Derrick Broze Announces His New Memoir "A Man of My Word"!

I have a big announcement, everybody. I am now ready to share the title and the release date of my upcoming memoir. For those of you who've been following me on the sub stack or social media, you may know that I've been kind of hinting at this and talking about this for a few months that I have been working on a memoir. I've been writing this book this entire summer, pretty much. I started in July, August, September, and then we were editing in it, we were formatting it, working on the book cover. Lots happening behind the scenes as always. And this memoir is basically the kind of prequel to everything that you guys know me for. This is not a memoir about my activism or my journalism. This is not a memoir about, you know, confronting politicians or any of the things I've been doing for the last 16 years. In fact, the memoir begins in 2003 and it ends around 2012, which is basically the first couple years of my activism, my journalism. And it is more about my struggle with drug addiction, with, you could say sex addiction, with, with cheating, with lying, with mental health struggles, cutting myself, abusing my body and my mind with drugs and alcohol and then eventually getting arrested and going to prison at 21 years old and all that that entails. So the book is called A Man of My Word. How I Overcame Addiction, Depression and Mental and Physical Prisons. And it will be available everywhere, all the places you buy, including Barnes and Noble and all those places. And yes, Amazon. If you must buy something from Amazon, it'll be available there. But it will also be available through my website. We're working on it right now. It's just going to be A Man of my word.com that'll tell you everything you need to know. But let me go ahead and just show you the book cover here. There it is right there. A Man of My Word. I'll show you the back cover in just a moment too. A Man of My Word. How I Overcame Addiction, Depression and Mental and Physical Illness. And yes, that is a young Derrick Bros. That picture was taken 20 years ago almost to the day. That was November 16, 2005, when I was first arrested for, for possession of drugs. And that was the beginning of this journey. And here's, here's the, the back cover, the description for all of you who can't read it on screen. At 14 years old, Derek Rose was secretly cutting himself and battling the demon of self hatred. Within a couple of years, the attacks on his body progressed into abusing his mind with an abundance of drugs and alcohol on, on this self destructive path. He was also doing damage to nearly every young woman he encountered in an attempt to find true love. After spending the better part of his first two decades of life drowning in depression and desperately desiring to connect with his drug addicted, imprisoned and mostly absent dad, Derek found himself being pulled into the same world of drug dealing and criminal activity that had ensnared his father. Before he knew it, he was hooked on crystal meth, cocaine and Xanax and indebted to a local drug kingpen. As he attempted to navigate the drug business and a maze of lustful relationships, he began to realize that he was not finding happiness and his drug fueled chaotic mess of a life. Soon enough, he would find himself arrested and continuing the family tradition of spending time behind bars. It was in this space of losing his freedom that he began his journey towards healing his trauma, understanding his mental health struggles and uncovering his spiritual path. This is Derek's story of learning to love himself, forgive his father and discover his purpose. Follow the ups and downs of his journey as he struggles to become a man of his word. And I've actually shared this with a few of my friends, including James Corbett of the Corbett Report. And James was gracious enough to give this review. He read the book and he enjoyed it. And he says, A Man of My Word is a gripping first person account of both the dark side of addiction and the redemptive power of hope, healing and forgiveness. After reading this book, those who know bros through his journalism will gain a deeper insight into the trauma that inspired his career. And those who aren't yet familiar with his work will have an amazing time discovering the epilogue to this sobering journey from addiction to activism. And here's another little tweet I put out this morning. This is the table of contents to the book. It's I. I divided into three parts. It's basically 30 chapters when you include the epilogue. The prologue is only a page, so it doesn't really count too much. So it's about 30 chapters. The book comes out to 456 pages. I'll just read you guys the table of contents real quick. The prologue is called November 16, 2005. It's the day I was arrested. Part one, Goodbye Childhood X is for ecstasy. The summer of mayhem and love. A slice of my heart blacking out almost but not quite. Hello crystal meth. Are you even enjoying yourself? Evicted, hollow dreams and dead hopes. In love and tweaking final days. Soberish but not yet free. And then part two. That whole first part of the book is basically like Me getting into drugs and all the craziness there. And it ends with me getting arrested. Part two is the whole focus is me going in and out of jail. In and out, back and forth. Sentence to change. Let the healing begin. Getting to the root. Mind fuck free at least for now. Mind fuck the sequel. The summer of love and psychedelics. One more chance to change and it's over. And part three is the end of my in and out of prison and jail and sort of the beginning of me turning my life into what you guys. You guys know me for. Chapter 23. Finally, finally free at last. I'm a drunk again. Sierra. Waking up, leaving it all behind. Coming home. I forgive you. And the epilogue is called the Fire Burns Bright. So that is my upcoming memoir. Here is the full book cover, including the back cover that you guys can see. There's the first time I'm sharing this with anyone. So you guys watching the Conscious Resistance live, get to see it firsthand. There's the front cover, there's the spine, and there's the description in my bio and a little picture I took of myself. It is going to be available for purchase on December 22nd. You guys will hear me make more noise about this. I'll put out a video the day it comes out. I can't wait to share this with you guys. I. I know it's different. Some of you might not give a about this. You're like, Derek, I come to you to hear you talk about Epstein technocracy and digital IDs. That's fine. I understand that. But for those who understand the bigger purpose of my work and the Conscious Resistance, maybe you understand that the Conscious Resistance has always been about healing and that, that, that internal spiritual journey. In fact, that the reason that the Conscious Resistance has always been about this is largely because of all the things I went through. My own struggles with addiction, my own, you know, prison time and, and, you know, working to heal my traumas. Everything that I was just describing in that description there. If I hadn't gone through that stuff, I don't know if I would be doing the work I'm doing today. In fact, whenever I give a talk or I share about this, I typically tell people that my first awakening was then in 2005 when I got locked up. And then I started to wake up to politics in 2009, 2010, 11. And that's basically where the book ends as I begin my current journey. And maybe one day I'll write another memoir, you know, discussing everything I've done in the last 16 years and, you know, who knows where things are going next? But, yeah, this is my journey, this is my story. And this is the most full version of it I've ever told. I've told bits and pieces of this. If you've heard me speak publicly and give presentations, I've touched on it a little bit. But this is the fullest version of my story. It's raw, it's gritty. It is. It is not sugarcoated in any way. It doesn't make me look the best. At least you know where I've been in the past. But it's who I was and it's part of who I am. So I'm very, very excited to share this with you guys again. The website will be a man of my word. Dot com. It's not up right. But as soon as it is, and as soon as the book is out, you will hear it first here@the consciousresistance.com the conscious resistance live. So. All right, thank you guys so much for giving me that moment to share with you. Cannot wait to share the book with you.