Finding My Shoes: 10th Anniversary Edition — My Journey of Overcoming 10 Years of Homelessness and Addiction to Becoming One of America’s Most Sought ... Entrepreneurs and Motivational Speakers - Softcover

Combs EdD, Dr Brenda

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798907818033

Verlag: BRC Publishing LLC, 2026

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She walked the streets of Phoenix barefoot and addicted. Today she holds a doctorate — and more than eighteen hundred people have had a bed because she opened a door.

For nearly ten years, Dr. Brenda Combs was homeless and addicted to crack cocaine, sleeping in alleys and abandoned buildings in the part of Phoenix the police call The Zone. She lost her teaching career, her family’s trust, and finally her shoes — walking so far, for so long, that they fell apart on her feet. And she kept walking.

Finding My Shoes is the story of how she got back up.

First published in 2015, this bestselling memoir has reached readers in classrooms, prisons, treatment centers, and churches across the country. Now, ten years later, this anniversary edition adds five new chapters covering everything that came after the book that changed her life:

• The publishing company and the theatre group she launched in a single year

• The mentor who found her through a pamphlet in a jail cell — and what it cost to lose her

• The father she buried in January 2020, eight weeks after his diagnosis

• The recovery house she opened anyway, one week into a global shutdown

• The clinic that did everything right and still did not survive

• And a man named Herman, who got clean in one of her houses and is still running one at seventy-seven

Ten houses. A clinic. A film. Twenty-five plays. Thirty-five books published for other authors. A community of women in eighty-two countries. And more than eighteen hundred people who had somewhere to sleep.

This is not a book about surviving. It is a book about what you build afterward.

If you have ever been counted out, this book was written for you.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BRC Publishing LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798907818033
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246
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