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Welcome to the Ryan Sallans Book Series!

Take a short break from your day and listen to my story, chapter-by-chapter, book-by-book.

We'll begin with the opening of my forthcoming book Finding Me: Finding We. Then we will go back to the beginning of my story which was captured in my first book Second Son, before leaning into Transforming Manhood and circling back to Finding Me again.

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In preparing to do what I felt would be the impossible, I accepted the fact that my family may very well disown me and never want to see me again. If I could accept losing everything and still move forward, I knew that things couldn’t get any worse for me in life.

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