You Are Worth It: Building a Life Worth Fighting For by Kyle Carpenter book cover

LEADERSHIP

You Are Worth It: Building a Life Worth Fighting For

By Kyle Carpenter · 320 pages

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Medal of Honor recipient Kyle Carpenter's memoir of surviving a grenade that destroyed half his body, and the decade of recovery that followed. A raw account of purpose, grit, and the daily choice to rebuild — written by a Marine who learned what it means to earn your existence one day at a time.

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Books focused on judgment, accountability, culture, and what leadership looks like when the mission is real and the stakes are human.

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