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Standing Strong: The Real Life Story of Overcoming Adversity and Becoming Unstoppable in Life and Business by Tina Brandau | Spotlight ~ Author Guest Post ~ $20 Starbucks Gift Card

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Book Details

Standing Strong: The Real Life Story of Overcoming Adversity and Becoming Unstoppable in Life and Business by Tina Brandau
Published by Red Sky Publishing on August 29, 2022
Genres: Educational, Non-fiction, Memoir, Self-help
Format: Audiobook, eBook, Paperback
Pages: 154

Standing Strong is a vulnerable, candid, and dramatic look into a forty-year-old woman’s journey when she found herself in the midst of a long healing process after a sudden and unimaginable accident.

The doctors said she would never again function beyond that of a young child. Tina shares the story, the steps she took, and the life lessons she learned, including the unique view of the world she experienced along the way.

No one gets out of this life unscathed, everyone faces stresses, challenges, setbacks, and adversity. Can you stand strong regardless of what life throws at you?

Yes! Let Tina Brandau share with you the system, principles, and practices she used to help you see that anything is possible.

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Guest Post from Tina Brandau, author of Standing Strong

What I didn’t know about writing when I wrote my #1 best-selling book …

Pretty much everything! I had written in college and wrote a lot in the corporate realm. Both of those styles of writing are much more transactional or tactical without much emotion. Learning to write the depths of emotion was quite eye-opening and unnatural at first. When you are used to writing in one style for decades, it is not an immediate shift. The story I was undertaking was writing a personal and very vulnerable story of an unimageable accident.

The writing phase was fine, or so I thought. It was the editing that caused me much consternation. It was “go deeper”, “go deeper”, “go deeper”. Finally, I sat at my computer and asked out loud, “why are you writing this”? The answer was sudden and sharp, “to help one person. You got a do-over in life. This to inspire others and help them learn through your experience, your lessons, so they have a roadmap to chase their dreams”.

Once that happened, I wrote like I was talking to my dearest friend sharing vulnerably without worry. No more beating my head on a wall. No more feeling like that story would never be good enough. No more concern if by sharing I would be labeled for life and kill my career. No more wondering if it would ever help the one person I wanted to help.

The story is a witty and vulnerable look at my life. It was not easy to share that my accident caused a traumatic brain injury or how it limited my functioning to that of a young child but I did it by writing to a dear friend with my focus being on that one person. And when you write to your friend, your wit shines through.

Writing the story itself was full of every emotion. I had to re-live everything that happened to get in on paper authentically. Some of it I had not recalled at all. Our brains are magnificent computers so I’ve come to learn over the fifteen years.

I’m often asked what was the hardest chapter to write? It was the beginning. How do you start a story about something true that is so unimaginable and make it believable? That was the biggest challenge. The easiest to write was the end. To be completely transparent, I had a hard time ending the book, there was so much more I wanted to share.

If you have ever doubted you can do something in life, anything really, the lessons in here will help you take the right steps in order to prove yourself wrong. I believe the biggest challenge in life is to become all that we have the possibility of becoming. Become unstoppable at becoming what’s possible.

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Full Tour Schedule:

Feb 6 – Locks, Hooks and Books
Feb 6 – Jazzy Book Reviews
Feb 7 – Stephanie Jane 
Feb 9 – The Life We Build
Feb 9 – Novels Alive
Feb 10 – A Mama’s Corner of the World 
Feb 13 – fundinmental
Feb 14 – Rockin’ Book Reviews
Feb 14 – Sandra’s Book Club
Feb 15 – Liese’s Blog 
Feb 16 – Splashes of Joy 
Feb 17 – Diana’s Book Journal
Apr 17 – Books for Books 
​​Feb 17 – Books are a Blessing 
Feb 21 – Gina Rae Mitchell
Feb 21 – Authors on iTours: Let’s Talk Books
Feb 22 – Celticlady’s Reviews –
Feb 22 – Leanne bookstagram
Feb 23 – Cover Lover Book Review
Feb 24 – Books and Games

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