She Wasn't Supposed to Fly : Told to Be Small. Born to Be Boundless.

S. T. Griffon

ISBN 13: 9798994903117

Edité par Gamshom Press, 2026

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The morning her career disappeared, S. T. Griffon sat in stunned silence, staring at the life she had spent decades building and suddenly no longer recognized.The titles were gone. The structure was gone. The armor was gone. What remained was a question she had outrun for years: Who am I if I'm not achieving Born into instability on the South Side of Chicago, Griffon was taught to expect little from life and even less from herself. She refused. She became a U.S. Army paratrooper, a single mother determined to break the cycle, and a corporate executive, building a life that looked like triumph from the outside. Inside, survival had quietly become a way of life.This wasn't the first time she had to rebuild. But it was the first time she couldn't rely on the version of herself that had always carried her through.When that career disappeared, everything she had used to define herself disappeared with it. What followed was the hardest and most necessary journey of her life.She Wasn't Supposed to Fly is the story of what happens when the life you built stops feeling like yours, and what it takes to finally build one that does.Because sometimes the life you were told wasn't possible is the one you were meant to claim.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: She Wasn't Supposed to Fly : Told to Be Small. Born to Be Boundless.
• Éditeur: Gamshom Press
• Date de parution: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9798994903117
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 140 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 140 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 461 grammes

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Synopsis

The morning her career disappeared, S. T. Griffon sat in stunned silence, staring at a life she had spent decades building and suddenly no longer recognized.

The titles were gone. The structure was gone. The armor was gone. What remained was a question she had outrun for years: Who am I if I'm not achieving?

Born into instability on the South Side of Chicago, Griffon was taught to expect little from life and even less from herself. She refused. She became a U.S. Army paratrooper in the elite 82nd Airborne Division and later a corporate executive, building a life that looked like success from the outside. Inside, survival had quietly become a way of life.

Then the foundation beneath that life disappeared. And with it went the identity she had spent decades constructing. What followed was not a journey of rebuilding. It was a journey of self-discovery.

She Wasn't Supposed to Fly is a memoir about what happens when achievement can no longer answer the question of who you are. It is a story about identity, self-worth, belonging, and the courage to build a life that reflects who you truly are rather than who you learned you needed to be.

For anyone navigating loss, transition, burnout, reinvention, or the uneasy realization that success alone isn't enough, this book offers an honest exploration of what it means to begin again.

Because sometimes the life you were told wasn't possible is the very one you were meant to claim.

À propos de l'auteur

S. T. Griffon is a memoirist and former U.S. Army paratrooper whose work explores resilience, identity, and what it means to rebuild your life on your own terms. She lives in Virginia.