I’m not trying to write a New York Times bestseller. I’m trying to write a manual for impressionable minds — the kids who are watching, listening, and quietly deciding who they’re going to become.

— The Orderly Millionaire

Disclaimer: This book ain’t for everybody. There are plenty of books written for mayors, squares, and valedictorians — and that’s fine. This just isn’t one of them.

This book was written for the overlooked kids and the adults who love them — the ones who grew up around “be safe” speeches, break-the-cycle pressure, and a constant fear of ending up broke, locked up, or stuck. It follows the story of a hospital orderly from New Haven, Connecticut — a city with wealthy suburbs and hood struggles — who learned how to think different, move different, and build different.

This isn’t a sad tale. It’s a blueprint. A biography. A set of lessons. A training series on how to use faith, strategy, and hustle to escape the life you were handed and build the life you were called to.

In 2017, on 4:44, JAY-Z said he was trying to give a million dollars’ worth of game for $9.99. That line never left me. This book comes from that same place — except instead of rap verses, you’re getting the notes, scars, and playbook of a man who actually had to live it out one bill, one shift, one prayer at a time.

By the time you’re done, you’ll have had a front row seat to watch how one man balanced a poor upbringing, his fear, his music, and his God — and still went on to make millions. Not overnight. Not by luck. By building systems, taking hits, getting back up, and refusing to let what he came from define where he was going.

This book is here to help you find a path through the confusion. The mixed messages. The pressure to “play it safe” while everything in you knows you were built for more. It’s here so you don’t have to guess your way through the same dark hallways I had to walk down alone.

There is light at the end of this story — not just light for you, but for everybody connected to you. Your parents. Your kids. Your little cousins watching from the corner. Your friends who are one bad decision away from losing everything. When you change, they feel it.

Today, a lot of good people are doing everything “right” — working hard, paying taxes, going to church — and still never really seeing prosperity. Nobody ever handed them a clear blueprint. Nobody ever sat them down and said, “Here’s how money works. Here’s how systems work. Here’s how to think about opportunity so you don’t spend your whole life trading time for survival.”

Unless you were born with a silver spoon, you must have a plan. And if you don’t have a plan, you’re part of someone else’s. That’s not paranoia; that’s structure. The world runs on other people’s plans. This book is about finally building yours.

So whether you’re a parent trying to reach your child before the world does, a teacher or mentor looking for language that actually lands, or a young person tired of hearing “be good” with no one showing you how to be great — this is for you.

The world hasn’t seen the best of you yet.
The real question is — have you?