Angela Adams
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Prepared
- A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios
- By: Mike Glover, Jack Carr - foreword
- Narrated by: Mike Glover, Ray Porter
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Most people think that being prepared for catastrophe means stocking up on MREs and building a bunker in their backyard, but this approach leaves you vulnerable in the real world of car accidents, natural disasters, grid failures, and global pandemics. Prepared overturns today’s paranoid survival wisdom and teaches the foundational skills of preparedness that will not only help you build situational awareness and achieve greater mobility but that will also help you build resilient mental habits.
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A bit of fear mongering
- By JOHN DAVIS on 07-13-23
- Prepared
- A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios
- By: Mike Glover, Jack Carr - foreword
- Narrated by: Mike Glover, Ray Porter
Good introduction to the prepared life
Reviewed: 10-04-23
This is more of a broad stroke preparedness mindset book versus a wrote list of how many seeds you need to store or carrying a gun or having your bug out bag, it is about setting your mind towards being prepared for practical, personal catastrophes (e.g., car accident, home invasion, hurricane, tornado) even if that decision is to retreat. Really enjoyed this book; it is full of excellent, practical advice and is a good base layer that can be a useful reference for the casual interest and sets the stage for those who want to delve deeper in follow on texts.
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The Trail
- A Novel
- By: Ethan Gallogly
- Narrated by: Jake Hunsbusher
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The Trail is a moving story of how nature helps us find what’s missing in our lives. The tale begins with Gil, who in the wake of his father’s death and recently fired from his job, agrees to accompany his father’s old hiking partner Syd on a month-long trek on the John Muir Trail. There’s just one problem: Gil hates camping and is woefully unprepared for the rigors of the journey. Moreover, he soon learns Syd may not survive the hike.
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Audible version - excellent!
- By JocelynF on 02-24-22
- The Trail
- A Novel
- By: Ethan Gallogly
- Narrated by: Jake Hunsbusher
Great performance and story
Reviewed: 03-01-23
The reader really brings this story to life using various voices for the characters. Highly recommend.
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Once a Warrior
- How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home
- By: Jake Wood
- Narrated by: Jake Wood
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From Marine sniper Jake Wood comes a riveting memoir of leading over 100,000 veterans to a life of renewed service, volunteering to battle, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, pandemics, and civil wars, and inspiring onlookers as their unique military training saved lives and rebuilt our country.
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Powerful, Reality
- By RoxB on 04-29-21
- Once a Warrior
- How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home
- By: Jake Wood
- Narrated by: Jake Wood
Motivation +10
Reviewed: 09-03-22
An absolutely amazing book! It was engaging from the very start and I could barely put it down. If this book doesn't inspire hope, bring some tears and motivate you to serve nothing will. Jake reads it well, with enthusiasm and just the right emotion to really bring it to life. At times it feels like you are around the campfire with him. I am so glad I found TR a year ago, I had been under the mis-assumption that it was only for veterans, wrong they take kick ass civilians too. This has been the most rewarding organization i have ever belonged to outside of my military college experience. It truly is a tribe!
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How to Get Run Over by a Truck
- A Memoir
- By: Katie McKenna
- Narrated by: Katie McKenna
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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People often say, "I feel like I've been run over by a truck." Katie actually was. On a sunny morning bike ride in Brooklyn, 24-year-old Katie McKenna was forever changed when she was run over by an 18-wheeler. Being crushed under a massive semi wasn't something Katie should have survived. After 10 hours of emergency surgery, she woke to find herself in a body and a life that would never be the same.
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Funny and an amazing story.
- By T. Thompson on 12-16-16
- How to Get Run Over by a Truck
- A Memoir
- By: Katie McKenna
- Narrated by: Katie McKenna
Good read about the resiliency of the human spirit
Reviewed: 01-11-22
What can I say this book flowed well, the narration by the author was impeccable and you could really feel her situation throughout the whole book. She struck the right tone in her storytelling and reading so that you could feel her highs and her lows and cheer with her as she triumphed. Would recommend for just about anyone.
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Warrior's Creed
- A Life of Preparing for and Facing the Impossible
- By: Roger Sparks, with Don Rearden
- Narrated by: Roger Sparks
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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This powerful and inspirational story is as much of a self-help book as it is an edge of your seat military memoir. Warrior's Creed reveals a motivating and mindful approach to overcoming the odds, facing the impossible, and finding mercy and grace in the aftermath.
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Must Read!
- By M Flatten on 03-09-21
- Warrior's Creed
- A Life of Preparing for and Facing the Impossible
- By: Roger Sparks, with Don Rearden
- Narrated by: Roger Sparks
Engaging story.
Reviewed: 01-01-22
For me this was a great book to follow Never Quit with, that way I felt like I already had some detailed perspective on the Alaskan PJs and their relationship. Overall this is an engaging story of triumph over trials and I enjoyed it. It would be better read by someone with a better cadence, the author does it emotional justice but it is very choppy at some points and almost feels like an elementary reader. I want to read this again as a print edition. Overall I recommend.
