A Self-Help Memoir by Jon Levesque
For people who've been doing the work... but still can't find the key.
By thirty, I'd lost 150 pounds. Been in therapy for years. Walked away from a marriage that wasn't working. I was doing everything right — and still ended up on a bench at 3am wondering when the breakthrough would come.
Read the StoryThe bench was aluminum and cold as hell. I was curled up on it like a dog trying to stay warm — flip flops, t-shirt, a thin sweatshirt pulled over me like a blanket that wasn't doing shit... I was thirty years old.— Prologue: The Bench
The Arc
Every job was a parlay to the next. Every breakdown was a breakthrough waiting to happen. Here's how it actually went down.
Before the bench
Lost 150 pounds. Years of therapy. Walked away from a marriage and a church that weren't working. Doing everything right... and still stuck.
November 2014
Ferry terminal. 3am. Alone in the cold. Not rock bottom — the blank page. For the first time, the future felt like it belonged to me.
Early 2015
Learned to separate facts from the fiction I'd been telling myself since childhood. The key I'd been looking for. Everything unlocked.
2015 — 2025
$15k/yr → $402k/yr. Blockbuster → Microsoft → Docusign. High school dropout to Senior Director. No degree. No connections. Just frameworks.
Along the way
Found Alisha — a fuck yes. Built a blended family that actually works. 24 countries. A life chosen, not survived.
November 2025
At my grandfather's deathbed, my father apologized. Seven years of silence broken. Some cycles can heal.
The Receipts
2.2M
Community Members Built
25+
International Keynotes
200+
Talks Delivered
150
Pounds Lost
24
Countries Visited
130+
MVPs Mentored
$15k
Starting Salary
$402k
Peak Salary
The Frameworks
Each chapter pairs raw memoir with a practical framework. Each framework ends with reflection questions. You don't just read — you work.
01
Your brain runs on code written when you were a kid. Most of it is fiction you've been treating as truth for decades.
02
Learn to separate what actually happened from the meaning you assigned. The facts are neutral. The pain lives in the fiction.
03
You have a complaint you've been running your whole life. It's costing you everything. And you won't let it go because being right feels better than being free.
04
Four words. Applied to everything. If it's not working, change it. If it is, do more of it. Simple. Brutal. Effective.
05
The thing that protected you as a kid is now the thing keeping you stuck. The armor was genius. It's also a cage.
06
Stop making decisions from your past. Start making them from who you're becoming.
About the Author
Community builder. Former Microsoft and Docusign. High school dropout. GED. No college degree. No connections. Just frameworks learned the hard way.
I've spent 15 years building communities that serve millions — growing the Power Platform Communities to 2.2 million members, mentoring 130+ Microsoft MVPs, and keynoting conferences with 50,000 attendees.
But none of that matters as much as this: I was the kid who walked his little sister through the snow because no one else was going to do it. And I spent thirty years running on the code that experience wrote into me.
This book is what I learned when I finally rewrote it.
For Agents & Publishers
Complete manuscript available upon request. Writing sample, chapter outline, and full proposal ready to send.
Title
Fix Your Thinking, Fix Your Life
Genre
Self-Help Memoir
Word Count
~38,000 words
Status
Complete Manuscript
Comp Titles
Atomic Habits meets Educated
Target Audience
Adults 25–50 ready to stop surviving