The Courage To Be Courageous

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Affectingly honest... A provocative memoir refreshingly candid and thoughtful.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Kirkus Reviews</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>By age 7 Danny Bolen knew he was different.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This was a perilous reality in the post-war years of 1950s America. Although a time of widespread economic prosperity and great technological advances it was also an era of silent oppression racial segregation and real danger for anyone who fell outside of society's legally allowed norms.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dan married a girl in white go-go boots dropped out of college to become a Jehovah's Witness minister and discovered he had a gift for employment recruiting that would make him a millionaire before turning 30 (something his Grandma Vera accurately predicted).</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lovingly told with stark transparency and dry wit and humor </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Courage To Be Courageous</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is an important book about confronting our struggles finding our success and most importantly stepping into our truth and embracing who we are each meant to be.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>DAN BOLEN </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>was born in 1947 in Spokane Washington and grew up in Boise Idaho and in several places in Alaska. After marrying a girl in white go-go boots and dropping out of college to become a Jehovah's Witness minister he discovered he had a gift for employment recruiting a passion that would propel him to great professional and financial success. From 1967 until 2019 he helmed the nationally recognized executive search firms Management Recruiters of Boise and Dan Bolen and Associates. This is his first book.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>LANDON J. NAPOLEON </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction books that have been translated into multiple foreign editions. He is a previous Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers finalist and a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2021 recipient. His debut novel </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ZigZag </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>was adapted into a film and his nonfiction biography </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Burning Shield: The Jason Schechterle Story </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>was an Arizona Republic Recommends selection. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Arizona State University and a master's degree in creative writing from University of Glasgow in Scotland. He lives in Arizona.</span></p>