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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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