Hard is fun: embracing difficulty for a life that matters
Synopsis
Hard Is Fun is a bold, story-driven guide to personal and professional transformation through struggle. Blending memoir, leadership insight, and psychological research, Joshua Waldron shows readers how doing hard things—on purpose—is the key to building confidence, discipline, resilience, and legacy. From rebuilding his life after a spinal cord injury to scaling a multimillion-dollar company, Waldron draws from lived experience to dismantle society’s addiction to comfort and reframe pain as a path to purpose. With vivid stories, actionable tools, and a call to create a culture where difficulty is normalized and embraced, this book is both a mindset shift and a movement.
Manuscript Status
The manuscript is complete at 88,000 words and fully edited. All references are cited in APA format. The book includes:
- Fully developed chapters divided into four parts
- A challenge workbook at the end of each chapter
- Appendix with tools, reading list, and action prompts
Waking UP: A memoir by joshua waldron
Synopsis
Waking Up is a gripping, unflinchingly honest memoir about the crash that broke Joshua Waldron’s body—but awakened his soul. Told with vivid intensity and quiet introspection, this powerful narrative traces the author’s journey from a high-speed car accident that left him with a life-altering spinal injury to the painstaking road of recovery, reinvention, and personal transformation.
Raised in a world where toughness and independence were survival tools, Waldron built a life of grit, ambition, and entrepreneurship. But the crash shattered more than vertebrae—it forced him to confront the deeper fractures within: identity, ego, faith, and the meaning of success. Through physical pain, emotional reckoning, and spiritual searching, he comes face to face with vulnerability—and finds strength in surrender, purpose in pain, and clarity in the hardest questions life throws.
With moments of childhood wonder, familial love, professional triumphs, and spiritual awakening, Waking Up is more than a survival story. It’s a meditation on fate, gratitude, resilience, and the unseen forces that shape us. Joshua’s voice is raw but hopeful, fierce but reflective—a man learning that to truly live, one must first wake up.
Manuscript Status
- Title: Waking Up
- Author: Joshua Waldron
- Genre: Memoir / Inspirational Nonfiction
- Word Count: Approximately 99,000
- Status: Completed full manuscript; edited and formatted
- Stage: Ready for agent submission and publisher review
Distinctive Qualities:
- Blends high-stakes narrative with deep emotional reflection
- Speaks to readers navigating adversity, identity shifts, and personal reinvention
- Voice-driven, lyrical, and accessible