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Fall and Rise
- The Story of 9/11
- By: Mitchell Zuckoff
- Narrated by: Mitchell Zuckoff, Sean Pratt
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author of 13 Hours and Lost in Shangri-La delivers his most compelling and vital work yet - a spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative, years in the making, that weaves together myriad stories to create the definitive portrait of 9/11.
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Outstanding in Every Way...THIS IS US!
- By tarafarah7: Tara Brown on 08-30-19
- Fall and Rise
- The Story of 9/11
- By: Mitchell Zuckoff
- Narrated by: Mitchell Zuckoff, Sean Pratt
Absolutely heart wrenching and engrossing
Reviewed: 08-16-21
Wow is all I have to say. This book absolutely had me crying at parts, and at others I felt honest to god relief. This is not a book for the feint of heart as it is brutally honest and descriptive but is absolutely masterfully told. I was so engrossed and felt invested in the outcomes of the stories provided that I could hardly put the book on pause. Highly recommend as this is 9ne of my top 10 listens and possibly one of my top 5.
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Self Discipline: The Spartan and Special Operations Way to Mastering Yourself
- By: Ryan Hunt
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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In this book, you will learn lessons in self-discipline from the masters of self-discipline: the Spartans and Special Operations Units. This book will guide you through the most important principles of self-discipline. It will teach you how to take your life and transform yourself into a powerful individual.
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very blah and generic
- By TommyDCentral on 01-09-20
No big revelations lot of rehash
Reviewed: 07-19-21
If you know anything about the Spartans and their culture, this book will be trivial. Book is very generic and the reader has the most droning, monotonal voice. The book repeats itself more than I feel is necessary and just really doesn't go anywhere. It was not a horrible book but there are better.
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Resilience
- Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
- By: Eric Greitens
- Narrated by: Eric Greitens
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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You cannot bounce back from hardship. You can only move through it. There is a path through pain to wisdom, through suffering to strength, and through fear to courage if we have the virtue of resilience. In 2012, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn’t seen in a decade. Zach Walker had been one of the toughest of the tough. But ever since he returned home from war to his young family in a small logging town, he’d been struggling. Without a sense of purpose, plagued by PTSD, and masking his pain with heavy drinking, he needed help. Zach and Eric started writing and talking nearly every day, as Eric set down his thoughts on what it takes to build resilience in our lives.
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Nice Story, but a lot of Repetition in all 3 books
- By Robert on 06-01-17
- Resilience
- Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
- By: Eric Greitens
- Narrated by: Eric Greitens
This book is the definition of average
Reviewed: 03-04-21
Struggled to finish this one, fell asleep numerous times so I guess it succeeded in one category. Not an amazing, life changing 5 star book, but worth a read, I do feel like some ideas were well presented and i don't feel like I lost anything by reading in it. Overall it was just hard to be invested in it. This reads like a series of essays rather than letters, or at least that's not how letters to my friends would sound. Lots of philosophy rather than self-help. The only sort of annoying thing was a tone from the author that can feel condescending. I get it you were a SEAL, you did humanitarian work, your selfless,, you idolize the ancient greeks.
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Braving the Wilderness
- The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
- By: Brené Brown
- Narrated by: Brené Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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"True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are." Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives - experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization.
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Actual Step-By-Step To Authenticity!
- By Gillian on 09-14-17
- Braving the Wilderness
- The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
- By: Brené Brown
- Narrated by: Brené Brown
Challenging
Reviewed: 01-14-21
This is an interesting and impactful book. I both enjoyed and was challenged by it. I think it is worth listening through once and then downloading the worksheets and really working through it.
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Four Years in the Rockies
- Or, The Adventures of Isaac P. Rose, of Shenango Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
- By: James B. Marsh
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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James Marsh's Four Years in the Rockies gives brilliant insight into the life of Isaac P. Rose, a man who forged his own path in the wilderness of the far west. This thrilling account of one mountain man's life at the height of the 19th-century fur industry follows Rose as he overcomes adversity, learns from those around him, and becomes one of the most successful trappers of the Rockies. Four Years in the Rockies is essential listening for anyone interested in the 19th-century fur trade and the adventurers who risked their lives to be part of it.
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Years in the Rockies
- By Janie Evans on 01-07-21
- Four Years in the Rockies
- Or, The Adventures of Isaac P. Rose, of Shenango Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
- By: James B. Marsh
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
Interesting glimpse into frontier life
Reviewed: 12-31-20
Pretty interesting, an opportunity to learn about someone I'd never heard of. It was written in a fast moving pace. It covered the four years relatively well. The language used was just the right mix of simple words and some "50 centers". It was so written one could pretty well picture what was going on.
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