Every Person Has a Story to Tell

  

Every Person Has a Story to Tell

By Dr. Walter R. Hoge

What if a life is not one straight road, but a thousand remembered paths crossing faith, grief, science, ancestry, and wonder?

Every Person Has a Story to Tell opens like a memoir, but it quickly expands into something larger and stranger: a life archive shaped by memory’s unreliability, family legend, spiritual longing, professional reinvention, and the haunting possibility that the most important places we visit may not belong entirely to this world. The book moves through ancestors, frontier histories, veterinary practice, personal losses, philosophical reflections, and a mystical valley that lingers in the author’s soul like an unfinished calling.

At its heart, the book gathers family history, memoir, faith, and reflection into a deeply personal meditation on memory, purpose, and the experiences that shape a life.

Its atmosphere shifts between grounded recollection and visionary experience. One moment, the book is contemplating squirrels, elephants, and the fragile mechanics of human memory; the next, it is standing at the edge of a glowing valley in what feels like a parallel universe, where fear gives way to peace and purpose. That tension gives the book its pulse: the earthly and the eternal, the documented and the imagined, the ordinary life and the life that seems to whisper from just beyond it.

What makes this book stand out is its refusal to separate disciplines that are usually kept apart. Science and religion, memory and myth, family history and personal testimony all occupy the same terrain. The central question is not simply what happened, but what a person does with what happened: how experience becomes meaning, how grief becomes redirection, and how a life can be measured not only by achievement, but by whether it remains open to wonder, service, and a second chance.

Some stories are told to preserve the past; others are told to light the way back to the self.

Click here to get Every Person Has a Story to Tell on Amazon

 

Website: www.drwalterhogebooks.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/booksbydrwalterhoge

  

Kind Hearts Farm: A New Beginning

Kind Hearts Farm: A New Beginning is a heartfelt children’s story about healing, kindness, and the power of love. When Jimmy arrives at his grandmother’s farm, his heart is heavy and unsure. Life hasn’t always been easy, and trusting others doesn’t come naturally. But through gentle days, caring moments, and the quiet magic of farm life, something begins to change. With the help of his loving Grandma and a special little lamb he names Clover, Jimmy slowly learns what it means to feel safe, to be cared for, and to open his heart again. Set against the peaceful rhythm of the farm, this story reminds children that kindness can grow in the smallest moments—and that love has the power to help us begin again.

Perfect for children ages 4–8, this beautifully told story encourages compassion, emotional growth, and connection between generations.

Click here to get Kind Hearts Farm: A New Beginning

on Amazon / Kindle 

 

Being Great At Your Job Means Nothing: Why Do Recruiters Seek Technical Skills and Hiring Managers Concentrate on Personality and Charm

    

Being Great At Your Job Means Nothing:

Why Do Recruiters Seek Technical Skills and Hiring Managers Concentrate on Personality and Charm

Why are the most qualified candidates often the first ones rejected?

In Being Great At Your Job Means Nothing, tech veteran D.T. Crawford pulls back the curtain on the "invisible machinery" of modern hiring. Through the eyes of Dorian Caldwell and a collection of raw, real-world stories, this book exposes a system that values optics over outcomes and "culture fit" over actual capability.

From the high-speed filter of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to the disconnect between recruiters seeking keywords and managers seeking "vibes," Crawford reveals why meritocracy is often a myth. But this isn't just an exposé—it’s a roadmap for reform.

Discover the ARC Theory (Adaptability, Rigor, and Contribution), a revolutionary human-centered approach to hiring that replaces checkboxes with conversations and mirrors with windows. Whether you are a jobseeker tired of being "algorithmically ignored" or a leader ready to build a team based on true potential, this book is a call to reclaim dignity in the workplace.

It’s time to stop auditing for compliance and start hiring for character.

Click here to get

Being Great At Your Job Means Nothing

on Amazon Kindle / Kindle Unlimited 

    

Marvin and the Plant-Based Penis

Marvin lives in a dome in 2075, fifty years after the collapse. The air is toxic. The water is poisonous. The Y chromosome has disappeared humans are cloned in vats now, carefully designed to survive a world that kills everything natural.

But Marvin just wants to impress a girl. He has a plan: he's going to buy a plant-based penis, impress Zenna, and live happily ever after. There's just one problem. The plant-based penis doesn't work. Looking for parts to fix it leads him on a journey through the Forbidden Territories, where he Meets broken people, view the world outside his done, and discovers what is still destroying what's left of the planet.

Click here to get

Marvin and the Plant-Based Penis

on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited 

 

Dirty Millions the Clean Way

If you read this book to the end and live to talk about it later, your life will change forever. 

