In the Shadow of Sacrifice shows by example how to minimize the significance of life’s challenges by presenting them as necessary ingredients in a strong and healthy development. The book reveals the impoverished youth of Howard Calhoun, the one quirky life-changing intervention that started his path to college, and many thoughtful, humorous, and truthful narratives that will convince the most skeptical to welcome the most difficult problems that life presents. The book challenges anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed, helpless, and threatened by life to use that energy to recognize their own excellence.
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Born amid poverty, illiteracy, and abuse, Howard Calhoun lived his youth as a sharecropper’s son and spent many of his early years moving from shack to shack. Saddled with insulting employment opportunities and a serious stuttering problem, the author quietly became an owner of several businesses with a workforce that numbers in the hundreds.
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