But within the chaos, he found something most leadership books never fully embrace: truth. This is not a "five steps to better leadership" book. It's a call to strip away the lies we tell ourselves and lead from a place of radical honesty, humility, and earned wisdom. Smith shares what he learned teaching sexual assault prevention inside prison walls, what it means to rebuild a life from nothing, and how leadership isn't about status-it's about service, integrity, and the ability to rise from your own wreckage. For those stuck in cycles of failure, fighting to recover, or questioning their worth-this book doesn't offer comfort. It offers something better: permission to lead anyway. The Path of Rocks and Thorns is a raw and necessary read for anyone tired of corporate platitudes and hungry for something real. The truth is ugly. So is growth. But that's where real leadership begins.
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