Overview
Surviving the Trenches: From Boy to Man is not a street memoir-it's a survival manual.
Written from lived experience, this book breaks down how boys in the trenches are shaped long before violence ever shows up. It explains why money speaks before wisdom, how grief turns into obligation, and how social pressure, clout, and survival mode quietly push young men into decisions that cost them decades.
This book doesn't glorify the streets. It exposes them.
Chapter by chapter, LC Denard explains:
- Why fast money rewires the brain before it ever changes lifestyle
- How grief gets weaponized into revenge and responsibility
- How social media turned the trenches into a performance stage
- Why neutrality rarely survives pressure
- How five seconds of emotion can cost a hundred years
- Why most people don't make it out-even when opportunity shows up
- How to transition street intelligence into structure, ownership, and long-term power
This book is for:
- Young men trying to survive environments that never taught planning
- Fathers who want to break cycles instead of repeating them
- Mentors, educators, and counselors working with at-risk youth
- Anyone who made it out physically but still feels trapped mentally
Surviving the Trenches is about discipline over reaction, distance over ego, and thinking long when everything around you rewards short decisions.
This isn't about being hard.
It's about staying free.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798242591172
- ISBN-10: 9798242591172
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: January 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.27 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 128
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