and one of them has been trying to save me
I need to tell you about two conversations that have been running in my head for over five decades. One nearly killed me. The other saved my life.
At eight years old, hiding under a school staircase, I started talking to someone I couldn't see. By the time I was sixty-three, I'd built a modest business empire, survived two heart attacks, and discovered something that changed everything: my invisible friend was real.
For most of my life, I thought I was crazy. Not clinically insane, but... different. I heard voices. Had conversations with people who weren't there. Created an entire alter ego named Alex Quentin who was everything I wasn't; confident, successful, unafraid.
Alex built businesses. John Michael hid under stairs.
Guess which one the world fell in love with?
Maybe you know what it's like to perform your way through life. To be so good at being someone else that you forget who you really are. To earn love through achievement, only to discover that applause for your performance isn't the same as acceptance of your person.
I spent thirty years building a business that actually transformed people. But HR departments stopped wanting results, they wanted entertainment that scored well on 'happy sheets.' When COVID hit and companies demanded even more feel-good fluff instead of real development, I made a choice.
I walked away from it all rather than become another feel-good entertainer. I thought my story was over.
Turns out, it was just beginning.
The breakthrough came when I finally understood: that gentle voice I'd been hearing since childhood wasn't my imagination. It was the Holy Spirit. And that confident alter ego I'd created? He wasn't my identity - he was my survival mechanism.
Writing his story finally set me free.
"You were always meant to be a creator, not just a survivor," my invisible friend whispered as I put Alex's adventures on paper for the first time in forty-five years.
That's when I realised: I hadn't lost my business - I'd found my true calling.
This isn't just my story. It's the story of anyone who's ever felt like a misfit. Anyone who's been hurt by religion but isn't done with Jesus. Anyone who's exhausted from trying to earn love they already possess.
If you've ever wondered whether that still, small voice you sometimes hear is real then this book is for you.
If you've created your own version of Alex to survive in a world that doesn't seem to have room for your authentic self - this book is for you.
If you're ready to stop performing and start living - this book is definitely for you.
"Where you go, I go. Always." - The promise that changed everything
"Your invisible friend is real. And the conversation you've been avoiding might be the one that sets you free." - The invitation that could change your life
The Inside-Out: Season Zero of The Eden Chronicles releases soon. It's the true story behind my science fiction series; where the 'fictional' characters were never really fictional at all.
This is for soul-hungry misfits who suspect their invisible friends might be real too.
Order now and discover the conversation that could change everything: https://books2read.com/theinsideout
Because your story isn't over. And the voice you've been hearing? It's been waiting your whole life for you to listen.
P.S. That teacher who nicknamed me 'Mr UNworthy' and silenced my voice for forty-five years? This book is for him too. Turns out he was spectacularly wrong about my abilities. But then again, he was wrong about a lot of things.
What about you?
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