Jamie Russo \'s breakthrough title exploded in 2020. "Once you go through something as I have, you learn to appreciate the small things." Shavini Fernando.
But Shavini is a fighter, and she has since dedicated her Life to finding a solution.
After being rushed to the hospital, doctors diagnosed her with a congenital heart defect; she had less than two years to live. "If you have an opportunity to impact the world, you\'ve gotta do it." Lual Mayen Hope Shavini Fernando suffered a heart attack while hiking through the mountains of Sri Lanka.
Today, he\'s the CEO of Junub Games, a studio that builds video games for peace and social impact.
Lual developed his first video game while living in Northern Uganda.
Passionate about computers and technology, he walked for three hours every day to study programming.
Lual spent the first twenty-two years of his Life growing up in a refugee camp.
She named him Lual.
Upon her arrival at the border of Northern Uganda, the mother bore a son.
The youngest girls did not survive the arduous journey.
Over two hundred miles, the women traveled in search of refuge. "The one thing that separates me from everyone else is that I didn\'t give up." Marcus Bullock Grit After the Bor Massacre killed 2,000 civilians in South Sudan, a mother and her daughters fled on foot as gunshots rang overhead.
Today, he\'s the founder and CEO of Flikshop, the mobile application keeping families connected to incarcerated loved ones.
This book isn\'t about me-it\'s about the unlikely heroes I\'ve met that inspire others to dream big." Resilience Marcus Bullock was sixteen years old when he was sentenced to eight years in an adult maximum-security prison.
The Underdog Paradox chronicles the journeys of five entrepreneurs who defied the odds en route to building a brighter future.
The greatest Stories don\'t always make the biggest headlines.
Along the way, I met a publisher willing to take a risk on a first-time author. "In that dark moment, I started writing. "A year ago, I was laid off," Jamie Russo explains.
The Underdog Paradox is a #1 Amazon Bestseller, available in 130+ countries, and 10,000+ bookstores.
Jamie Russo \'s breakthrough title exploded in 2020
