The Upside of Fear: How One Man Broke the Cycle of Prison, Poverty and Addiction
In his gut-wrenching memoir of brutal crime, prison time, and ultimate redemption, author Weldon Long tells the true story of how he transformed himself from a drug-addled convict to the CEO of a multimillion-dollar business by discovering the upside of fear.
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From the brutality of violent street crime to the compassion of a loving father for his son, this powerful memoir will take you from desperation to inspiration. The Upside of Fear exposes you to the harsh reality of a criminal life and creates a riveting portrait of true crime at its fundamental level from buying the duct tape for an armed robbery to saving the life of a prison guard. Author Weldon Wally Long recounts his harrowing journey of self-discovery and how he went from being a drunk in a jail cell to the CEO of a multimillion-dollar business. Twenty years of drinking, drugging, robbing, and lying led him to more than a decade of time spent in prisons, jails, and halfway houses and a strained relationship with a son he barely knew. But through a revealing and profound transformation, Long learned to change fear into a positive motivating force and use his mind to strengthen his will, even in the bleakest of circumstances. Long s story demonstrates that love can redeem even the most hopeless criminal, and that there can be no emotions stronger than the desire for redemption and the love of a father separated from his son by prison bars.
Acknowledgments vPreface ix1 A Night Out with Elliot: Spring 1987 12 Black Monday: October 19, 1987 133 Me: 1964 to 1987 234 I'm Going to Ca&ntidle;on City, Cañon City Here I Come ...: December 1987 to Spring 1990 295 Back on the Street Again: Spring 1990 to December 1, 1991 416 And Then There Were Two: December 1, 1991 to January 1993 577 Happy Birthday to Me: January 18, 1993 678 Back to the Can: January 1993 to Fall 1993 759 Back on the Street Again (Reprise): Fall 1993 to March 1995 8310 Viva Las Vegas: March 1995 to March 1996 9111 The Turning Point: March 1996 to August 1996 10112 The Upside of Fear: September 1996 to August 1997 11313 Reality Bites: December 1996 to July 1997 12714 Not Out of the Woods Yet: August 1997 to May 1999 13515 Finished with the Feds: May 14, 1999 to December 10, 1999 15116 The Prodigal Son Returns to Cañon City: December 10, 1999 to October 2002 15917 Back on the Streets Again (Final Reprise): October 2002 to April 2003 17918 Epilogue: 2003 to Present 189
