Book details

  • Genre:self-help
  • Sub-genre:Motivational & Inspirational
  • Language:English
  • Pages:92
  • eBook ISBN:9798317829384
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317829377

From Boyz To Men

A Simple Guide To Surviving Adversity

Overview

From Boyz To Men: A Simple Guide To Surviving Adversity is a survival guide born from lived experience. Written from inside prison, this book delivers practical tools for perseverance, growth, and transformation. Structured in three guides, it combines reflective testimony, daily codes, and workbook activities to help readers move from just surviving to building a disciplined, purpose-driven life. Readers will learn the Hood Square mindset (Streetwise & Booksmart), train the Four Pillars of Survival (Mind, Body, Spirit, Service), and work through Tha Key Program—an eight-step self-study curriculum adapted from a proven peer mentorship model. Closing with essays on business, endurance, and the power of knowledge, the book challenges readers to convert pain into purpose and adversity into advantage. Honest, accessible, and transformative, this is not theory—it's a playbook for anyone ready to stand on business, finish strong, and live by codes that last.
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Description

From Boyz To Men: A Simple Guide To Surviving Adversity is more than a book—it's a movement. Justice-impacted author and entrepreneur Knowledge B draws from his lived experience behind prison walls to deliver a practical field manual for transformation. Built around three distinct guides, this book equips readers to face adversity with discipline, resilience, and purpose. • Guide One: It's Not a Moment, It's a Movement! lays the foundation of perseverance through the Hood Square mindset, daily non-negotiables, and the Four Pillars (Mind, Body, Spirit, Service). It closes with tools for education, work, communication, grief, and service. • Guide Two: Tha Key Program transforms an eight-week peer support model into an eight-step self-study workbook. With reflection prompts and standalone activity pages, it challenges readers to rewrite codes, master emotions, pursue education, and design sustainable life routines. • Guide Three: Essays on Adversity and Purpose explores business, discipline, and knowledge as power, each essay paired with a summary of why it matters. This book blends testimony and workbook design into a system that travels anywhere—a cell, a classroom, or a living room. It offers templates, affirmations, reflection questions, and action steps that are short, direct, and usable while life is loud. At its heart, From Boyz To Men is about receipts, not rhetoric. Knowledge B shares how he kept moving through the loss of his grandmother and sister, his parents' accident, and over two decades of incarceration—stacking wins through prayer, study, service, writing, training, education, and mentorship. Whether you are street-impacted, justice-impacted, or simply seeking discipline in hard times, this book will push you beyond survival into consistent growth. It is a testament to perseverance, and a toolkit for anyone ready to convert struggle into strength.
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About The Author

Knowledge B (Abdul-Hakim Works) is a justice-impacted author, journalist, blogger, entrepreneur, certified peer support specialist, mentor, professional speaker, recording artist, and visionary leader. Widely known as CEO Hood Square, he is the founder and CEO of Hood Square and creator of A Real Hood Square's Perspective, a platform amplifying authentic stories from street-impacted, justice-impacted, and system-adjacent voices who embody the balance of being both streetwise and booksmart. Incarcerated within the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry since age sixteen, Knowledge B has transformed adversity into purpose through education, discipline, service, and personal development. His work centers on resilience, accountability, leadership, and transformation, demonstrating that circumstances do not have to determine one's future. His academic and professional achievements include a GED, multiple certificates from Central Arizona College, an Associate in Applied Science in General Business with Highest Distinction from Rio Salado College, a Certificate in Leadership and Management from Southern Utah University, and the Competent Communicator recognition through Toastmasters International. He is also a certified Peer Support Specialist through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) and is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies at Ashland University. Knowledge B has shared his lived experience and message of transformation through major virtual speaking engagements. In February 2026, he presented at Storytelling Behind Bars at Santa Clara University. In October 2026, he presented Becoming the KEY to Unlock Your Own Potential at the Incarcerated Scholars Conference 2026, hosted by the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison. His presentation explored education, personal growth, and learning beyond the classroom, followed by an engaging question-and-answer session with viewers from across the country. He is the author of the Hood Square Series—Tha Khronicles, Tha System, and Tha Lady Fierce Saga—as well as CEO Hood Square: My Prison Memoir. He is also the lead author and curator of A Real Hood Square's Perspective: Stories From Da Pen, an anthology featuring firsthand accounts from incarcerated individuals across the United States. His self-help book, From Boyz To Men: A Simple Guide To Surviving Adversity, combines lived experience with practical tools for discipline, reflection, and personal growth. He created Tha KEY Program: Becoming the KEY to Unlock Your Own Potential, a personal development framework focused on self-awareness, accountability, education, emotional discipline, and leadership. Developed within ADCRR, the program received approval from the ADCRR Peer Support and Program Development Bureau Committee in December 2025. Knowledge B donated the curriculum to the Bureau to help make its lessons available to others. His creative work also includes two music projects: Hood Square: Tha EP, a motivational, non-explicit hip-hop project rooted in resilience and self-awareness, and Becoming Tha KEY Series, a motivational speech EP exploring Truth Over Ego, Growth Over Excuses, Education Over Ignorance, and Mentorship Over Misguidance. Hood Square is more than a brand; it is a movement built on the belief that people can rise above their circumstances by becoming both streetwise and booksmart. Across his books, speaking engagements, music, peer-support work, and educational initiatives, Knowledge B is dedicated to helping others become students of the struggle and graduates of personal growth. Connect with Knowledge B: YouTube: @ceohoodsquare Instagram: @ceohoodsquare TikTok: @ceohoodsquare X: @ceohoodsquare Facebook: ceohoodsquare12 LinkedIn: Abdul-Hakim Works It's not a moment, it's a Movement!
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