The Cheat Code to Transferable Skills: Redirecting Street Skills to Legal Success - Softcover

Royster, Jonas U; King, Armand L

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798988727996

Publisher: Paradise Publishing Company, 2026

Synopsis

You already have the skills. Nobody ever showed you how to use them legally.

The Cheat Code to Transferable Skills is a raw, practical guide to life after prison and starting over - written by two men from California who lived it. It's built for anyone rebuilding after incarceration, addiction, or the streets: the person coming home, and the mentor, employer, or reentry worker walking beside them.
Instead of telling you to erase your past, this book shows you how to redirect it. The same instincts that helped you survive - reading people, taking risks, hustling, leading, and building a name are the exact skills that run legitimate businesses and careers. You'll learn to separate the skill from the behavior and aim it at a future instead of a sentence.

Inside, you'll discover how to:
- Translate street experience into professional, resume-ready language
- Turn hustle and resourcefulness into real income and ownership
- Master communication, branding, and calculated risk
- Build the discipline, values, and mindset that make a second chance last

Your past prepared you. This is how you cash it in.

About this title

About the Author

Jonas Royster is a four-time award-winning and best-selling author whose work uses storytelling, lived experience, and practical wisdom to help people take ownership of their stories and create better outcomes in their lives.He is the author of Bangin': The Making of a Y.G., Quotes Off the Wall: 31 Days to Break Bad Thinking Habits and Embrace Positivity, and The First-Time Author Playbook, and co-author of The Cheat Code series. His writing spans personal transformation, self-leadership, reentry, behavioral change, and the lessons that can only come from living through something, learning from it, and having the courage to tell the truth about it.Through Paradise Publishing and his work with first-time authors, Jonas also helps aspiring writers move their ideas and manuscripts beyond the document stage and into finished, published books. His belief is simple: your story may begin with you, but once you have the courage to finish it, it can become a roadmap for somebody else.Jonas is also the founder and CEO of Hood Proverbz, where his books, curriculum, training, and speaking continue the same mission-turning lived experience into practical tools for growth, accountability, leadership, and change.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paradise Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798988727996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150