Rocks and Thorns

Welcome to Rocks and Thorns, a channel dedicated to real stories of resilience, redemption, and authentic leadership.

Here, we celebrate leaders who didn’t climb corporate ladders but rose from the hardest places — addiction, incarceration, mental health struggles, loss, and deep personal transformation.

Some of these leaders appear in my book, The Path of Rocks and Thorns: Leadership Lessons From a Prison Cell, and many are voices I’ve yet to meet, all turning pain into purpose and scars into service.

This is for anyone who knows leadership isn’t about perfection but about showing up fully and helping others do the same.

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 - Doug and Shelley