WHO
ARE
YOU?

I did not set out to write a book. I set out to survive.

I had just lost my job. And in the quiet that followed — the kind of quiet that sits on your chest at 6am when the alarm goes off and there is nowhere to be — I found myself asking something I had never seriously asked before.

Who am I without this?

Someone pointed me toward a career class. I expected resume tips. What I got was a teacher, a table, and a stack of one hundred cards. Each card had a single word on it. A value. She told us to sort them. To pick the ones that felt like ours. Not the ones that looked good. Not the ones we thought we should have. The ones that made something in our chest say yes.

When I was done, I had five cards in my hand. And I understood myself in a way I never had before.

That is what this book gives you. Not advice. Not a personality quiz. A process — the same one that changed everything for me — for finding the five core values that are already yours. The ones that explain why certain things drain you and others make you come alive. The ones that, once you name them, make every decision easier and every path clearer.

It is told as a story, because stories open hearts in ways that instructions never can. And it is for everyone — whether you are fifteen and lost, or fifty and wondering how you ended up somewhere that does not feel like you.

The answer has been inside you all along.