At twenty-two, I lost my car, my girlfriend, and my job in the same morning. So I bought a one-way ticket to Chongqing — and went looking for the person I was built to be. This is that story.
I ran to China to run from the life I didn't want. Four years later I came home having run a bar, learned a language, and found a version of myself I'd been searching for. Then I built a company from $15,000 to a Shark Tank stage and a 50,000-square-foot warehouse — back in the same neighborhood I once ran from. Find Your China is the map I wish I'd had.
A memoir of roughly 39,000 words — from a kid in Wilmington who got his first laptop from a teacher, to a founder on national television.
For readers of Greenlights, Shoe Dog, and When Breath Becomes Air — a singular life lived fully, turned into something you can use.
Forget what you're used to and dig deep. Your passion has been inside you the whole time. This book is the push to go find it.
Not advice from a distance — hard-won knowledge drawn from specific, lived moments.
Growth lives outside the familiar. You can't find what's next while clinging to what's comfortable.
Whatever world you want into has its own language. Learn it one word at a time — and keep going.
Nobody arrives alone. The right people will show you things you'd never see on your own.
Take what you found and pour it back in. Build something that outlasts you — where you started.
"Stop throwing darts in the dark. Your China has your name on it."
In life, people won't always see where you're trying to go — and they'll discourage you from taking your own path. It isn't always from a place of hate. Sometimes it's from love. But you have to refuse to let others impose their limitations onto you.
Man of Christ, husband, father, and the founder of NERDiT NOW. From a one-way ticket to Chongqing to ABC's Shark Tank and a TEDx stage — the story behind Find Your China is the story of a life rebuilt on purpose.
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