This book (Dirty Millions the Clean Way/The Book Movie) is also designed to open the readers’ minds, blowing the dust-off untapped brainpower, as we discussed topics that have affected some more deeply than others. At the same time, it will ignite a spark within each of us, inspiring us to make daily changes that will significantly impact all our future endeavors. As you continue to read this unorthodox book with an open mind and your head held high, almost everything will mysteriously change for the better. You will become proud in your thoughts and have a new, optimistic hope for the world's future.

In this book/movie, you will sometimes visit the past, bringing it into the present, as you may still harbor some prejudice in your heart and mind. God has provided everything needed for His most incredible human creation to live a full, whole life of complete creative potential. How can we still dwell together on this “spaceship" we call Earth, knowing of the many people who are still suffering each day from the lack of basic survival needs, which gives dignity to all? As this “spaceship” (Earth) continues to revolve around the warmth of the sun each day, it provides an abundance of the three essential needs, food, air, and water for all of mankind to share and consume, not just the privileged few due to their country location, faith, wealth, inheritance, or birth geography.

Self-prejudice is a 100% curable disease through self-determination, psychiatrists, dignity for all, new laws forcing the wealthy to share the wealth, and prayer! As you continue to read this "unorthodox" book with an open mind, all of humanity will begin to change in your mindset as you read to the end, if possible. For centuries, restrictions have kept a particular group of people poor in mind, body, and spirit, and this will also change soon, through this book. This book will give you the hope you have longed for without changing your core values or personal beliefs.

Click here to get Dirty Millions the Clean Way

Own the Room: How to Communicate to Be Seen, Heard and Respected

        

Own the Room:

How to Communicate to Be Seen, Heard and Respected

Own the Room is not a book about public speaking. It’s a book about human perception. Why do some people command attention the moment they walk into a room while others struggle to be heard? Why do certain leaders, salespeople, creators, and communicators create trust instantly while others feel forgettable—even when they’re more qualified? Because communication is never just about words. Before people evaluate your ideas, they evaluate you. Your confidence. Your certainty. Your emotional control. Your authenticity. Your presence. Human beings are constantly making unconscious decisions about who feels trustworthy, capable, safe, persuasive, and memorable long before logic enters the equation. In Own the Room, communication strategist Jake Stahl breaks down the hidden psychology behind influence, authority, trust, and presence in a way that is both deeply practical and psychologically precise. Drawing from decades of experience training professionals across industries, along with principles from behavioral psychology, social psychology, neuroscience, and NLP, Stahl reveals how subtle emotional signals shape every interaction we have. This book explores why people react differently to the exact same words depending on who says them, why approval-seeking weakens persuasion, how insecurity leaks through communication, and why emotional congruence matters more than rehearsed perfection. Readers will learn how to create psychological trust, regulate tension, project grounded confidence, and communicate in a way that makes people feel seen, understood, and certain. Whether in business, leadership, sales, relationships, negotiations, interviews, podcasts, presentations, or everyday conversations, Own the Room teaches readers how to stop performing and start communicating with clarity, authority, and emotional precision. Because the people who truly own the room are not always the loudest, smartest, or most charismatic. They’re the people who understand how the room works.

Click here to get Own the Room

on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited / Audiobook

 

  

 

Make Friends With The Dragon: During The Dissertation Journey (Dissertation Series)

Make Friends With the Dragon: During the Dissertation Journey is an encouraging and practical guide for doctoral learners, graduate students, and dissertation writers who are navigating the emotional, academic, and personal challenges of completing a doctoral program.

In her previous book, So, You Want to Be a Doctoral Learner Huh? Are You Nuts?!, Dr. L. A. Davis shared the struggles, lessons, and survival strategies she learned while completing her own dissertation journey. Now, in Make Friends With the Dragon, she returns with a deeper reflection on life after earning her doctoral degree and on the challenges many students continue to face as they move through the dissertation process.

Inspired by her own experiences, as well as comments and concerns shared by students on her alma mater’s support board, Dr. Davis explores the “dragons” doctoral learners may encounter along the way. These dragons may appear as fear, procrastination, self-doubt, confusion, isolation, frustration, academic pressure, or the overwhelming demands of dissertation writing.

Rather than running from these challenges, Dr. Davis invites readers to make friends with the dragon. With honesty, humor, and hard-earned wisdom, she guides students through the different stages and chapters of the dissertation journey, helping them recognize obstacles, build resilience, and keep moving toward completion.

This book is ideal for:

• Doctoral learners and PhD students
• EdD candidates
• Graduate students beginning the dissertation process
• Students struggling with dissertation writing
• Online doctoral learners
• Dissertation coaches, mentors, and academic support groups

Make Friends With the Dragon: During the Dissertation Journey offers encouragement, motivation, and practical insight for students who need a reminder that the dissertation dragon can be faced, understood, and conquered.

Click here to get

Make Friends With The Dragon:

During The Dissertation Journey

on Amazon / Kindle / Audiobook